My wedding this fall meant I had to pencil in a trip to the DMV to change the name on my license; since I've recently moved, I actually had to switch to a totally new state, which meant taking a fresh photo. I went into this thoughtfully: I'm no dummy and wanted to get a good picture since your license is the sort of thing that stays around for a while. As soon as I got that shiny piece of plastic back, I realized I'd basically made the worst mistake ever.
I wanted to keep things really simple and skipped any eye makeup other than mascara, focusing on my skin instead by contouring and highlighting. I allotted extra time for my hair too, sure that this above all else needed to be a good hair day. Wrong, wrong, and wrong.
Guys, I should never have forgotten to use my eyebrow powder. The camera's definitely not high-def, and the photo is cropped in so closely, I could've had my hair pulled back in a messy ponytail—you wouldn't have been able to tell the difference. And while it's tight, the poor lighting isn't doing anyone a favor so my eyes look tiny and my average-size eyebrows somehow shrunk into skinny lines. If there was ever a day to skip powdering them in so they look a little fuller and darker, this was not it. Had I done it, I guarantee my pic would've looked a little more polished and definitely more my age, not a bad thing in this case.
Have any of you nailed a drop-dead-gorgeous ID photo? Tips as to how you mastered that particular secret of the universe?
