Quote from: DawnOday on July 31, 2017, 01:47:42 PM
You might consider having your doctor prescribe EMLA which is a lidocaine / prilocaine creme you place on the area being deforested. Then cover with plastic wrap about an hour before your appointment. Wait to take it of until you are in the chair. Also drinking lots of water

Quote from: Kendra on July 31, 2017, 02:02:43 PM
...and no coffee 8 hours before laser or electrolysis.

Cheers Dawn & Kendra - I'll give that a try on the next visit.  I probably drank far too much coffee and nowhere near enough water today

Still working with electrolysis for the face and groin area, the intention are to get them all (not much more to do). HRT removed virtually all of my chest hair, just a few hairs around my nipples that I pluck every week or two. The hormone therapy is also taking the hair off my thighs. I shave the legs and under arms and keep the arms trimmed short. The hrt has reduced my arm hair from thick jungle stuff to softer finer hair more similar to a natal woman. So Smoothie it is!

Anne

The only time I have any hair other than my head and eyebrows is when I have to let what little remaining facial hairs I have grow out for electrolysis. 

Im just wondering if anyone has had their pubic hair change from hrt? I never really thought about pubic hair but mine was curly and rough and now it's like straight and much softer.  I had no idea male and female pubic hair was different.
Julia

Quote from: Julia1996 on July 31, 2017, 07:35:19 PM
Im just wondering if anyone has had their pubic hair change from hrt? I never really thought about pubic hair but mine was curly and rough and now it's like straight and much softer.  I had no idea male and female pubic hair was different.
Julia

Yes!! Mines hasn't really changed texture but it got way less, like the little patch of hair has shrunk away to nothing. I do epilate straglers in the region, so I baisicly have a perma Brazilian down ther, it's so nice :3

I'm in hairless bliss now.

6 full body laser (gentlelase)
6 Brazilian bikini laser (gentlelase)
16 laser face (gentlelase)
40+ hours blend electrolysis face
10 hours flash thermolysis face
Silk Epil 9 for the blonde body hairs now
Still going for Blend electrolysis for final assault on facial hair.

Lol, it's hunting and backpacking/hiking season...no time for shaving.

I recently had my first full body sugaring including a Brazilian. The outcome is fantastic and the pain was totally worth it. I'm moving soon so now I have to find someplace that will do a Brazilian on me.

Quote from: MyMichele on August 08, 2017, 12:27:02 PM
I'm in hairless bliss now.

6 full body laser (gentlelase)
6 Brazilian bikini laser (gentlelase)
16 laser face (gentlelase)
40+ hours blend electrolysis face
10 hours flash thermolysis face
Silk Epil 9 for the blonde body hairs now
Still going for Blend electrolysis for final assault on facial hair.

So much work, but I bet it was so worth it <3

I really want to get something done for my chest area before I start HRT... I hate having unsightly hairs sprouting from my areolas and chest center.

So no I'm not a smoothy like Ya'all, but I can dream <3

I'm a smoothie all over. Luckily I've never been very hairy anywhere on my body, so it's easy to stay that way with a little shaving now and then. I consulted a dermatologist about facial hair laser treatments, but it's a little too expensive for me. So far, makeup is working since my beard isn't heavy.

I'm without question part of this club. 

I'm nearly hairless other than my head.  No hair under my arms, faint fine hair on my arms and legs which is almost invisible, very fine facial hair that is soft to the touch after about 2-3 days growth and now that it's mostly gray is not especially visible.  I've never been able to grow any sort of respectable facial hair (not that I ever really wanted to; only once attempted to do so as part of a bet with a friend at about age 28).

Oh, I have this one odd lone hair right in the center of my chest, now gray, which I pluck out every so often.

And I don't go bear hunting in a dress... but I might like to.

Steph

Pretty soon I won't be able to bag bears. 

Hugs, Devlyn

I haven't done anything about my downstairs hair, and, given that Dr. Brassard is my only option for SRS and he doesn't require hair removal, I probably won't. 

I consider myself lucky to have had very little body hair, thanks to DES.  If I had had the wookie look on my chest or my back, my body dysphoria would have been much worse.  I had maybe a couple of dozen chest hairs.  Prior to starting HRT, I'd shave them every so often.  Once I started on HRT, they got fewer in number, finer, and are now blonde.  I can't even find them unless the light catches them just right.

The hair on my arms is so fine it hardly seems worth doing anything about.  Peach fuzz, basically.  I shave my legs from time to time, but that hair is pretty sparse.

So I can't claim to be a smoothie, but I seem to have the low-maintenance option.

Quote from: KathyLauren on August 12, 2017, 06:01:12 PM
I haven't done anything about my downstairs hair, and, given that Dr. Brassard is my only option for SRS and he doesn't require hair removal, I probably won't. 

Kathy, is Dr. Brassard gonna care if someone gets internal hairs? You would, I imagine. My opinion, I wouldn't trust the lack of requirement.
Moni

Kathy,
I did not realize sparse hair was a potential consequence of prenatal DES exposure.  I have strongly suspected I am a DES victim for other reasons, this is yet another supporting piece of evidence.

Steph

I didn't know DES reduces body hair either but I was DES for certain and my body hair has always been next to non-existent.


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I had prenatal DES exposure, at fairly high levels.  Almost no body hair, and after a year of HRT, only the faintest fuzz remains anywhere but the head, face, and groin.  After 6 hours of electrolysis, the groin area has been cleared in the surgical area three times now, about once every 3 weeks.  The last clearing took about 50 minutes.

I have zero body hair, and at 27 DES probably didn't exist for me.
I have less hair than my gf. Sometimes it's just genetics.
My mom had an abortion before me though, so I wonder can that mess with her hormones or mine?

I have no reason to believe that I was exposed to DES as my mother conceived me within a couple of months of their marriage and my mother claims the only medication she receive was calcium. Other than facial hair, my body hair follows a feminine pattern. Lower legs, groin, underarm and white fine hair on my arms is all I have ever had. My chest, back and area above my groin have always been hair free.

Quote from: HappyMoni on August 12, 2017, 06:31:44 PM
Kathy, is Dr. Brassard gonna care if someone gets internal hairs? You would, I imagine. My opinion, I wouldn't trust the lack of requirement.
Moni

Hmmm.  Food for thought.  The ladies I know who are post-SRS all had their surgeries recently, and are probably too busy managing their recoveries to worry about leftover hairs yet.  But I should talk to them about it.

I might need a general anesthetic for electrolysis there!  Yikes!