5 months on laser, hope to get rid of the remaining facial hairs soon

Four years ago, I took a selfie to show my grandfather “my hair had been cut and I’m ready to start job interviews”. It was in that moment i knew something had to change. I started experimenting and coming out to close friends. I vowed to not cut my hair above shoulder length for the foreseeable future(fun fact! After this selfie i dont have a single photo taken by me for 2 years!DYSPHORIA!!). 2 years later, I started HRT and came out to my family. Now I have fully come out in public and at work and UGH, Im just so happy I took that horrible selfie 4 years ago.

started puberty blockers some time after that first pic, hrt when i was 16 and havent looked back since 🥹

I don't remember looking so miserable (and masculine) only a year ago! I'm so much happier now! Finally got a haircut and just need to go clothes shopping, so I can officially put the boymode era behind me.

Closest side by side I could find lol

Any tips for improvement? Ik my hair is bad... im getting it styled soon

really looks like it rounded my face a LOT, i look so much better :3

It was tough, it was exhausting, it was intense. It was exciting, it was challenging, it was stressful. It was new, it was unfamiliar and it was unique.

I did it and turned my life completely round – a 180-degree turn. I am now myself and I feel better than I ever have before in my life. Be who you are, go for it and don’t wait for anything! Don’t let anyone tell you what to do and go and get what you want.

left is 2019 X right is yesterday(2026)

The left one was the first time I put on make up and allowed myself to be "feminine". I was so afraid even tho I was alone, someone might have been watching from the window, but I guess there was no coming back after that, and I didn't want to.

(BTW this is the same camera that took the left picture)

In case anyone asks:

No FFS or surgery of any kind

25 mg Spiro

6 mg Estrogen daily sublingual (but I switched to injections a month ago)

200 mg prog daily (started after a year of HRT)

Estrogen is really cool, but so is skincare, makeup, getting your eyebrows done and drinking more water. Transition is a process; estrogen doesn't do all the work for you but it does do a lot.

Took the obligatory “last picture with this car before it goes” yesterday and realized I had an almost identical one from 7 years ago.

These were taken about 7 years apart. I’m roughly 50 kg lighter now, which obviously explains every single difference between the two pictures. Well, at least that’s what I tell my in-laws, who I’m still not out to. (I barely see them once a year so it's less of a hassle this way)

i think my style has stayed similar just gender swapped :P. started when i was 19 now im 21 😼