Anyone who read my "struggling..." thread, knows that I came out to my nail/massage tech, which went well, then added to that my facial/tanning/waxing tech and my stylist (ok, girl that cuts what's left of my hair LOL), which went even better. My facial/tanning/waxing tech (guess I should just call her my aesthetician) has been super cool, wanted to see pictures of my makeup skills progress (limited at this point) and even helped me pick out an outfit for tomorrow night's meetup, which will be my first actual "outing" (where I interact with other live beings)... she's super excited for me and can't wait for me to tell her all about it.
Then today, she helped me come out to another aesthetician at the spa, who's a make-up wizardess... and she's going to give me make-up lessons!!! They've been so amazingly cool about this with me that the last few weeks have been mega-emotional for me (for the acceptance, the friendships, the emotions that come with unburdening your soul about this stuff). I'm so happy about how this is all panning out... and I can't wait to see what happens next!
Even picked a name for myself finally: Kelly (hat tip to the other Kelly's around here, was always a favorite girl's name of mine.)
Anyway couldn't have done any of this without the sage advice from all of you here on the forum... I've been largely a sparse contributor over the years (mostly because everything is already said so eloquently by others by the time I get to a thread LOL)... but I've read as much as I could, and learned a LOT over the last 9 years. so THANK YOU ALL!
Cheers!
Kelly