What does your hair look like in your driver's license (or alternative ID) photo?

Mine is short, as in fresh standard men's haircut short. It was taken a few months before I started growing my hair out so I now have 5 years worth of hair not reflected in the picture which always gets pointed out when I have to show it for something.

Anyone else look particularly different?

As an aside I have to renew it soon and am trying to figure out how best to utilize my hair for the picture. Though in the end I suspect it will just be tied back and won't look all the different than the one I have now.

I had it up in a claw clip so it's not visible in the picture. It was dyed brown at the time though.

Left side ponytail in both the current and the one before. I don't think I did that on purpose. But in the last one, I had my daughter on my back and you can see her bald little head peeking over my shoulder. I'm glad they changed the system where I live and I got to keep it. :)

I just got my new ID around a month ago after moving from the previous state I lived in, and I truly regret wearing braids because the quality of the photo is AWFUL-- it's dark and blurry and just makes me look like I have super thin and straight hair, which is fine I guess but not representative of my hair. Also, this was when I was still torn between maintaining my bangs or not, so they are overgrown...days later I trimmed them myself with great results, why couldn't I have just done that before the picture??
My previous ID was really cool, I had a shaggy bob from one of my many times growing out short hair, and bright turquoise bangs. My mom hated that I went to get my ID photo taken like that! But I loved it for years.

Like the iPhone little old lady emoji, and I rather like her. Last time I had a pixie and less grey so quite a change.

My license has an ultra short pixie cut. Now my hair is curly past my shoulders. I’m looking forward to a new license, but it will be probably be years before I get one. Funny thing too, I have blue eyes and my license says my eyes are brown! So if someone looked closely, they may think it’s not me. 🤣🤣🤣

My hair is up in a ponytail in both my passports. I also had side-swept bangs back then. In my driver's licence I'm wearing a lace rope braid along the left side of my head that becomes a side fishtail braid at the bottom, but the quality of the pic is so atrocious my face is barely recognisable, let alone my hairstyle. The only reason I remember my hairstyle is because the day I took that picture was also the day of my driving exam, and I remember every detail of it, it was so stressful it was almost traumatic.

I believe it was about BSL. Natural color, side part. Biggest change since then is that I got bangs.

It is in a half up but the pic only shows it to my shoulders and it was @ HL.

Short blond ponytail with a side part. But I have to fix a new one this year.

My hair is in a bun on my ID photos. It looks pretty much like my everyday hair because it is my everyday hair and has been for years.

A short pixie. I look like a worried little boy in the pic. :D

Mine is down, the length was about mbl but tucked behind my ears which is not a good look on me. Only 8 years until the next one i guess.:shrug:

I had bangs and they made me put them to the side... my hair really looks awful xd

That day I was wearing it loose

Mine was over 10 years ago, i don't take a new picture to get it renewed.

It's bone straight relaxed, very dark, and swept behind my shoulders so I think it may have been CBL or APL. It looks very thin though.

Hair? Can't really see it, all slicked back in a mean old lady bun! :)

I've started leaving my hair down for these pictures. Otherwise, when it's pulled back into a braid, you can't tell from the front that I have long hair (or, much of any hair) and it just looks like my hair is super-short... which doesn't look good on me (I've been trying to figure out ways I could wear it out of my way, but still apparent I actually have hair, but haven't come up with anything)... and this is just more pronounced in a picture. I look way better with my hair down, just can't stand to have it in my way.

In my last picture before the current one, though, something weird happened with the flash of their camera, so parts of my hair looked much lighter than it actually is, and other sections looked black! It looked like I had some kind of weird edgy dye job or something.

In my current ID my hair is twice as thick as in real life! That's probably because the photographer worked in the coridor of a hair salon, so she made sure my hair looked its best. She somehow doubled the amount of my hair with styling and photoshop:magic: And I'm so glad that she did, it's my favourite photo for documents ever. Much better than that automatic one on my passport where no one even told me that a huge strand of hair was sticking out from my updo!

Down, it was shoulder length but you can't tell. Dark brown from a box dye and my fringe was looking pretty good that day. :p

Just got a new one last week. I had to drive an hour to go to the dmv, so I'd put it up in a high bun-not quite top of the head, because of headrests. The guy had me tilt my head back and forth a bunch of times, and I ended up with a picture that shows bun and hairstick pretty well, given how small the picture is on my license.

Same as my profile photo

My hair's straight down in my ID. I might've had it up in a ponytail for most of the time I was in the DMV, but if I'd kept it that way I would've looked nearly bald. Hazards of having thin, fine hair!

I have a ponytail but there's a random stubborn curly strand of hair pointing left, didn't realise it when the picture was taken :lol:

In the awkward stage between pixy and chin.

I got my licence only 2 years ago so it's still quite similar! I had it half up so it's out of my face and still clearly long. Its the only part of that photo I like haha, my makeup reflected weirdly in the camera and my face looks almost flat. At least it's not as bad as my work ID!

Mine is pulled back in a braided bun, so just my bangs. Probably a good choice since in the one before I had for years, I had auburn dyed CBL hair that literally a week later I had bleached and cut into a pixie, so constantly living in fear that my ID would be rejected. At 4'11" I'm still getting carded at this late date.

Hair out, and before I layered it. So thiiiiiiiiiick as

Mine is bright blue, collarbone length, loose waves and with a thick full fringe.

Let's just say, full fringes do NOT suit me.

From what I remember, it wasn't much of an intricate updo from the back (as I was still growing my hair out from a boy cut), but I had face framing hairs on either side of my face with some shorter fringe-like strands parted more on my right side. I can't say that I hate it, but it's not the ideal style I'd want my hair to be in for an ID.

I'd taken it when I had turned 16 and gotten my learning permit. I'm 21 now and have still not gotten my license out of laziness (or really just a preference of walking since driving is more of a nightmare and unnecessary in Manhattan). I've gotten the adult learning permit mailed to me earlier this year but of course with the same photo.

Side parted, and down. I resemble Rapunzel with brown long hair ;)

CBL with highlights. Can't wait to get my new one.

So the biggest change I ever had was time before last (12 years ago now) I was 38 weeks pregnant with DD - weighed A LOT more than my normal weight with CBL hair. Had to deal with that one for 7 years! Then I had a GREAT photo that I lost when I changed my address (no idea why they made me take a new photo!) now I have one that's just bluh. :lol:

I had rag curls for mine, so my hair looks super big.

It looks super short as it's pulled back and frizzy on top. To be honest, I look like a man. Even my grandma said so :lol:

I've got a crown braid in mine. I love it!

Awful. Years ago it didn't matter how your hair looked like, but when I took the picture for my ID there was a new law where you had to show your entire face with no hair on it, meaning I had to do something with my short bangs... the result was a disaster that I have on my ID and my passport. Can't wait for them to expire xd

I recently got my new license and my hair is up, but you can see my hair stick :p

My DL has a short spiky pixie in my natural brunette colour, as does my Canadian passport. My British passport, which is older, shows me with around about tailbone length I believe (although you obviously can't see that). My previous British passport had me sporting a platinum blonde pixie. Lol- just shows how fickle I am!

I'm transferring universities, and my new student ID has my hair from a month and a half ago when I was first starting to style it differently than what my normal used to be and it wasn't used to being parted yet. I look pretty bad hahaha