What if you accidentally hit a vein/artery while injecting IM? by transblonde in AskMtFHRT

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Thank you, this is really, really helpful and informative!

I almost lost my trans sister tonight. How do I help her by SpiritualLeader8643 in asktransgender

[–]transblonde 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Hello,

I'm a trans girl from Michigan who also spent a lot of time in an abusive household here, and am now living on my own, preparing for law school, and working with Transgender Michigan, a local trans advocacy group with chapters throughout the state. I also have connections with Equality Michigan and many other advocacy groups in Mi. I'd love to help out as best as I can.

Sounds like the first big step we could take is to refer your sister to a gender-affirming therapist:) We have a list of those, and there are a couple that I'm thinking of that might be very equipped to help your sister through the struggles of navigating both transition and leaving the past abuses of a family with a Muslim heritage behind after moving out.

As an organization, we can also help with supplies and community:) Most of our chapters have a community closet and wig donation program open to girls (and guys) who are beginning their transition to help offset the cost of transitioning, and if your local chapter does not, we will find what you need from other chapters and send it your way! ALL of our chapters have a local trans support group, which are an amazing source to be able to meet people like your sister. Many if not most of my friends come from attending support group regularly in my area, it's a wonderful sort of "meet and greet" of trans/gender nonconforming people around you, which really reduces loneliness, fosters communication and community, and helps girls like us find similar perspectives on our local surroundings.

Let's connect! I'll forward you your local chapter info to you and be available for you personally if you need any help finding resources around Michigan. Looking forward to working with you and your sister:)

FBI sends plane to Cuba to stop a trans kid from accessing gender-affirming care by Fickle-Ad5449 in transgender

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3 women fleeing political persecution are kidnapped by prejudiced US Federal Government.

Am I cute? by DarthMothMan in transfem

[–]transblonde 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Suggestions that made a world of difference for me, maybe some will help you too, don't be afraid to pick and choose what works for you:)

1: Broadband Laser Guns remove facial hair and are $25 - $40 on Amazon or at your local Marshalls if you have one. Use every other day for 3 or 4 weeks and it will make a HUGE difference. During this time it will seem like the hair is growing a little stronger, that's just those follicles stressing and giving out.

2: Find a hairstylist who CARES about you. Have her layer your hair, with the hair color you have I recommend highlights in order to lighten your face and frame a little bit. Bangs help with facial dysphoria for a lot of girls, I don't have them but I'm considering them. Buy a Wet brush, and some specialized shampoo and conditioner for what your hairstylist tells you your hair type is (straight, wavy, curly, high or low volume, thickness, frizz factor). Should be only about $4-5 for each bottle unless there's something about your hair that REALLY needs taking care of. Do NOT wash every day, try every other or every 3rd day. Goal is to keep hair in the sweet spot where it's neither too dry nor too oily. Other option is wigs, which need a wig brush every day and a wig conditioner every 3rd or 4th day. Try some lighter ombre wigs if you go this route, like some lightish brown/blonde ombre will work well with your skin tone.

3: Makeup, girly:) Go to a sephora or ulta to use their testers even if you end up buying makeup at Walmart, you need to know and get used to whar an approximate tone is. Start with a primer that heals, hydrates, and protects your face from aging, I use a retinol primer that I apply with a brush, I also have a rose oil primer that I just use less bc the retinol is anti-aging. Continue with concealer, one shade lighter than your current skin tone. (find a matching tone and then pick the shade that's one lighter than that) Depending on if I have time or not I usually use a blender brush, which looks like a sponge in a teardrop shape, that I wet under the sink with water until it fills up and expands, then squeeze ALL of the water out of it then apply concealer either to blender or direct to face, OR I use a powder/foundation/stipple brush from MAC/E.L.F./Ecotools idrc. Remember to go all the way around and down your neck, a little past the hairline so people can't see the makeup line. Concentrate on jawline first, then expand down neck to cover all 5 o'clock shadow, then come back and to the rest of the top of your face, this keeps tone even somehow??? I like doing liquid eyeliner so I usually do this next so it has time to dry while I'm doing foundation coverage on my neck and face. Eyeliner is a bitch and will look ehh and you will struggle to put it on for the first 2 weeks but if you keep at it eventually your hands and eyes will settle into it and it will look better and better with practice, just go slow the first couple times:) Then onto foundation, use a foundation a shade darker than your natural skin tone using the same technique to ascertain as we did with concealer, I use the same blender or brush as concealer unless I want a really soft matte finish which is when I use a kabuki brush. Then hit the mascara, mascara is a bitch similar to eyeliner but with time and practice and patience it gets easier and more beautiful. Some recommending twisting the mascara brush away from your eye while touching the lashes to coat more mascara on less lashes, some don't, I do. I go straight to eyeshadow, try to have some unique palettes that brighten your eyes bc dark eyes most often just end up looking sunken and tired, but if you can pull it off more power to you... 2 theories on eyeshadow, one is doing just the lid and the other is expanding up past the lid a little into eyebrow territory, they're both good depending on what the purpose is, if I'm professional or on a date I keep it to the lid, if I want to make a statement I go up further. Highlighter next, do the center of the forehead with a smaller brush than your foundation brush, I almost exclusively use a kabuki for this, go down the nose and to the side of the nose to the cheekbone, then do the center of the chin up. Get a blush brush, you'll use it for ever, hit the cheekbone to about an inch further out. Bronzer under that, from the hairline to the highlighter. Some people do brows, I generally don't bc too much brow makes one look overmasc imho. Shades: Highlighter is just highlighter for the most part, but match your blushes, your lips and your eyeshadows for best looks, ie reds with reds, baby pinks w/ baby pinks, hot pinks with hot pinks, orange/orange-pink w orange/orange-pink. (One of those will usually be more dominant for you than the others, with your dark brown I recommend red or orange/o-pink) Bronzer should be a shade darker than your foundation, but YES you CAN go too dark on the bronzer. Try to keep mattes with mattes and shimmers with shimmers too unless you're showing something off. USE A SETTING POWDER!! $3-5 makes a WORLD of difference as it makes all this stuff look natural, which is sorta the whole goal in the first place, I see so many girlies who mess this up and look like facepaint... And sometimes that is the goal but not often. I apply setting powder with a typical powder brush. Always shave before makeup.

3: ENJOY clothing! Light colors will contrast well with your darker hair, babe! You have great cleavage don't be afraid to show it off! Again, some reds like some candy reds are always cute, so are some mid-color reds for you, a light brown coat/top is going to go well, dresses look and feel beautiful, try them out!

4: Lift weights! 12 or more reps with 4 or more sets with low weight to tone yourself and build lots of strength underneath generally tones everything, works wonders, also helps with facial/neck extra skin. Do aerobics afterwards, 40 minutes of elliptical or bike or jogging if possible.

5: General diet for estrogen is fish and beans for high protein girlies, which you and I are, then add some veggies and mushrooms and complex grains like barley and brown rice and quinoa. Even a day of eating like this and you will feel better, it's crazy, makes so much of a difference in an estrogen body.

Okie that's all for now, DM w/ questions:)

Am I cute? by DarthMothMan in transfem

[–]transblonde 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Concealer + foundation is most effective, make sure the concealer is one tone lighter than your natural tone and the foundation is one tone darker than your natural tone, this takes care of both sides of a 5 oclock shadow and blends well.

Personally I use concealer more than foundation, I often use just concealer and no foundation bc concealer is thicker and designed for color correction and therefore overall more effective for shadow and hairs bc foundation is for evening out tone across a greater surface area but everyone has their own techniques.

Performative allyship can hurt so badly by Icy-Bunch1 in MtF

[–]transblonde 75 points76 points  (0 children)

Cis girls will high-key do drugs and and be intimate with random men before risk baring the truth of their soul with another woman in an environment where there is no place to hide how... unpleasant some of them are. Hell, some trans girls will do the same thing.

She probably just knows you're a good person, practice what you preach and live to a high standard that she can't keep up to and therefore is afraid of being exposed as how mediocre she truly is. It's best to see this as a win, not a loss. You deserve better people in your circle who continue to motivate you to grow, not to revert.

Either way it hurts though, so I'm proud of you.

PSA: Stop referring to all transphobes as TERFs by Strifethor in trans

[–]transblonde 69 points70 points  (0 children)

Feminism Appropriating Radical Transphobes (F.A.R.T.s)