Quote from: princessemma on September 02, 2013, 01:34:46 PM
Okay i'm nervous.. this is me on two weeks of hormones. No make up, no wig, just natural.
how is it? could i pass as a female?

Flickr is a little tricky to post photos from.  The way you have done it does not work on here.  The URL has to start with "http://farm4.staticflickr.com/"

Quote from: princessemma on September 02, 2013, 01:34:46 PM
Okay i'm nervous.. this is me on two weeks of hormones. No make up, no wig, just natural.
how is it? could i pass as a female?

You have your settings on "private" hon'.  No one can see your pictures.

Quote from: Alice Danielle on September 02, 2013, 01:37:40 PM
Flickr is a little tricky to post photos from.  The way you have done it does not work on here.

noted. what should i do then? i'm sorry I'm kinda new to this smf forum

I sent you a message.

Quote from: princessemma on September 02, 2013, 01:34:46 PM
Okay i'm nervous.. this is me on two weeks of hormones. No make up, no wig, just natural.
how is it? could i pass as a female?

yay i did it.. finally the picture coming out

Quote from: Alice Danielle on September 02, 2013, 01:41:39 PM
I sent you a message.

thank you alice

Emma, nothing strikes me as overtly male in your pictures.

Just looks like a girl taking a bathroom selfie of her new dress.

Nice thread. I wish I had something like this internet forums when I was younger and transitioned 15 years ago. But then again I had a real life support group that kept telling me in part how they are all envious about my supposed luck (mostly because I am just 1m74 which is exactly the average height of women in this country and because I was in the early 20ies, had all my hair on the head and not too much in the face ). Its always good if people give encouraging words. However at times one has to be a bit more critical and be honest without being brutal. I've seen some images in this thread where I would say that without plastic surgery it will be very hard and in some cases I would disagree on the assertion that at the stage the pictures were taken a public acceptance as a non trans woman would be possible. Which is not always needed of course - a lot of people are aware of transgenders and dont have an issue with that and will be polite enough to take obvious signs as a reason to treat you as you desire to be treated. I found that out some time when I was all confident to have "passed" well and people never asked me about this and it was all normal and fine and then on some drunken evening I was made aware of many of the people I dealt with were having a very strong suspicion or were even convinved of me being trans, but no one told me before. That was weird - Oh and sorry, a bit off topic. Great pictures of some people here, really lovely ones are among there. Anastacia - I know that problem with the officials and experts who have to agree on all that. Where I live it was even the rule to only get HRT after a one year real life test period. Hardly anyone I know did that thanks to a blossoming underground market for pills - But I think you will do fine, but take care - I get you are from the more eastern parts of Europe - as a transperson one should if possible choose a very large city if possible to do transition, these usually tend to have more anonymity and more safe spaces than smaller cities.
Greetings

Quote from: anjaq on September 02, 2013, 05:45:41 PM
Nice thread. I wish I had something like this internet forums when I was younger and transitioned 15 years ago. But then again I had a real life support group that kept telling me in part how they are all envious about my supposed luck (mostly because I am just 1m74 which is exactly the average height of women in this country and because I was in the early 20ies, had all my hair on the head and not too much in the face ). Its always good if people give encouraging words. However at times one has to be a bit more critical and be honest without being brutal. I've seen some images in this thread where I would say that without plastic surgery it will be very hard and in some cases I would disagree on the assertion that at the stage the pictures were taken a public acceptance as a non trans woman would be possible. Which is not always needed of course - a lot of people are aware of transgenders and dont have an issue with that and will be polite enough to take obvious signs as a reason to treat you as you desire to be treated. I found that out some time when I was all confident to have "passed" well and people never asked me about this and it was all normal and fine and then on some drunken evening I was made aware of many of the people I dealt with were having a very strong suspicion or were even convinved of me being trans, but no one told me before. That was weird - Oh and sorry, a bit off topic. Great pictures of some people here, really lovely ones are among there. Anastacia - I know that problem with the officials and experts who have to agree on all that. Where I live it was even the rule to only get HRT after a one year real life test period. Hardly anyone I know did that thanks to a blossoming underground market for pills - But I think you will do fine, but take care - I get you are from the more eastern parts of Europe - as a transperson one should if possible choose a very large city if possible to do transition, these usually tend to have more anonymity and more safe spaces than smaller cities.
Greetings

Yes, there is a time and place to be more critical.  That's what the could I pass threads are for.   If people are not looking for that, there are threads for that too.

Quote from: princessemma on September 02, 2013, 01:34:46 PM
Okay i'm nervous.. this is me on two weeks of hormones. No make up, no wig, just natural.
how is it? could i pass as a female?

You definetly have a good chance at being quite beautiful rather then just passing. I am not one to sugar coat anything I have been warned in the past for being blunt so for me to say it should hold some value. Your youth, shape etc all will be rather helpful to you as you continue your journey

that makes me want to cry T_T thank you very much for the answers..

Your gorgeous Emma! <3

Please don't quote, but hmm, this from the other day was a rare shot I actually liked; a week away from 10 months HRT that have flown by. Though I feel I'm not getting very notable results from HRT, especially considering my start age (20). I know everyone gets different results, but it feels like I got the short straw. Maybe it's all in the hair, which I loathe? I don't know, really. I just feel, well, that I'll always be caught in the middle, not distinctly female at all...my avatar was pure luck. I look around me of all those around the time I started, months-wise, let alone age-wise, and it's not even close, they look so much more normal. Age-wise, I realize how crummy this is, too, even though my levels are actually really good. This isn't even depression, this is how I tend to see my face; as I would anyone else's, impartially.



I think this is okay, maybe even good, but honestly, heck if I know. Maybe I'll be one of those late bloomer girls, who pops out of her flower bud late in the spring, and then everyone notices her radiance, perhaps beauty, and a slightly warm, tingling sensation on the nose? After 1 year, they say the really big, noticeable facial changes start to happen then, right? God, I hope so.

One thing that's concerned me lately is my face, I'm feeling like it might be like almost too big, not sure how to put it. It's like it's way too disproportionately large compared to natal females, as well as most here. Too big of bones or something. Possibly just the nature of my heart-shaped face?

Jess!  You look great.  The body has its own time table in these things.  Worry not!

jess, seriously you look good. i'm a bit jealous actually

jess, that picture looks great to me. I think I can see some of the features that I noticed to change during the first year of HRT (I did that when I was about 22). It will take some more time to "deepen" these features as they sort of settle down (right now, some or most of them would be lost if HRT stopped - eventually they get more permanent). Also I think by actually living a womans life, you change the expressions. Thats just my opinion, I think for 10 months this is quite good, probably it was that even before - and if you dont like your hair, then by all means visit a stylist - its really not one of the most expensive ways to change appearances radically . Gosh, I remember when I started transitioning I had dreadlocks - so I did not really have much choice of styles, but it all worked out fine

Okay, I feel ready to post my first picture here. I know I aren't ready, but I want to have some feedback. Do you think I could pass one day? I mean after getting rid of beard shadow and hair on arms... and legs (what you don't see in the picture).

What do you think?

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Please don't reply with the image in the quote as I will remove it soon.

Its really hard to judge based on that picture alone.

Quote from: Alice Danielle on September 04, 2013, 02:24:46 AM
Its really hard to judge based on that picture alone.

Yeah, I totally suck at taking pictures. Do you have any recommendations how to take a better one?

Your body and arms are good.  But your face, Ma'am? 

It's okay, look at the camera.  We're going to be nice, promise.