Quote from: Hikari on November 02, 2014, 02:14:08 AM
OMG, you look amazing! Whatever you are doing, you are doing it right! Not familiar with the character sadly, but black is always good in my book. As someone who owns lots of black makeup and Tripp NYC pants, I do like to the goth thing from time to time 
Thank you so much! Death is one of my favourite graphic-novel characters of all time, and I would recommend the Sandman novels to just about anyone--they're smart and cool all at once. I also love dressing all in black, with dark makeup, from time to time as well. When I was a teenager, I briefly identified as a goth, not because I was a particularly strong fan of gothic rock but rather because the movement gave me a free pass to wear makeup. I still have two pairs of Tripp pants and one skirt from those days! But it wasn't the look I wanted every day, and I didn't feel comfortable appropriating a musical subculture I didn't really identify with. So I only go for that look once in a while now. Of course, my mother thought I was under the Devil's influence when I brought home my first pair of baggy black pants with chains.
Thanks as well, Monica!
Quote from: LivingTheDream on November 01, 2014, 11:57:01 PM
This is after about 15 or so, if not longer, hours after I first put it on. So, how do I look? Am I fabulous? Passable one day? (Ignore facial hair, is a work in progress!) Pre-hrt still.
I think HRT will definitely have a good effect on you and that you will be passable once you 1) practice the look you want more and 2) gain confidence in yourself. As far as the facial hair goes, laser/electrolysis are always options if you can afford them. But until then, there are makeup tricks you can do. Before I began laser, I used the colour wheel method to conceal my bluish five o'clock shadow. This means (if you don't already know) that you shave as close to the grain as you can, and then you apply an orange or red colour over the areas on your face that have a noticeable beard shadow. I used an orange lipstick or orange eyeshadow. You dab it on over the areas, blend it out as best you can until the blue disappears and it just looks like you have a case of slight sunburn, and then you cover it up with your foundation. The foundation, if it is high-enough coverage, will completely hide the orange/red, and your beard shadow will be gone. It can take a while to get it to work perfectly, but it works. You can also try a full-coverage foundation by itself, without the orange/red concealing trick, but because you usually need to apply more to cover up the shadow, you run the risk of looking cakey unless you're careful. Dermablend Cover Creme and Mac Full-Coverage Foundation work very well to cover up shadow, and you can also build up other foundations to achieve the same effect, like MAC's Studio Sculpt or Studio Fix Fluid.
Here is a link to a video explaining the colour wheel trick for concealing 5 o'clock shadow, if you want to check it out. This YouTuber has lots of great makeup videos and tricks on their channel.
Sorry if you knew all that already--it just helped me a lot when I was also struggling with my facial hair showing.
Good luck!
