Quote from: tacoma on December 11, 2010, 10:54:36 PM
About a year after being on T, I was able to grow a pretty sweet beard! Now I have to shave every other day. If you dont have any favial hair now, Im sure it'll come eventually.

Been on T over a year, no such luck.

I'm so afraid I'll look like Chewbacca.    I already have a bit of a happy trail and light chest hair, and random beard hairs and a light mustache and a bit of fine, but dark sideburns when I let 'em grow out.  I really don't want to be hairy, I want to look more androgynous.  But I'm betting I'm going to have serious chest hair.  I do hope I can avoid the back hair.

Quote from: LordKAT on December 11, 2010, 11:11:41 PM
Been on T over a year, no such luck.

Could be genetics.  Not all men can grow beards.  The ones who can't don't stand out because it's normal for men to be clean-shaven, but I think it's pretty common.

I had only been on T for a month before i had a huge mass of facial hair growing on my neck (yeah the dreaded neckbeard) .. haha.. but six years on im still filling out certain areas on my face.. the sideburns being one and the soulpatch.. just takes time i guess, but i'd say it was down to genetics!

Quote from: Alexmakenoise on December 12, 2010, 01:07:16 AM
Could be genetics.  Not all men can grow beards.  The ones who can't don't stand out because it's normal for men to be clean-shaven, but I think it's pretty common.

This is true, there are forums out there with guys who have issues with growing full beards, tasches and the like. From what i've seen it's pretty common so i wouldn't worry too much

Quote from: d83211 on December 12, 2010, 10:20:02 AM
This is true, there are forums out there with guys who have issues with growing full beards, tasches and the like. From what i've seen it's pretty common so i wouldn't worry too much

My partner can't grow a beard.  He gets some patchy scruffiness, but the hairs stop growing at about 1/2 ".  I've known other beardless guys too.  Some people just aren't very hairy.

Recently i've been getting some sideburn hair thanks to T. It's made me so happy I refuse to shave them right now.

I was a trans youth thing the other day where they had surgeons, endos etc talking. The endo said for transwoman they will get their changes in 2 years as the female puberty is short but for us guys it will take about 5 years. So for some it will take a while for some decent facial hair if they get any at all.

I have some male friends who have really patchy facial hair or barely any at all. My one friend is 32 years old and he shaves once a week and has blond hair - so it pretty much looks like he's got a baby face all the time. Although guys like that are kind of the minority (unless you start looking at entire ethnic groups - like American Indians don't really grow beards) they're out there, so you shouldn't feel bad if you can't grow a "real" beard or whatever.

Quote from: Alexmakenoise on December 12, 2010, 01:07:16 AM
Could be genetics.  Not all men can grow beards.  The ones who can't don't stand out because it's normal for men to be clean-shaven, but I think it's pretty common.

father and grandfathers grow beards like the guys on the cough drops. Nice try tho.

This may be off, I know......I saw in a wig store in Eugene they sold human hair beards, side burns and mustaches.

So...I'm a bit confused! Boy vitamins are just vitamins meant for men, correct? If I were to take those, it would be almost like a light dose of T? As in, some facial hair but nothing else really? If one were to stop taking them, would the effects eventually wear off?

I would sacrifice my brother to lawn gnomes for side burns.

Quote from: FlightyBrood on December 20, 2010, 06:58:10 AM
So...I'm a bit confused! Boy vitamins are just vitamins meant for men, correct? If I were to take those, it would be almost like a light dose of T? As in, some facial hair but nothing else really? If one were to stop taking them, would the effects eventually wear off?

I would sacrifice my brother to lawn gnomes for side burns.

Okay from what I understand boys vitamins are just boys vitamins. Mens vitamins are what men need. All those vitamins are, are vitamins. They don't have any testosterone in them so I doubt they will help you grow sideburns sorry. There are some T-enhancers that supposedly work but they can be costly, sometimes have bad side effects, and often don't make any noticeable difference.

Quote from: Michael Alexander on December 20, 2010, 07:45:34 AM
Okay from what I understand boys vitamins are just boys vitamins. Mens vitamins are what men need. All those vitamins are, are vitamins. They don't have any testosterone in them so I doubt they will help you grow sideburns sorry. There are some T-enhancers that supposedly work but they can be costly, sometimes have bad side effects, and often don't make any noticeable difference.

Arrrrgh! But thanks for the info. Just a minor speedbump on my quest for THE GREATEST SIDEBURNS MAN HAS EVER SEEN.

If you google around, there are good sites on foods and vitamins that increase testosterone, but I'm not sure if it'd be enough of an increase to actually cause physical changes.

There's a thread on natural transition somewhere, I'll try and find it...

edit: Here it is https://www.susans.org/forums/index.php/topic,80861.0.html

this is insane <3

Those natural transition things are terrifying, holy damn! But thanks for the insight, it's nice to have people to ask before blindly running into the dark.