Much Ado About Something - Hair

I'm a hairy guy, I've blogged about it before but I still don't have the perfect solution. I'm fine with waxing from the neck down. I've done it before and I'll do it again. Actually, in about a week I'll be doing it again. I'm having my last dress up vacation before the two weddings in a little over a week. I'm doing it soon for a pretty good reason. We have announced wedding number one to our friends. We have booked our ticket to Las Vegas, our hotel room and our wedding chapel. We have had a pretty good response and will have lots of friends joining us. Since late April is a nice time to hit the pool, I want the opportunity to grow back my hair after I get waxed. And next week will give me two and a half months to get back in hairy boy mode.

This is also my last chance to figure out what I want to do with my makeup. My eyebrows, eyelashes and foundation. My eyelashes are the easiest. Just choose between false eyelashes and the extending mascara's. I have been flirting with the idea of shaping my eyebrows a little better and I will be doing some of that in early February during my dress up week.

The hard part is foundation. I tried waxing my face last Halloween but that didn't go so well. Not sure if the person doing it wasn't experienced enough or if faces are just more sensitive or what the problem was. The reason I wax my body is that I like how it lasts for a week or so. No stubble, a very clean look. I would love to have a similar experience with my face. Nothing looks worse on a bride when part way through their special day a little five o'clock shadow starts to poke through her foundation.

I have tried pancake makeup and I always look like I used a trowel to put it on. If I go with a light foundation you can really see the beard underneath. I've tried bluish neutralizers but they only help a little and I still look like I have too much makeup on. The problem, as I see it, is that shaving cuts at the surface and the the pore still has a black hair just at the surface. I think removing the hair at the root will improve my look. The question is how to do that.

I can always fall back on my professional makeup artist to give me an airbrush application but I do have one more option to try. I heard this idea from a TG makeup artist. Plucking. Yes plucking, like you would pluck eyebrows. I have tested a couple of areas on my face and while its slow and hurts a little I haven't encountered any bad side effect. Bleeding, scarring, or ingrown hairs. The other problem that I might have is time. There are between 8,000 and 25,000 hairs on a human beard from what I have read on the web. That is a lot of plucking. So next weekend and part of the following week I will be conducting the great plucking experiment. To see if it is a viable option for the upcoming wedding. Maybe I only have time to do my chin and upper lip. Maybe it works like a dream maybe it is a disaster. But that's what experiments are for.

Wish me luck and I will probably post something the week of Feb 1st through the 5th. I have five days of living as my feminine self planned and I need to fill some time.