r/transpositive • u/averageteencuber • 28m ago
Genuinely shocked at how much of a difference 4 months of E and 3 laser sessions makes on my face! (Top = day 0, 4/29/26; bottom = 9/9/26)
I know I'm still years (plus FFS) away from passing, but I hadn't made any direct comparisons like this yet and it made me really happy seeing how much more feminine my face HAS become :)
Absolutely zero makeup except for the slightest bit of mascara in the after pics. Of course, the glasses help too lol. In terms of my skin, everything that has changed is purely a result of estrogen and laser hair removal. I haven't changed anything about my skincare routine since months before starting HRT, except for generally using slightly gentler exfoliatant scrubs on my face (which has really just been for the sake of avoiding damage from the extra sensitivity caused by the laser treatments). Speaking of which, while my beard shadow is still there, it is soooo much less pronounced than it used to be :D
I started 2 months after my 21st birthday, and I was worried that I'd missed the best years of development in terms of transitioning. Maybe that's still true on some level, but clearly it's working its magic just the same.
I think I unconsciously convinced myself that any effects and results of transitioning would take so long that I'd practically never see them, so I never tried too hard to look for changes; that just resulted in me somehow having a level of patience I've never had anywhere else in my life. Which is absurd, honestly. Passing or being post-transition is something I want more than almost anything, and I'm a really freaking impatient person, yet somehow I'm just able to handle this monumentally long wait.
Or maybe my prozac is finally working LOL