[discostu]

Some bruising can happen post mortem but not much, the blood stops flowing so it can't get to the effected area to make a bruise (good ME's can spot areas that would have bruised if the person had been alive). Blueing around the eyes is pretty common though, from memory I recall it in at least 1/3 of the shots I've seen thumbing through my wife's books. I'd heard one of them took the gun in the mouth way out, could be that... bits... went into the eye cavity.

[MrConfettiMan]

Regardless of what can happen to the face post-mortem, the least they could've done was to have taken the pictures straight-on rather than sideways.

[DittoJed2]

My brother shot himself in the head in 1985. At his funeral, his head was so misshapen and swolen he really didn't look like himself.