If your epilator is waterproof, use it in either the shower or bath, so long as your skin is hot and wet. It softens the skin some and helps loosen your pores so it hurts marginally less and gives a better result. You can also do it immediately after you shower as well if it’s not waterproof. I would also recommend looking up dry brushing as a form of exfoliation. No one time use consumables that way. Sugaring or epilating results in a decent number of ingrowns if I don’t exfoliate for the next few days afterwards.

When it comes to waxing, I suggest you try sugaring as well, it exfoliates the skin as well as removing the hair and you can make it at home with only a few basic ingredients. It just takes to practice to get the technique down to use unlike hard or soft wax, which are both mostly just slap it on with the grain, peel it off against the grain.

First time I got girl horny, I was ready to jump on my wife, but I didn’t feel horny, so I didn’t have a clue why. It took me a week to figure out what it was because it was so wildly different from what I was used to

At least english doesn’t assign feminine or masculine to every fucking word like french! But, yeah, shit that has no business being aligned to a gender being gendered is out of hand.

Cute! I love the shark!

Also a good option! If you can find them, maybe try looking for one with a deeper neckline to keep wardrobe options open. I also started out with just sports bras and an unforseen consequence was I couldn’t wear a v neck without my bra showing!

I sometimes have to squeeze through tight gaps for work, and one time my boobs (with breast forms) got caught, and I had to force them through with my hands, and my boss started quoting fight club lol

If you happen to have a costco membership, or know someone who can order for you there are some wire free bras from there that come in a 2 pack that’s cheaper than most of the bras I’ve looked at in stores. The brand is buffalo, and they’re pretty lightly padded and don’t have much form, and combined with no underwire means they will fit a wide range of boob sizes and should continue to fit as your boobs grow in. I wear them with or without my breast forms, which is a difference of an A/B cup to D/DD. I’m bad at estimating my cup size because my chest is very broad 😋

I read the numbers trilogy by rachel ward probably around 15 years ago and one character gives birth to a girl and names her Mia and I locked onto it for if I ever had a daughter. Eventually, my wife and I decided we didn’t want kids, so my hope to use the name disappeared. When I realized I was trans, I thought maybe I didn’t lock onto it for a daughter like I had thought, but for myself. First time my wife called me Mia, I turned into a goddamn puddle, so I knew it was my name. Ironically, now we want to have a baby, and Mia is suddenly off the table.

Better than reading homogenous like I did 😆

I agree with pooperbee that open communication is super important. I was under the impression my wife was bi when I told her I was considering transition, at which point she revealed she’d been identifying as straight for years because of her attraction to only me. We spent the next week in limbo, not sure if our marriage was about to end, but we worked through things together and we are now happier in our marriage by a fair margin. I do think it’s funny that for me, babies weren’t in the cards until I quite recently realized I wanted to be a mom, and now it’s all we are talking about lol

My best advice is to do what you think will make you happy. I’d questioned it for years, and while I never got caught, I’d been conditioned enough that trying on women’s clothing as a kid made me feel enough shame to never speak of it. When my egg finally cracked, it was like a switch had been flipped and I dove headfirst into girlhood. Beard gone, boy clothes in the garbage, new name, etc. I had the distinct advantage of a wife I love and who loves me, and she’s helped me through a lot, but I am overhelmingly happier, and have been able to understand myself without the prejudicial lenses of mysogyny and transphobia aimed at myself and only myself. It’s still taking time to unpack my way of thinking about certain things, but I’m working through them now instead of wallowing in them.

My current androgen blocker apparently has a chance of making you produce buttloads of prolactin, but I dodn’t know there were treatments specifically for that. Having the option of breastfeeding would definitely be a huge help.

Okay, crazy idea, instead od stealing the shitterton rock, you make everyone think you stole the shitterton rock by covering it with a fiberglass shell made to look like a slightly larger rock making it look like the rock was replaced with a non shitterton rock. This sounds like a Max Fosh video

Immediately after starting HRT, I noticed my emotional range get significantly wider, but it came back down close to its usual range, or so I thought. Recent events, about the last week or so, have had me crying inconsolably, and getting caught up in a giggle fit that was a solid 10 minutes of me barely able to open my eyes and laying down was non optional 😆. It’s really nice to actually feel without the emotional equivalent of earplugs.

You can’t be telling me that! I just discovered my love of v necks!

I can get my thoughts out better in text, so back in june, I wrote a fucking novel for my family and my mom and siblings were super supportive, but my dad responded to my message I had spent 2 evenings writing editing and rewriting, then several more days agonizing about hitting send with “someone get a hold of your phone?” He has yet you use the proper pronouns or say my chosen name in my presence, and the only reaction that wasn’t a nonreaction I have gotten from him when I correct him was a dissmisive grunt. I have distanced myself from him, and when he asked about christmas plans, I finally laid into him and now he’s complaining I never came to talk to him about it, like he’s the victim. Did the same thing when my (cis)sister went no contact to protect her kids because he’s a narcissist dickwad.

The surface area of engagement on robertson is one of, if not the highest. The bit will bind on the the tapered sides before it touches the bottom of the hole in the screw, so you always get full engagement and 0 rotational slop (provided your bit and screw are actually in line with each other.) Torx more often than not has some rotational slop between the two, and phillips almost always does. Another nice thing about robertson specifically for hand tools is the sizes have standardized colour coding, so you grab the green handled screwdriver for #1, red for #2 and black for #3. It’s only brands that care more about the looks of their products than usability that don’t have at least a coloured ring on the handle of their drivers. I’m pretty sure torx has colour coding, but it’s nowhere near as common, especially seeing as there are so many sizes.

The only reason robertson isn’t the standard in NA is because the inventor was a moron and wouldn’t license the production to ford

Look at any comparison that includes robertson and it wins every time, and if the reviewer is american they’re surprised every time. Canadian fastener aisles are 95% robertson 2% torx and 3% hex because lag bolts and such. Only screws included in other hardware are anything other than those