Facial Hair

[Emma_Forbes]

Hi Girls,

A recent comment got me thinking. How many of us, in the past, have either had a beard and/or moustache? I'm not talking about just failing to shave for a week, but a genuine attempt at facial hair. I wonder if it's a 'form of purging' i.e., putting oneself in a position where dressing becomes more difficult, even subconsciously before really embarking on the road to crossdressing nirvana.

Em

[Gemma Rhodes]

Never for me. I suppose I'm lucky that I couldn't grow a beard or 'tache if I tried.

[Jenney Love]

I have a beard right now, neatly trimmed, but at times I let it go a little wild. It has nothing to do with "purging". I have two sides, and both need to express themselfs, I look in the mirror and see my handsome hair covered face, and smile. In a few months I will shave it off and look in the mirror and see my made up face and smile. Balance

Jenney

[Katrina]

Back in college, I tried a goatee. It was pitiful and my friends called me "Shaggy" because it was so bad. My ex-wife wanted me to grow one so I tried again. It was a little better but still bad enough that she said "Shave it off! It looks terrible!"

[Lisa Baby]

Just a moustache. It was in my juvinile femme days when I was unsure of who I was.

Lisa

[Daintre]

I had a full beard for almost 3 years, my wife, at the time thought I would look good with it. I can say in all honesty that I was so happy when I shaved it off, no more itch and uncomfortableness in hot weather, and no more frost clinging to it in winter.

Jen

[Teresa Amina]

wonder if it's a 'form of purging' i.e., putting oneself in a position where dressing becomes more difficult

Well put! For me it was both a way of hiding any hint of Teresa from others and keeping myself "in check". Ever dress with a full beard? Pretty ridiculous!

[TGMarla]

I wore a moustache for over 20 years. I think that subconciously, I thought that if I wore a moustache, people would never guess that I crossdressed. It really mattered very little, because I never went anywhere dressed anyway. As I gained a better level of self-acceptance with the dressing, and with myself in general, I took the moustache off. I like my face better without it. My wife grumbled a bit, but really didn't put up a fight about it. Except for times when I'm acting in roles that require it (I do stage plays), I doubt I'll grow it back.

[miss_sarah]

Never for me as well, and never in the future either!!! I can't even stand a few days growth, and usually end up itching and rubbing my chin raw because it annoys me so!


Back in college, I tried a goatee. It was pitiful and my friends called me "Shaggy" because it was so bad. My ex-wife wanted me to grow one so I tried again. It was a little better but still bad enough that she said "Shave it off! It looks terrible!"


Kat... with a goatee. No way! LOL You need to post more often, so we can all see that hottie in the avatar! :daydreaming: hehe Having only seen your avatar, I can't possibly imagine you with facial hair in my mind's eye...

[Sharon]

Back in my denial years I had a mustache, and, for a short while, a beard also (could never grow sideburns). Now I hate to feel the slightest stubble.

[Casey Morgan]

I had a full beard and moustache for 10 years, until shortly before I joined this site. To be honest, I grew it as a way of beating my chest and grunting "me man, not woman". But it also made it harder to look in the mirror dressed and take myself seriously. Kind of like I was trying to snap myself out of this whole crossdressing thing.

When I accepted that I'm a crossdresser the beard and moustache came off. That's what I needed to do to be true to myself.

[insearchofme]

Had a mustach for over 17 years straight. Before that I'd grow a beard, goatee, fu man chu all sorts of styles. I really liked the beard, it meant no shaving! However it started to turn white (didn't want the Santa look) so I went with just the stach.

After being on this site for a while I shaved the stach, my wife went nuts, hated the new me. However everyone else told me how much younger it made me look. That was it, no more stach and after about a month my wife did admit that I did look younger. The only bad thing is is that I have to shave. Oh the price we pay for looking younger!

[Scrunchie-Bunchie]

I have a beard/moustache because my wife wants me to keep them. They are a kind of disguise so that people don't guess. I do wear earings but masculine earings outdoors and feminine indoors.

[ginafaye]

had a moustache also for over twenty years ......at variuos times it was ful or very short and trim.............but only hair that i could grow well .......no chest hair almost no leg or arm hair to much cherokee .........in my genes to be a hairy person

[Ellie]

I had a goatee for a number of years. My GF really liked it and almost cried when I shaved it off some months ago. I'm going to let it grow back for a few months while I have to deal with my family. I'm pretty sure I'll get sick of it again before too long.

Makeup + goatee = strange look.

hehehehe.

[JoAnnDallas]

I had a full beard and moustache the whole time my wife and I have been married until last year. We had always lived in very small towns so going out en-fem was not possible. i would have stood out like a sore thumb. LOL Anyway, when we decided to move to the Dallas area, I came first and decided to shave it all off, since I am over 55, didn't think a grey beard and moustache would go off great looking for a job. So I shaved it all off. I had brought JoAnn's stuff with me, and discoved a whole new world.

When wife came, she was shocked. She had never seen me without one. LOL

[DonnaT]

Had a mustache for about 20 years, and somewhere in that time tried a beard, which was a tad sparse. The facial hair had nothing to do with my feelings with regard to CDing. I could still dress up to the point that I usually do now. That being, no wig or makeup.

I shaved cleanly in 2004 when my wife finally let me (as Donna) go out in public for the first time when we went to a TG holiday party. Note that she was upset that I shaved, but there was no way I was going out in a wig and makeup sporting a mustache. That told me, however, that she liked the mustache because it would keep me from going out fully enfemme.

[Butterfly Bill]

Haven't shaved my face since Independence Day in 1971, except for a two month relapse when I took a job that I later quit. Doesn't make wearing a dress any more difficult, in fact, it sometimes makes it easier.

[Gale R]

The first time i grew a full beard was in the 70s to go with my long hair, you would never have seen a better looking hippy.:D
Last time i grew one was about 12 yrs ago and it had turned a subtle shade of WHITE, or to put it another way i could have given Santa a run for his money.:eek:
Since my greater interest in our "hobby" all facial hair is banned except for eyebrows and eyelashes.:thumbsup:

Hugs Gale.

[Jodi Lynn]

I had a mustache for many years, I shaved it off about six years ago. Told my wife it was for my mother to see me without it before she passed away, as she allways hated it. But as I look back now it was also around the same time I started to understand my need for crossdressing and that could never stop doing that. I also grow a full beard around 1980, it was hunting season (I don't hunt) and alot of the guys I work with grow them then so I grew one, I wanted to fit in. I didn't fit in and still don't. Now I don't like hair anywhere on my body and I am so much happier now a days.

[Sally24]

I had a full beard for most of my adult life. Now I am going to the opposite extreme and considering having it removed with electrolysis. Go figure!

[Elizabeth Anne]

I have had both. This was during the denial time of me accepting myself being a crossdresser.

[Siobhan Marie]

Have never had a beard or a moustache, I "wet-shave" every day.

Hugs Anna x

[RachelDenise]

I had a mustache from 1977 to 1986, none since! Wish I didn't have such dark and thick facial hair though.

[Billie1]

Had a full mustache for all of the a long time, partly because it was kind of a limiting factor in how far I would (or could) create my femme character.

After deciding that it was time to explore the my 'other side' more completely (and that the facial hair was turning more and more white) the stach came off, and now there is no body hair under my eyebrows!

It's amazing how removing a little hair can set you free!

[jennykaysmith]

:sad: the time i dont have a beard or stash is when i get dressed which means only every couple of months so you lucky girls who dont have fast and thick growing hair i envy you


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