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ciswomen have periods and transfemmes have a blue period: atlest a few dysphoric days each month... (piefed.social)
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that's all. will write more once i get more spoons to share

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[-] dandelion 8 points 3 weeks ago

from Imogen Binnie's Nevada:

Because shaving and putting on a bunch of foundation every day are emotionally exhausting reminders of being trans, she gets a step removed from them by monologuing like she’s explaining them to someone. Secret trick one is to boil water in a kettle on the stove while you get dressed and brush your teeth, then stop up the sink and make yourself a little boiling lake. If the water is so hot that it truly hurts your fingers when you splash it on your face and you kind of worry that you’re doing permanent damage to your skin, you are doing it right. Super hot water makes the shave closer, who knows why. Maybe like how you have to warm up a tortilla before you can make anything out of it? Anyway then you smear shaving cream all over your face. Use the cheapest stuff you can find: sometimes Barbasol has a kind that says Real Man on the side, that’s the best one. Shave your face with one of those triple-blade razors. They’re expensive, but you can re-use them for like a couple weeks. You’ll know it’s time to replace the blade when your face is a gory mess every day after you shave and you keep thinking, you want blood moon magic but you only bleed a couple days a month? I bleed every day.

From my face.

Anything more than three blades is for rich people.

[-] Redacted@lemmy.zip 8 points 3 weeks ago

Just a head up if anyone needs this advice, i learned this from a stripper friend. Leave conditioner on anything you want to shave for about 5 minutes, no seriously a whole 5 minutes time it, and then shave it. Its the smoothest ive ever felt

[-] dandelion 2 points 3 weeks ago

Just be careful with products you put on your face - conditioner admittedly goes on the hair, so hopefully it's safe to be around the face anyway, but there's a reason there are different products for moisturizer for the body vs face and so on.

[-] bluemoon@piefed.social 4 points 3 weeks ago

or just lather with lavender soap and wetshave after the shower using a barberess knife~

splash cold water to close pores.

[-] dandelion 2 points 3 weeks ago

this is pretty much what I have done - it took me a while to get skillful at stropping 😅

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