Shaving body hair before & after HRT

[LittleEmily24]

It sounds like you've got some serious fur, but for what it's worth (I have very light body hair) three months HRT and I have female pattern body hair. None on chest or back, light fuzz on arms, none on fingers or toes. My beard got sparser, but laser is fixing that, and I only shave my legs for Doctors appts.
We all know our mileage will vary, so I've just been genetically lucky so far. Boobs growing, but at a positively glacial rate, so there is payback.

Actually thats the part that blows my mind... my hair isn't all that thick... I don't have a lot of it ~ if I had to scale it from 1 to 10 (10 being a bear), i would rank it somewhere in maybe 4. Which is why it surprises me that when it grows back, it feels like im being stabbed by a thousand tiny needles and becoming a human porcupine. But from what i've read on here and another site i also posted on ~ even people who use to be bears are to the point where they no longer grow hair in certain previously "heavily populated" ares. So I'm gonna keep hope alive i suppose.

[finallyfree2beme]

Katie

"PS I might add that in the SOC there is a passage that says some people don't need therapy. Just pointing out what the thing says."


Omg thank you for posting this, I did a little happy dance when I realized that not having money for therapy wasn't going to hold me back!  Do you know if this true in the US too?

[LizK]

Katie

"PS I might add that in the SOC there is a passage that says some people don't need therapy. Just pointing out what the thing says."

Omg thank you for posting this, I did a little happy dance when I realized that not having money for therapy wasn't going to hold me back!  Do you know if this true in the US too?



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[Wanda Jane]

I've found for me that as the skin gets softer it is harder to shave anywhere without nicks and cuts, and bumps afterward. I use an epilator and it has solved all those problems. I don't know why more girls don't use them. I use it everywhere and it removes like waxing, has the convenience of an electric razor and has very little traces afterward. I always use it before showering and use good moisturizer after shower. I guess the real downside is the pain. I does hurt like hell but is worth it. My underarms are amazingly smooth and pretty now. P.S. The first time you use it you will be sure you are catching skin in it and ripping yourself to pieces, you are not it just hurts, especially the back of the legs.

[Shellie Hart]

I am fair-skinned with fair fine hair. My skin irritates easily. Whenever I shave my legs, butt, chest, etc., it inevitably breaks out in red spots. However, after just a few months on HRT this stopped happening. It was a totally unexpected result.

Um... this may sound crazy, but another thing you can do is use electric "buzz cut" clippers without any of the attachments. It will leave only a slight amount of stubble on your legs, which is not ideal but quite acceptable (at least a lot of cis women seem to think so) and it doesn't become irritated. It might not work as well with dark hair, though, as you could get the 5-o'clock shadow look.

After all my HRT the only area that still gives me issues is on the back of my upper thighs. This is where I do the electric buzz cut technique. I cut it so short that it now feels shaved. No more stubble-effect because of HRT. The hair is still there but is too soft to feel like stiff hairs anymore...