Community Conversation => Transitioning => Hormone replacement therapy => Topic started by: Darkflame on March 25, 2013, 04:47:53 PM Return to Full Version
Title: Facial Hair Before and After T
Post by: Darkflame on March 25, 2013, 04:47:53 PM
Post by: Darkflame on March 25, 2013, 04:47:53 PM
Today, as I was looking in the mirror, I noticed something. The peach fuzz on my face comes in a good amount darker and thicker around my upper lip and entire jaw line. Not enough that it would be considered "facial hair" but enough that as a bio female it's slightly odd. I wonder if that has any impact on how I'll grow facial hair when I start T. Does it have no effect, or am I predispositioned to have more facial hair? It doesn't seem out of place in my family (guys in my family usually have thick hair they have to shave often, which they complain about ::) ) Do most guys find that how hairy you were to start had any impact on the way you grew hair after T? Just wondering ???
Title: Re: Facial Hair Before and After T
Post by: Blaine on March 25, 2013, 05:07:50 PM
Post by: Blaine on March 25, 2013, 05:07:50 PM
I'm pre-T but I'm interested in the responses to this question. I've always had dark hair on my upper lip and 20-30 really dark, thick hairs growing from my chin down my neck. It was really hard to cover it up when I used to present as female-ish. Nearly all of my male relatives look like sasquatch so I'm guessing I'll be going down that road too.
Title: Re: Facial Hair Before and After T
Post by: Alainaluvsu on March 25, 2013, 05:11:03 PM
Post by: Alainaluvsu on March 25, 2013, 05:11:03 PM
IDK about that... but I remember my upper lip and chin got hairs first, and it ended up being thickest there.
Title: Re: Facial Hair Before and After T
Post by: Shodan on March 25, 2013, 05:16:22 PM
Post by: Shodan on March 25, 2013, 05:16:22 PM
IIRC, it's a lot like baldness, in that most of that is inherited on your mother's side of the gene pool. I know my facial hair isn't quite as dense or wiry as what's on my father's side of things (and I can't wait to laser it all off). Mostly, for me, it was upper lip and sideburns. I never really did fill out in the chin area. My son is at that age where he's beginning to grow it in, and it's interesting to see how it goes.