Quote from: ZoeM on July 22, 2013, 11:23:28 AM
This is a setup I put together recently. I really like it - even my face is somewhat less photophobic than usual. (Although still not quite what I am in person)




My calves are huge, though not quite as large as the image implies - so I also have a pair of black jeans to use with the outfit.
I know it passes regardless, though.

Zoe you look great! And I bet your calves aren't as big as mine so I wouldn't worry about it. 

Quote from: Rowan Rue on July 27, 2013, 02:04:59 PM
Remind me it's all in my head please?

Rowan, you're beautiful and feminine. Most of us wish we looked like you.

Quote from: Rowan Rue on July 27, 2013, 02:04:59 PM
Remind me it's all in my head please?

100% beautiful female.  I don't know how anyone could see otherwise.

Quote from: Rowan Rue on July 27, 2013, 02:04:59 PM

Gorgeous!

Quote from: Rowan Rue on July 27, 2013, 02:04:59 PM
Woke up, looked in the mirror and saw a face that I felt looked 100% male. 
I really understand how anorexia can make people see an overweight person in the mirror when in reality the person is starving to death.
Remind me it's all in my head please?

It is all in your head. You look fantastic!

Quote from: Rowan Rue on July 27, 2013, 02:04:59 PM
Woke up, looked in the mirror and saw a face that I felt looked 100% male. 
I really understand how anorexia can make people see an overweight person in the mirror when in reality the person is starving to death.
Remind me it's all in my head please?

I know how you feel girl I deal with the same thing too when I wake up. It seems like the guy I used to see in the mirror will haunt me forever. But really it's all in my head just like its all in you head. Your very beautiful and have nothing to worry about. 

I'll join the wagon! Click on these to enlarge them. I'm 23 and a pre-op that had nothing but laser hair removal and HRT. You all look so good

Feb. '13
May '13
Before/After: July '13; my 13th month of HRT

Quote from: CalifornianChris on July 27, 2013, 07:48:40 PM
I'll join the wagon! Click on these to enlarge them. I'm 23 and you all look so good

I'm not buying it! You're really a cis woman trying to pull one over on us. Well I can tell you, I'm not buying it!

Joking aside, you've had quite the transformation, you're gorgeous. I can't believe your BEFORE picture was ever you!

Quote from: Rowan Rue on July 27, 2013, 02:04:59 PM

geez louise

Not an ounce of maleness about any of these photos. NO OUNCES.. These are all gorgeous photos! You look beyond great! Totally way fab!

Quote from: CalifornianChris on July 27, 2013, 07:48:40 PM
I'll join the wagon! Click on these to enlarge them. I'm 23 and a pre-op that had nothing but laser hair removal and HRT. You all look so good

Feb. '13
May '13
Before/After: July '13; my 13th month of HRT

CC- simply stunning! The difference between your before/after is jaw dropping! Way to go!!

1000 posts, what the heck! Can't believe it!



I hope you are all having a wonderfully summery weekend!!

You are all looking fabulous darlings 

Quote from: Angélique LaCava on July 26, 2013, 07:52:53 PM

Stunning, Angelique

@ cali-chris - wow what a change.  Who is that sullen guy in the bottom left picture?

All of you ladies look fantastic.

Quote from: CalifornianChris on July 27, 2013, 07:48:40 PM
I'll join the wagon! Click on these to enlarge them. I'm 23 and a pre-op that had nothing but laser hair removal and HRT. You all look so good

Really stunning Chris!

It might sound jealous, but I looked into this thread for the first time and my tears immediatly started to go. Yeah, you look fabulous, but I want that, too. I feel as if I'll never succeed in that. Life's so unfair sometimes; I should have never been a boy or at least getting on track earlier. I wish I accepted it earlier. I wish I was like you.

I'm so sorry that I can't be happy for you right now; it just makes me to sad comparing. I would really like to be happy for you. I just can't. I'm sorry.

Quote from: PiaBianca on July 28, 2013, 09:36:33 AM
It might sound jealous, but I looked into this thread for the first time and my tears immediatly started to go. Yeah, you look fabulous, but I want that, too. I feel as if I'll never succeed in that. Life's so unfair sometimes; I should have never been a boy or at least getting on track earlier. I wish I accepted it earlier. I wish I was like you.

I'm so sorry that I can't be happy for you right now; it just makes me to sad comparing. I would really like to be happy for you. I just can't. I'm sorry.

Well at least you are being honest about your feelings, and by the way you are certainly not alone, I think these women are exceptional, not so for a really big percentage of the rest of us, so try and not feel too bad about yourself PiaBianca!

Quote from: PiaBianca on July 28, 2013, 09:36:33 AM
It might sound jealous, but I looked into this thread for the first time and my tears immediatly started to go. Yeah, you look fabulous, but I want that, too. I feel as if I'll never succeed in that. Life's so unfair sometimes; I should have never been a boy or at least getting on track earlier. I wish I accepted it earlier. I wish I was like you.

I'm so sorry that I can't be happy for you right now; it just makes me to sad comparing. I would really like to be happy for you. I just can't. I'm sorry.

I understand how you feel.  I transitioned during middle age, and my results are less than stellar.  However, as I am getting older, I realize that our external beauty fades regardless of where we start.  For me there is a certain comfort in this fact, and I have become more comfortable with what I have achieved with my transition.  There is so much in life that does not involve our appearance, but as we transition, I think we sometimes forget that fact because we are so concerned with perfecting our look.

Please do not get too hung up on your appearance or even worse how others appear.  Try to remember that such things are beyond our control, and that our time is better spent tending to the things where we can make a difference.  Finally, I won't patronize you and write that I never having feelings of pain when I see what could have been, but what could have been no longer matters in the here and now.

Quote from: PiaBianca on July 28, 2013, 09:36:33 AM
It might sound jealous, but I looked into this thread for the first time and my tears immediatly started to go. Yeah, you look fabulous, but I want that, too. I feel as if I'll never succeed in that. Life's so unfair sometimes; I should have never been a boy or at least getting on track earlier. I wish I accepted it earlier. I wish I was like you.

I'm so sorry that I can't be happy for you right now; it just makes me to sad comparing. I would really like to be happy for you. I just can't. I'm sorry.

Oh Pia, all women are beautiful. Just the act of being feminine is one of incomparable beauty. I haven't seen you, but just knowing you're a female human, makes me certain you're beautiful in more ways than can be counted.

Yes it's easy to wish you looked like someone else, that their kind of beauty is yours too.

It's all an illusion.

Beauty exists for one reason only - to make us feel good about ourselves and our world. When it doesn't do that, it needs to be ignored. Conformance to some artificial standard of what is beautiful is superficial and unnecessary.

Please believe me, there is a lot about you to love.

Quote from: PiaBianca on July 28, 2013, 09:36:33 AM
It might sound jealous, but I looked into this thread for the first time and my tears immediatly started to go. Yeah, you look fabulous, but I want that, too. I feel as if I'll never succeed in that. Life's so unfair sometimes; I should have never been a boy or at least getting on track earlier. I wish I accepted it earlier. I wish I was like you.

I'm so sorry that I can't be happy for you right now; it just makes me to sad comparing. I would really like to be happy for you. I just can't. I'm sorry.

Trust me I understand how you feel. I've posted plenty pictures but I really don't think I'm all that and I see countless women on this site who are way better looking than me. But really that's not going stop me from posting pics. Because I know most of that is all in my head just like it is for you.
The only way your never going to never succeed is if you never try. So don't give up hope I promise you will be fabulous one of these days if you keep the hope alive you will be!