Face Shaving And The "third Day"

[Guest Christie]

Its been a long time since I have had the chance to get on here or on the chat. So many things have been going on in my life lately. I have some things currently happning that I have questions about. Sorry but this is going to be long . . .

I am 24 now and I have known I was meant to be a girl for a very very long time. I have been living as full time as i can possibly manage for 6 years now. With all the time I have known I have had plenty of it to try things out and figure out what works best for me. As far as face/neck/(collar bone area) is concerned I have had nothing but issues from the start. Even when I wasnt on hormones I had to wait longer periods between shaving than what whas "normal." My face is very sensetive. I have had 10 sessions of laser (about 3 years ago) and have also gone as far as to have my whole face professionally waxed many times (OUCH!) It is obviously still going to come back no matter what I do.

What is going on with me right now is that I have just recently move back to the area (group of towns) I lived in as a child. I was living in the 13th largest city in the US. Things went horribly wrong and my mother came to rescue me so to speak. The thing is that this place is prolly the oddest place in the country if not the world. There are a lot of small town people who dont act like small town people but like to keep things the way they are and small townish so to speak. Its still fairly segregated here in an odd sense aswell. I guess it is everywhere still but here more so than other places ive seen. People have learned to accept things for how they are one way or another but still dont like those grey areas. For me (on my good days) I have no problem passing at all until I open my mouth. But Ill save that for another time. What Is worrying me right now is that I have to find a job and start working. A lot of people here dont even notice me but I know if I am working they will and what will happen next? I have had some nice people I have met since I have been here tell me to be extra careful. "You never can trust people around here you could end up dead in a field and not found for months around here."

One of my biggest problems is shaving my face. I am on a 3 day cycle at the moment that I just cant break. Day 1 I shave and I am good all day and through 90% of Day 2 aswell. Come day 3 I have facial hair and cant do anything about it. It has been a problem at most of the jobs I have had but they have dealt with it for the most part. If I am working with the public here tho things will be different (if I am lucky enough to find a job).

I am still unsure of what the reason for the day 3 thing is but if I shave on day 3 instead of waitng a day and starting over again it causes the razor to tear my face up then I cant shave for a week while it heals. I shave with baby oil and a disposable razor and I against the grain so I get a smoother shave and you dont see the darkness thru my makeup. That way I dont look like I have makeup caked on all the time and if someone touches my face it is nice and smooth not rough. I also found that by shaving in the shower I ended up with a 3 day cycle instead of a 4 day cycle like I had prior to. I dont want the hair to get worse so I have to shave every other day or even every day but It would be very nice to find out how I can manage to not tear my face up when I shave on day 3 so that I can atleast look pretty all the time even If I dont sound pretty. (I will be posting something on voice soon aswell)

If anyone has any ideas or suggestions it is greatly appreciated. Maybe some of the things I have mention will help others aswell.

<3 always,

Christie

[Guest *Elizabeth Anne*]

This can be a major problem. I have a light hair growth and can usually survive that awkward day - without being noticed. But my routine is different. I was on electrolysis but finances got to me - and that was worse because you can't shave at all!

So I am on a three part regimine - I use a depilator (google that) I tweeze what I can by hand (but that take a huge time investment) and I shave like you do. The shaving part is usually accomplished using old fashion shaving soap and a brush to lather up. the soap has no perfumes or preservatives and is made for only shaving. I also shave against the grain but in three directions, and directly against - one from a cross right - the final with a cross left. I use my other hand to run along, seeing what I miss. I DO NOT push hard to bget the hair stubble, it causes taking off skin. Some dead skni is going to come off naturally, but I do not want to shave off live skin. Oh yes - defoliate with a lufa spounge or facecloth before you shave - not everytime - but enough to get that scale off that clogs razor blades.

And MOISTURIZE every night - a FACE moisturizer - never a boduy or hand cream.

BUT the biggie is I am on HRT and it has changed my skin texture. What I do may not work for you.

And finally - I use 'mineral' base make-up - seems to not irritate my skin as much.

Good luck

Lizzy

[Paula ult]

Hi Christie, i had trouble with those disposable shavers, they just do not seem sharp enough and tend to pull the skin, what i use is Edge Shave Gel, it foams up when you spread it on, i use a Gillette Fusion power shaver, it has 3 blades and uses a AAA battery to make it vibrate, i get a really close shave and my skin is sensitive too.

You are young so i assume you have no gray hairs, laser is not always permanent, i am much older than you and have had 9 laser sessions, it has gotten rid of the dark hairs but the white ones remain so i started electrolysis and have had great success in 14 sessions, you will probably have to go this route too.

I think we should talk about your voice, if you pass well which you must except when you open your mouth you really need to work on that pronto, some get decent voices it seems like overnight while others struggle, i am going to give you some resources so you can start working on your voice right away.

These two Laura has, there is a voice chat every 2 weeks on Friday night and she has helped me greatly. She can get you started with pitch and exercises.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/voicets/

http://www.geocities.com/a44z44/site/index

These next two are Kathe Perez web sites.

http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=tgvoice&view=videos

http://www.exceptionalvoice.com/

Lets not forget Candi Fla she is funny and has a great voice. Start with transgender voice 1 which is #008.

http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=candiFLA

Paula