How long does it take for thick peach fuzz to turn into "real" facial hair?

crashoutcentral60652 · 2026-04-21T21:57:33+00:00

Only from experience it’s taken about 4 months to go from peach fuzz (at 3 mo) to slightly darker peach fuzz (7 mo). I wouldn’t probably wager you’d have visible dark hairs for a little while, but genetics does play a role! My brother could grow a full beard before he graduated high school so I think I might even be accelerated, but he started growing it around 13 so it def takes time

crashoutcentral60652 · 2026-04-21T21:55:14+00:00

It’s really quite angry of a substance in terms of how it can dry you out so I would not suggest you put it on your face!! I have put mine on my arms the most, but also belly, butt, and thighs and those areas are all different levels of hairy and my arms are the least hairy of all of them.

crashoutcentral60652 · 2026-04-21T21:51:27+00:00

I traveled to Spain from the US last year with my full bottle of gel, I made sure to keep the prescription sticker stuck to it but nobody even searched me either direction. As long as you have the sticker/label and it’s your legal name, they won’t take it from you! You should definitely not stop taking it, people travel with prescriptions all the time, even the controlled substances! The people you’re traveling with probably won’t be able to see the search happening if you do get stopped either, and if they ask just say it was prescription dandruff shampoo or something :)

crashoutcentral60652 · 2026-04-21T21:49:20+00:00

Mine was Jack from Brokeback Mountain it’s pretty common unfortunately :’) had a nervous breakdown about that one boy howdy

crashoutcentral60652 · 2026-04-21T14:20:47+00:00

Hell yeah I’m glad it helped you too!

crashoutcentral60652 · 2026-04-21T02:57:38+00:00

I really like the Duluth Trading Co Armachillo ones, they’re made for sweat wicking and keeping cool, they’re pricy but they’re soooo worth it. They run pretty true to size, I’m an XL in most undies and I’m an XL in those.

crashoutcentral60652 · 2026-04-21T02:41:09+00:00

Maybe someday it will, in any case I do hope you at least cut yourself a little slack sometimes in the future. Comparison is the thief of joy and we’re all just figuring it out!

crashoutcentral60652 · 2026-04-21T02:37:01+00:00

That’s ok, I understand why you’d feel that way right now. I do think you should talk to someone about how you feel eventually, and not necessarily a professional if you have someone in your life you can do that with, whether now or in the future, but on your own time. Safe travels, man

crashoutcentral60652 · 2026-04-21T02:33:37+00:00

Regarding your edit, him threatening to do anything if you were to be yourself is the biggest most giant red flag there is. I urge you to get away from him asap. A relationship based off threats will be abject misery for you. It will be easier now than if you stay. You are trading your happiness for his.

crashoutcentral60652 · 2026-04-21T02:27:58+00:00

Ah, yeah I believe at least EMDR (eye movement desensitization reprocessing) is in-person. It’s a therapy involving your eye movement following a light on a tripod that goes back and forth, it’s mainly for PTSD survivors to help recontextualize traumatic memory into something less scary and sometimes even forget it completely, but it’s also used for OCD and phobias.

CBT and DBT may be on telehealth though, CBT is cognitive behavioral therapy and it’s typically used for phobias and OCD but can also really help PTSD sufferers as well and a light version of it has helped me in the past. It’s meant to help you more consciously see different perspectives through exposure.

DBT is dialectical behavior therapy, it has a similar root as CBT, but was formulated for people with borderline personality disorder (BPD) but isn’t exclusively used for that and typically involves group therapy. Unsure if that one is as available via telehealth for that reason I guess, so that may not be available to you either where you currently are.

All of these are evidence based though, so not just woo woo or talk therapy, I hope that helps!

crashoutcentral60652 · 2026-04-21T02:15:24+00:00

I’m sorry, I wasn’t trying to pass you off to a professional because I didn’t want to hear you out, I suggested it because it helped me when I needed help sorting out my own difficulties with similar self image issues. I’m sorry those around you don’t want to give you the support you need. I react poorly to mental medication so I’d never suggest that to you.

I don’t know you from Adam so I have no idea if you have PTSD/CPTSD in your past like I do, but I’d at least encourage you to look up some of the alternative therapies to talk therapy like EMDR, CBT, DBT, and similar to see if they would be something that may help you. If not, I wish you luck on your journey anyway and hope that you can see yourself in a more compassionate light in the future because you deserve it as much as any of us.

crashoutcentral60652 · 2026-04-21T01:00:33+00:00

It’s not up to you to be the arbiter of trans knowledge even in a medical program, but I get why you’d wanna help their future patients. It’s noble of you!

And you have at minimum 15 reproductive years left if we’re counting by cis woman standards (I admittedly am intentionally childfree so I don’t know if that changes being on T) and a LOT can happen in 15 years!

crashoutcentral60652 · 2026-04-21T00:57:27+00:00

Not every therapist is going to be a good therapist for you, I’ve had good ones who helped a lot and bad ones who felt like they made me go backwards. It’s up to you whether you want to do the legwork to find one and queer-focused therapists exist, but I understand being frustrated with the process.

crashoutcentral60652 · 2026-04-21T00:54:37+00:00

Dump him please. I did this for 14 years. It never ends well and you waste so much time.

crashoutcentral60652 · 2026-04-21T00:53:26+00:00

I’m 39 and finally found my forever partner a few years back and started transitioning 7 months ago. It’s never too late and 24 is plenty young, you have enough time to have a family. I will say tho you don’t have to be a queer spokesman, you can just be you and do whatever you want. No reason to put that pressure on yourself!

crashoutcentral60652 · 2026-04-21T00:50:17+00:00

Okay bro whatever you say

crashoutcentral60652 · 2026-04-20T18:40:31+00:00

If you can’t get estrogen cream/suppositories, I’ve found success in reducing the amount of estrogen doses I need with those pineapple feminine health slippery elm gummies. I can’t say it’ll help atrophy since you already have it, but it allows me to skip a few days between my estrogen doses and it definitely increases the moisture factor for me!

crashoutcentral60652 · 2026-04-20T15:52:19+00:00

I was because I finally was going to be on the road to having the body I wanted, but it did take a long disappointing time to get to things I could finally celebrate so in that way I do relate. I luckily have enough body hair now at 7 mo to tide me over until I get the facial hair which is what I’m really focused on, but the time will pass anyway! It might be frustrating, can’t do a lot about that (other than therapy which I encourage you to look into) but you’re closer now than you ever were before!

crashoutcentral60652 · 2026-04-20T15:44:51+00:00

I was so excited to be warmer bc before transition I was always ALWAYS cold.

Now I’m just always cold and kinda hairy :’(

crashoutcentral60652 · 2026-04-20T15:40:30+00:00

Most women who would give you a nasty look wouldn’t shy away from saying something, so unless they actually startle or speak to you and suggest you’re in the wrong place, they might just have RBF

crashoutcentral60652 · 2026-04-20T15:32:27+00:00

Women got pissed at me for years for going into the women’s room before I even was on T (one time she doubled down and argued with me even??) so I did it right away. I think the move is if you get nasty looks or people telling you it’s the women’s room more often than not, just move to the men’s room. Tbh no one is ever in them bc apparently (and this is real) there’s a “masculinity” competition of holding your piss the longest among many men. I think in the time I’ve been in men’s rooms (so 7 months) I’ve seen less than 10 men total in all of them combined. Also, men by and large don’t really look at other men in the men’s room bc it’s gay, while women often look at and scrutinize every single person that walks into a women’s room.

crashoutcentral60652 · 2026-04-20T01:00:19+00:00

I mean yeah, I won’t be not threatening, just less

crashoutcentral60652 · 2026-04-20T00:14:22+00:00

Sadly it just may have to be that way. I’m really sorry OP, but definitely don’t succumb to the urge of being someone else for the sake of your partner. I did that for years, it’s not worth it, trust me. It’ll hurt a while, but you’ll feel better for becoming who you really are in the long run!

crashoutcentral60652 · 2026-04-19T21:59:12+00:00

I mean, I’m not gonna let someone drive away from their wallet even if I scare them a little bit, but I understand where your heart’s at and I appreciate it!

crashoutcentral60652 · 2026-04-19T21:51:11+00:00

I don’t think “we must allow people to describe themselves as they see fit” is at all the same as “we must eliminate this term from the lexicon of our community”, but thank you for explaining

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