Teen asked to remove makeup for DMV photo

[Chowder Head]

http://fox2now.com/2014/06/17/teen-made ... to-at-dmv/

An Upstate teenager was told to take off his makeup before he was allowed to get his picture taken at the DMV. However, the 16-year-old said he was not in disguise. He was dressed as who he is.

[Coco]

so if a burly woman walked in wearing camo and cropped hair would they hand her a tube of lipstick? :lol:

Seriously, they needed to just snap the photo. A person's basic features aren't changed much by some false eyelashes. It's not like he was dressed as Ronald McDonald :roll:

[tankgirl]

What about some of the women we have seen with drag thick stage makeup, covering scars, age lines or even colored contacts, are those things allowed because they are on a woman? I know some woman, that looked a whole lot different in and out of makeup, they would admit they are disguising their features, because they think they look "prettier" that way. I think this was a bad call, he should have the look he normally has, not conform to how they think he should look.

[twinmama]

I am 20 weeks pregnant with twins in my driver's license photo. Needless to say, I don't look like that everyday anymore! How ridiculous.

Also, if he always wears that make up, isn't it best that his license reflect what he actually looks like??? And not every state requires new photos every so often. I had my 16 year old brand new license photo until I was at least 23 (and only changed it bc I moved).

Though I'm sure all it comes down to is someone using their job to shame someone who is outside of their idea of the "norm."

[micatite]

Oh for the love of Mike, just take the danged picture. :doh: It's not like that's all 100% correct anyway. My license described me as Blonde for at least 15 years after my hair darkened to brown and wasn't ever changed. And nobody but nobody's weight is EVER what it says it is on the card.

Oh well, these things are totally stupid. Despite the fact that my license clearly indicates that I need corrective lenses (and I wear them all the time), they made me take off my glasses for the photograph when I got a license replacement. Fortunately this was AFTER the eye test part of things.

[Trynn]

Honestly, a teenager is going to have to get a new picture on his license before too long, at least in my state, and possibly most, since most I've seen expire on the 21st birthday, at which point I was required to get a new picture. That's not that long if the guy does stop wearing Makeup he can retake it then.

That said, if the makeup was excessive, to the point where Uou couldnt tell basic things like eye Nd skin color, i could kinda see their point, though they might be more apt to tell a boy to remove it than a girl, which is ridiculous.

[micatite]

That said, if the makeup was excessive, to the point where Uou couldnt tell basic things like eye Nd skin color, i could kinda see their point, though they might be more apt to tell a boy to remove it than a girl, which is ridiculous.

Now you've got me wondering if they would require, say, a person wearing cosmetic contact lenses (which can also be for prescription corrective purposes too) that change eye color (sometimes drastically) to remove them for the purposes of the photo or would they just note the true color on the license.

[Jilli]

Now you've got me wondering if they would require, say, a person wearing cosmetic contact lenses (which can also be for prescription corrective purposes too) that change eye color (sometimes drastically) to remove them for the purposes of the photo or would they just note the true color on the license.

I wonder how many people lie about that and just put the contact lens color, I mean I don't know a woman who doesn't fib about her weight. I hope they won't require scales one day. :shock:

The DMV controls how people look. They always have, and I don't see this case changing much. I know of women who were asked to remove makeup, and men who were told to remove their hats(even though if you saw them daily they didn't take them off). Smile/Don't Smile. In some cases they're just kinda jerks.

I met one nice lady who let me take my photo over again, once it was discovered I was sweating so much I looked like a shiny disco-ball. :D

[Peas n carrots]

There is no reason for the DMV to drag their feet other than they are trying to enforce their gender standards on the kid. No.reason.whatsoever. I doubt they force women to put on makeup, or people who wear contacts to wear glasses etc.

[Coco]

They did make me take off my headcovering for my first DL (it was the white hanging veil kind)

like this (that's not me)

eventually we changed to this style and they didn't care about these:

of course that was TX and they probably thought we were freaks so i don't blame them. :lol: in Ohio it's more accepted as part of a girl's general appearance.

source: katiesmercantile.com/bonnets_head_coverings.html

[Coconut Flan]

Same state and same city for four license photos: three have glasses and one I was asked/forced to remove them. In my case I felt like it was a power tripping employee. If it were truly policy I'd have had to remove them every time or at least more than once. After spending any time at all at the DMV here I wasn't about to argue just to make a point. Although the only people who tend to see me without glasses work at the ophthalmology office.

[RachelB]

They did make me take off my headcovering for my first DL (it was the white hanging veil kind)

like this (that's not me)

eventually we changed to this style and they didn't care about these:

of course that was TX and they probably thought we were freaks so i don't blame them. :lol: in Ohio it's more accepted as part of a girl's general appearance.

source: katiesmercantile.com/bonnets_head_coverings.html

Yup-- it seems to vary from state to state. I was growing out my bangs when I had my first ever license photo taken (in Minnesota) and wearing a scarf rolled into a wide headband to hold them back. They asked me to take it off "unless it's a religious thing."

[Coco]

Yup-- it seems to vary from state to state. I was growing out my bangs when I had my first ever license photo taken (in Minnesota) and wearing a scarf rolled into a wide headband to hold them back. They asked me to take it off "unless it's a religious thing."

like those huge padded headbands from the '90's? :lol: wonder what they'd say if someone walked in wearing one of those or with michelle bangs sticking up 4"

[RachelB]

like those huge padded headbands from the '90's? :lol: wonder what they'd say if someone walked in wearing one of those or with michelle bangs sticking up 4"

About that size, yeah, but a DIY version, minus the Michelle bangs. It was a navy blue scarf with gold stars and moons on it. The clerk was so confused. ("Fundie head covering? Hippie pagan headscarf?")

[Peas n carrots]

They did make me take off my headcovering for my first DL (it was the white hanging veil kind)

like this (that's not me)

eventually we changed to this style and they didn't care about these:

of course that was TX and they probably thought we were freaks so i don't blame them. :lol: in Ohio it's more accepted as part of a girl's general appearance.

source: katiesmercantile.com/bonnets_head_coverings.html

Are/were you Mennonite? The area of the Midwest I grew up in had plenty of Mennonites, but it was the older women who wore head coverings...they theirs tended to look like coffee filters fitted over a hair bun.

[Coco]

Are/were you Mennonite? The area of the Midwest I grew up in had plenty of Mennonites, but it was the older women who wore head coverings...they theirs tended to look like coffee filters fitted over a hair bun.

Kind of/sort of. It's a group called Charity Churches made up of a lot of ex-Mennonites, ex-Amish, and ex-mainstream families. Good people who are looking for conservative Christianity, but without the need for ingrained family history that most Mennonite and Amish churches candidly expect (for full acceptance). My parents came to that group from pentecostal Assemblies of God. Much confusion ensued for me...

And the variety of headcoverings lol There was even a snood fad that went down for a couple years. My poor graduation photo. Floral homemade dress, vest of a different color (since we had to have like 5 layers up top to feel modest) and a white snood.

Thankfully, not like that anymore. Just plain old garden variety Christian now with drinkin' dancin' zumba-exercisin' and some cussin' thrown in. :D

**ETA There are some genuinely fun stores open to anyone on East Main in Berlin, OH where you can get those net coverings pre-made to fit for just $5! I have one somewhere. (ribbons are added depending on church conference) We're so going back there on vacation sometime as a family.

[twinmama]

Now you've got me wondering if they would require, say, a person wearing cosmetic contact lenses (which can also be for prescription corrective purposes too) that change eye color (sometimes drastically) to remove them for the purposes of the photo or would they just note the true color on the license.

I have blonde hair and blue eyes and for years and years had colored contacts. I had green ones, violet ones, and blue ones. My license only ever said blue eyes as you fill out paperwork to get that info on your license, they don't look at you and write it themselves. Oh and mine were corrective lenses that happened to be colored as well, so my license said corrective lenses (but that could mean glasses or contacts and it doesn't mention if the contacts are colored).

[Chowder Head]

i believe it was a power trip. The teen dresses like this at school and at work (McDonalds)

[Jasmar]

I had to have a new picture last month. They made me remove my sunglasses - from the top of my head. :roll:

[DGayle]

I expected to see a boy in heavy white and black emo goth-wanna-be makeup. That boy is feminine. No big deal! Still easily identifiable.