Quote Originally Posted by ReineD View Post
. . . so I'm wondering if you had beard shadow showing . . . you might want to go ahead and trim your eyebrows. You do have muscular legs, so you might think about wearing skirts that show just the knees and calves . . .You were wearing long sleeves, but if you ever go sleeveless . . . and last, learn about facial contouring . . . there is a way to contour the face without having it look like caked-on makeup.
Hi Rene,

Thanks so much for your feedback. Yeah I know bad picture, but my presentation (face wise) is so horrible I am a bit nervous to post an up close pic for fear it might scare people

Yes, I have been trying various beard covers, lipstick, reddish orange cover, followed by foundation and setting powder. Problem is that I have a very thick beard (think full beard in two weeks thick). To cover it, it ends up looking very thick and cakey. So when I smile (lots of wrinkles around the eyes . . . I feel very old now) and it looks plain hideous . . . hence I don't smile a lot. Laser is off the table. While my wife is fine with body hair removal, she will not acquiesce on the facial hair (have to respect that as she still wants her male time with me).

Eyebrows - have to very careful there as getting too thin or feminine will definitely draw comments at work. Have been slowly thinning to lessen the shock (believe me I have some bushy brows and have reduced so far by about 1/4). Work in progress.

Legs . . . point taken. My wife was commenting on that last night while we were looking a clothing. A longer skirt (just above the knees) toned down the legs and gave them a more feminine look (in her opinion)

Could never go completely sleeveless, I have some major body art up top which would be less than feminine and my upper arms are way too guy . . . so sleeves for this gal.

Contouring . . . I have been trying but don't seem to have the knack and as you said my wife doesn't know because she doesn't have to do it. I am not sure what make-up to buy to create this effect and when I do try . . . cakey land again. Any help on this front would be appreciated.

Quote Originally Posted by Vickie_CDTV View Post
How did you and your wife know they did not have a knife or a gun?
Hi Vickie. Thanks very much for your concern. I am very trained at detecting the presence of knives and weapons. Body posture and carriage tend to be tell tale signs (albeit not always). Believe me, if I even thought for a second weapons were involved, this would have gone down completely different. Specifically, this would have been a call to the police before I even thought about exiting the building with my wife.

Hugs all

Isha