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So Hello to the lady's out there.
I would like to know. What first facual changes did you see on your face while transitioning ?
I would like to hear from low dose to high HRT !
And what stage did you start to shape your eyebrows ?
I'm seeing my face sagging in the cheeks, My skin looks thinner and more sensitive,  But have the Best Hair Growth since birth
2 and 1/2  months

Quote from: KatieT on November 01, 2014, 05:30:44 PM
I would like to know. What first facual changes did you see on your face while transitioning ?

Smile  :)

Cheeks, skin texture, hair growth but YMMV.

I feel like the area around my eyes looks more feminine, but then again, every time I look in the mirror, it is like I am trying to find those feminine cues.

11 weeks on HRT.  Dr. doubled my dose three weeks ago.

Cate

Ive noticed that my skin is super soft now
the hair grows back a tad slower
I havent noticed much other than that
But others keep saying that my face looks like a baby : x
So I dunno haha I got compliments like that about 3 months in

I've seen some pretty dramatic changes, face is rounder, cheeks are fuller to the point where people that I've know from before are asking me if I had surgery.

Looking at my face in the mirror it has become more rounded I once thought I had put on a little weight.  (Not much, but in my case a little either way goes a long way). Then when I was on the scales it was oh I'm still the same.

My eyes were the most noticeable.  I'm hispanic, but my eyes looked almost asian.  My skin got softer, boy scent went away.

Hey Katie

Welcome to Susan's  :)  Great to have you here - looking forward to seeing you around the forum.

For me it was that my cheeks filled out, they were somewhat sunken previously.

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I met up with a long time friend/girlfriend for dinner last night (we see each other about once a week)she arrived first and upon arriving and getting in a conversation she gave me this funny look.  I pressed her for what was on her mind and she just brushed it off saying "its nothing", but after leaving the restaurant, she said that it had become apparent how much my look had changed.  She said it wasn't any one thing really but the eyes really caught her attention, and that they showed an emotion that was 'very' feminie and happy, and when added along with the smoother and tighter skin, a small amount of makeup plus lipstick, it all hit at once.  Big smile goin on here, even still.  I am just a little past 4 months of hrt.   ;D  Dani

I don't know what changes happened, all I can say is here is some pics.

Pre HRT - lower left
1 Month HRT - top left
3 Months HRT - top right
4 Months HRT - bottom right

(https://www.susans.org/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi57.tinypic.com%2F25a6mtc.jpg&hash=d92cc063c43c70b4187f78352c17c572f0e790dd)(https://www.susans.org/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi60.tinypic.com%2Fvdobip.jpg&hash=99fa844c14823a68c1efa9f7024d694f8988b99b) <- 6 Mo.
7 Mo. -> (https://www.susans.org/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi62.tinypic.com%2Ffk2y69.jpg&hash=61eaf10cfa4bfe4c6eb75cd8de2f3bec6bc74668)

I'm now at 8 months but haven't any current pictures so guess I can take one tomorrow and see if I notice anything different.

My skin seemed paler and more translucent, and I started getting my childhood freckles back.

I started shaping my eyebrows pre-HRT, actually.

Quote from: antonia on November 01, 2014, 06:29:56 PM
I've seen some pretty dramatic changes, face is rounder, cheeks are fuller to the point where people that I've know from before are asking me if I had surgery.

Yep same for me

I was looking at older photos of myself pre-hrt and it really does look like I had surgery. I honestly thought I was going to need ffs.

Exactly, I had mapped out what were the things that I would need to have changed, etc, now I look in the mirror and I'm mostly fine with everything I see :)

Quote from: Lady_Oracle on November 02, 2014, 01:17:07 AM
Yep same for me

I was looking at older photos of myself pre-hrt and it really does look like I had surgery. I honestly thought I was going to need ffs.

1.5 years HRT, several months full dose

The changes to the face have been pretty dramatic; I use to have INCREDIBLY sunken features (I was extremely skinny to begin with) but HRT really smoothed out my face, filling in the cheeks to the point I look nothing like most of my old photos.

That was the only real change I noticed,  but it was enough that without shaped eyebrows I get correctly gendered pretty frequently in boy mode :D

Quote from: CrissyMarie on November 01, 2014, 08:56:07 PM
I don't know what changes happened, all I can say is here is some pics.

Pre HRT - lower left
1 Month HRT - top left
3 Months HRT - top right
4 Months HRT - bottom right

I'm now at 8 months but haven't any current pictures so guess I can take one tomorrow and see if I notice anything different.

That's really amazing, Crissy. You obviously lost some weight, which helped, I suppose, but your face certainly has feminized. You could be a movie star.

My face honestly just seemed to melt away.

Now, to be fair, I was very overweight pre-transition, so the effects were probably a lot more pronounced than in others, but seriously, it's hard to even recognize myself.

Pre-transition, my face had a lot of muscle in it... and I don't mean strong muscle, I just mean subtle muscles that added to the bulk of it. I had a MUCH bigger and stronger-looking jaw, my brow muscles I believe were a bit bigger because they always seemed very "heavy" looking which gave me a very large-looking forehead, my nose looked a bit more bulbous, and my chin and neck were SO much bigger it's not even funny.

Basically it was almost like all of this bulk slowly melted away. My chin stopped looking huge, although now it looks a bit pointier, my brows melted down to the bone a bit, so they honestly just don't look as powerful as before, my cheeks gradually and slowly started getting rounder, but the biggest change of all was in skin texture. My skin was very oily, pore-heavy, olive-colored, and thick pre-hormones. As time has gotten on, the color has lightened significantly, more "rosiness" has come out (presumably because the skin is thinner and thus the blood vessels are more visible,) it REALLY thinned out, and started looking much smoother. (I still have big pores for a girl, but it's much better than it was.) Also, because the bulk was trimmed down, my eyes got a lot less squished, and looked more open. These were all wonderful changes. On a downside to this reduction in bulk, though, it did make my face look a little bit more angular. My chin, although not as bulky, looks a bit pointier now. So does my nose. That happens. As the bulk melts off, the bones can become a bit more prominent.

Another huge change was the cheeks. They started getting rounder and rounder, and have kept filling in continuously for like the last 2 years straight. Basically the apples of the cheeks got bigger. More and more fat filling in there, even as I've been losing weight. And this really didn't take off until the middle of my 2nd year on HRT. It's one of the last and biggest changes that happens to your face, and it's one of the most feminizing. And yeah, it takes time. HRT can actually make your face look more angular in the first year to year and a half, but then slowly it will start filling in and smoothing and rounding out. Patience is definitely required there.

Long hair also did a number in feminizing my face. Especially once my bangs got long enough to cover my temples. I have a bit of a big forehead, so having that diagonal line to break up my forehead's squareness was a big help.

And as someone else said, I added a smile. :)

Those starry eyes! Happened at around 2 months HRT, high dose

Almost 2 years on a high dose and things are still changing :)

Quote from: KatieT on November 01, 2014, 05:30:44 PM
And what stage did you start to shape your eyebrows ?

About 10 years pre HRT ;)

Quote from: Jennygirl on November 02, 2014, 12:07:20 PM
Almost 2 years on a high dose and things are still changing :)

Good to hear that ! :)

Quote from: Lyric on November 02, 2014, 11:49:41 AM
That's really amazing, Crissy. You obviously lost some weight, which helped, I suppose, but your face certainly has feminized. You could be a movie star.

*Blush* XD a movie star? ..seriously, the best I can say is that I use to look like Kurt Cobain, so I've been told.  I started out at a medium dose and at 4 months, my doctor put me on a bit higher dose and took me off the pills and went to injections.  I look in the mirror all day long everyday and don't notice any changes, except for a little narrower face to matched my waxed and tweezers eyebrows lol.  I just pray I turn out cute, I'm not going to reach gorgeous status.  I have a tomboy look, so I'm ok with that.

I noticed everyone is telling you about their skin & eyes. I personally feel like I saw the biggest amount of change in my jaw. I guess it was pretty prominent, but it's like, it shrunk. If that makes sense? When I was in high school I remember showing a friend of mine photos of me before hrt & she said it looked like my jaw got smaller & others have said the same. Besides that, a fat face haha

Oh, yes, my chin and jaw seem smaller and less defined now; plus I used to have a chin dimple that I hated, and it's gone.

But the question was about the *first* change, and alas, for me, the chin took like two years. :)

I got the pockets in the eyebones and cheeks action going on, moreso when I'm around 135lbs (at 5'8"). With electrolysis, my skin is uber soft. The shocking thing is, when I look at pics of me pre HRT, the tip of my nose is a lot thinner now, but I'm still getting FFS.

Quote from: CrissyMarie on November 02, 2014, 03:07:05 PMI just pray I turn out cute, I'm not going to reach gorgeous status.  I have a tomboy look, so I'm ok with that.

I guarantee with little effort you could be as glam as the best of them right now. I consider myself an expert on these things. You've got a great face. I'd say ditch the truck driver gig and get a front office job. That's where all the pretty blondes are.

Quote from: Lyric on November 03, 2014, 09:33:31 AM
I guarantee with little effort you could be as glam as the best of them right now. I consider myself an expert on these things. You've got a great face. I'd say ditch the truck driver gig and get a front office job. That's where all the pretty blondes are.

:O h..how did you know I drive a truck?  I've never told anybody on here that I do that.  Though I am so tired of this job, and want a more office type setting.  I use to run a restaurant with my brother so I might go back and do that again.  Pretty blonde?  ::) in my dreams lol.

My cheeks are a lot fuller(~7 months) which gives my face a rounder appearance as a whole, also the pores on my nose are slowly getting less prominent. What's weird though is I now have dimples.

Quote from: Nati on November 02, 2014, 12:49:16 PM
About 10 years pre HRT ;)

Same, I've been doing it since like 11th grade. One of my friends from high school actually assumed I just naturally had really nice eyebrows and was disappointed to learn otherwise.

Quote from: antonia on November 02, 2014, 08:23:14 AM
Exactly, I had mapped out what were the things that I would need to have changed, etc, now I look in the mirror and I'm mostly fine with everything I see :)

Same here, my sister and I really look like sisters lol. Except I'm taller but our faces resemble each others so much more than before I started hrt. 

Lol, me and my sister always looked way more like each other than me and my brothers, now even more so but the real shock was when my mom told me that looking at some of my recent pictures is like looking at photos of herself, then I thought about it and I realized we actually look a lot like each other now.

Quote from: Lady_Oracle on November 03, 2014, 06:50:50 PM
Same here, my sister and I really look like sisters lol. Except I'm taller but our faces resemble each others so much more than before I started hrt.

Let's see , much softer look overall, eyes changed colour from blue to green, starry eyes effect and much smoother skin. Still have more changes to come I assume , I can not wait !

Overall results very similar to most it seems which is good :)

Quote from: CrissyMarie on November 03, 2014, 09:48:49 AM
:O h..how did you know I drive a truck?

I scanned some of your posts and you made passing mention once. I'm not really a stalker, but I guess those pretty blondes have that affect on me  ;) .

Quote from: Erica_Y on November 03, 2014, 11:41:48 PM
Let's see , much softer look overall, eyes changed colour from blue to green, starry eyes effect and much smoother skin. Still have more changes to come I assume , I can not wait !

Overall results very similar to most it seems which is good :)

your eyes changed colour......... No way Girl....Im not a real Blonde. I dye my hair, your Nose will grow if you keep that up.xx