Hair

[flexibeast]

i've started to get really down of late about my facial hair - at least, the non-lower-lip-goatee portion of it. Being bigendered, i assumed that i would just be able to accept it as an unpleasant, but bearable, side-effect of being partly male. In recent times, though, i feel really disgusting and ugly on those days when i'm not clean-shaven: when i'm clean-shaven, i look in the mirror and think "Hey, you're not bad looking :-)"; when i'm not, i don't want to look in the mirror. The obvious solution is to simply shave every day, but unfortunately my skin simply can't handle that, and my hair doesn't grow enough in a day for me to do so anyway. So at best, i can shave my face once every four days or so, and in the meantime, i feel gross.

This probably sounds stupid, or pathetic, or both, but it's becoming an increasingly heavy psychological burden. And laser-based hair removal is way out of my price range. i don't know what to do.
 

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[flexibeast.livejournal.com]

Argh! i've just gone and accidentally deleted winterkoninkje's comment. :-(( So i'm reproducing the text of it here:

If it makes you feel any better, I'm the same way. I don't have quite the issues of not wanting to look in the mirror, but I do feel gross/ugly when I've gone too long without shaving and my skin's too sensitive to do it more regularly. (Additionally, trich (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trichotillomania) goes along with taking insufficient care of of the facial hair, which certainly doesn't help.)

I've found that aftershave helps immensely, as does shaving in the shower (the heat/moisture helps soften the hair which leads to less irritation). If your hair doesn't grow enough to shave daily, those might still help for doing it more often at least.

[winterkoninkje.livejournal.com]

You fiend! :)

[flexibeast.livejournal.com]

Oh, you don't know the half of it. ;-)