Day One: please be gentle
older woman who is colorblind checking in here. sorry if its all a color mismatch. this was the only Halloween wig I could afford because I am very bald. ๐ญ but I looked at myself in the mirror and couldn't stop smiling. ๐ i love all of you!!!
i took my first dose of estradiol valerate and spironolactone this morning. i have unfortunately had a spike in blood pressure but i'm monitoring it.
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I wish I knew how to type out the onomatopoeia of the happy squeal I made
squeeeeee!
Congratulations and I'm glad you're here! :)
Thank you I am so happy to be here!
The dress suits you so well!!!
Thank you, and it's actually two sizes two big, I was able to get another cute one in the right size and shipping this one back to get replaced with the right size. I measured myself based on the size chart online and i guess it was off by a bit lol
Gentle does not depend on your looks.
Gentle depends on what Linux distro you are using.
You look great! Looking forward to more pictures and seeing your smile grow ๐.
Thank you I still can't stop smiling and I only just noticed I managed to be so excitable that I uploaded the only photo I'm not smiling in lmao
Love the hair and glasses combo!
Thank you so much, I was anxious about the glasses before all of this, because I got them as a man to suit a man and I was worried they couldn't pull double duty. But then I got put together and realized they're not that bad at all. I do wish my head wasn't so friggin wide so I could have some slightly more feminine frames but que sera sera
If you're ever wanting to match colors to something in the future, and you're okay with physically going into stores, you can bring the item and ask a sales person to help you. I worked in an accessory store ages ago, but my favorite task customers gave me was building a look around an item.
I love that silhouette on you, and I'm a little jealous of the freedom you gave with wigs :) Grats on your first doses!
I wish wigs felt like freedom, but I understand from my own experiences with my own hair when I still had it when I was young, sometimes it doesn't matter what you want to do with it, there's just no making it look how you want without having a different type of hair entirely, thickness, tensile strength, curliness, color all impact how hair is able to be styled.
Anyway, thank you for the tip on going in to stores. I don't live too far from more open minded areas, so I might be able to do that when I visit the west side of the state sometime.
You look amazing! Welcome to the community :3
Thank you all for such a warm welcome. I've been here on blahaj for years on a different account, but now I'm really here. ๐ญ
Love the dress, nails, and envy your tolerance for wigs! You look great! โค๏ธ
If I can handle this crummy wig, I can't wait to have an actual quality human hair wig, honestly.
Have you ever tried one? They're hot and itchy. But if you can tolerate it, try a lace front.
When your money's right: https://govihair.com/what-is-a-lace-front-wig/
has good, basic information. Good luck!
Lace front was already my goal, but I don't mind things being on my head for the most part. Thanks for the link though! More information is always welcome!
clothing has two primary purposes: the functional purpose (keeping you warm/dry), and the "does this clothing make me happy" purpose. sounds like you found a perfect outfit!
Yes I did, thank you!
It's a good look!
I'm just glad to finally have a dress and shoes to wear around my place and feel like myself in ๐ญ
thank you so much for the compliment, everyone here is always so kind.
I love that dress!!! Awesome floral pattern.
You got this, grats on day one!!
Nice fit. The glare on the floor makes it look like you're floating lol
Thank goodness for ugly 70s tiling! Thank you!
Hey youre looking great and thats a great dress on you.
Thank you so much, I love it so much aaaaaahhhh!
very specific, but i like your toe nails in combination with the dress, being both a very comfortable blue :]
I do love blues and I think it's the color I look best in because of my blue eyes! thank you for noticing! I'm still so bad at painting my nails lol
you are very good at painting ur nails in the way you do it.
when i started painting my nails i completely disregarded how it looked, it was just a simple point of focus where i spent 20 minutes just doing one slow brush stroke after the other.
now 5 years later my nails obv look better, but i still mostly enjoy just taking the time to just do my nails.
I do find doing my nails pretty relaxing and kind of a zen experience, for sure! Thank you!!
I love the wig. Good eye.
lol, I mean, it's whatever, I do like the side-swept bangs look, though. I like bangs in general though. Thank you, though, I mean I do like it too, I just wish I had a better one.
Holy shit, another colorblind trans girl?!
There are dozens of us!!! Dozens!!!!
If I can become a Lucille Bluth or a Maeby Funke, I'll have achieved everything I've ever dreamed of.
You're killing it! ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ
You look great! I think the hot pink really suits you. Thank you for including us in your journey, I hope the blood pressure thing resolves quickly.
Thanks so much!
The great news is I am just a dingus who was using my blood pressure cuff wrong. Went to a welk-in clinic. Nurses tested twice and I was fine, just having a panic attack thinking I wasn't. So, it's resolved because it wasn't actually a think hooray! lol
Looking good. Keep it going.
I kept it going so long I woke up on my bed and I had pulled the covers over myself, still wearing the dress.
Hiiiiiii!!! Congrats on the HRT!!!!
Heyyyyyyyy! Thanks, it's glorious already!
Do you feel cold? First thing I noticed was the change in circulation.
No, actually, I was honestly shocked at how warm my feet and legs stayed, especially with how strange it feels to have them shaved after a lifetime of them being hairy.
I wonder if its because I already experienced a change in circulation in 2023 when I started taking dasatinib for my chronic myeloid leukemia and I stopped being warm all the time and started being cold all the time after that.
the cml is in remission I just am still in treatment until they're sure it's gone. i talked about this a lot more on my prior lemmy account, before I was, well, really me.
Do you girl!
will do!
I love your outfit, it looks great for warm weather๐ฉท
must be why it was on sale since we're entering the winter months here lol. Thank you, I love it toooo! ๐ฉท
Everything is perfect! You look beautiful ๐
Everything is awesome! Thank you! ๐
Lovely dress and your feet & those look amazing!
I know that one of the main things I need to do is bring attention to my assets, so I'm going to spend a lot of time making sure my legs and feet are the center of attention.
let's go day 1! you are a golden goddess!!!
Slay Queen, go knock em dead.
I'm 6', entering my glamazon era? Thank you!!
Congrats, mission accomplished, good job deciding what would make life better and pursuing it, it will continue getting better from here! Also, the hair is a hot pink and the dress is a mix of greyish greens and blues, so the hair really pops!
Hehe, I'm tittering and giggling because that was such a sweet description, thank you!!! I feel so blessed by this community!
The hair and shoes look great con you! And the color of the dress is very pretty :D.
@maya_s_trojan nice!
Thank you!
That dress looks lovely on you! I think the floral patterns are a good look.
Thanks, I do love floral patterns and sundresses and skirts and my life will be better with such things in my closet. You are so kind thank you again!