Hi again .


I looked at some pictures that I took before HRT and compared to some that I have taken just a few days ago and noticed that I am way thinner in my face now than I was before. My before HRT pictures looks horrible , I look swollen in the face haha.


What I wonder is how the changes came for you? It seems that fat has dissapeared but nothing has been added anywhere yet, can I be right on that? does the old fat go away first and will the added fat come later on? just curious on what to expect .

Quote from: Carolina1983 on August 20, 2012, 01:47:52 PM
Hi again .


I looked at some pictures that I took before HRT and compared to some that I have taken just a few days ago and noticed that I am way thinner in my face now than I was before. My before HRT pictures looks horrible , I look swollen in the face haha.


What I wonder is how the changes came for you? It seems that fat has dissapeared but nothing has been added anywhere yet, can I be right on that? does the old fat go away first and will the added fat come later on? just curious on what to expect .

Before HRT I had a lovely round fat feminine face but since I've been on HRT my face is now quite skeletal and my cheek bones stick out and are very bony. I hate the thin gaunt look which makes me look much older, and I wish I could get the fat back in my face! all suggestions are welcome?

Quote from: Naturally Blonde on August 20, 2012, 03:38:30 PM
Before HRT I had a lovely round fat feminine face but since I've been on HRT my face is now quite skeletal and my cheek bones stick out and are very bony. I hate the thin gaunt look which makes me look much older, and I wish I could get the fat back in my face! all suggestions are welcome?

I'm very surprised to read that? Are you talking about age related volumeloss?

I had a gaunt face with bony cheekbones before HRT, now its' full and rounded.

I also use Synapause, a topical estrogen cream as a nightcreme...keeps my skin full.

Everyone's different, I suspect. My face has rounded out some (lost its sharper edges), and something's definitely different around my eyes.

Quote from: Carolina1983 on August 20, 2012, 01:47:52 PM
Hi again .


I looked at some pictures that I took before HRT and compared to some that I have taken just a few days ago and noticed that I am way thinner in my face now than I was before. My before HRT pictures looks horrible , I look swollen in the face haha.


What I wonder is how the changes came for you? It seems that fat has dissapeared but nothing has been added anywhere yet, can I be right on that? does the old fat go away first and will the added fat come later on? just curious on what to expect .

My face is much, much thinner and gaunt than pre-HRT. More angular too perhaps? HRT has caused me to drop a good deal of weight though in general (lots of mass gone). So YMMV. But, I was shocked looking over my pics from 2 years ago.

People always comment that my face seems much slimmer yet more rounded. In reality all that jaw line fat went away while at the same time little fat deposits started forming on the apples of the cheeks. Now there's almost no fat on my jaw and my cheeks are just getting more and more full...

I, too, lose the face fat.  Which makes the wrinkles more noticeable.  Jaw line is more prominent, but I know the makeup tricks to diminish it.

Fat redistribution has never happened for me.  Some genes I got.

Hmm so I might just loose fat without gaining some on the right places? =/. At least I can hope for some more changes after only 4 months? gah I am so nervous, I hate to not have control and know the outcome .



If nothing more willl happen with my face there will be a need for FFS all over, which wont be cheap =/.


The worst thing is that I cant stand presenting as a male anymore, its driving me crazy. It sucks to have been "blessed" with maleness.

Quote from: Dahlia on August 20, 2012, 04:21:15 PM
I'm very surprised to read that? Are you talking about age related volumeloss?

I had a gaunt face with bony cheekbones before HRT, now its' full and rounded.

I also use Synapause, a topical estrogen cream as a nightcreme...keeps my skin full.

Oh, btw: stay away from fillers of any kind. They can cause immense problems.

My face thinned out in a big way - i was flying one day and the TSA agent kept looking back and forth between me and my DL (picture taken prior to starting HRT) and finally said "you've lost half of you!". There have also been noticeable changes around my eyes too.

This surprises me - it seems like a majority of posters in this topic so far had their faces thinned by HRT, whereas I'd always assumed it always added facial fat if anything.

Are there many cases of people with feminine features who ended up more masculine from the neck up after hormones?

My face also got thinner but not in a starved kind of way. I actually looked quiet health and at first much younger. Though thinner I certainly didn't look more masculine, quiet the opposite. Most of the magic seemed to happen around the eyes. They started to look bigger and more open sort of. I love that look and it is usually the first changes to happen.

My face started changing very quickly but I'm not exactly sure when changes came on strong. I would say probably 12 months but people started getting confused at 7-8 months. At 4 months though a co-worker who knew nothing suddenly found himself befuddled by how much I resembled my aunt who he had been working with years earlier.

After srs I started gaining weight and my face got rounder, but not in a good way. More of a unattractive pudgy look so have been working to keep it off.

It just moves the fat around. Like was said earlier, most of the effect comes from the deposits moving from the jaw to the cheeks. Secondary effects are a possible (<50%) extra production of collagen in the lips, jowel fat reduction (~60%) and deposits on the cheeks moving off the mouth (thus making the cheek dimples you see on women). Everything else that you'd notice is the skin translucency, which is present almost 100% of the time.

Quote from: Stranger on August 21, 2012, 08:37:06 AM
This surprises me - it seems like a majority of posters in this topic so far had their faces thinned by HRT, whereas I'd always assumed it always added facial fat if anything.

Are there many cases of people with feminine features who ended up more masculine from the neck up after hormones?

Exactely my point! I looked far more feminine pre-HRT. I had a fatter face before HRT which made it look more round and feminine. Now it's much thinner and I don't look anywhere as healthy and I have blotches around my eyes and my cheek bones stick out and my cheeks have sunken in. I think I look more masculine than I used to.

I have never seen the prior pics.

I do think you look like a woman.

I hear you complain all the time.

I respect you and what you live.

You are PETITE.

Quote from: Bella on August 21, 2012, 08:37:37 PM
Of any kind? Immense problems? Even Restylane? If so, please do elaborate.

Google bio alcimid damage, dermalive damage, aquamid damage for instance.

Restylane is temporary, will dissolve, sometimes unevenly and repeated (expensive)restylane treatments will leave needle trackmarks/scar tissue.

lol yea, I can't even stand looking at old pictures of myself now. My cheeks are much more filled out an the bottom of my face seems more narrow. I get mistaken for a 16yr old quite a bit now an i'm 24yrs old. It's really quite hard to note specifically what has changed but I get great comments from everyone around me about it an when people catch me from certain angles I get that look like 'can't tell if dude or lady' an i'm just about to round off 4 months on hrt so i'm psyched to see where i'm at in another 4.

I do hope it fills my checks. Too bony at this time. As they recommended me, I could even consider a fat transplant.

Quote from: Tori on August 21, 2012, 08:06:03 PM
I have never seen the prior pics.

I do think you look like a woman.

I hear you complain all the time.

I respect you and what you live.

You are PETITE.

Hi Tori, I will post a pre-hrt pic. You say I'm complaining all the time because I haven't got any decent fat re-distribution, no hips, no boobs, no fat butt. Yes, I do complain sometimes because I wanted a physical transition to female.  I am in the forum to get advice on how to improve my shape but not to be put down.

Why do you think I am petite? I'm not petite, I have big shoulders and quite thick set, 13 stone (not sure what that is in pounds but quite heavy for a woman) definitely not petite. I wish I was!

My face has thinned out too, which kind of sucks. I look more feminine in my cheekbones and eyes but I still look masculine around my jaw. I wasn't very big to begin with (5'8", 125 lbs), so that might have something to do with it, and I've lost more weight since starting hrt (1.5 years ago, and I'm down to around 118 lbs right now). I might try to gain some weight to get to around 130, but I don't want the fat to go to the wrong places, which it will, with my luck.