Decisions...

[kengr]

griffen's latest entry reminds me of something I've been struggling with for some time.

While's it's nowhere near as critical a decision as his, I've got my own problems.

I like being Brooke, even if I don't think I'd want to be her all the time. But the biggest problem I've got with being Brooke at all is all this damned *hair*.

The leg and arm hair is mostly a nuisance. Though getting rid of the hair on my hands can be a pain.

But this *beard*.... Unless I let it grow for several days, I seem to cut my face to hamburger when trying to get a decent shave. Well, sometimes it works ok and sometimes it doesn't. which just makes it worse.

(It gets long from here)



I'm *really* thinking hard about electrolysis or laser. Alas, from all I hear from my TS friends, it's painful (though I expect that to be less of a problem for me than for many of them, it's expensive (again something I can *currently* handle if I really want to). But the worst part is that either way it may take *years* of treatments to get all the hair, even on places like my face.

And that's a major concern. Because I might not be able to afford to *finish* it. :-(

It doesn't help that there are several options and that all of them are stuff I haven't done before. Which means that it's hard for me to take that first step. Even more so when I'm not sure what all the steps are or which options are best.

All I want is too be able to be Brooke without it being a major production. Why does it have to be such a complicated mess???

Comments

[iamjw.livejournal.com]

Not sure how this would work but there are depilatories to get rid of facial hair for women. They work for a week or so at a time, and are made for the face so they're gentle. I wonder what would happen if you trimmed the beard down with scissors as close as possible and then used one of these products?

[kengr]

Alas, the ones I've run into are lso intended for the finer hair on the average woman's face. They don't do *anything* to the thicker hair on my face.

Also, how long they last depends on how fast the hair grows.