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Cake day: June 6th, 2025

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  • Honestly, you don’t do much of anything except wait when it comes to the results of HRT. You want to keep an eye on your levels and make sure your doctor isn’t giving you too low a level, but otherwise, it’s just a case of wait and see.

    HRT will cause new fat you lay down to lay down in different areas. But it takes time for everything to adjust and you might be able to nudge it here and there, but basically, it takes as long as it takes.

    I’m about 8 years in myself, and not much is changing these days (well, except for aging). But things were changing until around 5 or 6 years in.

    But, there’s lots you can do that isn’t just waiting for HRT. These days, I pretty much don’t do much of anything special in terms of getting dressed up and super fem, but my first couple of years were pretty much constant experimenting. I got a lot of good results from learning how to do basic makeup. I had no idea what my style was, so I just fucked around and found out (in a good way). That’s what you need to do :)






  • The first time I had a professional makeover done, it was by an artist who didn’t know what to do with trans folk. The end result was a face of makeup I took off as soon as I got home, because it almost looked like a caricature, with everything over exaggerated.

    And that’s because HRT changes the way your face sits, and thus the way shadows fall, it changes the tone of your skin, it changes how hooded your eyelids are, and countless other little things that you don’t think about, but all add up.

    But, there’s lots of tutorials out there on how to achieve the results you want with the face you have, rather than trying to apply the techniques that cis women use. And with time, the difference between those two will reduce as well.