Just wondering.  If I look at myself in the mirror now, compared to six months ago, I see someone still conclusively male, but more attractive.  Before, I was a guy who looked like a guy.  Now, I'm a guy who I think looks a little softer, maybe a little sparkle in the eyes, but overall someone who looks like a better looking male-me than the me I once was.

Did you find that HRT made you more handsome before it made you feminine?

(Edit - sounds like bragging.  Trust me, I'm still hardly an oil painting.  To be clear, I'm starting off from being a rather ugly guy, so right now I'm still only moderately unattractive instead of 'yuk'.  Maybe gone from a 2/10 to a 4/10?)

No, but I think I look 10 years younger now.  Actually I didn't look all that dudely in the first place unless I had a beard.

Nope, ugly before, during and after.

I don't know about more handsome, but younger looking most definitely.

Huh, maybe I'm just seeing a younger me then.

Quote from: Jaime R D on November 19, 2014, 07:56:46 PM
Nope, ugly before, during and after.

Whatever, girl you look marvelous

I've thought about this a lot too, and I think it really has. I'd struggle to call myself handsome even post-HRT (I'm closer to the other end of the spectrum, I think), but I was frighteningly underweight before I came out, and it really showed in my facial features. These days my cheeks are a little chubbier because of HRT (as well as just my starting to take better care of myself), and I generally look healthier and more pleasing to the eye, I think, whether as a male or as a female.

no

For the short time I did it, I got a lot of remarks that I looked younger, almost like a teenager. If I could go back to looking girlish like in my prepubescent years then great.

I think it has, but I'm not sure if its just me thinking that or other people as well. I still present male, with facial hair to cover up changes there. Not sure what I'd look like without it. Before HRT I looked 10 years younger, but now even more. They gray hairs give it a way a bit though.

I think part of it is the way HRT changes you skin, and perhaps being happier shows though.

I used this image before in the do I pass thread, but so far I think what HRT really has done is make me look like a teenager again and look somewhat more attractive. I don't mind looking younger at all mind you, I really loved when someone asked my wife if I was her son when I'm a couple months older, both of us being 29. I have had more attention both genders it seems, although I recently moved to Oklahoma and male attention has dropped some, but is still there. Any way here's any a recent image of where I'm at, I dress in gender neutral clothes right now.

Here's pre and post HRT, boymode selfies.

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My skin's definitely nicer now, but looking at these two pictures really makes me want to lose 20 pounds. It looks like half that extra weight is in my face.

Nope.

I went straight from a good looking guy to a person men want to have fun with. Weird.

I would say only within a 2 month time span, then the feminine features start setting in.  Here's my collage from Pre HRT, 1 mo, 3 mo, 4 mo.  Clockwise from bottom left to right.

Definitely no... thank god! Still same looks, better complexion, body etc... still want to move on into fulltime 

I feel like it did. Also, people used to think I was in my mid 20's & now people tell me I look 18-20 but not old enough to drink lol I hope I keep looking younger because I hate people thinking I'm older.

I think that maybe it did for a short while.... then I went into that weird in-between stage where I looked at myself and I remembered thinking "dude - what are you doing to yourself - you look hideous!".

Now i've mostly completed the journey and made it to the other side; i'm very femme looking and that ugly in-between mode has passed.

For quite a long time I think for me it was a very gradual leaning towards looking younger and slimmer. In the first few months I didn't really notice looking feminine, at least not until the make up was applied. Now, after 13 months of HRT it's getting harder to spot the guy in the mirror without wearing the make up, but he's still there, ready to show himself whenever there's poor lighting or on a bad hair day.

Yup.

Pre-transition, I looked like a giant hideously-masculine cave troll. About 5 months into HRT, though, I started looking really cute. People were asking me "are you old enough to be dealing this game?" when I was dealing poker at work, and I actually had a few people hitting on me (okay, actually it was just one gay guy... I was WAY too effeminate for any straight girl to find me attractive at that point.)

But yeah, I think I looked pretty good as a guy about halfway between starting HRT and beginning to be gendered female. As I started sharing my transition progress on Facebook, disguised as a weight-loss topic, one of my friends not in the know commented "the women are going to be all over you."

I've definitely noticed changes in my appearance almost three months into HRT. My skin is clearer, softer, has more of a glow to it, age lines are going away, and I'm getting a little more rounded facial shape. It's almost as dramatic as the first time I really "saw" myself after my massive weight loss.