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ChiTheMonkey 🏳️‍🌈 watches the crossroads at midnight. @chithemonkey.bsky.social

Honestly, my skin was already pretty amazing even before E 🤷‍♀️ A dedicated skincare regimen was a very early gender cope (though I hadn't started it yet in the 'before' picture there)

sep 2, 2025, 12:06 am • 0 0

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8bitjoystick (Jacob) @8bitjoystick.bsky.social

Well as a cis YouTuber who has been making videos for only two years I can't tell you about the dread of seeing yourself in a 4K recording, showing the horrors of your pores and wrinkles at 47. I wish I would've been moisturizing since my 20s.

sep 2, 2025, 12:10 am • 1 0 • view
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8bitjoystick (Jacob) @8bitjoystick.bsky.social

And I also had a trans girlfriend who was 10 years younger than me and after about four years of estrogen, she was 30 but looked 20. Made me feel like a dirty old man.

sep 2, 2025, 12:12 am • 1 0 • view
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ChiTheMonkey 🏳️‍🌈 watches the crossroads at midnight. @chithemonkey.bsky.social

HA! Yeah, I hadn't been carded in nearly twenty years, but I'll be damned if it didn't happen the day I got my hair dyed 🤣

sep 2, 2025, 12:14 am • 0 0 • view
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8bitjoystick (Jacob) @8bitjoystick.bsky.social

you don't have gray hairs in in a beard anymore. I'll never get carded again with all the gray hairs of my mustache.

sep 2, 2025, 12:19 am • 1 0 • view
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ChiTheMonkey 🏳️‍🌈 watches the crossroads at midnight. @chithemonkey.bsky.social

Exactly. My beard and moustache had sooo much grey and white in then 🤣 Means electrolysis will be inevitable, but it does mean my beard shadow isn't too bad in the meantime

sep 2, 2025, 12:21 am • 0 0 • view
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ChiTheMonkey 🏳️‍🌈 watches the crossroads at midnight. @chithemonkey.bsky.social

Something I tell all my friends and co-workers in their 20s and 30s nearly every week 🤣 Moisturizer AM/PM, and sunscreen in the morning, at the bare minimum! 👏

sep 2, 2025, 12:12 am • 0 0 • view