Quote from: Alaskan Danielle on October 18, 2018, 10:02:27 AM
@Veronica A
Dear Veronica:
It is great to see your photos.... so nice to see and to follow your progress in your journey.... and you updated your Avatar/Profile with your new picture too!!!
I will be looking forward to following your postings and seeing your "after makeup session" photos when you feel free to share them.... and as you are discovering doing your own makeup can take practice. Other grooming procedures such as plucking and shaping your eyebrows, styling your hair (I notice that your hair is is longer now), manicures and pedicures, jewelry including earrings, bracelets and necklaces, clothing choices, shoes, body mannerism and body movements ... and of course voice, will also do a lot to improving your passable appearance.
You might consider keeping your past pictures for reference as you continue to transition. I found that, in my case, monthly photos allowed me to clearly see HRT changes that were happening.... nothing usually happens with HRT really fast, but monthly seemed to be a good time frame for me.
Thank you for sharing and posting your photos....
Hugs and well wishes,
Danielle
thank you for that, yes makeup does take practise. i just dont want to get bad habits of doing something wrong, I have an eidetic memory. pretty much remember every thing (like i recall the conversation where, date, time of day, weather where we were sitting,etc.. its a curse really). I actually had to practise with a doc years ago to no consciously always recall every detail all the time. that coupled with my perfectionist personality is a bad combo... been working on that with my current therapist. hence why i avoided learning to do makeup from youtube help videos and want to learn how to contour with an expert and get lessons. and then practise,i think i will get not cheap stuff more middle of the road quality to practise.. who knows.
Quote(I notice that your hair is is longer now)[/size], manicures and pedicures, jewelry including earrings, bracelets and necklaces, clothing choices, shoes, body mannerism and body movements ... and of course voice, will also do a lot to improving your passable appearance.
yeah i keep my hair shoulder length.. its fairly thin, just increased my blockers and E which seems to have worked stopping it from falling out. i have no idea how to style my thin short hair and at a loss at that. been trying to find short hairstyles that would work with me.. very hard..also dont have any RL friends who are transitioning or cis female to get help with. i keep trying to make the support group meetings and keep ending up all over australia for work.
to be honest i dont like necklaces (never have), or earrings.. tho the latter is on my mind often and yeah prob get them pierced later. as for clothes i am more a jeans, top kind of gal..grew up in the 80s/90s.
my height makes most of other styles almost impossible unless i make my own dresses. as for body mannerism/movements, i am learning to let everything flow and walk correctly. its hard to to act all male (but i must as work mates dont know yet), when i just want to be me confident in myself and how i move. 30 plus years of being sure i move correctly to fit in, is hard habbit to break.
lastly i am seeing a voice therapyst, and wow them excercises are hard.. love doing them, easy to blow most of the evening way (10min every hour) and messing about. i hardly watch tv, play xbox or such..