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Sometimes.  It depends on where I am going.  If I am going nowhere, then no makeup.  Work: makeup.  Walmart: don't care.  The mall: makeup.  Out with my wife: makeup.

The only makeup I wear daily is mascara as it gives a boost to my big eyes I love. I used to wear a lot of makeup but it ruined my skin (especially Foundation) and now after my skin care routine, my skin has become very smooth nad soft and I wouldn't it any other way. When I am going out, I use eyeliner, lipstick or lip gloss, mascara and maybe blush. But never Foundation. I hate it.

I am nowhere finished my laser (that i havent done in a year) so no, sadly i am not comfortable without make-up. I have dark and intrusive facial hair so i need that stuff covered all the time!

I may wear makeup once a month but it's probably closer to every other month. Eyeliner, mascara and lipstick, I've never used anything else. I want to learn, I mean it would be great to look fabulous now and then. Just when I am looking at the videos it seems like a lot of work and effort to learn something that I may use once a year.

Mostly I wear makeup when my boyfriend isn't paying enough attention to me. Put it on before we go out and all is right as rain with my world again. Whether it is because he notices me then or he notices other guys looking at me more, it has the desired effect.

I find it hard to go out with no makeup. Feels like I'm kinda naked. It's amazing the effect that an invisible layer of foundation can make to your mind.

Having just started HRT and Electrolysis, no I am most definitely not comfortable going out without makeup.  I'm hoping that as the hormones do their thing and I get through these initial rounds of electrolysis that my pores will shrink and my face will soften to a point where I don't need a makeup mask to make my face appear feminine.  But for now, the only way I go out is with full face makeup.

I generally don't go out without my usual makeup (https://www.susans.org/forums/index.php/topic,217010.0.html).  Ten months of HRT, and 87 hours of electrolysis done, but thats not enough.

My facial structure has a number of tells to it that need contouring tricks to get past.  That or a bag over my head...

The good news is that I am maybe 10 hours of electrolysis away from the end of shaving, at which point I won't need the industrial size concealer/corrector any more for those pre-electrolysis weekends.

I am comfortable without it.
But thats also becaus i dont really use it, however i do plan at one point to learn how to apply it.

Quote from: Michelle_P on April 03, 2017, 04:09:06 PM
I generally don't go out without my usual makeup (https://www.susans.org/forums/index.php/topic,217010.0.html).  Ten months of HRT, and 87 hours of electrolysis done, but thats not enough.

My facial structure has a number of tells to it that need contouring tricks to get past.  That or a bag over my head...

The good news is that I am maybe 10 hours of electrolysis away from the end of shaving, at which point I won't need the industrial size concealer/corrector any more for those pre-electrolysis weekends.

Opt for the bag. It's a heck of a lot cheaper. I spent near $300 at Ulta.

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Opt for the bag. It's a heck of a lot cheaper. I spent near $300 at Ulta.

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I'm pretty comfortable without it but it definitely means i am I'm clocked more without it. I have not had facial hair removal and although my shadow is not very dark it is visible. I wear lipstick or gloss every day and something on my eyes such as mascara, liner and highlighter

I am in this mode now where i feel i have to be comfortable without it as a matter of principle. I feel a sort of militant phase coming on :)

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What no magic markers available to put on your eyes, nose and mouth.  Very funny. <3

I wear makeup almost always simply because I like to.
It isn't a matter of whether I need to or not.
I always wear at least eyeliner, browliner, mascara, lipliner.
In the beginning doing makeup was challenging but one day the light bulb went on.
I realized that makeup application is like drawing and painting, two things I actually know how to do.
It has been simple ever since.
I like how I look with it on and presently it is how I want the world to see me.
It isn't about vanity, it is because I truly look better with it than without.

On going full time at work I started with some light make up before going a bit more full on a little while later. After some time I became comfortable enough not to wear make up if I didn't feel like it - this was a workplace with smart attire but not everyone made up in full every day.

As I now have a break from work I wear make up as and when I feel the need.

Had an eye infection a few years ago & stopped using it. Usually only wear eye shadow, mascara & eyeliner for the punk festival once a year, electrolysis done many years ago so no need for powder etc.Am OK without it

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Yes, a medium-length black hair bob, with purple eyeshadow, and red lipstick.

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A black velvet dress

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A fur scarf

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A rhinestone necklace

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And gloves too

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I went to the shops today and felt like I wanted to put some on so I wore some BB cream and lippy....normally though unless I am going somewhere makeup worthy, some BB cream and maybe mascara, really depends on what I am doing and how I am feeling.

Liz

I prefer to wear makeup when I am out of the house.  However, since I am doing electrolysis once a week, there are some days when I can only wear eye and lip colour. 

I have been out for appointments as Kathy when I had a 3-day growth of beard.  I minimized it by shaving all but the part the electrologist  was going to work on the next day, but I figured that makeup would only attract attention to it.  And I have been out the day after electrolysis, when the follicles really don't want to be plugged up with foundation.  On those occasions, I just wore eye shadow, mascara and lipstick.  I can't say I looked beautiful, but I looked okay enough, and no one seemed to stare more than usual.

Being in my 60s, I can probably get away with it more than a woman in her 20s.

I tend to wear more in the winter months where I go full foundation, but alway have my nails done and wear lipstick and mascara. So I guess no, makeup is a big part of my identity.

Since I went full time 6+ months ago, I can count the number of times I have worn makeup on one hand with figures left over. It's weird, but I don't feel I need it and I have yet to be miss gendered.

I pretty much only do my eyes and that is when I am going out or have company over. 

Up until about six months ago, I would never wear makeup.  I think I do it now more for how I look when out, and before I just didn't care as much.  I still do not like "stuff" on my face, but I do like when my eyes look pretty.

-Sarah

Depends where I am going I suppose.. To a friends place just to hang out... I will properly not wear makeup.. but if I go to that friend place for say a dinner party, I would wear some makeup.

I wear makeup daily to work, nothing too heavy, mostly eye makeup(Mascara, eye liner and eye shadow) with lipstick. At home I never wear makeup.. a trip to the mall, some makeup.

I would say I am comfortable without makeup.

I work in Male traditional role as a maintenance person, but openly identify as mtf transgender always. I do not do stealth or passing and am very proud of all of the barriers and resistance I have over came, and the fact that I am still alive is just amazing. I love to dress and have fully taken advantage of having my face done proper, however during work is just does not work much to dirty of an environment and would have to reapply several times a day. I rarely leave the house on my days off without being made up to the best of my ability. I feel it is important to me to look as well as possible and present my best always, it seems that to me there are many judgemental people about and I like to be my best. I am comfortable without make up but it sure is not my preference

Love Jerri

I sometimes feel I'm on the wrong forum  ;) I never wear any ! I moisturise and use factor 50. I'm so sorry I'm such a let down  ;D


Paula, X.

 Depends. I don't usually like to go out without it. Not because I think I don't look feminine, but because I have sparse eyebrows and I think I just look better with some definition added to my face. I almost always wear concealer, mascara, and lip gloss in addition to eyebrow pencil. However, if I am going camping or something then of course I go without.

 I have pretty bad 5 o'clock shadow, and would pass better with make up.  I don't like how make up feels on my face, nor do I really like the visual result enough to wear it.  Worst of all is maybe reading the ingredients of the products.  I am completely out as trans and I'd rather people just understand what I'm going through rather than try my hardest to skip to the end of transition.  I'm getting electrolysis to permanently resolve the issue.

Having not worn any makeup in more than a decade, except for special occasions, I can live without it. I especially hate concealers that make my wrinkles too obvious. When 50, who wants to look 70?

I love wearing eye makeup and lipstick, but I absolutely hate wearing foundation.

I'm not sure how any of you are able to do it. One sneeze and it's all messed up and obvious that I'm wearing it, with the different toned area with stubble below my nose. Maybe it would help if any of the shades I've bought were even close to my skin tone. I seem to have a lot more red than any of the shades they sell, and believe me, I've bought them all.

So eye makeup and lipstick and stubble it is. While I do get a few stares, I'm pretty comfortable with this look, and really am more comfortable with the eye makeup than without.