Shaving

[Elwood]

I personally don't care about using multiple, magictastical methods of shaving. I just want my face to feel and look like a baby's ass. I don't care how it gets that way. And eventually, after T, then I'll have fun with what facial hair can do.

[trapthavok]

I would love to shave, especially when I start T and begin growing a beard. I mean, I'll keep the beard but shave it into the style I want it.

I'm pre op but I don't currently shave...My face is just too smooth, there's no hair on it whatsoever (well besides the top of my head). I feel like I'd just be scraping away skin and giving myself cuts for no reason

[Elwood]

Yeah, if you have no peach fuzz, I wouldn't worry about it.

I, however, am furry. But it's peachy. Ugh. So yeah, I have to shave, I feel.

[Lachlann]

So today/tonight I was flipping out over my gender identity issues and crying and everything like that. And its like 6am over here and I can't sleep because its keeping me awake(as well as my injured shoulder.) So I go to the hall cabinet and I'm about to grab some tylenol when an idea hits me.

I walk into the bathroom, which is right next to the cabinet and I start going through the drawers, hoping my father shaves there. Bingo! I find his shaving stuff... and I don't know why, but I decided I needed to shave. Never shaved my face before, except for that one time when I was 12 but that was just the upper lip, anyway... I put on the shaving cream and at first it was just going to be my upper lip and my chin, but it was so relaxing and it calmed me down so much that I just tried to do the rest. Unfortunately when I was done, I realized I had missed some spots... but I have blonde hair and its hard enough as is with peach fuzz. Razor burn isn't that bad either, and I have sensitive skin.

... I love shaving. Although I'm a bit worried my parents will 'smell' it even though they're cool with the transgender stuff.

[Elwood]

Meh. It can help with dysphoria, I believe, on the most subtle level.

I don't love shaving. But I like it enough to do it, I guess.

[Lachlann]

I'm a bit of a quirky person, though. I like doing really weird things, so that might be why.

But yeah, I don't think it'll be the solution to everything.

[Elwood]

Yeah.

I was a little bummed because people were saying you get prickly. I was going to enjoy that so much (heck, I'll come up to my dad once in a great while and rub his cheeks because it feels funny) but my peach fuzz isn't thick enough to feel like sandpaper, lol...

[JonasCarminis]

lol i rub my dads cheeks too.

[Elwood]

lol i rub my dads cheeks too.

Isn't it great?  Hahah.

[JonasCarminis]

when i was a little kid sitting on his lap, hed rub his cheek on my cheek and id be like "youre gonna rub my face off!"

[Lachlann]

Haha, I never really did that.

I've got some stubble going on though, or it feels that way. I think I'm going to rub my own face off.

[Elwood]

I guess I can say my hair's a little pokey by the end of the day. But it doesn't show (no shadow) and it doesn't really feel that way to me (though I think if other people touched my face, they'd notice).

[Lachlann]

Yeah, I don't really have much of a shadow without the fuzz. When I do have it, it seems more visible, its weird. The texture of my skin, though, does appear more masculine. The hair on my upper lip has always bit a bit coarse, but that could be because of my previous shave there when I was 12.

The things we do when we're curious...

[Elwood]

Since I was like, 12, people would say I had a mustache. And before I shaved, I realized it was kind of true. A blond short stache. But because it's blond and peachy, it isn't masculine... I just looked like a girl with a mustache.

[Lachlann]

Yeah, I know what you're talking about. Theres a difference between a female 'moustache' and a male one. Girls usually don't shave it, so its still fluffy and soft, but a guy will have a bit of a rougher texture usually because he shaves.

It actually used to piss me off during grade 7-9 when guys would start to get facial hair, but they would not shave their moustaches no matter how thick it got. They didn't even look good! It looked really dirty and really stupid because the hair was still on the soft side. If it were me, I would have shaved.

[Elwood]

Hahah. Well, because I'm into that terrible 70's look... I'll try a stache eventually.

[Lachlann]

Haha, no problem with a 70's moustache. The only reason I had issues with other guys keeping their unshaved moustaches was because they didn't have enough hair and it was too soft. Looked like they smeared dirt on their face and then drank chocolate milk and never bothered to wipe their face.

I personally want to try a soul patch or something with sideburns... maybe both.

[Dennis]

Wish I had a choice about what to grow. I have a goatee because it's all I can grow credibly. Also because it's the only area I'd have to shave every day and I'm too lazy.

My left sideburn still doesn't meet my hairline, so I can only grow sideburns when my hair's a bit long, then I have to hack them off when I get a haircut because I have this gap.

I'm hoping post-hysto that I'll get a few more areas, or at least sideburns I can keep on. Although I suspect that what'll happen is that the hair on my neck will grow to the point I'll have to shave it daily or look like some kind of cross between an Amish horse-cart driver and mountain man.

Dennis

[tekla]

I have a goatee because it's all I can grow credibly

That's cool, it seems to be the 'with it' look this year, for reasons (like all 'with it' looks any given year) I can't understand. 

A bunch of us at one of the theaters started a contest back in the spring, but now after working so much in the spring and early summer sun we're stuck with them till fall, as shaving them off now would give us this white patch around our mouth and chin.

[Elwood]

Well, hair growth in my family isn't too great. Genetics aren't really on my side. My brother's 21 and he can't grow a beard.

I'd definitely have sideburns, no doubt about it. Every old guy I've seen with sideburns was either bad ass or a sex offender. I'd like to hope more of them are bad ass.

South patches are okay, but my mom absolutely hates them, and I know I shouldn't do everything she likes but I'm already ruining her life by being a man. I don't want to make her look at a little dirty beard, too.