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Well I've always had really hairy legs :( and they were so hard to shave. And I had a lot of hair on my stomach and a bit on my chest. I've shaved all those places around three months ago (too lazy to shave when it only lasts for a few hours lol plus I always forgot to buy a razor. It disappeared from the bathroom!) But I'm noticing my leg hair is a lot thinner and the hair on my chest hasn't grown back dark at all and the hair on my stomach is maybe half as bad as it was before. :) 31rst will be 4 months for me, so I guess I'd say I noticed changes 4 months in but idk when they started lol

Quote from: Britney♥Bieber on January 24, 2011, 11:38:25 AM
Well I've always had really hairy legs :( and they were so hard to shave. And I had a lot of hair on my stomach and a bit on my chest. I've shaved all those places around three months ago (too lazy to shave when it only lasts for a few hours lol plus I always forgot to buy a razor. It disappeared from the bathroom!) But I'm noticing my leg hair is a lot thinner and the hair on my chest hasn't grown back dark at all and the hair on my stomach is maybe half as bad as it was before. :) 31rst will be 4 months for me, so I guess I'd say I noticed changes 4 months in but idk when they started lol

I've noticed leg and chest hair growth has slowed dramatically. My beard still grows, but it now takes 2 days to get a 5 o'clock shadow.

Yep, you will start to notice that your legs are the first to show signs of thinning and slower growth than usual. Then it kinda crawls up slowly to your chest.
I still get a few ingrowns (OUCH) around my bikini line.
My facial hair has slowed down but it's still a little thick and that's why I am getting Laser on that area first (face and neck).

Britney I think you started maybe a week or two later than I did (HRT).  I know that everybody has their own way of dealing with HRT but maybe we can compare the changes together. ;)

Quote from: Melody Maia on January 24, 2011, 12:19:19 PM
I've noticed leg and chest hair growth has slowed dramatically. My beard still grows, but it now takes 2 days to get a 5 o'clock shadow.

My face hair (can't say beard lol) grows in slower too =D

Quote from: Stephanie.Izann on January 24, 2011, 01:11:58 PM
Yep, you will start to notice that your legs are the first to show signs of thinning and slower growth than usual. Then it kinda crawls up slowly to your chest.
I still get a few ingrowns (OUCH) around my bikini line.
My facial hair has slowed down but it's still a little thick and that's why I am getting Laser on that area first (face and neck).

Britney I think you started maybe a week or two later than I did (HRT).  I know that everybody has their own way of dealing with HRT but maybe we can compare the changes together. ;)

I'll pm ya! :D

Mine has mostly disappeared after 33 months.  I did have a lot of body hair.  My arms are the only thing still is being stubborn and I still have dark hairs.

Facial hair is another thing.  It is mostly grey and slow growing, but it is still there.

Quote from: Janet Lynn on January 24, 2011, 04:32:33 PM
Mine has mostly disappeared after 33 months.  I did have a lot of body hair.  My arms are the only thing still is being stubborn and I still have dark hairs.

Facial hair is another thing.  It is mostly grey and slow growing, but it is still there.

My sister got our dads hairy arms but then it went away lol

I'd say, starting from the beginning of August (started prescribed HRT July 31st), by October the very few chest hairs I had went vellus and then away. Now I have literally three hairs that I just pluck every few months, and they are in areas I don't even really care about. Honestly, the rest, when I plucked them out, didn't come back. Now, take into account that my last period of self-medication was from January to the end of June, so that might skew the numbers.

I do have to say, while I would never advocate self-medication and think that anyone that does is toying with their life (seriously, don't do it), doing on-and-off medicating since I was 16 did have enormous benefits - I never had more than about 10 chest hairs, and my facial hair was (now that I realize how fast electrolysis has been going) only maybe 1/10th the thickness as normal males. Epic win! ;)

A year and a half on hormones. I never had much hair other than a bit on my arms and legs. A little around my belly button and right in the center of my chest. The worse part is my thighs..all other hair is so fine and light you can't even tell it is there. I let it go for a while so I went and got a full waxing and am back to using an epilator for upkeep. Screw shaving! If you get it all waxed you are good for a month or so and it is easy to maintain with an epilator once a week. Skin just can't feel silky smooth if it has stubble on it!

I've never had much body hair... But enough to need to wax my arm pits and lower leg area

Well, the last time I waxed, the leg hair hardly grew back at all... But oddly enough the arm pit hair came back with a vengeance  :P  I was thinking about waxing my pits tonight

I've had AWFUL experiences with epilating and waxing

Quote from: Britney♥Bieber on January 24, 2011, 08:32:36 PM
I've had AWFUL experiences with epilating and waxing

If by 'awful' you mean painful get used to it sweety. :) There is no painless transition!

Quote from: Dana Lane on January 25, 2011, 09:24:37 AM
If by 'awful' you mean painful get used to it sweety. :) There is no painless transition!

If her experience with epilating and waxing is anywhere close to mine with shaving my legs, I'd understand if she doesn't want to keep doing it. In my case, shaving my legs leads to them being completely covered in ugly red swollen zit-like growths, which stay for a few days, and then go away, leaving half-centimeter-long hairs. I'd call it "ingrown", but that would be kinda understating what happens. And while they're present, I'm itching like crazy and it hurts to sit or lie down. So I have the choice between rug-covered legs or ones that resemble pepperoni pizzas. I've settled on shaving when they get "too long", and just enduring the discomfort, while hoping HRT will nuke the stuff.

Quote from: Dana Lane on January 25, 2011, 09:24:37 AM
If by 'awful' you mean painful get used to it sweety. :) There is no painless transition!

No. With waxing, it only hurt when I actually pulled the wax off, then it was fine. Until I got to my knees and it wouldn't go past them. I swear I must have yanked that strip in every direction with my knee at every angle, until it was pink. And then months later I tried again and (same wax) I had the same problem. I guess I just can't wax myself. And with epilating it hurt like a bitch. So I shaved and let the hair grow back slowly. For two weeks I let it grow and tried to epilate and NOTHING. All I was left with were scratches on my arm. Probably a bad epilator but it was 70$ and I could barely afford that. So I can't afford a better one. I might as well go for the really nice one, get a professional wax and start epilating, but who knows when I'll have the extra cash. Name change, female wardrobe, electrolysis, and srs>>>>

It's all slowly getting finer and finer...what little hair i had on my back has now gone, and my chest is quite fine and silky now.

Quote from: Helena on January 25, 2011, 12:00:05 PM
It's all slowly getting finer and finer...what little hair i had on my back has now gone, and my chest is quite fine and silky now.

I know I shaved my chest twice I just can't remember cuz it was so long ago. Now any hair is really light. Still too much though :( They are growing and growing but so is (some) of the hair lol

I didn't have facial hairs ever even before HRT so cannot comment on that. As for hair in other body parts; I have some dark hairs on my arms but rarely shave it off cuz most girls seem to have hair of some sort on their arms and it doesn't bother me. I also have some hairs on my legs and can be easily removed with an electrical epilator (i'm using the Braun SilkEpil) before I'm planning to go to the swimming pool or wearing skirts or dresses in the summer etc. The only downside is that I have some red spots (skin irration) on my legs the day after I removed the hairs. But the hairs stay away for weeks :)...

For those really bothered by body hairs... it will get less and the hairs become less dark and less visible (thinner and finer) the longer you're on HRT.

Quote from: Britney♥Bieber on January 25, 2011, 11:49:23 AM
No. With waxing, it only hurt when I actually pulled the wax off, then it was fine. Until I got to my knees and it wouldn't go past them. I swear I must have yanked that strip in every direction with my knee at every angle, until it was pink. And then months later I tried again and (same wax) I had the same problem. I guess I just can't wax myself. And with epilating it hurt like a bitch. So I shaved and let the hair grow back slowly. For two weeks I let it grow and tried to epilate and NOTHING. All I was left with were scratches on my arm. Probably a bad epilator but it was 70$ and I could barely afford that. So I can't afford a better one. I might as well go for the really nice one, get a professional wax and start epilating, but who knows when I'll have the extra cash. Name change, female wardrobe, electrolysis, and srs>>>>

Got to a professional for your first time and just get all of it waxed off. You won't regret it! If you then start epilcating once a week it won't hurt as bad and it can be done pretty quickly. It gets better each time. I tried doing it myself with wax and an epilator and just couldn't go through with it all. I actually yanked skin off in some sensitive places! Need money? Go sell plasma. :)

Quote from: Dana Lane on January 25, 2011, 12:30:07 PM
Got to a professional for your first time and just get all of it waxed off. You won't regret it! If you then start epilcating once a week it won't hurt as bad and it can be done pretty quickly. It gets better each time. I tried doing it myself with wax and an epilator and just couldn't go through with it all. I actually yanked skin off in some sensitive places! Need money? Go sell plasma. :)

That's what I'll probably do once I get the money. Sell plasma? Huh?

Just googled it, I might look into that! :D

Quote from: Britney♥Bieber on January 25, 2011, 12:31:21 PM
That's what I'll probably do once I get the money. Sell plasma? Huh?

Just googled it, I might look into that! :D

Eek... Not trying to disuade you from selling plasma, but you might want to look into how they do it before you go. On the other hand, I know a bunch of people from my school who make $60 a week doing it. I just couldn't really get the courage to do it myself...

I did the plasma trip for awhile... Admittedly I was scared to death at first but after a few visits it was no big deal  :)

I'm not so afraid of the "flowing out" part, but the "putting back in" creeps me out :(

Quote from: ClaireA on January 25, 2011, 02:30:41 PM
I'm not so afraid of the "flowing out" part, but the "putting back in" creeps me out :(

Does it hurt going back in? Getting my blood taken doesn't bother me at all haha. And having it go back in doesn't bother me either but if it hurts idk.

No, other than the needle poke it doesn't hurt at all... It just feels kinda ooky at first... But then you get over it pretty easily

Quote from: Virginia Marie on January 25, 2011, 03:52:51 PM
No, other than the needle poke it doesn't hurt at all... It just feels kinda ooky at first... But then you get over it pretty easily

Hmm I might look into that! :D haha

I want to caveat this by saying with the exception of a beard like the GEICO Caveman, I did not have alot of hair dor a guy. The decrease in density/growth rate of body hair was already noticable by three months HRT and fine "baby hair" at my forehead indicated some growth at my hairline. 

Just over a year HRT, I no longer need to groom the fine hair on my arms (I used to run a thinning comb over them once a month).
All that remains is heavy femle pattern velum hair.

Being it's winter and no one's going to see me, I decided to stop shaving my chest a week ago to see if/how much grows back- so far nothing. But slacks or shorts, I just don't get enough growth on my legs to shave more than once a week now.

Dunno about my underarms. It''s just gross not to shave every time you take a shower.

I'm not sure about the affect on my beard as I have been doing 5 hours of electrolysis a week nearly the whole time...

Hey Brit!
My legs are no longer needing to be mowed down as much. I can go without shaving for around a week even two. My arms hair has thinned out considerably as well, but it's still there. My tummy hair is still around but not as think as it use to be and my chest hair is still a hassle but it's thinned some, NOT enough for me to be happy about it. I think that waiting for HRT to hit on the hairy parameter was a good one since I was told by another T-girl that it might help the hair removal end of things once you start with Laser or Electrolysis.

Quote from: ClaireA on January 25, 2011, 02:30:41 PM
I'm not so afraid of the "flowing out" part, but the "putting back in" creeps me out :(

nothing to do with the qoute jjust wanted ur suggestion claire. mm im a mtf trans from a south asian country NepAL. im 17 rather say 18 and there are no forums for girls like us in here. like u said u started taking self medicines right from 16 can u help me out and let me know what medicines i should be talking cuss if i go to a endrogenologist saying in ts they're gonna laugh and have me thrown out. so pls help. plsss
i wanna start out early and not have any of these ugly facial hairs and body hairs still in its way....(though ive started showing in face nadlegs ans stomach) :(

britney u seem young too im very young like 17 i dunno if thats too early for transition bt i just wanna make sure i dont make manly feautures so can u tell me what medicines and how many grams per day should i start with?

Quote from: Stephanie.Izann on February 24, 2011, 01:03:50 PM
Hey Brit!
My legs are no longer needing to be mowed down as much. I can go without shaving for around a week even two. My arms hair has thinned out considerably as well, but it's still there. My tummy hair is still around but not as think as it use to be and my chest hair is still a hassle but it's thinned some, NOT enough for me to be happy about it. I think that waiting for HRT to hit on the hairy parameter was a good one since I was told by another T-girl that it might help the hair removal end of things once you start with Laser or Electrolysis.

I can't even afford laser or electrolysis on my face let alone my body! -______-

Quote from: Britney♥Bieber on February 25, 2011, 12:11:16 PM
I can't even afford laser or electrolysis on my face let alone my body! -______-

If you can just save up enough for one session, even if it takes you a couple months, laser can knock out a good 30-50% of facial hair for good, depending on the color.  I've had three and I have about 10 dark hairs left.