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Just curious.

When other people im around everyday saw changes in my face = about 1 year. For me to personally notice that my face and cheeks look fuller and more round = 15months.

I dont see any changes yet at 9 months but people i know say there's been changes from around 7 months

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I can't say that I can see any real changes in my face, however i thought the other day that it looked slightly different..dunno couldn't put my finger on it...still a bit early for me I think...

Liz

I've noticed significant changes for about a month, so that'll be 8 months since I started on E. Some people have commented that they've seen changes a couple of months earlier and am convinced that I'd pass a female already. I have been gendered as female a few times when androgynously dressed. Some haven't noticed any change at all...

Jx

Can't say that there are any facial changes from hrt yet, only three and a half months in. But I do see a softening from the electrolysis reducing the hair count. I do like the improvements.

Anne

I noticed after a few months in. Then again, I've gained about 25 lbs since starting (142ish lbs currently at 5' 6"). On another note, everyone seems to say I look better/happier. Even my mom told me I look less like a zombie now a few days ago, haha.

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I'd say the first 3 months brought subtle changes. Then the next 9 months brought very significant changes. Then year 2 brought noticeable changes. Currently 3.5 years in and feel like the year 3 mark brought a little subtle polishing.

I really started to notice the facial changes about eight to ten months out. It's when I could really start to see the affects facially from the hormones, but just improved from their. Hugs
Mariah

Significant changes? 5.5 years and still waiting.  ???

2 months was enough for me. People already doubted my gender before HRT. So I started passing fully on the 2 month mark. Call me lucky but it's not all roses.

people on this forum said I hit the fail point at around 7 months. I posted a lot of my pictures starting from day 1

At 1.5 years a person that I know and show ID to purchase items said my ID looks very different and that I looked like the person on the ID's sister. That was about a year ago that I was at the retail store.

Has been a couple months for me, and I notice some changes, but I can't quite say they are significant. Skin a little smoother maybe. I never had much facial hair to deal with, so I take care of that maybe once a week or more. It should slow down and get a little softer and easier to tweeze.

Within months. But, 10 yrs later, is when I really started seeing significant changes, probably following a change in my hormones.

This thread has helped my worries a bit as I tend to worry too much as at only 5.5 months in (4.5 of those at non low dosage) I don't see any real feminization of my face yet but it seems I'm far, far too early in for that. I do feel like it's a bit softer though and I do look a bit younger but no one in public is calling me "She" yet or coming close to bleh Haha

Within this year I've changed a lot but it's slow and subtle so without before and after shots it can be hard to believe it's more than your imagination or wishful thinking.

I used to have a lot of trouble even finding myself in the mirror but could do it through my eyes. As time went on it got easier I could only see myself as male at first but eventually I saw a face better described as FTM as if I crossed a line with the male and female balance to finally be more F than M.

Now I finally just see me as just a normal female and I'm so glad to see myself every day.

It's truly incredible the difference 1 year can make.

The reports of further changes are very exciting and I look forward to them.

Eh, I didn't seem much change in my face from HRT.  Electrolysis was more significant; HRT just made my skin a bit softer and my cheeks a tad rounder.  Which simply wasn't enough for the kind of facial features I had.

Facial surgery, otoh, was life-altering!

FFS sounds fun. No idea what they would suggest or do but I do really like the idea and might check it out someday but prioritising orthodontics, orchi then GRS for next jobs.

Just for fun/academic curiosity I did a before and after pic with him 9 years  ago (didn't have anything more recent to hand) and me now. Nobody would ever link the 2 faces unless they knew my history which is really cool. Obviously it's a YMMV thing and I'm not as pretty as I'd like to be but I'm pretty enough and so glad I look nothing like him as I think that would totally kill me seeing him looking at me in the mirror every day. Scary to think about to be honest.

Oh I better add on I wasn't just doing hormones I was doing diet stuff and other things too so y'know everything adds up.

after 3.5 months, I don't see a lot of difference, except that my skin became smoother. But people around me  tell me my face significantly changed. I think that's because of my use of makeup, plucked brows and changed hair though.

2 years was when I started looking andro.
These days, I look at some photos of myself and wonder whether the people around me and myself are blind.  We see what we expect I suppose.

Quote from: Jerrica on November 07, 2016, 05:41:13 PM
FFS sounds fun.

LOL!

That is the LAST thing I would call it... SRS with simultaneous BA was a walk in park in comparison to FFS! It HURT!

- Karen

Hard to say how much and how long it was fro FFS to change my face...

All I can say is that after about a year on HRT, with essentially no breast development or noticeable fat redistribution below the neck, I was fairly often taken as female while presenting male (but by then electro was essentially done too)

- Karen

For all things transitional I'm an ends justifies the means kinda gal. I'll take any pain etc if the reward is high enough.

If they can tear me apart and make me make me beautiful with no long term issues I'd probably let them.

My own changes so far have always been from a combined approach so I suppose it would be hard to say exactly what physical changes to my face were directly due to the hormones.

My entire body seems to be getting totally rewritten which is seriously awesome given I'm still in year 1. From what I've heard there's lots more fun to come which is really exciting.

Hormonal changes to one's face are very subtle but add up. Strangers will see it before you do. Don't rely on your observations or that of people close to you who knew you before. See how the public in general reacts. Or look at before and after pics. Seeing yourself every day and your mind's past impressions of yourself can distort reality.