HRT and skin

[JennX]

My skin (mainly face and legs) has gotten much drier. No more oily skin... but now I have to moisturizer my face daily or it gets very dry.

Blond facial hair is just about as bad as white or grey, when it comes to removal, so electrolysis is the only option. The laser won't kill it. I like having naturally blond hair... just not on my face.

[Joelene9]

  My skin is a lot softer with none of the scaling as before.  Skin and hair a lot drier.  I have no problems healing from the punctures and cuts I get from hauling brush in the arms.  I lost the curl, for the most part,  the hair is straight and soft.  My silver grey hair has turned a light brown in the front with the original dark brown in the back with a little curl.   Some regrowth in the widow's peak spaces I have not seen in 20 years! 
  Joelene

[Princess of Hearts]

Love your body as it will always be true to you.   Your mind can and will lead you down some very dark and dangerous roads.

[Akashiya Moka]

Haha, you too?
I would punch holes right through the dry wall. If I tried that now, I would probably be cringing in pain.
It's unbelievable how strong testosterone can make you.

I used to pound my fists against things like walls or my thighs until the pain got to be too much. I'd also hit my hands against bags of lead shot until they were bruised and swollen.  All of that was only to help cope with my depression/dysphoria; I'm not really a violent person or anything.  ~I only punched a hole through a wall once, though, and I don't even want to think about how much that would hurt now.

[caitlin_adams]

For those that have drier, less oily skin have you noticed a reduction in the size of your pores?

I have huge man pores and makeup just exacerbates the problem.

[kelly_aus]

As with most things HRT related, YMMV, but my pores have gotten much smaller.. Even the open pore on my cheek that no amount of work prior would fix.. As a result my skin is much smoother..

[caitlin_adams]

MMMV.

I hope my results are similar to yours, the pores on my cheek are the biggest problem. They are HUGE and nothing seems to help them.