I've posted "before" pictures in the past and I'm still really dysphoric. I really don't look too different at this point, but a few things have changed. I was on low dose HRT for two months then on a high dose for about 6, at which point I began to see somethings happening to my body and I freaked out and stopped for about a month and a half... then I said to hell with it and started up again about a week ago. So I'm at about 9 months... I really don't think I look too different, maybe a little, and that's disappointing, but a few things have changed or have at least started to.
I don't have much facial hair anymore, due to a combo of laser and HRT. My body hair has also diminished greatly. My muscles are starting to soften up a lot. I always had lean muscle and was never bulky, but now I'm getting less bulky than I even was before... everything is softening up. My chest is staring to come in a bit, still not much outside of wearing a padded bra, but my butt has swelled up by about 50%. I've thrown on about 20lbs since starting and am now at about 165. I'm gonna cycle down over the next few weeks to about 150, then put weight on again. My legs are changing... though I'm not sure in what way. My face has softened... maybe... a little. Though I never really had a "masculine face." Oh, and I'm still rocking the wig (although it's the same color as my hair), BUT my hair has thickened up considerably - even my hairline. Now I will say that I was by no means bald and most people thought I was crazy to say my hair was thinning/receding a bit, but it was. Apparently I caught it early enough and it's really back to being almost full capacity. I've shaved it twice since starting HRT so it will grow in more even (first time I tried trimming it myself and messed up) and last time was only about a month ago. I have a wiffel right now, and I really hate having short hair. I also got my ears pierced!!!
I still have a bit of beard shadow, so I still put a bit of pink on under my foundation around my jaw... which makes it tough to put make-up on smoothly. I don't really get dressed too often at this point anyway, I'll get better. I also was sort of rushing when getting ready last night and was only going out driving around with my sister. I screwed up my eye shadow and didn't really care to fix it, and I took these when I got home and everything was starting to smudge... so sorry. My wig is starting to bald a bit in the front. It's a nice wig, but I haven't taken care of it at all. Oh, and I only tied my shirt up like that because I wanted to see how my stomach looked. I've been putting weight on there in that area women normally do, not bad, but I have to start with the vacuum exercises again.
