I decided to shave a few days ago, for the first time ever. I'm 22 years old. Luckily, I only have terminal hair growth on my chin and a little on my upper lip. The rest of my face is still either hairless or light peach fuzz. Anyway, I cut the hairs first, they were about 3 inches long, I got them down to about half an inch. And then I lathered up with some moisturizer soap and shaved. It felt good--for like a whole five hours! Then the stubble began to grow back in. I really regret shaving now and wish I would have gone somewhere and had it waxed. I want to have it waxed now, but hair needs to be about 1/4inch to be waxed. Is there anything I can do to hide the stubble until its long enough to be waxed.
I was planning on going over to a friends house and hanging out with her, trying to pass as a woman this week, but now I feel like I can't.
I've already tried cover up/foundation and that made it look worse. Like I had a beige waffle cactus on my face. I don't have the money for electrolysis or laser removal. I've considered hair removal creams. And I guess I could just keep shaving--but I really hate it. I'm just repulsed by the fact I'm having to do something that men do. Any help would be appreciated!
I'm uber depressed and disappointed by this whole affair.

Waxing can work, but you need the time for it to get to length.  Hair removal creme is a bad thing,  you can burn the heck out of your lip.

Shaving is an option.  I use a Braun electric razor that get really close.  And then I follow it up with a Gillette Fusion razor.  It gets really close.

I purchased Tria home laser system about 2 years ago and have used it infrequently, but consistently. Nowadays I do not shave, and do not have any stubble. I still can see a few hairs in my legs, and I am going to apply the Tria once per month to strike those survived few hairs. Although Tria is not for facial hairs, I have applied it to my beard area. I do not shave like other men, but just shave very fine hairs in the beard area just before applying the Tria. For armpits, hairs have nearly gone, but I want to completely remove even fine hairs by applying once per month.

Effect of the Tria varis with person. It worked nicely at least for me.

Barbie~~

Quote from: barbie on June 17, 2012, 01:29:31 PM
Effect of the Tria varis with person. It worked nicely at least for me.

It is definitely a YMMV.  I found it didn't really work at all and was MORE painful than real laser.  If you try one make sure you can return it if it doesn't workout.

Thanks for the replies so far. But how can I hide the hair growth on my chin till it is long enough to wax?

The only think I can think of is bleaching. that might help. Alternatively get your tweezers out and start plucking!

There is really no way to hide a beard, especially for anything closer than 3 ft away. Bleaching may help but the chemicals can be as harsh as hair remover. (At least the pro stuff I was using for my arms and tummy before saying F' it, it's comming off!) If the hairs are anything other than light blond within a day or so a little bit of growth will break past the skin. Many of my blond hairs have a dark root and shaft. The little bit of sun they see does the bleaching. But that takes days.

I do a combo of pre-shaving with an electric followed by a blade. I also spend some time each day plucking out the dark ones followed by whatever else I feel like after them. HRT has slowed down the regrowth significantly. After a good shave I can go 3 days without a worry. By the end of day 3 you can start to see a dark hair here and there, even after the light foundation I always use before leaving the house.

After plucking I know waxing my face will be as futile as waxing my legs! Most of the hairs on my body have roots like a giant redwood. There is no pulling them out without a major fight. Which is all very ironic in my case since where there should hair, those roots started leaving town 40 years ago LOL

I sympathize.  Although I do shave myself with inexpensive (ok—cheap) disposable razors, I loathe the "5 o'clock shadow" it always leaves no matter how close I have tried to go.  I also shave my body hair this way, and intensely dislike the lack of smoothness with this.  Shaving is an imperfect system at its very best.  No No is something I may be able to afford somewhere down the line in the reasonably near future; but I've read in the forums here that, in spite of a lot of high claims in various media, it doesn't work....*sigh*.

Quote from: JoanneB on June 18, 2012, 09:44:10 PM
There is really no way to hide a beard, especially for anything closer than 3 ft away.

Before I used Tria, I had plucked my beard hairs using very sharp tweezers, which can erase the shadow. Ordinary tweezers can not pluck fine and short hairs. Looking around pharmacies or wal-mart, very nice and sharp tweezers can be found, if lucky.

Barbie~~

I am a plucker myself. Plucking works very well for me; my tweezers actually work quite well even though they are the flat and not the sharp type (with a roughly 4 mm flat edge).

I find it quite hard, though, to ensure I've plucked most hairs I want to pluck, because my chin has fine hairs that I often miss even though I am holding a mirror only 10 cm away. Sometimes, a few are so fine that they grow to over 1 cm before I realize they are there! But if I can't see those hairs with a mirror 10 cm away, I feel that I don't need to worry about people seeing them

And actually, I don't really deal with the whole bush of fine hairs above my upper lip (because they hurt waaay too much to pluck)... There are easily 70 or so of them, most of them quite long (about 5 mm) and don't really grow once they reach that length, but because they are fine ones, they aren't that visible (no more than those hairs on cis women's upper lip). Your hairs sound like they are similar to mine.

I tried a hair removal cream just once and never used it again. Sure, it worked, but it was sooo harsh on my skin that I was scared. I don't want to mess up my skin... so it's not something I want to use again.

By the way, your hairs are going to gradually get thicker and darker, which would make them far more noticeable even when there are only a few hairs, in contrast to fine hairs which may not really be visible even in a big bunch. So I think getting on androgen blockers or hormones is really important if you aren't on them already, especially if you won't be having laser or electrolysis any time soon, as that would stop the hair from thickening.