Traveler almost misses her flight because she looks ‘nothing like’ her glamorous passport photo: ‘This is a warning to all women’
- Alisha Marie wore makeup in her passport photo
- When she was traveling she looked very casual
- Airport didn’t believe she looked like her picture
A traveler was ‘humiliated’ after she was almost denied boarding because she looked nothing like her passport photo.
Alisha Marie’s very casual no-makeup look bore little resemblance to her glamorous passport photo – so much so that the agent didn’t believe it was the same person.
The 30-year-old laughed as she warned others to think twice before putting on too much makeup when getting their passport photo taken.
Alisha, from LA, wore a baggy black jacket with a bare face and her hair pinned up and pulled back under a black cap to catch her flight.
In the beauty blogger’s passport photo, however, she had bangs, styled hair and a face full of makeup.
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Alisha Marie (pictured) shared her shock after she was almost denied boarding because officers thought she looked nothing like her passport photo
Alisha, from LA, wore a baggy jacket with a bare face and her hair pulled up and back to catch her flight, but in her passport photo she had bangs, hair styled and a face full of makeup
When Alisha showed her passport to check in at the airport in Istanbul, the agents behind the counter hesitated to let her through, thinking she was using someone else’s passport.
In late 2022, a trend took TikTok by storm with women sharing their makeup tips for creating the most flattering passport photo.
Beauty lovers used makeup to give themselves strong browns, rounded cheekbones, fox eyes and flawless skin, but Alisha learned the hard way what kind of trouble the fad could cause.
“They almost didn’t let me on my flight because they said I didn’t look like my passport video,” she said in an online video as she laughed in shock.
When Alisha presented her passport to check in at the airport in Istanbul, the agents behind the counter hesitated to let her through, thinking she was using someone else’s passport
“This is why you should never take hot photos for your passport because that’s not how I look,” the beauty influencer warned as she revealed her glamorous passport photo.
However, there are no restrictions when it comes to wearing makeup in a passport photo Sky Scanner Australia recommends going for as natural a look as possible.
“I have never been so humiliated in my life,” Alisha captioned the clip posted to her popular social media channels.
The video quickly racked up more than 8.4 million views on Instagram and TikTok and left thousands of comments.
“I would never have shown my face in that airport again,” joked one woman.
“New fear unlocked,” said a second, and a third added, “I’m glad I now have a bad passport photo.”
‘At first I regretted not getting a good passport photo. But it will look like me when I’m traveling at 7am,” someone else agreed.
“I definitely don’t need to glam up for my passport photo because I always look like a hot trash can when I travel,” laughed another.
