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It wasn't easy to make a choice for the Happy Caturday theme "Special Features" but then I took this closeup photo of Sethi which shows the spots in his right eye. These spots are due to a benign hyperpigmentation which is apparently quite common but none of our cats has ever had that. So this is definitely a special feature of Sethi. Happy Caturday !
The Ayam Cemani is a rare breed of chicken from Indonesia. In Indonesian "ayam" means "chicken" and "cemani means "thoroughly black". Due to a dominant gene which causes hyperpigmentation not only their feathers and beak are black but their skin and inner organs too.
The photo was taken at our local zoo.
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For years I have struggled with ill health and very little help from drs in general. I have even ended up in A&E 3 times and been sent home non the wiser. I was desperate to get my life back so started to look around. Its only the last year I came across the B12 society and started to read symptoms of B12 deficiency and realised this could be my issue. A year later of doing self injections (something I never dreamed I could do ) and with the support of the B12 society B12Wakeup Facebook group I am beginning to see a very different me. It is truly a miracle in my eyes. I'm getting out and about and the fatigue has gone, the difference is amazing. I truly believe the b12 society gave me my life back and I will always be truly grateful to them and God for leading me to them.
I would encourage everyone to watch the Sally Pacholok film on youtube. Its eye opening and shows how so many illnesses eg dementia, MS , ME etc can be misdiagnosed B12 deficiency.
Link here www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvMxJ6GRBNQ&t=15s.
This is the link to the B12 society www.theb12society.com/
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What could be the common link between the following clinical situations (all are real cases from my clinical practice):
1. 25-year old airhostess with rapid decline in memory and higher cognitive functions of 6 months duration (suggestive of #dementia),
2. 35-year old man with two weeks history of tremors, slowness of movements and rigidity (mimicking #Parkinsons disease),
3. 22-year old man with repeated #seizures (fits), which was difficult to control with anti-epileptic drugs,
4. 18-year old with features of #anxiety, #depression and #panic attacks of one year duration (had only partial relief with anti-depressants),
5. 30-year old lady with frank #psychosis (hallucinations, delusions) of six months duration,
6. 18-year old girl with 6-month history of tinnitus and #hearing impairment, which was getting worse over time,
7. Blurring of #vision and poor vision in a 22-year old man,
8. Burning, tingling and numbness of hands and feet for one year in a 28-year old man,
9. Hyperpigmentation (darker discoloration) of skin over hands and feet,
10. Generalized weakness, fatigue and breathlessness on exertion in a 25-year old woman (hemoglobin of 8 gm%)
Many of you would have correctly guessed it by now: All these clinical symptoms were caused by vitamin B12 deficiency.
You would be happy to note that they all improved with treatment.
The key to a good outcome in vitamin B12-deficiency related diseases is early diagnosis and prompt initiation of treatment.
Cow Parsnip, Indian Celery, Indian Rhubarb, Pushki, Heracleum maximum, up to over 7 feet in height. Throughout most of the United States, except the Gulf Coast and a few neighboring states, from sea level to 9,000 feet elevation (2,700 meters). Leaves and stem contain furocoumarins which cause rash and hyperpigmentation when the clear sap contacts the skin and then is exposed to UV light (like from the Sun).
Turkey Run Road, Summerhaven, Mount Lemmon, Catalina Mountains, Pima County, Arizona.
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Below is the first of a 3-part exploration of popular skin care acids. Education is of utmost importance to me. An educated consumer is an empowered consumer.
Part 1 Benefits of the Top 5 Skin Care Acids
Part 2 Moisturizing Skin Care Acids
Part 3 What does pH have to do with a skin care acid’s effectiveness?
Part 1 -
When you think of having an acid applied to your face, do you envision a scene from a horror film? No worries. The ongoing application of low-intensity acids can be an integral part of an effective age and acne management home program.
Choosing an over the counter (OTC) or cosmetic product that contains Alpha Hydroxy Acids (AHA) or Beta Hydroxy Acids (BHA) doesn’t have to be a daunting task.
There are 3 primary factors to consider when choosing a product that contains alpha or beta hydroxy acids.
Which acid will best fulfill my skin care needs?
What percentage of the active acid(s) should I use?
What is the pH of the product that the acid is delivered in?
What do AHAs and BHAs do for the skin? There are a variety of acids used in the skin care industry. Each acid has a different set of attributes. Let’s explore some of the benefits of acids most commonly used in cosmetics and OTC products.
Glycolic Acid is a very popular Alpha Hydroxy Acid (AHA) derived from cane sugar. It is found in many skin care treatment products that focus on minimizing signs of aging and acne. Glycolic Acid:
Exfoliates the dead skin cell layer, encouraging oil and dead skin cells to be released from the skin
Decreases fine lines and wrinkles
Attracts water into the skin (hydrophilic)
Helps dull, tired skin to be replaced with fresh, glowing skin
Decreases hyperpigmentation (discoloration) for a more even skin tone
Smooths and softens skin’s texture
Glycolic’s small molecule size allows deeper penetration which unclogs follicles and dissolves the dead skin cell build up in pores (blackheads)
IGOG Skin Care products that contain Glycolic Acid:
No. 10 Organic Illuminating Serum
No. 19 Organic Brightening Moisturizer
No. 20 Organic Gravity Defying Moisturizer
No. 22 Creamy Smoothing Moisturizer
No. 26 Organic Multi-Acid Mask (coming soon)
Lactic Acid is a fabulous AHA used to brighten and smooth the skin. Lactic Acid is derived from milk. Lactic acid:
Is easily tolerated by many because it is less sensitizing
Lightens hyperpigmentation (discoloration)
Brightens skin
Smooths texture
Exfoliates tired, dull skin cells
IGOG Skin Care Products that contain Lactic Acid:
No. 20 Organic Gravity Defying Moisturizer
No. 22 Creamy Smoothing Moisturizer
Kojic Acid is a pigment fighting wonder that is derived from fermented rice and Japanese Reishi mushrooms. Kojic Acid works to inhibit the production of melanin in your skin. Melanin is the substance that gives your skin its dark color when exposed to sun, inflammation (acne) or hormonal changes (melasma pregnancy mask). The more melanin you produce, the darker your skin becomes. If you have unwanted dark spots (hyperpigmentation) including Kojic Acid in your skin care routine can help even-out your skin’s color.
IGOG Skin Care Products that contain Kojic Acid include:
No. 10 Organic Illuminating Serum
No. 19 Organic Brightening Moisturizer
Retinoic Acid (RA) is a derivative of Vitamin A. RA has proven its worth in anti-aging skin care circles in both prescription form (Tretinoin, Retin-A, Renova, Refissa) and in cosmetic and OTC preparations (Retinol). Non-prescription retinol is tolerated by skin better than prescription retinoids, which tend to come with irritating side effects. There is a wealth of research to back up retinol’s anti-aging benefits.
Retinoic Acid (RA) adds structure and thickness the skin to fill in fine lines and wrinkles
RA brightens the skin by exfoliating dull, tired surface cells
Encourages healthy cell function
Functions as an antioxidant which limits free-radical damage
Fights hyperpigmentation (discoloration)
Improves pore function which helps enlarged, clogged pores purge their dead skin cell lining, returning pores to their genetically-determined size
All forms of vitamin A break down and deteriorate when repeatedly exposed to air and light. Buy retinol products in opaque, airless dispensing bottles like those that we use at IGOG Skin Care!
If you are just starting to use a retinol treatment, start slowly, allowing your skin to get used to this potent ingredient.
IGOG products that contain Retinol:
No. 4 Exfoliating Mini-Peel Pads
No. 9 Organic Retinol Serum
No. 20 Organic Gravity Defying Moisturizer
Salicylic Acid is a Beta Hydroxy Acid (BHA) that is derived from acetylsalicylic acid (aspirin). Like AHAs, BHAs act as an exfoliant. The shedding of dead skin cells allows fresh cells to rise to the skin’s surface. BHAs are a lipid (oil) soluble molecule allowing penetration into pores that contain sebum (oil), helping to exfoliate the pore itself. This makes BHAs particularly useful to oily, acne-prone skin. Salicylic acid is usually well tolerated. This BHA inhibits inflammation, and is less likely to make users sensitive to the sun than Glycolic Acid. Those sensitive to aspirin should consult their physician before topical use.
Willow Bark Extract is a source of natural BHA, polyphenols and flavonoids. Willow Bark Extract may contribute effects similar to those seen from synthetic salicylic and can be used in organic formulations. Salicylic acid:
Is a keratolytic = Exfoliant
Is anti-inflammatory
Inhibits the formation of comedo (acne)
Restricts the growth of bacteria
Is capable of penetrating and breaking down sebum plugs (blackheads) opening/clearing clogged pores
Shrinks and tightens pores
Reduces appearance of wrinkles
Smooths skin
Helps to manage Keratosis Pilaris (KP) which shows up as rough bumps of dry skin on arms, thighs buttocks and cheeks
Reduces hyperpigmentation (discoloration)
Over-the-counter limits are set at 2% - 3% for topical preparations
pH of 3 or 4 will bring maximum benefits
IGOG Skin Care Products that contain Salicylic Acid:
No. 4 Exfoliating Mini-Peel Pads
No. 10 Organic Illuminating Serum
No. 26 Organic Multi-Acid Mask (coming soon)
Precautions:
If you use an acid in your skin care routine, you must be diligent in use of an effective sun block! Acids can make your skin more vulnerable to the sun’s rays, even days after you stop using them. Sun damage and burns can occur if you are not properly protected. Wear your sunblock and re-apply regularly!
Both AHAs and BHAs can cause irritation including redness, burning, flaking or itching if used in high concentrations with a low pH. It is best to do a test patch over a small area to make sure your skin can tolerate skin care acids. Ramp up usage starting with use a few times per week and increase as tolerated.
Consult your doctor before using AHA/BHA containing products if you are pregnant or breast feeding.
Darker skinned individuals may be at risk for scarring and loss of pigment (hypopigmentation) when using strong-level acids.
Consult a skin care professional to determine if Alpha and Beta Hydroxy Acids are appropriate for you.
References:
Asadzadeh, A., Sirous, H., Pourfarzam, M., Yaghmaei, P., & Afshin, F. (2016). In vitro and in silico studies of the inhibitory effects of some novel kojic acid derivatives on tyrosinase enzyme. Iranian Journal of Basic Medical Sciences, 19(2), 132–144.
Gonçalez, M. L., Corrêa, M. A., & Chorilli, M. (2013). Skin Delivery of Kojic Acid-Loaded Nanotechnology-Based Drug Delivery Systems for the Treatment of Skin Aging. BioMed Research International, 2013, 271276. doi.org/10.1155/2013/271276
Kornhauser, A., Wei, R.-R., Yamaguchi, Y., Coelho, S. G., Kaidbey, K., Barton, C., … Hearing, V. J. (2009). The Effects of Topically Applied Glycolic Acid and Salicylic Acid on Ultraviolet Radiation-Induced Erythema, DNA Damage and Sunburn Cell Formation in Human Skin. Journal of Dermatological Science, 55(1), 10–17. doi.org/10.1016/j.jdermsci.2009.03.011
Maia Campos, P. M. B. G., Gaspar, L. R., Gonçalves, G. M. S., Pereira, L. H. T. R., Semprini, M., & Lopes, R. A. (2015). Comparative Effects of Retinoic Acid or Glycolic Acid Vehiculated in Different Topical Formulations. BioMed research international, 2015.
Oliveira, M. B., do Prado, A. H., Bernegossi, J., Sato, C. S., Lourenço Brunetti, I., Scarpa, M. V., … Chorilli, M. (2014). Topical Application of Retinyl Palmitate-Loaded Nanotechnology-Based Drug Delivery Systems for the Treatment of Skin Aging. BioMed Research International, 2014, 632570. doi.org/10.1155/2014/632570
Orfanos, C. E., Zouboulis, C. C., Almond-Roesler, B., & Geilen, C. C. (1997). Current use and future potential role of retinoids in dermatology. Drugs, 53(3), 358-388.
Tran, D., Townley, J. P., Barnes, T. M., & Greive, K. A. (2015). An anti-aging skin care system containing alpha hydroxy acids and vitamins improves the biomechanical parameters of facial skin. Clinical, Cosmetic and Investigational Dermatology, 8, 9–17. doi.org/10.2147/CCID.S75439
Benefits of the Top 5 Skin Care Acids Posted first on: igogskincare.com/
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We had a great time at Risque's Holi party at The Crucible! Good times.
Clio's Transition Progress at this point: On hormones since 8/1 (7 months); injections since 12/22 (2 months) [14 so far]. Full-time female since 9/15 (5.5 months). Publicly out as trans since 10/11 (4.5 months). Legally female since 12/21 (2.5 months). 3 group speech therapy classes taken at GW Speech Clinic (since 2/22). Plastic surgery consults continuing. Have seen endo/primary therapist 5X, and secondary therapists 9X. Weight down to 141lbs (56 down from 197). Hair removal includes 33 electrolysis treatments totaling 25 hours; 30 laser hair removal sessions (51 area treatments: 16/15/13/12/8 mouth/goatee/face/neck/armpits, 7 legs/chest, 6 ears/Brazilian); and bi-weekly at-home IPL on arms since 6/17 (8.5 months). Latisse for eyelash lengthening since 4/17 (10.5 months). 2 dental implants + Zoom Whitening. Pierced ears. Dyed/layered hair (no haircuts for 3yrs--since 1/2015). Twice daily hydroquinone treatment on leg hyperpigmentation since 2/14 (3 weeks), and it's peeling red now (looks awful). Female wardrobe replacement up to more than 656 items. Total transition expenditures over $17,400 at this point.
Carolyn, Clio, Natasha.
grabbing breast, smiling, standing.
body paint, face paint, holographic collar, spirals.
censored. edited.
The Crucible, Washington D.C.
March 10, 2018.
Pic by John Holmes.
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We had a great time at Risque's Holi party at The Crucible! Good times.
Clio's Transition Progress at this point: On hormones since 8/1 (7 months); injections since 12/22 (2 months) [14 so far]. Full-time female since 9/15 (5.5 months). Publicly out as trans since 10/11 (4.5 months). Legally female since 12/21 (2.5 months). 3 group speech therapy classes taken at GW Speech Clinic (since 2/22). Plastic surgery consults continuing. Have seen endo/primary therapist 5X, and secondary therapists 9X. Weight down to 141lbs (56 down from 197). Hair removal includes 33 electrolysis treatments totaling 25 hours; 30 laser hair removal sessions (51 area treatments: 16/15/13/12/8 mouth/goatee/face/neck/armpits, 7 legs/chest, 6 ears/Brazilian); and bi-weekly at-home IPL on arms since 6/17 (8.5 months). Latisse for eyelash lengthening since 4/17 (10.5 months). 2 dental implants + Zoom Whitening. Pierced ears. Dyed/layered hair (no haircuts for 3yrs--since 1/2015). Twice daily hydroquinone treatment on leg hyperpigmentation since 2/14 (3 weeks), and it's peeling red now (looks awful). Female wardrobe replacement up to more than 656 items. Total transition expenditures over $17,400 at this point.
Carolyn, Clio, Natasha.
kissing, kneeling, standing.
body paint, face paint, holographic collar, spirals.
censored. edited.
The Crucible, Washington D.C.
March 10, 2018.
Pic by John Holmes.
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Have you seen any Korean women or even men face to face? Have you ever ask yourself how nice it would be having a clear white and bright skin? I have. A LOT OF TIMES. Their ‘I woke up like this slash no-make up look’ is something I’ve been wishing and praying to get one day. They have like 10-12 skin care routine. OMG!
A part of their routine is ‘essence’. Essence is in liquid, torn between serum and face cream. It has clear liquid-like texture. It’s kinda sticky too but not too much. It has highly concentrated formulas which is packed of nutrients and moisture for the skin and since it is in liquid form it can be easily absorbed by the skin.
Then I came across this essence from Benton, it’s called, Snail Bee High Content Essence. I’ve heard and read too many positive reviews about this product. Although there are still reviews saying it didn’t work out for them or their problem worsened because of this, I still felt excited to see if it will work for me. I really high hopes for this product. I’m oily to combination skin type and I’m pimple prone. I have pimple scars and marks, there are parts around my under eye, cheek and nose that are reddish, and my pimples tend to darken after it dries and heals. Yeah, it heals but it leaves its spot. It’s been my insecurity for years now and I really hate it. Because of this, I told myself to never stop trying products until I found the savior for my skin.
Photo not mine, just to show you the boxing
Knowing that Koreans have such nice, white and clear skin, I joined the hype for this very product. But before that, I did my research on its 2 main ingredients – snail slime and bee venom. At first, I was like, what? Is it even possible for these two work? Setting aside my so-called suspicions, I searched for online shops that sells this.
Snail Mucin: Snail mucin firms and restores skin by replenishing moisture and supporting cell regeneration (which helps fade acne scars, smooth uneven complexions and reduce hyperpigmentation)
Bee Venom: Breaks down cell membranes, which tricks your body into thinking it’s under attack. It responds by increasing circulation, triggering the production of collagen and even relaxing facial muscles. This helps reduce the appearance of wrinkles, which is why some use bee venom as a natural alternative to Botox.
Now, who wouldn’t feel tempted with these benefits?
Thanks to my researching skills, I found tons of Instagram online shops that are based in my country. Their items are directly imported from South Korea.
What is this? “Benton Snail Bee High Content Essence” is for all types of skin including sensitive and troubled skin types. This product contains 90% snail extract and bee venom instead of water. Powerful ingredients such as snail mucin and bee venom help to heal acne, fade acne scars, brighten skin tone, and maintain hydration throughout the day. Snail mucin supports natural cell regeneration and replenishes moisture to increase firmness, and bee venom has natural anti-inflammatory, anti-bacterial, and anti-viral properties. The gel-like essence is also fragrance free! Best recommended for those with sensitive and troubled skin. (description from amazon)
Where did I bought it? Instagram @beautynseoul_ph
Price? ₱520.00 (or $10.67) I know right? So cheap!!❤
Contains: 150 mL of essence
Packaging: The essence is packaged in dark matte plastic bottle. It has pump, perfect for hygiene-conscious. The bottle itself looks expensive and classy. I also like the fact that it is travel-size.
Clear gel-like watery consistency
How it works? I apply this every evening before I sleep. What I do is I wash my face with facial foam, toner then wait for a minutes for the toner to get absorbed and then 2 pumps of the essence for my face. Spread lightly on skin and dab it with my fingers for better product absorption. I do this every night for more than 2 weeks now to test if my skin reacts negatively or not.
Results:
√ Reduces redness around my cheek and nose.
√ Dries them out overnight.
× fade acne scars
× brightens skin tone
I had mild breakouts while using this. I got pimples on my eyebrows and on my cupid’s bow but the essence dries them out.
Personal Verdict:
Will I buy again? No. Because of the mild breakouts and it didn’t fade my pimple marks and spots, the very reason I bought this product. I don’t mind the breakouts, but it didn’t lighten my spots and never healed my pimples. Drying them out doesn’t mean they are healed. It didn’t brighten/lighten my skin tone. This is not for me.
If you think 2.5 weeks isn’t enough as a trail period, please do tell me and I will do it again. But I think its enough, what do you think?
PS: This is my personal experience with this product. Effects may vary on every person. Just because it didn’t work for me, it doesn’t mean it won’t for you. You are free to give it a try, if it didn’t work discontinue.
Thanks all! I hope this is helpful!
RF Microneedling Is a Must-Know Treatment for Skin of Color:
Struggling with stubborn acne scars? You’ve likely heard that chemical exfoliation and lasers are your best friend. While that’s true for some people, if you have a darker complexion, relying on those methods can do more harm than good. That’s why radiofrequency microneedling is such a popular treatment these days. By combining two trusted methods, a single treatment is able to address multiple signs of complexion damage without causing more in the process.
What Is Radiofrequency Microneedling?
Let’s break it down, shall we? Microneedling is the use of teeny, tiny needles to create microaggressions in the skin that speed up wound healing, while radiofrequency is a type of high-intensity energy that’s able to penetrate the skin to lead to an improved complexion. When the two are combined, medical esthetician Tamila Deveny says that the cosmetic procedure, which uses “specially insulated needles that deliver high-intensity radio frequency energy into the targeted tissue once the needles have broken through the skin,” stimulates collagen and elastic production to boost new, healthy tissue in the skin, ultimately working to restore your complexion to its flawless, pre-scar appearance.
“In my opinion, it is one of the most effective treatments for anti-aging and to treat scars on the face or body,” she shares.
Benefits of Radiofrequency Microneedling:
•Improves acne or surgery scars (on the face and body)
•Reduces fine lines and wrinkles
•Reduces the appearance of hyperpigmentation
•Reduces the appearance of stretch marks
•Helps with dull or uneven skin tone or texture
•Shrinks enlarged pores
•Helps with loose skin (face and body)
•Reduces cellulite
•Firms upper eyelid skin
•Smooths lines on the upper lip skin
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The process of bleaching skin involves the use of substances, concoctions or physical treatments that result in lightening the color of the skin. The idea is to decrease the amount of melanin, a substance naturally found in the body that is responsible for the dark pigmentation of the skin. The market is saturated with numerous brands claiming the same thing so it’s necessary to select the product that is right for your needs.
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What conditions do skin whitening products address?
Skin whitening can either be prescribed by a doctor resulting from certain medical conditions or in some cases, it can be purely cosmetic. Some conditions requiring whitening are as follows:
Dull skin due to overexposure to the sun
Dark spots – from acne, freckles, stress and/ or diet
Certain medical conditions
Dry and irritated skin
Chronic use of cosmetics causing blemishes
Acne scars
What are the possible side effects of skin whitening?
Due to the components used in the production of skin whitening products, there are several possible side effects that can occur. Experiencing a mild burning sensation, stinging, rashes, dryness and flaking are but a few of the possible risks even when using whitening products.
Is there a way to avoid these side effects?
Before heading to the counter to pay, here are some tips in choosing the best skin whitening cream. There are numerous products available on the market today and without the right knowledge, it’s not easy to choose the best product for your specific needs.
What’s your skin type?
Skin types range from normal, dry, oil or a combination thereof. There are some face whitening creams that use strong bleaching components that can cause drying, resulting in irritation. These components are recommended for oily skin types and not for dry or combination types.
Do I need to seek medical advice?
Prior to using any skin lightening creams, make sure to consult a doctor to avoid allergic reactions. Some of these products may contain inactive ingredients that can result in minor skin problems. Be sure to provide an accurate medical history, especially those related to skin conditions.
In order to avoid the risks associated with even the best skin bleaching cream, it is highly recommended to go for natural skin bleaching. This helps to avoid occurrences of allergic reactions and breakouts.
What results do you wish to achieve?
Overall, the main goal is to achieve a lighter complexion but some of the best skin whitening cream can also treat problems like the following:
Dark underarms, elbows and/ or knees
Birthmarks
Acne scars
Hyperpigmentation from keloids or scarring
What’s on the label?
When choosing a product, especially whitening cream for face, always make sure to check what is written on the label. Steer clear of products that contain ingredients such as steroids and mercury. These chemicals are toxic to the skin and can lead to very serious side effects. To get the right product, always be conscious of what’s ne the label.
Black and white bleaching cream for instance, is one of the brands available on the market today. It is very effective in lightening the skin color, resulting in an even skin tone. It can remove scars quickly and reduce the presence of freckles. Not only does it act as a whitening cream for face but also, the formulation makes it possible to use the product as a make-up base. It smoothens the skin, creating an even palate to work with when applying make-up. To achieve the best results from this skin whitening treatment, it is recommended to use it for about 2 to 3 weeks.
The active ingredient contained in this product is hydroquinone. It acts by reducing the level of melanin present in the skin resulting in a whiter complexion. The major risk in reduced melanin levels is that it can weaken the natural defense of the skin, leading to breakouts, irritation and other skin problems. But to address this, it is infused with vitamin C that enhances cell growth, resulting to supple and younger looking skin. In addition, it has powerful antioxidants that fight free radicals and slow down the signs of aging.
Never forget SPF!
Bleaching can result in extremely sensitive skin. This is because bleaching causes layers of the skin to “peel off” in order to produce an even skin tone. This causes the deeper layers of the skin to be exposed to the harsh environment, hence making it prone to freckles, sun spots, rashes and sunburn. The latter two can be extremely painful, especially if facial bleaching is involved.
To prevent these nasty conditions, always wear sunscreen to protect your skin from harsh elements. This will keep your skin tone even for a longer period of time.
Skin bleaching creams
Knowing the right product for your skin is essential in preventing the risks associated with whitening. Being informed on what your skin needs will give you a good idea on how to do it safely. When in doubt, always seek medical advice before buying a product. That way, you do not waste time, money and resources on any product. Bleaching skin can come with minimal risk when you know how to select the right products.
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Clio has come a long way since last year's Winterfire!
Transition Progress at this point: On hormones since 8/1 (6.5 months); injections since 12/22 (1.5 months) [10 so far]. E up to an astounding 800! Full-time female since 9/15 (5 months). Publicly out as trans since 10/11 (4 months). Legally female since 12/21 (1.5 months). Plastic surgery consults happening. Have seen endo/primary therapist 5X, and secondary therapists 9X. Weight down to 137lbs (60 down from 197). Hair removal includes 30 electrolysis treatments totaling 23.5 hours; 30 laser hair removal sessions (51 area treatments: 16/15/13/12/8 mouth/goatee/face/neck/armpits, 7 legs/chest, 6 ears/Brazilian); and bi-weekly at-home IPL on arms since 6/17 (8 months). Latisse for eyelash lengthening since 4/17 (10 months). 2 dental implants. Pierced ears. Dyed/layered hair (no haircuts for 3yrs--since 1/2015). Twice daily hydroquinone treatment on leg hyperpigmentation since 2/14 (2 days). Female wardrobe replacement was up to 623 items. Total transition expenditures were over $16,000 at this point.
Clio.
posing, standing.
bat garter, black and purple skirt, chainmail necklace, collar, fishnet leather shirt, plaid skirt.
triptych.
hallway, Clio and Carolyn's house, Alexandria, Virginia.
February 16, 2018.
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BACKSTORY: Our outfits for the first night of Winterfire.
Nice scar in the middle of my cleavage. And some allergic reaction to them medical tape. Fortunately, this one went away in the long run.
Clio.
chest, hypertrophic scar, rainbow necklace.
cleavage.
upstairs, Clio and Carolyn's house, Alexandria, Virginia.
April 7, 2018.
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Clio had some hypertrophic scars removed from her arm and one from her chest. One of the stitches broke, so she's not too impressed with the place that did the work. The scars ended up going from white hypertrophic scars to red semi-hyperpigmented non-hypertrophic scars. Basically, when all was said and done, Clio paid $200 and made 3 trips to Maryland... Only to be made to look kind of worse, while everyone else made money off of her. This just feels so typical of the majority of medical experiences. About 7 months later, Clio started using the 4% hydroquinone lotion (that she was using on her legs) on the hyperpigmentation to try to whiten the arm scars. We'll see if I can ever get them looking like they did before their original scarring. Who knows...
Transition Progress at this point: On hormones since 8/1 (8 months); injections since 12/22 (3 months) [20 so far]. Full-time female since 9/15 (6.5 months). Publicly out as trans since 10/11 (5.5 months). Legally female since 12/21 (3.5 months). 6 transgender group speech therapy classes taken at GW Speech Clinic (since 2/22). Plastic surgery consults continuing. Have seen endo/primary therapist 6X, and 4 other therapists 11X. Weight down to 144lbs (53 down from 197). Hair removal includes 35 electrolysis treatments totaling 26.5 hours; 31 laser hair removal sessions (54 area treatments: 17/16/14/13/9 mouth/goatee/face/neck/armpits, 7 legs/chest/ears, 6 Brazilian); and bi-weekly at-home IPL on arms since 6/17 (10 months). Latisse for eyelash lengthening since 4/17 (1 year). 2 dental implants, Zoom teeth whitening, pierced ears, dyed/layered hair, hypertrophic scars on arms & chest removed. Female wardrobe replacement up about 750 items. Total transition expenditures now over $18,500 at this point.
This Mourning Dove, with a dark breast and left side has been appearing in my yard for the last two weeks. The White-crowned Sparrow was sighted 20 miles south of my house, as was the Cinnamon Teal. The teal is very mottled, suggesting a partially leucistic bird. I'm not sure how to explain the sparrow. Any thoughts?
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Clio received her simulation videos while on the bus ride back to Virginia! Dr. Bart took some before pictures, used a photo editing program to approximate the changes he'd be making, and then created simulation videos for front and side views. The results ended up being very much like the simulation video.
Transition Progress at this point: On hormones since 8/1 (7 months); injections since 12/22 (2 months) [13 so far]. Full-time female since 9/15 (5.5 months). Publicly out as trans since 10/11 (4.5 months). Legally female since 12/21 (2.5 months). 2 group speech therapy classes taken at GW Speech Clinic since 2/22. Plastic surgery consults continuing (5 for FFS, 3 for lipo). Have seen endo/primary therapist 5X, and secondary therapists 9X. Weight down to 143lbs (54 down from 197). Hair removal includes 32 electrolysis treatments totaling 25 hours; 30 laser hair removal sessions (51 area treatments: 16/15/13/12/8 mouth/goatee/face/neck/armpits, 7 legs/chest, 6 ears/Brazilian); and bi-weekly at-home IPL on arms since 6/17 (8.5 months). Latisse for eyelash lengthening since 4/17 (10.5 months). 2 dental implants, and prep work for Zoom Whitening For Life. Pierced ears. Dyed/layered hair (no haircuts for 3yrs--since 1/2015). Twice daily hydroquinone treatment on leg hyperpigmentation since 2/14 (2 weeks), and it's starting to peel red now (looks awful). Female wardrobe replacement wasup to 656 items. Total transition expenditures now over $17,400 at this point.
simulation video.
trans milestone.
Manhattan, New York City, New York.
March 4, 2018.
... Read my blog at clintjcl at wordpress dot com
BACKSTORY: I booked an FFS (Facial Feminization Surgery) consultation with Dr. Bart Van Der Ven of 2Pass Clinic (Belgium). I'm really glad I went, because this was the surgeon I ultimately chose to do the surgery on September 4th, 2018. Skype consults are a thing, but there's no substitute for sitting there next to a surgeon, as he holds a metal ruler to parts of your face. Or his photography equipment for the "before" pictures. I received my simulation videos on the bus back to Virginia!
THE PLAN WAS A BIT CRAZY, THOUGH: We go to the club, then when it close at 3AM, we go home, and Clio then drives to DC to get on a bus to New York, arriving around 9AM, then finding her way to the consultation by 11AM, and back to the bus by 2PM, and back home by 7PM. And then straight to bed until the next day.
TRIP IN SUMMARY:
Failed repeatedly to drive into the Union Station parking garage, or any parking garage. End result: panic, hastily chosen street parking, and 4:35AM running toward Union Station dark and alone in DC .. I barely had water for the trip cause I used it all to run
The Megabus wifi sucked, but it was enough to keep up with things. It was that other non-megabus-bus that I took back, that had the broken wifi that didn't work.
I got there with time to spare - completed my consultation before it was scheduled to start - and had to kill like 90+ minutes before I left, as well. So the schedule was tight, but fine. I saw the empty slots in his booking and knew there'd be nobody before me (unless they booked after I did), so I knew if I showed up early I'd probably earn some extra wiggle room
Uber ended up costing more and taking longer than a taxi, because they charge you if you don't get picked up because you can't see the fucking car even tho the app is showing it go down the street right there and you are reading every license plate and the fucker just isn't there when the app says he's there. $5 each time. ... so it was like $9 Uber $12 taxi but I paid like $19 Uber because it took 3 Ubers for them to pick me up... And I had to fuck around for like 15 minutes ... Time for credit card disputes.
But the Uber BACK to the bus went well
IT WAS A TOUGH TRIP, but I did not keel over, and really was only miserable the last 2 hrs of the last bus trip. Though I WAS under-dressed with a light jacket and no hat/scarf, I don't deal with cold well, and I'm not from New York, so there were definitely a lot of moments where everyone in NYC was acting like a normal person, and I was jogging in place like a crazy person, out of breath, just trying to stay warm. At one point I ducked into the subway and hung out in a pissy area near a unconscious homeless dude because he knew what the fuck was up about avoiding this cold. But eventually I had to go into gift shops because the piss smell of NYC's subways is pretty ubiquitous and overwhelming
Dr. Bart Van Der Ven of 2pass Clinic ( www.2pass.eu ) saw me. He said I only need a Type 1 forehead reconstruction... Though if it ended up needing to be a Type 3, he'd only charge me for Type 1 [for reference: facialfeminization.surgery/index.php/forehead/ ]
But basically, he said I only need a Type 1 forehead reconstruction, not Type 3, because of where my brow bossing is
He measured my nose-to-lips and said I didn't need a lip lift. Dr. Bart simply rattles numbers off from his head, holds a ruler up.. I fell within female numbers anyway for the lip-to-nose distance. Something I've become increasingly LESS dysphoric of lately, as I look at more and more women through the eyes of one learning gendered skull structure knowledge.
He didn't want to do the cheek implants, just nasolabial ones. He said 4 implants has more infection chance than 2. Tho taking them out is rote and can be done locally. So why NOT get 4? Hmmm. [But the estimate came with cheek implants, and I ended up getting small ones, so hey! :)]
Sadly informed that something something lower orbital rim too far back compared to most people, not "abnormal" but uncommon means that something something something maybe that's why he only wanted the 2 implants [uh oh -- I got all 4 implants though. Sure wish I remember what that something something was]
He wasn't into wanting to do as aggressive of a jaw shave as I seemed to want, and ultimately it really wasn't that aggressive, and I wonder if I should have insisted on more, though I'm pretty happy with the results, and at the time of posting this (November 2018), swelling still hasn't gone down yet, to make a final judgment on just how happy I am with things. I'm fairly happy with the results so far. :)
After the consultation, Clio had to kill some time in New York. About 2-3hrs hanging around the bus stop area, wherever this is. It was cold. She looked at the chrome poop in the middle of the square, ate tacos, drank margaritas, and toured the stupid gift shops full of stupid touristy stuff. (Bought one shotglass for $3.)
Transition Progress at this point: On hormones since 8/1 (7 months); injections since 12/22 (2 months) [13 so far]. Full-time female since 9/15 (5.5 months). Publicly out as trans since 10/11 (4.5 months). Legally female since 12/21 (2.5 months). 2 group speech therapy classes taken at GW Speech Clinic since 2/22. Plastic surgery consults continuing (5 for FFS, 3 for lipo). Have seen endo/primary therapist 5X, and secondary therapists 9X. Weight down to 143lbs (54 down from 197). Hair removal includes 32 electrolysis treatments totaling 25 hours; 30 laser hair removal sessions (51 area treatments: 16/15/13/12/8 mouth/goatee/face/neck/armpits, 7 legs/chest, 6 ears/Brazilian); and bi-weekly at-home IPL on arms since 6/17 (8.5 months). Latisse for eyelash lengthening since 4/17 (10.5 months). 2 dental implants, and prep work for Zoom Whitening For Life. Pierced ears. Dyed/layered hair (no haircuts for 3yrs--since 1/2015). Twice daily hydroquinone treatment on leg hyperpigmentation since 2/14 (2 weeks), and it's starting to peel red now (looks awful). Female wardrobe replacement wasup to 656 items. Total transition expenditures now over $17,400 at this point.
walking.
advertisements, bicycles, billboards, reflection, street, teardrop sculpture.
naked. people. shiny. trans milestone.
Manhattan, New York City, New York.
March 4, 2018.
... Read my blog at clintjcl at wordpress dot com
BACKSTORY: I booked an FFS (Facial Feminization Surgery) consultation with Dr. Bart Van Der Ven of 2Pass Clinic (Belgium). I'm really glad I went, because this was the surgeon I ultimately chose to do the surgery on September 4th, 2018. Skype consults are a thing, but there's no substitute for sitting there next to a surgeon, as he holds a metal ruler to parts of your face. Or his photography equipment for the "before" pictures. I received my simulation videos on the bus back to Virginia!
THE PLAN WAS A BIT CRAZY, THOUGH: We go to the club, then when it close at 3AM, we go home, and Clio then drives to DC to get on a bus to New York, arriving around 9AM, then finding her way to the consultation by 11AM, and back to the bus by 2PM, and back home by 7PM. And then straight to bed until the next day.
TRIP IN SUMMARY:
Failed repeatedly to drive into the Union Station parking garage, or any parking garage. End result: panic, hastily chosen street parking, and 4:35AM running toward Union Station dark and alone in DC .. I barely had water for the trip cause I used it all to run
The Megabus wifi sucked, but it was enough to keep up with things. It was that other non-megabus-bus that I took back, that had the broken wifi that didn't work.
I got there with time to spare - completed my consultation before it was scheduled to start - and had to kill like 90+ minutes before I left, as well. So the schedule was tight, but fine. I saw the empty slots in his booking and knew there'd be nobody before me (unless they booked after I did), so I knew if I showed up early I'd probably earn some extra wiggle room
Uber ended up costing more and taking longer than a taxi, because they charge you if you don't get picked up because you can't see the fucking car even tho the app is showing it go down the street right there and you are reading every license plate and the fucker just isn't there when the app says he's there. $5 each time. ... so it was like $9 Uber $12 taxi but I paid like $19 Uber because it took 3 Ubers for them to pick me up... And I had to fuck around for like 15 minutes ... Time for credit card disputes.
But the Uber BACK to the bus went well
IT WAS A TOUGH TRIP, but I did not keel over, and really was only miserable the last 2 hrs of the last bus trip. Though I WAS under-dressed with a light jacket and no hat/scarf, I don't deal with cold well, and I'm not from New York, so there were definitely a lot of moments where everyone in NYC was acting like a normal person, and I was jogging in place like a crazy person, out of breath, just trying to stay warm. At one point I ducked into the subway and hung out in a pissy area near a unconscious homeless dude because he knew what the fuck was up about avoiding this cold. But eventually I had to go into gift shops because the piss smell of NYC's subways is pretty ubiquitous and overwhelming
Dr. BartVan Der Ven of 2pass Clinic ( www.2pass.eu ) saw me. He said I only need a Type 1 forehead reconstruction... Though if it ended up needing to be a Type 3, he'd only charge me for Type 1 [for reference: facialfeminization.surgery/index.php/forehead/ ]
But basically, he said I only need a Type 1 forehead reconstruction, not Type 3, because of where my brow bossing is
He measured my nose-to-lips and said I didn't need a lip lift. Dr. Bart simply rattles numbers off from his head, holds a ruler up.. I fell within female numbers anyway for the lip-to-nose distance. Something I've become increasingly LESS dysphoric of lately, as I look at more and more women through the eyes of one learning gendered skull structure knowledge.
He didn't want to do the cheek implants, just nasolabial ones. He said 4 implants has more infection chance than 2. Tho taking them out is rote and can be done locally. So why NOT get 4? Hmmm. [But the estimate came with cheek implants, and I ended up getting small ones, so hey! :)]
Sadly informed that something something lower orbital rim too far back compared to most people, not "abnormal" but uncommon means that something something something maybe that's why he only wanted the 2 implants [uh oh -- I got all 4 implants though. Sure wish I remember what that something something was]
He wasn't into wanting to do as aggressive of a jaw shave as I seemed to want, and ultimately it really wasn't that aggressive, and I wonder if I should have insisted on more, though I'm pretty happy with the results, and at the time of posting this (November 2018), swelling still hasn't gone down yet, to make a final judgment on just how happy I am with things. I'm fairly happy with the results so far. :)
Clio received her simulation videos while on the bus ride back to Virginia! Dr. Bart took some before pictures, used a photo editing program to approximate the changes he'd be making, and then created simulation videos for front and side views. The results ended up being very much like the simulation video.
Transition Progress at this point: On hormones since 8/1 (7 months); injections since 12/22 (2 months) [13 so far]. Full-time female since 9/15 (5.5 months). Publicly out as trans since 10/11 (4.5 months). Legally female since 12/21 (2.5 months). 2 group speech therapy classes taken at GW Speech Clinic since 2/22. Plastic surgery consults continuing (5 for FFS, 3 for lipo). Have seen endo/primary therapist 5X, and secondary therapists 9X. Weight down to 143lbs (54 down from 197). Hair removal includes 32 electrolysis treatments totaling 25 hours; 30 laser hair removal sessions (51 area treatments: 16/15/13/12/8 mouth/goatee/face/neck/armpits, 7 legs/chest, 6 ears/Brazilian); and bi-weekly at-home IPL on arms since 6/17 (8.5 months). Latisse for eyelash lengthening since 4/17 (10.5 months). 2 dental implants, and prep work for Zoom Whitening For Life. Pierced ears. Dyed/layered hair (no haircuts for 3yrs--since 1/2015). Twice daily hydroquinone treatment on leg hyperpigmentation since 2/14 (2 weeks), and it's starting to peel red now (looks awful). Female wardrobe replacement wasup to 656 items. Total transition expenditures now over $17,400 at this point.
simulation video.
trans milestone.
Manhattan, New York City, New York.
March 4, 2018.
... Read my blog at clintjcl at wordpress dot com
BACKSTORY: I booked an FFS (Facial Feminization Surgery) consultation with Dr. Bart Van Der Ven of 2Pass Clinic (Belgium). I'm really glad I went, because this was the surgeon I ultimately chose to do the surgery on September 4th, 2018. Skype consults are a thing, but there's no substitute for sitting there next to a surgeon, as he holds a metal ruler to parts of your face. Or his photography equipment for the "before" pictures. I received my simulation videos on the bus back to Virginia!
THE PLAN WAS A BIT CRAZY, THOUGH: We go to the club, then when it close at 3AM, we go home, and Clio then drives to DC to get on a bus to New York, arriving around 9AM, then finding her way to the consultation by 11AM, and back to the bus by 2PM, and back home by 7PM. And then straight to bed until the next day.
TRIP IN SUMMARY:
Failed repeatedly to drive into the Union Station parking garage, or any parking garage. End result: panic, hastily chosen street parking, and 4:35AM running toward Union Station dark and alone in DC .. I barely had water for the trip cause I used it all to run
The Megabus wifi sucked, but it was enough to keep up with things. It was that other non-megabus-bus that I took back, that had the broken wifi that didn't work.
I got there with time to spare - completed my consultation before it was scheduled to start - and had to kill like 90+ minutes before I left, as well. So the schedule was tight, but fine. I saw the empty slots in his booking and knew there'd be nobody before me (unless they booked after I did), so I knew if I showed up early I'd probably earn some extra wiggle room
Uber ended up costing more and taking longer than a taxi, because they charge you if you don't get picked up because you can't see the fucking car even tho the app is showing it go down the street right there and you are reading every license plate and the fucker just isn't there when the app says he's there. $5 each time. ... so it was like $9 Uber $12 taxi but I paid like $19 Uber because it took 3 Ubers for them to pick me up... And I had to fuck around for like 15 minutes ... Time for credit card disputes.
But the Uber BACK to the bus went well
IT WAS A TOUGH TRIP, but I did not keel over, and really was only miserable the last 2 hrs of the last bus trip. Though I WAS under-dressed with a light jacket and no hat/scarf, I don't deal with cold well, and I'm not from New York, so there were definitely a lot of moments where everyone in NYC was acting like a normal person, and I was jogging in place like a crazy person, out of breath, just trying to stay warm. At one point I ducked into the subway and hung out in a pissy area near a unconscious homeless dude because he knew what the fuck was up about avoiding this cold. But eventually I had to go into gift shops because the piss smell of NYC's subways is pretty ubiquitous and overwhelming
Dr. Bart Van Der Ven of 2pass Clinic( www.2pass.eu ) saw me. He said I only need a Type 1 forehead reconstruction... Though if it ended up needing to be a Type 3, he'd only charge me for Type 1 [for reference: facialfeminization.surgery/index.php/forehead/ ]
But basically, he said I only need a Type 1 forehead reconstruction, not Type 3, because of where my brow bossing is
He measured my nose-to-lips and said I didn't need a lip lift. Dr. Bart simply rattles numbers off from his head, holds a ruler up.. I fell within female numbers anyway for the lip-to-nose distance. Something I've become increasingly LESS dysphoric of lately, as I look at more and more women through the eyes of one learning gendered skull structure knowledge.
He didn't want to do the cheek implants, just nasolabial ones. He said 4 implants has more infection chance than 2. Tho taking them out is rote and can be done locally. So why NOT get 4? Hmmm. [But the estimate came with cheek implants, and I ended up getting small ones, so hey! :)]
Sadly informed that something something lower orbital rim too far back compared to most people, not "abnormal" but uncommon means that something something something maybe that's why he only wanted the 2 implants [uh oh -- I got all 4 implants though. Sure wish I remember what that something something was]
He wasn't into wanting to do as aggressive of a jaw shave as I seemed to want, and ultimately it really wasn't that aggressive, and I wonder if I should have insisted on more, though I'm pretty happy with the results, and at the time of posting this (November 2018), swelling still hasn't gone down yet, to make a final judgment on just how happy I am with things. I'm fairly happy with the results so far. :)
5AM. Clio just got on the bus on the way to New York city the morning after staying up all night at a local kink clubs... She's wondering what's up with the person behind her.
Transition Progress at this point: On hormones since 8/1 (7 months); injections since 12/22 (2 months) [13 so far]. Full-time female since 9/15 (5.5 months). Publicly out as trans since 10/11 (4.5 months). Legally female since 12/21 (2.5 months). 2 group speech therapy classes taken at GW Speech Clinic since 2/22. Plastic surgery consults continuing (5 for FFS, 3 for lipo). Have seen endo/primary therapist 5X, and secondary therapists 9X. Weight down to 143lbs (54 down from 197). Hair removal includes 32 electrolysis treatments totaling 25 hours; 30 laser hair removal sessions (51 area treatments: 16/15/13/12/8 mouth/goatee/face/neck/armpits, 7 legs/chest, 6 ears/Brazilian); and bi-weekly at-home IPL on arms since 6/17 (8.5 months). Latisse for eyelash lengthening since 4/17 (10.5 months). 2 dental implants, and prep work for Zoom Whitening For Life. Pierced ears. Dyed/layered hair (no haircuts for 3yrs--since 1/2015). Twice daily hydroquinone treatment on leg hyperpigmentation since 2/14 (2 weeks), and it's starting to peel red now (looks awful). Female wardrobe replacement wasup to 656 items. Total transition expenditures now over $17,400 at this point.
Clio.
sitting.
Megabus bus, knife earrings, rainbow necklace, trans collar.
on the bus. self-portrait. trans milestone.
Manhattan, New York City, New York.
March 4, 2018.
... Read my blog at clintjcl at wordpress dot com
BACKSTORY: I booked an FFS (Facial Feminization Surgery) consultation with Dr. Bart Van Der Ven of 2Pass Clinic (Belgium). I'm really glad I went, because this was the surgeon I ultimately chose to do the surgery on September 4th, 2018. Skype consults are a thing, but there's no substitute for sitting there next to a surgeon, as he holds a metal ruler to parts of your face. Or his photography equipment for the "before" pictures. I received my simulation videos on the bus back to Virginia!
THE PLAN WAS A BIT CRAZY, THOUGH: We go to the club, then when it close at 3AM, we go home, and Clio then drives to DC to get on a bus to New York, arriving around 9AM, then finding her way to the consultation by 11AM, and back to the bus by 2PM, and back home by 7PM. And then straight to bed until the next day.
TRIP IN SUMMARY:
Failed repeatedly to drive into the Union Station parking garage, or any parking garage. End result: panic, hastily chosen street parking, and 4:35AM running toward Union Station dark and alone in DC .. I barely had water for the trip cause I used it all to run
The Megabus wifi sucked, but it was enough to keep up with things. It was that other non-megabus-bus that I took back, that had the broken wifi that didn't work.
I got there with time to spare - completed my consultation before it was scheduled to start - and had to kill like 90+ minutesbefore I left, as well. So the schedule was tight, but fine. I saw the empty slots in his booking and knew there'd be nobody before me (unless they booked after I did), so I knew if I showed up early I'd probably earn some extra wiggle room
Uber ended up costing more and taking longer than a taxi, because they charge you if you don't get picked up because you can't see the fucking car even tho the app is showing it go down the street right there and you are reading every license plate and the fucker just isn't there when the app says he's there. $5 each time. ... so it was like $9 Uber $12 taxi but I paid like $19 Uber because it took 3 Ubers for them to pick me up... And I had to fuck around for like 15 minutes ... Time for credit card disputes.
But the Uber BACK to the bus went well
IT WAS A TOUGH TRIP, but I did not keel over, and really was only miserable the last 2 hrs of the last bus trip. Though I WAS under-dressed with a light jacket and no hat/scarf, I don't deal with cold well, and I'm not from New York, so there were definitely a lot of moments where everyone in NYC was acting like a normal person, and I was jogging in place like a crazy person, out of breath, just trying to stay warm. At one point I ducked into the subway and hung out in a pissy area near a unconscious homeless dude because he knew what the fuck was up about avoiding this cold. But eventually I had to go into gift shops because the piss smell of NYC's subways is pretty ubiquitous and overwhelming
Dr. Bart Van Der Ven of 2pass Clinic ( www.2pass.eu ) saw me. He said I only need a Type 1 forehead reconstruction... Though if it ended up needing tobe a Type 3, he'd only charge me for Type 1 [for reference: facialfeminization.surgery/index.php/forehead/ ]
But basically, he said I only need a Type 1 forehead reconstruction, not Type 3, because of where my brow bossing is
He measured my nose-to-lips and said I didn't need a lip lift. Dr. Bart simply rattles numbers off from his head, holds a ruler up.. I fell within female numbers anyway for the lip-to-nose distance. Something I've become increasingly LESS dysphoric of lately, as I look at more and more women through the eyes of one learning gendered skull structure knowledge.
He didn't want to do the cheek implants, just nasolabial ones. He said 4 implants has more infection chance than 2. Tho taking them out is rote and can be done locally. So why NOT get 4? Hmmm. [But the estimate came with cheek implants, and I ended up getting small ones, so hey! :)]
Sadly informed that something something lower orbital rim too far back compared to most people, not "abnormal" but uncommon means that something something something maybe that's why he only wanted the 2 implants [uh oh -- I got all 4 implants though. Sure wish I remember what that something something was]
He wasn't into wanting to do as aggressive of a jaw shave as I seemed to want, and ultimately it really wasn't that aggressive, and I wonder if I should have insisted on more, though I'm pretty happy with the results, and at the time of posting this (November 2018), swelling still hasn't gone down yet, to make a final judgment on just how happy I am with things. I'm fairly happy with the results so far. :)
After the consultation, Clio had to kill some time in New York. About 2-3hrs hanging around the bus stop area, wherever this is. It was cold. She looked at the chrome poop in the middle of the square, ate tacos, drank margaritas, and toured the stupid gift shops full of stupid touristy stuff. (Bought one shotglass for $3.)
Transition Progress at this point: On hormones since 8/1 (7 months); injections since 12/22 (2 months) [13 so far]. Full-time female since 9/15 (5.5 months). Publicly out as trans since 10/11 (4.5 months). Legally female since 12/21 (2.5 months). 2 group speech therapy classes taken at GW Speech Clinic since 2/22. Plastic surgery consults continuing (5 for FFS, 3 for lipo). Have seen endo/primary therapist 5X, and secondary therapists 9X. Weight down to 143lbs (54 down from 197). Hair removal includes 32 electrolysis treatments totaling 25 hours; 30 laser hair removal sessions (51 area treatments: 16/15/13/12/8 mouth/goatee/face/neck/armpits, 7 legs/chest, 6 ears/Brazilian); and bi-weekly at-home IPL on arms since 6/17 (8.5 months). Latisse for eyelash lengthening since 4/17 (10.5 months). 2 dental implants, and prep work for Zoom Whitening For Life. Pierced ears. Dyed/layered hair (no haircuts for 3yrs--since 1/2015). Twice daily hydroquinone treatment on leg hyperpigmentation since 2/14 (2 weeks), and it's starting to peel red now (looks awful). Female wardrobe replacement wasup to 656 items. Total transition expenditures now over $17,400 at this point.
taking picture.
buildings, cell phone, reflection, teardrop sculpture.
shiny. trans milestone.
Manhattan, New York City, New York.
March 4, 2018.
... Read my blog at clintjcl at wordpress dot com
BACKSTORY: I booked an FFS (Facial Feminization Surgery) consultation with Dr. Bart Van Der Ven of 2Pass Clinic (Belgium). I'm really glad I went, because this was the surgeon I ultimately chose to do the surgery on September 4th, 2018. Skype consults are a thing, but there's no substitute for sitting there next toa surgeon, as he holds a metal ruler to parts of your face. Or his photography equipment for the "before" pictures. I received my simulation videos on the bus back to Virginia!
THE PLAN WAS A BIT CRAZY, THOUGH: We go to the club, then when it close at 3AM, we go home, and Clio then drives to DC to get on a bus to New York, arriving around 9AM, then finding her way to the consultation by 11AM, and back to the bus by 2PM, and back home by 7PM. And then straight to bed until the next day.
TRIP IN SUMMARY:
Failed repeatedly to drive into the Union Station parking garage, or any parking garage. End result: panic, hastily chosen street parking, and 4:35AM running toward Union Station dark and alone in DC .. I barely had water for the trip cause I used it all to run
The Megabus wifi sucked, but it was enough to keep up with things. It was that other non-megabus-bus that I took back, that had the broken wifi that didn't work.
I got there with time to spare - completed my consultation before it was scheduled to start - and had to kill like 90+ minutes before I left, as well. So the schedule was tight, but fine. I saw the empty slots in his booking and knew there'd be nobody before me (unless they booked after I did), so I knew if I showed up early I'd probably earn some extra wiggle room
Uber ended up costing more and taking longer than a taxi, because they charge you if you don't get picked up because you can't see the fucking car even tho the app is showing it go down the street right there and you are reading every license plate and the fucker just isn't there when the app says he's there. $5 each time. ... so it was like $9 Uber $12 taxi but I paid like $19 Uber because it took 3 Ubers for them to pick me up... And I had to fuck around for like 15 minutes ... Time for credit card disputes.
But the Uber BACK to the bus went well
IT WAS A TOUGH TRIP, but I did not keel over, andreally was only miserable the last 2 hrs of the last bus trip. Though I WAS under-dressed with a light jacket and no hat/scarf, I don't deal with cold well, and I'm not from New York, so there were definitely a lot of moments where everyone in NYC was acting like a normal person, and I was jogging in place like a crazy person, out of breath, just trying to stay warm. At one point I ducked into the subway and hung out in a pissy area near a unconscious homeless dude because he knew what the fuck was up about avoiding this cold. But eventually I had to go into gift shops because the piss smell of NYC's subways is pretty ubiquitous and overwhelming
Dr. Bart Van Der Ven of 2pass Clinic( www.2pass.eu ) saw me. He said I only need a Type 1 forehead reconstruction... Though if it ended up needing to be a Type 3, he'd only charge me for Type 1 [for reference: facialfeminization.surgery/index.php/forehead/ ]
But basically, he said I only need a Type 1 forehead reconstruction, not Type 3, because of where my brow bossing is
He measured my nose-to-lips and said I didn't need a lip lift. Dr. Bart simply rattles numbers off from his head, holds a ruler up.. I fell within female numbers anyway for the lip-to-nose distance. Something I've become increasingly LESS dysphoric of lately, as I look at more and more women through the eyes of one learning gendered skull structure knowledge.
He didn't want to do the cheek implants, just nasolabial ones. He said 4 implants has more infection chance than 2. Tho taking them out is rote and can be done locally. So why NOT get 4? Hmmm. [But the estimate came with cheek implants, and I ended up getting small ones, so hey! :)]
Sadly informed that something something lower orbital rim too far back compared to most people, not "abnormal" but uncommon means that something something something maybe that's why he only wanted the 2 implants [uh oh -- I got all 4 implants though. Sure wish I remember what that something something was]
He wasn't into wanting to do as aggressive of a jaw shave as I seemed to want, and ultimately it really wasn't that aggressive, and I wonder if I should have insisted on more, though I'm pretty happy with the results, and at the time of posting this (November 2018), swelling still hasn't gone down yet, to make a final judgment on just how happy I am with things. I'm fairly happy with the results so far. :)
Clio made a great tin that captures her personality succinctly: Full of cartoons, and sloppily glued together.
Transition Progress at this point: On hormones since 8/1 (7 months); injections since 12/22 (2 months) [14 so far]. Full-time female since 9/15 (5.5 months). Publicly out as trans since 10/11 (4.5 months). Legally female since 12/21 (2.5 months). 3 group speech therapy classes taken at GW Speech Clinic (since 2/22). Plastic surgery consults continuing. Have seen endo/primary therapist 5X, and secondary therapists 9X. Weight down to 141lbs (56 down from 197). Hair removal includes 33 electrolysis treatments totaling 25 hours; 30 laser hair removal sessions (51 area treatments: 16/15/13/12/8 mouth/goatee/face/neck/armpits, 7 legs/chest, 6 ears/Brazilian); and bi-weekly at-home IPL on arms since 6/17 (8.5 months). Latisse for eyelash lengthening since 4/17 (10.5 months). 2 dental implants + Zoom Whitening. Pierced ears. Dyed/layered hair (no haircuts for 3yrs--since 1/2015). Twice daily hydroquinone treatment on leg hyperpigmentation since 2/14 (3 weeks), and it's peeling red now (looks awful). Female wardrobe replacement up to more than 656 items. Total transition expenditures now over $17,400 at this point.
Bender, Daphne, Fred, Robin, Stewie Griffin, Velma.
Bender figurine, Party Girl button, beads, bottle caps, glow in the dark spider, mirrors, spikes.
cartoon: Family Guy. cartoon: Futurama. cartoon: Scooby Doo. cartoon: The Tick. comics: Batman.
upstairs, Clio and Carolyn's house, Alexandria, Virginia.
March 11, 2018.
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BACKSTORY: Each month, Melissa has a craft night. This night was making travel altar tins. You take an Altoids box and decorate it, and then you have a portable altar to take with you.
Clio found this tote bag at the thrift store. She felt that it represented femininity (the female symbol, the hearts, and even the feline theme) as well as rebellion against constraints ("don't tell me what to do!"), which is a good combination for representing her personality. Carolyn ended up uses this tote to hold her hair tinsel supplies.
And that belt! $4 at Goodwill. Had to make them climb up and pull it off a mannequin.
Transition Progress at this point: On hormones since 8/1 (6.5 months); injections since 12/22 (2 months) [11 so far]. Full-time female since 9/15 (5 months). Publicly out as trans since 10/11 (4 months). Legally female since 12/21 (2 months). Weekly voice Training at GW Speech Clinic since 2/22 (1 group session so far). Plastic surgery consults continuing (4 for FFS, 3 for lipo). Have seen endo/primary therapist 5X, and secondary therapists 9X. Weight down to 136lbs (61 down from 197). Hair removal includes 32 electrolysis treatments totaling 25 hours; 30 laser hair removal sessions (51 area treatments: 16/15/13/12/8 mouth/goatee/face/neck/armpits, 7 legs/chest, 6 ears/brazilian); and bi-weekly at-home IPL on arms since 6/17 (8 months). Latisse for eyelash lengthening since 4/17 (10 months). 2 dental implants, and prep work for Zoom Whitening For Life. Pierced ears. Dyed/layered hair (no haircuts for 3yrs--since 1/2015). Twice daily hydroquinone treatment on leg hyperpigmentation since 2/14 (9 days). Female wardrobe replacement was up to 644 items. Total transition expenditures now over $16,000 at this point.
Clio.
standing.
cat, tote bag.
Don't tell me what to do. paisley.
upstairs, Clio and Carolyn's house, Alexandria, Virginia.
... Read my blog at clintjcl at wordpress dot com
... Read Carolyn's blog at CarolynCASL at wordpress dot com
BACKSTORY: Rainbow Party #14: Paisley: Carolyn's birthday. 30 people. Clio & Carolyn, Vicky, Angel & Dave, Dave N, Aaron & Meagan, Puppy, Svetlana, Matthew & Julie, Sideshow Bob, Sean, Brewster & Kate, Andrew, Diane, Javier, Emily, Lex & Katrina, John F & Erin, Beth, Ipek, Carlos, Melissa & Ken, Ivette. Carolyn opened gifts before L-C-R. Huge L-C-R game (Ipek won). Lots of socializing. DDR was played too. Carolyn and Sideshow Bob played some. Facebook event page: www.facebook.com/events/1964848253791466/
Still trying to kill 2-3hrs time, without leaving the bus stop area, Clio had no choice but to eat and drink. Clio ate 3 exotic tacos: ahi tuna, seared tofu, and a vegan one. They were all good. Even the vegan one. Clio had an apple-garlic-ginger martini that was SUPER spicy - and a turmeric-pineapple martini that wasn't spicy enough, but was interesting to sample. Tourist trap!!
Transition Progress at this point: On hormones since 8/1 (7 months); injections since 12/22 (2 months) [13 so far]. Full-time female since 9/15 (5.5 months). Publicly out as trans since 10/11 (4.5 months). Legally female since 12/21 (2.5 months). 2 group speech therapy classes taken at GW Speech Clinic since 2/22. Plastic surgery consults continuing (5 for FFS, 3 for lipo). Have seen endo/primary therapist 5X, and secondary therapists 9X. Weight down to 143lbs (54 down from 197). Hair removal includes 32 electrolysis treatments totaling 25 hours; 30 laser hair removal sessions (51 area treatments: 16/15/13/12/8 mouth/goatee/face/neck/armpits, 7 legs/chest, 6 ears/Brazilian); and bi-weekly at-home IPL on arms since 6/17 (8.5 months). Latisse for eyelash lengthening since 4/17 (10.5 months). 2 dental implants, and prep work for Zoom Whitening For Life. Pierced ears. Dyed/layered hair (no haircuts for 3yrs--since 1/2015). Twice daily hydroquinone treatment on leg hyperpigmentation since 2/14 (2 weeks), and it's starting to peel red now (looks awful). Female wardrobe replacement wasup to 656 items. Total transition expenditures now over $17,400 at this point.
ordering, placing order.
people. trans milestone.
Taco Dumbo, restaurant, Manhattan, New York City, New York.
March 4, 2018.
... Read my blog at clintjcl at wordpress dot com
BACKSTORY: I booked an FFS (Facial Feminization Surgery) consultation with Dr. Bart Van Der Ven of 2Pass Clinic (Belgium). I'm really glad I went, because this was the surgeon I ultimately chose to do the surgery on September 4th, 2018. Skype consults are a thing, but there's no substitute for sitting there next to a surgeon, as he holds a metal ruler to parts of your face. Or his photography equipment for the "before" pictures. I received my simulation videos on the bus back to Virginia!
THE PLAN WAS A BIT CRAZY, THOUGH: We go to the club, then when it close at 3AM, we go home, and Clio then drives to DC to get on a bus to New York, arriving around 9AM, then finding her way to the consultation by 11AM, and back to the bus by 2PM, and back home by 7PM. And then straight to bed until the next day.
TRIP IN SUMMARY:
Failed repeatedly to drive into the Union Station parking garage, or any parking garage. End result: panic, hastily chosen street parking, and 4:35AM running toward Union Station dark and alone in DC .. I barely had water for the trip cause I used it all to run
The Megabus wifi sucked, but it was enough to keep up with things. It was that other non-megabus-bus that I took back, that had the broken wifi thatdidn't work.
I got there with time to spare - completed my consultation before it was scheduled to start - and had to kill like 90+ minutes before I left, as well. So the schedule was tight, but fine. I saw the empty slots in his booking and knew there'd be nobody before me (unless they booked after I did), so I knew if I showed up early I'd probably earn some extra wiggle room
Uber ended up costing more and taking longer than a taxi, because they charge you if you don't get picked up because you can't see the fucking car even tho the app is showing it go down the street right there and you are reading every license plate and the fucker just isn't there when the app says he's there. $5 each time. ... so it was like $9 Uber $12 taxi but I paid like $19 Uber because it took 3 Ubers for them to pick me up... And I had to fuck around for like 15 minutes ... Time for credit card disputes.
But the Uber BACK to the bus went well
IT WAS A TOUGH TRIP, but I did not keel over, and really was only miserable the last 2 hrs of the last bus trip. Though I WAS under-dressed with a light jacket and no hat/scarf, I don't deal with cold well, and I'm not from New York, so there were definitely a lot of moments where everyone in NYC was acting like a normal person, and I was jogging in place like a crazy person, out of breath, just trying to stay warm. At one point I ducked into the subway and hung out in a pissy area near a unconscious homeless dude because he knew what the fuck was up about avoiding this cold. But eventually I had to go into gift shops because the piss smell of NYC's subways is pretty ubiquitous and overwhelming
Dr. Bart Van Der Ven of 2pass Clinic ( www.2pass.eu ) saw me. He said I only need a Type 1 forehead reconstruction... Though if it ended up needing to be a Type 3, he'd only charge me for Type 1 [for reference: facialfeminization.surgery/index.php/forehead/ ]
But basically, he said I only need a Type 1 forehead reconstruction, not Type 3, because of where my brow bossing is
He measured my nose-to-lips and said I didn't need a lip lift. Dr. Bart simply rattles numbers off from his head, holds a ruler up.. I fell within female numbers anyway for the lip-to-nose distance. Something I've become increasingly LESS dysphoric of lately, as I look at more and more women through the eyes of one learning gendered skull structure knowledge.
He didn't want to do the cheek implants, just nasolabial ones. He said 4 implants has more infection chance than 2. Tho taking them out isrote and can be done locally. So why NOT get 4? Hmmm. [But the estimate came with cheek implants, and I ended up getting small ones, so hey! :)]
Sadly informed that something something lower orbital rim too far back compared to most people, not "abnormal" but uncommon means that something something something maybe that's why he only wanted the 2 implants [uh oh -- I got all 4 implants though. Sure wish I remember what that something something was]
He wasn't into wanting to do as aggressive of a jaw shave as I seemed to want, and ultimately it really wasn't that aggressive, and I wonder if I should have insisted on more, though I'm pretty happy with the results, and at the time of posting this (November 2018), swelling still hasn't gone down yet, to make a final judgment on just how happy I am with things. I'm fairly happy with the results so far. :)
After the consultation, Clio had to kill some time in New York. About 2-3hrs hanging around the bus stop area, wherever this is. It was cold. She looked at the chrome poop in the middle of the square, ate tacos, drank margaritas, and toured the stupid gift shops full of stupid touristy stuff. (Bought one shotglass for $3.)
Transition Progress at this point: On hormones since 8/1 (7 months); injections since 12/22 (2 months) [13 so far]. Full-time female since 9/15 (5.5 months). Publicly out as trans since 10/11 (4.5 months). Legally female since 12/21 (2.5 months). 2 group speech therapy classes taken at GW Speech Clinic since 2/22. Plastic surgery consults continuing (5 for FFS, 3 for lipo). Have seen endo/primary therapist 5X, and secondary therapists 9X. Weight down to 143lbs (54 down from 197). Hair removal includes 32 electrolysis treatments totaling 25 hours; 30 laser hair removal sessions (51 area treatments: 16/15/13/12/8 mouth/goatee/face/neck/armpits, 7 legs/chest, 6 ears/Brazilian); and bi-weekly at-home IPL on arms since 6/17 (8.5 months). Latisse for eyelash lengthening since 4/17 (10.5 months). 2 dental implants, and prep work for Zoom Whitening For Life. Pierced ears. Dyed/layered hair (no haircuts for 3yrs--since 1/2015). Twice daily hydroquinone treatment on leg hyperpigmentation since 2/14 (2 weeks), and it's starting to peel red now (looks awful). Female wardrobe replacement wasup to 656 items. Total transition expenditures now over $17,400 at this point.
Clio.
taking picture.
cell phone, reflection, teardrop sculpture.
self-portrait. shiny. trans milestone.
Manhattan, New York City, New York.
March 4, 2018.
... Read my blog at clintjcl at wordpress dot com
BACKSTORY: I booked an FFS (Facial Feminization Surgery) consultation with Dr. Bart Van Der Ven of 2Pass Clinic (Belgium). I'm really glad I went, because this was the surgeon I ultimately chose to do the surgery on September 4th, 2018. Skype consults are a thing, but there's no substitute for sittingthere next to a surgeon, as he holds a metal ruler to parts of your face. Or his photography equipment for the "before" pictures. I received my simulation videos on the bus back to Virginia!
THE PLAN WAS A BIT CRAZY, THOUGH: We go to the club, then when it close at 3AM, we go home, and Clio then drives to DC to get on a bus to New York, arriving around 9AM, then finding her way to the consultation by 11AM, and back to the bus by 2PM, and back home by 7PM. And then straight to bed until the next day.
TRIP IN SUMMARY:
Failed repeatedly to drive into the Union Station parking garage, or any parking garage. End result: panic, hastily chosen street parking, and 4:35AM running toward Union Station dark and alone in DC .. I barely had water for the trip cause I used it all to run
The Megabus wifi sucked, but it was enough to keep up with things. It was that other non-megabus-bus that I took back, that had the broken wifi that didn't work.
I got there with time to spare - completed my consultation before it was scheduled to start - and had to kill like 90+ minutes before I left, as well. So the schedule was tight, but fine. I saw the empty slots in his booking and knew there'd be nobody before me (unless they booked after I did), so I knew if I showed up early I'd probably earn some extra wiggle room
Uber ended up costing more and taking longer than a taxi, because they charge you if you don't get picked up because you can't see the fucking car even tho the app is showing it go down the street right there and you are reading every license plate and the fucker just isn't there when the app says he's there. $5 each time. ... so it was like $9 Uber $12 taxi but I paid like $19 Uber because it took 3 Ubers for them to pick me up... And I had to fuck around for like 15 minutes ... Time for credit card disputes.
But the Uber BACK to the bus went well
IT WAS A TOUGH TRIP, but I did not keel over, and really was only miserable the last 2 hrs of the last bus trip. Though I WAS under-dressed with a light jacket and no hat/scarf, I don't deal with cold well, and I'm not from New York, so there were definitely a lot of moments where everyone in NYC was acting like a normal person, and I was jogging in place like a crazy person, out of breath, just trying to stay warm. At one point I ducked into the subway and hung out in a pissy area near a unconscious homeless dude because he knew what the fuck was up about avoiding this cold. But eventually I had to go into gift shops because the piss smell of NYC's subways is pretty ubiquitous and overwhelming
Dr. Bart Van Der Ven of2pass Clinic ( www.2pass.eu ) saw me. He said I only need a Type 1 forehead reconstruction... Though if it ended up needing to be a Type 3, he'd only charge me for Type 1 [for reference: facialfeminization.surgery/index.php/forehead/ ]
But basically, he said I only need a Type 1 forehead reconstruction, not Type 3, because of where my brow bossing is
He measured my nose-to-lips and said I didn't need a lip lift. Dr. Bart simply rattles numbers off from his head, holds a ruler up.. I fell within female numbers anyway for the lip-to-nose distance. Something I've become increasingly LESS dysphoric of lately, as I look at more and more women through the eyes of one learning gendered skull structure knowledge.
He didn't want to do the cheek implants, just nasolabial ones. He said 4 implants has more infection chance than 2. Tho taking them out is rote and can be done locally. So why NOT get 4? Hmmm. [But the estimate came with cheek implants, and I ended up getting small ones, so hey! :)]
Sadly informed that something something lower orbital rim too far back compared to most people, not "abnormal" but uncommon means that something something something maybe that's why he only wanted the 2 implants [uh oh -- I got all 4 implants though. Sure wish I remember what that something something was]
He wasn't into wanting to do as aggressive of a jaw shave as I seemed to want, and ultimately it really wasn't that aggressive, and I wonder if I should have insisted on more, though I'm pretty happy with the results, and at the time of posting this (November 2018), swelling still hasn't gone down yet, to make a final judgment on just how happy I am with things. I'm fairly happy with the results so far. :)
Still trying to kill 2-3hrs time, without leaving the bus stop area, Clio had no choice but to eat and drink. Clio ate 3 exotic tacos: ahi tuna, seared tofu, and a vegan one. They were all good. Even the vegan one. Clio had an apple-garlic-ginger martini that was SUPER spicy - and a turmeric-pineapple martini that wasn't spicy enough, but was interesting to sample. Tourist trap!!
Transition Progress at this point: On hormones since 8/1 (7 months); injections since 12/22 (2 months) [13 so far]. Full-time female since 9/15 (5.5 months). Publicly out as trans since 10/11 (4.5 months). Legally female since 12/21 (2.5 months). 2 group speech therapy classes taken at GW Speech Clinic since 2/22. Plastic surgery consults continuing (5 for FFS, 3 for lipo). Have seen endo/primary therapist 5X, and secondary therapists 9X. Weight down to 143lbs (54 down from 197). Hair removal includes 32 electrolysis treatments totaling 25 hours; 30 laser hair removal sessions (51 area treatments: 16/15/13/12/8 mouth/goatee/face/neck/armpits, 7 legs/chest, 6 ears/Brazilian); and bi-weekly at-home IPL on arms since 6/17 (8.5 months). Latisse for eyelash lengthening since 4/17 (10.5 months). 2 dental implants, and prep work for Zoom Whitening For Life. Pierced ears. Dyed/layered hair (no haircuts for 3yrs--since 1/2015). Twice daily hydroquinone treatment on leg hyperpigmentation since 2/14 (2 weeks), and it's starting to peel red now (looks awful). Female wardrobe replacement wasup to 656 items. Total transition expenditures now over $17,400 at this point.
Clio.
drinking.
Sunday Fun Day filter, hat, sunglasses.
Sunday Fun Day. black and white. trans milestone.
Taco Dumbo, restaurant, Manhattan, New York City, New York.
March 4, 2018.
... Read my blog at clintjcl at wordpress dot com
BACKSTORY: I booked an FFS (Facial Feminization Surgery) consultation with Dr. Bart Van Der Ven of 2Pass Clinic (Belgium). I'm really glad I went, because this was the surgeon I ultimately chose to do the surgery on September 4th, 2018. Skype consults are a thing, but there's no substitute for sitting there next to a surgeon, as he holds a metal ruler to parts of your face. Or his photography equipment for the "before" pictures. I received my simulation videos on the bus back to Virginia!
THE PLAN WAS A BIT CRAZY, THOUGH: We go to the club, then when it close at 3AM, we go home, and Clio then drives to DC to get on a bus to New York, arriving around 9AM, then finding her way to the consultation by 11AM, and back to the bus by 2PM, and back home by 7PM. And then straight to bed until the next day.
TRIP IN SUMMARY:
Failed repeatedly to drive into the Union Station parking garage, or any parking garage. End result: panic, hastily chosen street parking, and 4:35AM running toward Union Station dark and alone in DC .. I barely had water for the trip cause I used it all to run
The Megabus wifi sucked, but it was enough to keep up with things. It was that other non-megabus-bus that I took back, that had the broken wifi that didn't work.
I got there with time to spare - completed my consultation before it was scheduled to start - and had to kill like 90+ minutes before I left, as well. So the schedule was tight, but fine. I saw the empty slots in his booking and knew there'd be nobody before me (unless they booked after I did), so I knew if I showed up early I'd probably earn some extra wiggle room
Uber ended up costing more and taking longer than a taxi, because they charge you if you don't get picked up because you can't see the fucking car even tho the app is showing it go down the street right there and you are reading every license plate and the fucker just isn't there when the app says he's there. $5 each time. ... so it was like $9 Uber $12 taxi but I paid like $19 Uber because it took 3 Ubers for them to pick me up... And I had to fuck around for like 15 minutes ... Time for credit card disputes.
But the Uber BACK to the bus went well
IT WAS A TOUGH TRIP, but I did not keel over, and really was only miserable the last 2 hrs of the last bus trip. Though I WAS under-dressed with a light jacket and no hat/scarf, I don't deal with cold well, and I'm not from New York, so there were definitely a lot of moments where everyone in NYC was acting like a normal person, and I was jogging in place like a crazy person, out of breath, just trying to stay warm. At one point I ducked into the subway and hung out in a pissy area near a unconscious homeless dude because he knew what the fuck was up about avoiding this cold. But eventually I had to go into gift shops because the piss smell of NYC's subways is pretty ubiquitous and overwhelming
Dr. Bart Van Der Ven of 2pass Clinic ( www.2pass.eu ) saw me. He said I only need a Type 1 forehead reconstruction... Though if it ended up needing to be a Type 3, he'd only charge me for Type 1 [for reference: facialfeminization.surgery/index.php/forehead/ ]
But basically, he said I only need a Type 1 forehead reconstruction, not Type 3, because of where my brow bossing is
He measured my nose-to-lips and said I didn't need a lip lift. Dr. Bart simply rattles numbers off from his head, holds a ruler up.. I fell within female numbers anyway for the lip-to-nose distance. Something I've become increasingly LESS dysphoric of lately, as I look at more and more women through the eyes of one learning gendered skull structure knowledge.
He didn't want to do the cheek implants, just nasolabial ones. He said 4implants has more infection chance than 2. Tho taking them out is rote and can be done locally. So why NOT get 4? Hmmm. [But the estimate came with cheek implants, and I ended up getting small ones, so hey! :)]
Sadly informed that something something lower orbital rim too far back compared to most people, not "abnormal" but uncommon means that something something something maybe that's why he only wanted the 2 implants [uh oh -- I got all 4 implants though. Sure wish I remember what that something something was]
He wasn't into wanting to do as aggressive of a jaw shave as I seemed to want, and ultimately it really wasn't that aggressive, and I wonder if I should have insisted on more, though I'm pretty happy with the results, and at the time of posting this (November 2018), swelling still hasn't gone down yet, to make a final judgment on just how happy I am with things. I'm fairly happy with the results so far. :)
Facials- A gentle organic facial specifically designed to give relief to very sensitive skin.
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Microdermabrasion- Accelerates natural skin renewal, and it gives the skin a fresh and healthy appearance.
After the consultation, Clio had to kill some time in New York. About 2-3hrs hanging around the bus stop area, wherever this is. It was cold. She looked at the chrome poop in the middle of the square, ate tacos, drank margaritas, and toured the stupid gift shops full of stupid touristy stuff. (Bought one shotglass for $3.)
Transition Progress at this point: On hormones since 8/1 (7 months); injections since 12/22 (2 months) [13 so far]. Full-time female since 9/15 (5.5 months). Publicly out as trans since 10/11 (4.5 months). Legally female since 12/21 (2.5 months). 2 group speech therapy classes taken at GW Speech Clinic since 2/22. Plastic surgery consults continuing (5 for FFS, 3 for lipo). Have seen endo/primary therapist 5X, and secondary therapists 9X. Weight down to 143lbs (54 down from 197). Hair removal includes 32 electrolysis treatments totaling 25 hours; 30 laser hair removal sessions (51 area treatments: 16/15/13/12/8 mouth/goatee/face/neck/armpits, 7 legs/chest, 6 ears/Brazilian); and bi-weekly at-home IPL on arms since 6/17 (8.5 months). Latisse for eyelash lengthening since 4/17 (10.5 months). 2 dental implants, and prep work for Zoom Whitening For Life. Pierced ears. Dyed/layered hair (no haircuts for 3yrs--since 1/2015). Twice daily hydroquinone treatment on leg hyperpigmentation since 2/14 (2 weeks), and it's starting to peel red now (looks awful). Female wardrobe replacement wasup to 656 items. Total transition expenditures now over $17,400 at this point.
walking.
PETA organization, advertisements, bicycles, billboards, reflection, street, teardrop sculpture.
naked. people. shiny. trans milestone.
Manhattan, New York City, New York.
March 4, 2018.
... Read my blog at clintjcl at wordpress dot com
BACKSTORY: I booked an FFS (Facial Feminization Surgery) consultation with Dr. Bart Van Der Ven of 2Pass Clinic (Belgium). I'm really glad I went, because this was the surgeon I ultimately chose to do the surgery on September 4th, 2018. Skype consults are a thing, but there's no substitute for sitting there next to a surgeon, as he holds a metal ruler to parts of your face. Or his photography equipment for the "before" pictures. I received my simulation videos on the bus back to Virginia!
THE PLAN WAS A BIT CRAZY, THOUGH: We go to the club, then when it close at 3AM, we go home, and Clio then drives to DC to get on a bus to New York, arriving around 9AM, then finding her way to the consultation by 11AM, and back to the bus by 2PM, and back home by 7PM. And then straight to bed until the next day.
TRIP IN SUMMARY:
Failed repeatedly to drive into the Union Station parking garage, or any parking garage. End result: panic, hastily chosen street parking, and 4:35AM running toward Union Station dark and alone in DC .. I barely had water for the trip cause I used it all to run
The Megabus wifi sucked, but it was enough to keep up with things. It was that other non-megabus-bus that I took back, that had the broken wifi that didn't work.
I got there with time to spare - completed my consultation before it was scheduled to start - and had to kill like 90+ minutes before I left, as well. So the schedule was tight, but fine. I saw the empty slots in his booking and knew there'd be nobody before me (unless they booked after I did), so I knew if I showed up early I'd probably earn some extra wiggle room
Uber ended up costing more and taking longer than a taxi, because they charge you if you don't get picked up because you can't see the fucking car even tho the app is showing it go down the street right there and you are reading every license plate and the fucker just isn't there when the app says he's there. $5 each time. ... so it was like $9 Uber $12 taxi but I paid like $19 Uber because it took 3 Ubers for them to pick me up... And I had to fuck around for like 15 minutes ... Time for credit card disputes.
But the Uber BACK to the bus went well
IT WAS A TOUGH TRIP, but I did not keel over, and really was only miserable the last 2 hrs of the last bus trip. Though I WAS under-dressed with a light jacket and no hat/scarf, I don't deal with cold well, and I'm not from New York, so there were definitely a lot of moments where everyone in NYC was acting like a normal person, and I was jogging in place like a crazy person, out of breath, just trying to stay warm. At one point I ducked into the subway and hung out in a pissy area near a unconscious homeless dude because he knew what the fuck was up about avoiding this cold. But eventually I had to go into gift shops because the piss smell of NYC's subways is pretty ubiquitous and overwhelming
Dr. Bart Van Der Ven of 2pass Clinic ( www.2pass.eu ) saw me. He said I only need a Type 1 forehead reconstruction... Though if it ended up needing to be a Type 3, he'd only charge me for Type 1 [for reference: facialfeminization.surgery/index.php/forehead/ ]
But basically, he said I only need a Type 1 forehead reconstruction, not Type 3, because of where my brow bossing is
He measured my nose-to-lips and said I didn't need a lip lift. Dr. Bart simply rattles numbers off from his head, holds a ruler up.. I fell within female numbers anyway for the lip-to-nose distance. Something I've become increasingly LESS dysphoric of lately, as I look at more and more women through the eyes of one learning gendered skull structure knowledge.
He didn't want to do the cheek implants, just nasolabial ones. He said 4 implants has more infection chance than 2. Tho taking them out is rote and can be done locally. So why NOT get 4? Hmmm. [But the estimate came with cheek implants, and I ended up getting small ones, so hey! :)]
Sadly informed that something something lower orbital rim too far back compared to most people, not "abnormal" but uncommon means that something something something maybe that's why he only wanted the 2 implants [uh oh -- I got all 4 implants though. Sure wish I remember what that something something was]
He wasn't into wanting to do as aggressive of a jaw shave as I seemed to want, and ultimately it really wasn't that aggressive, and I wonder if I should have insisted on more, though I'm pretty happy with the results, and at the time of posting this (November 2018), swelling still hasn't gone down yet, to make a final judgment on just how happy I am with things. I'm fairly happy with the results so far. :)
Dr. Darm has practiced aesthetic medicine for the past 15 years, performing over 50,000 laser procedures. Previously, Dr. Darm was a board certified Emergency Medicine physician (ER doctor) with over 20 years experience. He graduated from Stanford University with a Bachelor of Science in Biology and a minor in Psychology. His medical training was obtained at OHSU.
Dr. Darm opened his private practice, Aesthetic Medicine, in 1995. Initially specializing in weight loss, he expanded to include hair removal and rosacea treatments in 1997. Since that time, new services have been added yearly to promote health, wellness and beauty. Dr. Darm has pioneered his own trademark procedure, LaserLift™ for the treatment of wrinkles, and LipoLift™ for the treatment of unwanted fat and cellulite. He is internationally recognized and sought out by patients from all over the world.
For more information log on www.drdarm.com.
KEYWORDS:
"Dr. Darm" "Aesthetic Medicine" "Medical spa Portland" "Day spa Portland" Lasers "Laser Treatments" "Skin clinic Portland" "Laser skin clinic Portland" "Laser liposuction Portland" "Laserlift Portland" "Laser lift Portland" "Lipo lift Portland" "Plastic surgeon Portland" "Dermatologist Portland" Esthetician "Board certified plastic surgeon" "Weight Loss Center Portland" "Medical Weight Management"
"Dr. Darm" "Aesthetic Medicine" Laserlift Lipolift "Laser Lipolysis" Velashape Mesoporation Mesoderm Slimlipo "Lipolift I" "Lipolift III" "Oregon Lipo" Lipo Liposuction "Cosmetic Surgery" "Portland Liposuction" "Laser Liposuction" "Body Sculpting" "Liposuction Portland" "Body Contouring" "Cosmetic Surgery Oregon" "Liposuction Surgeon" "Lipo Portland" "Plastic Surgeon" "Body Contour" "Affordable Liposuction" "Water Liposuction" "Water Lipo" "Board Certified Plastic Surgeon"
"Board Certified Plastic Surgery" "local plastic surgeon" "Liposuction Surgeon Portland" "Portland Liposuction Surgeon"
"Fat and Cellulite" Fat Cellulite "Orange peel" "Body Sculpting" "Lipolift I" "Lipolift III" "Lipolift trilogy" Mesoporation Mesoderm Mesotherapy Velashape Slimlipo "Laser Lipolysis" "Laser Liposuction" IPL "Laser surgery" "Laser surgery Portland" "Intense Pulsed Light"
"treatments of wrinkles" "Anti-aging" "Skin aging" "Age spots" "Age spots treatment" Botox Dysport Fillers Juvederm Restylane Laserlift "Skin resurfacing" "Laser skin resurfacing" "Chemical peel" "Chemical peeling" "Dermal fillers" Microdermabrasion Dermabrasion Photofacial Photorejuvenation Dermatologist Esthetician
"Skin Problems" "Laser skin" Acne "Acne vulgaris" "Acne scar treatment" "Acne cure" Moles "Skin tags" "Sun damage" "Dark circles" Rosacea Birthmarks Scars "Actinic keratosis" "Cosmetic laser" "Skin pigmentation treatment" "Stretch marks" Hyperpigmentation Hipopigmentation
"Hair Removal" "Hair Removal Portland, Oregon" "Laser hair" "Hair laser removal" "Hair laser removal Portland, Oregon" "Unwanted laser hair removal" "ELOS technology"
"Spider veins" "Spider veins treatment" "Spider veins before and after" "Varicose veins" "Vein therapy before and after" "Vein therapy" "Vein therapy Portland" Sclerotherapy "Sclerotherapy before and after" "Sclerotherapy Portland" "Radio Frequency"
"Weight Loss" "Medical weight management" "Medical weight loss program" "Low Calorie Diet program" "Healthy Solutions program" "Weight Loss before and after" "aesthetic medicine" "Dr. Darm" dietician nutritionist
"Facial Plastic Surgery" "Plastic Surgery Portland" "Plastic Surgery" "Plastic surgeries" "Plastic Surgeons"
"Face plastic surgery" Rhytidectomy Facelifts "Face lifts" Abdominoplasty "Tummy tuck" Rhinoplasty "Nose job" Otoplasty "Ear surgery" "Neck lift" "Cheek lift" Broplasty "Brow lifts" Blepharoplasty" "Eyelid surgery" "Reconstructive surgery" Microsurgery "Treatment of burns" "Breast implants" "Breast surgery" "Breast augmentations" "Breast reconstruction" "Boob job" Mammoplasty "Breast reduction" "Buttock augmentation" "Butt implant"
Dr. Darm has practiced aesthetic medicine for the past 15 years, performing over 50,000 laser procedures. Previously, Dr. Darm was a board certified Emergency Medicine physician (ER doctor) with over 20 years experience. He graduated from Stanford University with a Bachelor of Science in Biology and a minor in Psychology. His medical training was obtained at OHSU.
Dr. Darm opened his private practice, Aesthetic Medicine, in 1995. Initially specializing in weight loss, he expanded to include hair removal and rosacea treatments in 1997. Since that time, new services have been added yearly to promote health, wellness and beauty. Dr. Darm has pioneered his own trademark procedure, LaserLift™ for the treatment of wrinkles, and LipoLift™ for the treatment of unwanted fat and cellulite. He is internationally recognized and sought out by patients from all over the world.
For more information log on www.drdarm.com.
KEYWORDS:
"Dr. Darm" "Aesthetic Medicine" "Medical spa Portland" "Day spa Portland" Lasers "Laser Treatments" "Skin clinic Portland" "Laser skin clinic Portland" "Laser liposuction Portland" "Laserlift Portland" "Laser lift Portland" "Lipo lift Portland" "Plastic surgeon Portland" "Dermatologist Portland" Esthetician "Board certified plastic surgeon" "Weight Loss Center Portland" "Medical Weight Management"
"Dr. Darm" "Aesthetic Medicine" Laserlift Lipolift "Laser Lipolysis" Velashape Mesoporation Mesoderm Slimlipo "Lipolift I" "Lipolift III" "Oregon Lipo" Lipo Liposuction "Cosmetic Surgery" "Portland Liposuction" "Laser Liposuction" "Body Sculpting" "Liposuction Portland" "Body Contouring" "Cosmetic Surgery Oregon" "Liposuction Surgeon" "Lipo Portland" "Plastic Surgeon" "Body Contour" "Affordable Liposuction" "Water Liposuction" "Water Lipo" "Board Certified Plastic Surgeon"
"Board Certified Plastic Surgery" "local plastic surgeon" "Liposuction Surgeon Portland" "Portland Liposuction Surgeon"
"Fat and Cellulite" Fat Cellulite "Orange peel" "Body Sculpting" "Lipolift I" "Lipolift III" "Lipolift trilogy" Mesoporation Mesoderm Mesotherapy Velashape Slimlipo "Laser Lipolysis" "Laser Liposuction" IPL "Laser surgery" "Laser surgery Portland" "Intense Pulsed Light"
"treatments of wrinkles" "Anti-aging" "Skin aging" "Age spots" "Age spots treatment" Botox Dysport Fillers Juvederm Restylane Laserlift "Skin resurfacing" "Laser skin resurfacing" "Chemical peel" "Chemical peeling" "Dermal fillers" Microdermabrasion Dermabrasion Photofacial Photorejuvenation Dermatologist Esthetician
"Skin Problems" "Laser skin" Acne "Acne vulgaris" "Acne scar treatment" "Acne cure" Moles "Skin tags" "Sun damage" "Dark circles" Rosacea Birthmarks Scars "Actinic keratosis" "Cosmetic laser" "Skin pigmentation treatment" "Stretch marks" Hyperpigmentation Hipopigmentation
"Hair Removal" "Hair Removal Portland, Oregon" "Laser hair" "Hair laser removal" "Hair laser removal Portland, Oregon" "Unwanted laser hair removal" "ELOS technology"
"Spider veins" "Spider veins treatment" "Spider veins before and after" "Varicose veins" "Vein therapy before and after" "Vein therapy" "Vein therapy Portland" Sclerotherapy "Sclerotherapy before and after" "Sclerotherapy Portland" "Radio Frequency"
"Weight Loss" "Medical weight management" "Medical weight loss program" "Low Calorie Diet program" "Healthy Solutions program" "Weight Loss before and after" "aesthetic medicine" "Dr. Darm" dietician nutritionist
"Facial Plastic Surgery" "Plastic Surgery Portland" "Plastic Surgery" "Plastic surgeries" "Plastic Surgeons"
"Face plastic surgery" Rhytidectomy Facelifts "Face lifts" Abdominoplasty "Tummy tuck" Rhinoplasty "Nose job" Otoplasty "Ear surgery" "Neck lift" "Cheek lift" Broplasty "Brow lifts" Blepharoplasty" "Eyelid surgery" "Reconstructive surgery" Microsurgery "Treatment of burns" "Breast implants" "Breast surgery" "Breast augmentations" "Breast reconstruction" "Boob job" Mammoplasty "Breast reduction" "Buttock augmentation" "Butt implant"
[NOTE: Picture censored for Facebook/public consumption.]
We had a great time at Risque's Holi party at The Crucible! Good times.
Clio's Transition Progress at this point: On hormones since 8/1 (7 months); injections since 12/22 (2 months) [14 so far]. Full-time female since 9/15 (5.5 months). Publicly out as trans since 10/11 (4.5 months). Legally female since 12/21 (2.5 months). 3 group speech therapy classes taken at GW Speech Clinic (since 2/22). Plastic surgery consults continuing. Have seen endo/primary therapist 5X, and secondary therapists 9X. Weight down to 141lbs (56 down from 197). Hair removal includes 33 electrolysis treatments totaling 25 hours; 30 laser hair removal sessions (51 area treatments: 16/15/13/12/8 mouth/goatee/face/neck/armpits, 7 legs/chest, 6 ears/Brazilian); and bi-weekly at-home IPL on arms since 6/17 (8.5 months). Latisse for eyelash lengthening since 4/17 (10.5 months). 2 dental implants + Zoom Whitening. Pierced ears. Dyed/layered hair (no haircuts for 3yrs--since 1/2015). Twice daily hydroquinone treatment on leg hyperpigmentation since 2/14 (3 weeks), and it's peeling red now (looks awful). Female wardrobe replacement up to more than 656 items. Total transition expenditures over $17,400 at this point.
Carolyn, Clio, Natasha.
kissing, standing.
body paint, face paint, holographic collar, spirals.
censored. edited.
The Crucible, Washington D.C.
March 10, 2018.
Pic by John Holmes.
... Read my blog at clintjcl at wordpress dot com
... Read Carolyn's blog at CarolynCASL at wordpress dot com
Dr. Darm has practiced aesthetic medicine for the past 15 years, performing over 50,000 laser procedures. Previously, Dr. Darm was a board certified Emergency Medicine physician (ER doctor) with over 20 years experience. He graduated from Stanford University with a Bachelor of Science in Biology and a minor in Psychology. His medical training was obtained at OHSU.
Dr. Darm opened his private practice, Aesthetic Medicine, in 1995. Initially specializing in weight loss, he expanded to include hair removal and rosacea treatments in 1997. Since that time, new services have been added yearly to promote health, wellness and beauty. Dr. Darm has pioneered his own trademark procedure, LaserLift™ for the treatment of wrinkles, and LipoLift™ for the treatment of unwanted fat and cellulite. He is internationally recognized and sought out by patients from all over the world.
For more information log on www.drdarm.com.
KEYWORDS:
"Dr. Darm" "Aesthetic Medicine" "Medical spa Portland" "Day spa Portland" Lasers "Laser Treatments" "Skin clinic Portland" "Laser skin clinic Portland" "Laser liposuction Portland" "Laserlift Portland" "Laser lift Portland" "Lipo lift Portland" "Plastic surgeon Portland" "Dermatologist Portland" Esthetician "Board certified plastic surgeon" "Weight Loss Center Portland" "Medical Weight Management"
"Dr. Darm" "Aesthetic Medicine" Laserlift Lipolift "Laser Lipolysis" Velashape Mesoporation Mesoderm Slimlipo "Lipolift I" "Lipolift III" "Oregon Lipo" Lipo Liposuction "Cosmetic Surgery" "Portland Liposuction" "Laser Liposuction" "Body Sculpting" "Liposuction Portland" "Body Contouring" "Cosmetic Surgery Oregon" "Liposuction Surgeon" "Lipo Portland" "Plastic Surgeon" "Body Contour" "Affordable Liposuction" "Water Liposuction" "Water Lipo" "Board Certified Plastic Surgeon"
"Board Certified Plastic Surgery" "local plastic surgeon" "Liposuction Surgeon Portland" "Portland Liposuction Surgeon"
"Fat and Cellulite" Fat Cellulite "Orange peel" "Body Sculpting" "Lipolift I" "Lipolift III" "Lipolift trilogy" Mesoporation Mesoderm Mesotherapy Velashape Slimlipo "Laser Lipolysis" "Laser Liposuction" IPL "Laser surgery" "Laser surgery Portland" "Intense Pulsed Light"
"treatments of wrinkles" "Anti-aging" "Skin aging" "Age spots" "Age spots treatment" Botox Dysport Fillers Juvederm Restylane Laserlift "Skin resurfacing" "Laser skin resurfacing" "Chemical peel" "Chemical peeling" "Dermal fillers" Microdermabrasion Dermabrasion Photofacial Photorejuvenation Dermatologist Esthetician
"Skin Problems" "Laser skin" Acne "Acne vulgaris" "Acne scar treatment" "Acne cure" Moles "Skin tags" "Sun damage" "Dark circles" Rosacea Birthmarks Scars "Actinic keratosis" "Cosmetic laser" "Skin pigmentation treatment" "Stretch marks" Hyperpigmentation Hipopigmentation
"Hair Removal" "Hair Removal Portland, Oregon" "Laser hair" "Hair laser removal" "Hair laser removal Portland, Oregon" "Unwanted laser hair removal" "ELOS technology"
"Spider veins" "Spider veins treatment" "Spider veins before and after" "Varicose veins" "Vein therapy before and after" "Vein therapy" "Vein therapy Portland" Sclerotherapy "Sclerotherapy before and after" "Sclerotherapy Portland" "Radio Frequency"
"Weight Loss" "Medical weight management" "Medical weight loss program" "Low Calorie Diet program" "Healthy Solutions program" "Weight Loss before and after" "aesthetic medicine" "Dr. Darm" dietician nutritionist
"Facial Plastic Surgery" "Plastic Surgery Portland" "Plastic Surgery" "Plastic surgeries" "Plastic Surgeons"
"Face plastic surgery" Rhytidectomy Facelifts "Face lifts" Abdominoplasty "Tummy tuck" Rhinoplasty "Nose job" Otoplasty "Ear surgery" "Neck lift" "Cheek lift" Broplasty "Brow lifts" Blepharoplasty" "Eyelid surgery" "Reconstructive surgery" Microsurgery "Treatment of burns" "Breast implants" "Breast surgery" "Breast augmentations" "Breast reconstruction" "Boob job" Mammoplasty "Breast reduction" "Buttock augmentation" "Butt implant"
After the consultation, Clio had to kill some time in New York. About 2-3hrs hanging around the bus stop area, wherever this is. It was cold. She looked at the chrome poop in the middle of the square, ate tacos, drank margaritas, and toured the stupid gift shops full of stupid touristy stuff. (Bought one shotglass for $3.)
Transition Progress at this point: On hormones since 8/1 (7 months); injections since 12/22 (2 months) [13 so far]. Full-time female since 9/15 (5.5 months). Publicly out as trans since 10/11 (4.5 months). Legally female since 12/21 (2.5 months). 2 group speech therapy classes taken at GW Speech Clinic since 2/22. Plastic surgery consults continuing (5 for FFS, 3 for lipo). Have seen endo/primary therapist 5X, and secondary therapists 9X. Weight down to 143lbs (54 down from 197). Hair removal includes 32 electrolysis treatments totaling 25 hours; 30 laser hair removal sessions (51 area treatments: 16/15/13/12/8 mouth/goatee/face/neck/armpits, 7 legs/chest, 6 ears/Brazilian); and bi-weekly at-home IPL on arms since 6/17 (8.5 months). Latisse for eyelash lengthening since 4/17 (10.5 months). 2 dental implants, and prep work for Zoom Whitening For Life. Pierced ears. Dyed/layered hair (no haircuts for 3yrs--since 1/2015). Twice daily hydroquinone treatment on leg hyperpigmentation since 2/14 (2 weeks), and it's starting to peel red now (looks awful). Female wardrobe replacement wasup to 656 items. Total transition expenditures now over $17,400 at this point.
buildings, reflection, teardrop sculpture.
shiny. trans milestone.
Manhattan, New York City, New York.
March 4, 2018.
... Read my blog at clintjcl at wordpress dot com
BACKSTORY: I booked an FFS (Facial Feminization Surgery) consultation with Dr. Bart Van Der Ven of 2Pass Clinic (Belgium). I'm really glad I went, because this was the surgeon I ultimately chose to do the surgery on September 4th, 2018. Skype consults are a thing, but there's no substitute for sitting there next to a surgeon, as he holds a metal ruler to parts of your face. Or his photography equipment for the "before" pictures. I received my simulation videos on the bus back to Virginia!
THE PLAN WAS A BIT CRAZY, THOUGH: We go to the club, then when it close at 3AM, we go home, and Clio then drives to DC to get on a bus to New York, arriving around 9AM, then finding her way to the consultation by 11AM, and back to the bus by 2PM, and back home by 7PM. And then straight to bed until the next day.
TRIP IN SUMMARY:
Failed repeatedly to drive into the Union Station parking garage, or any parking garage. End result: panic, hastily chosen street parking, and 4:35AM running toward Union Station dark and alone in DC .. I barely had water for the trip cause I used it all to run
The Megabus wifi sucked, but it was enough to keep up with things. It was that other non-megabus-bus that I took back, that had the broken wifi that didn't work.
I got there with time to spare - completed my consultation before it was scheduled to start - and had to kill like 90+ minutes before I left, as well. So the schedule was tight, but fine. I saw the empty slots in his booking and knew there'd be nobody before me (unless they booked after I did), so I knew if I showed up early I'd probably earn some extra wiggle room
Uber ended up costing more and taking longer than a taxi, because they charge you if you don't get picked up because you can't see the fucking car even tho the app is showing it go down the street right there and you are reading every license plate and the fucker just isn't there when the app says he's there. $5 each time. ... so it was like $9 Uber $12 taxi but I paid like $19 Uber because it took 3 Ubers for them to pick me up... And I had to fuck around for like 15 minutes ... Time for credit card disputes.
But the Uber BACK to the bus went well
IT WAS A TOUGH TRIP, but I did not keel over, and really was only miserable the last 2 hrs of the last bus trip. Though I WAS under-dressed with a light jacket and no hat/scarf, I don't deal with cold well, and I'm not from New York, so there were definitely a lot of moments where everyone in NYC was acting like a normal person, and I was jogging in place like a crazy person, out of breath, just trying to stay warm. At one point I ducked into the subway and hung out in a pissy area near a unconscious homeless dude because he knew what the fuck was up about avoiding this cold. But eventually I had to go into gift shops because the piss smell of NYC's subways is pretty ubiquitous and overwhelming
Dr. Bart Van Der Ven of 2pass Clinic ( www.2pass.eu ) saw me. Hesaid I only need a Type 1 forehead reconstruction... Though if it ended up needing to be a Type 3, he'd only charge me for Type 1 [for reference: facialfeminization.surgery/index.php/forehead/ ]
But basically, he said I only need a Type 1 forehead reconstruction, not Type 3, because of where my brow bossing is
He measured my nose-to-lips and said I didn't need a lip lift. Dr. Bart simply rattles numbers off from his head, holds a ruler up.. I fell within female numbers anyway for the lip-to-nose distance. Something I've become increasingly LESS dysphoric of lately, as I look at more and more women through the eyes of one learning gendered skull structure knowledge.
He didn't want to do the cheek implants, just nasolabial ones. He said 4 implants has more infection chance than 2. Tho taking them out is rote and can be done locally. So why NOT get 4? Hmmm. [But the estimate came with cheek implants, and I ended up getting small ones, so hey! :)]
Sadly informed that something something lower orbital rim too far back compared to most people, not "abnormal" but uncommon means that something something something maybe that's why he only wanted the 2 implants [uh oh -- I got all 4 implants though. Sure wish I remember what that something something was]
He wasn't into wanting to do as aggressive of a jaw shave as I seemed to want, and ultimately it really wasn't that aggressive, and I wonder if I should have insisted on more, though I'm pretty happy with the results, and at the time of posting this (November 2018), swelling still hasn't gone down yet, to make a final judgment on just how happy I am with things. I'm fairly happy with the results so far. :)
After the consultation, Clio had to kill some time in New York. About 2-3hrs hanging around the bus stop area, wherever this is. It was cold. She looked at the chrome poop in the middle of the square, ate tacos, drank margaritas, and toured the stupid gift shops full of stupid touristy stuff. (Bought one shotglass for $3.)
Transition Progress at this point: On hormones since 8/1 (7 months); injections since 12/22 (2 months) [13 so far]. Full-time female since 9/15 (5.5 months). Publicly out as trans since 10/11 (4.5 months). Legally female since 12/21 (2.5 months). 2 group speech therapy classes taken at GW Speech Clinic since 2/22. Plastic surgery consults continuing (5 for FFS, 3 for lipo). Have seen endo/primary therapist 5X, and secondary therapists 9X. Weight down to 143lbs (54 down from 197). Hair removal includes 32 electrolysis treatments totaling 25 hours; 30 laser hair removal sessions (51 area treatments: 16/15/13/12/8 mouth/goatee/face/neck/armpits, 7 legs/chest, 6 ears/Brazilian); and bi-weekly at-home IPL on arms since 6/17 (8.5 months). Latisse for eyelash lengthening since 4/17 (10.5 months). 2 dental implants, and prep work for Zoom Whitening For Life. Pierced ears. Dyed/layered hair (no haircuts for 3yrs--since 1/2015). Twice daily hydroquinone treatment on leg hyperpigmentation since 2/14 (2 weeks), and it's starting to peel red now (looks awful). Female wardrobe replacement wasup to 656 items. Total transition expenditures now over $17,400 at this point.
walking.
PETA organization, advertisements, bicycles, billboards, reflection, street, teardrop sculpture.
naked. people. shiny. trans milestone.
Manhattan, New York City, New York.
March 4, 2018.
... Read my blog at clintjcl at wordpress dot com
BACKSTORY: I booked an FFS (Facial Feminization Surgery) consultation with Dr. Bart Van Der Ven of 2Pass Clinic (Belgium). I'm really glad I went, because this was the surgeon I ultimately chose to do the surgery on September 4th, 2018. Skype consults are a thing, but there's no substitute for sitting there next to a surgeon, as he holds a metal ruler to parts of your face. Or his photography equipment for the "before" pictures. I received my simulation videos on the bus back to Virginia!
THE PLAN WAS A BIT CRAZY, THOUGH: We go to the club, then when it close at 3AM, we go home, and Clio then drives to DC to get on a bus to New York, arriving around 9AM, then finding her way to the consultation by 11AM, and back to the bus by 2PM, and back home by 7PM. And then straight to bed until the next day.
TRIP IN SUMMARY:
Failed repeatedly to drive into the Union Station parking garage, or any parking garage. End result: panic, hastily chosen street parking, and 4:35AM running toward Union Station dark and alone in DC .. I barely had water for the trip cause I used it all to run
The Megabus wifi sucked, but it was enough to keep up with things. It was that other non-megabus-bus that I took back, that had the broken wifi that didn't work.
I got there with time to spare - completed my consultation before it was scheduled to start - and had to kill like 90+ minutes before I left, as well. So the schedule was tight, but fine. I saw the empty slots in his booking and knew there'd be nobody before me (unless they booked after I did), so I knew if I showed up early I'd probably earn some extra wiggle room
Uber ended up costing more and taking longer than a taxi, because they charge you if you don't get picked up because you can't see the fucking car even tho the app is showing it go down the street right there and you are reading every license plate and the fucker just isn't there when the app says he's there. $5 each time. ... so it was like $9 Uber $12 taxi but I paid like $19 Uber because it took 3 Ubers for them to pick me up... And I had to fuck around for like 15 minutes ... Time for credit card disputes.
But the Uber BACK to the bus went well
IT WAS A TOUGH TRIP, but I did not keel over, and really was only miserable the last 2 hrs of the last bus trip. Though I WAS under-dressed with a light jacket and no hat/scarf, I don't deal with cold well, and I'm not from New York, so there were definitely a lot of moments where everyone in NYC was acting like a normal person, and I was jogging in place like a crazy person, out of breath, just trying to stay warm. At one point I ducked into the subway and hung out in a pissy area near a unconscious homeless dude because he knew what the fuck was up about avoiding this cold. But eventually I had to go into gift shops because the piss smell of NYC's subways is pretty ubiquitous and overwhelming
Dr. Bart Van Der Ven of 2pass Clinic ( www.2pass.eu ) saw me. He said I only need a Type 1 forehead reconstruction... Though if it ended up needing to be a Type 3, he'd only charge me for Type 1 [for reference: facialfeminization.surgery/index.php/forehead/ ]
But basically, he said I only need a Type 1 forehead reconstruction, not Type 3, because of where my brow bossing is
He measured my nose-to-lips and said I didn't need a lip lift. Dr. Bart simply rattles numbers off from his head, holds a ruler up.. I fell within female numbers anyway for the lip-to-nose distance. Something I've become increasingly LESS dysphoric of lately, as I look at more and more women through the eyes of one learning gendered skull structure knowledge.
He didn't want to do the cheek implants, just nasolabial ones. He said 4 implants has more infection chance than 2. Tho taking them out is rote and can be done locally. So why NOT get 4? Hmmm. [But the estimate came with cheek implants, and I ended up getting small ones, so hey! :)]
Sadly informed that something something lower orbital rim too far back compared to most people, not "abnormal" but uncommon means that something something something maybe that's why he only wanted the 2 implants [uh oh -- I got all 4 implants though. Sure wish I remember what that something something was]
He wasn't into wanting to do as aggressive of a jaw shave as I seemed to want, and ultimately it really wasn't that aggressive, and I wonder if I should have insisted on more, though I'm pretty happy with the results, and at the time of posting this (November 2018), swelling still hasn't gone down yet, to make a final judgment on just how happy I am with things. I'm fairly happy with the results so far. :)
After the consultation, Clio had to kill some time in New York. About 2-3hrs hanging around the bus stop area, wherever this is. It was cold. She looked at the chrome poop in the middle of the square, ate tacos, drank margaritas, and toured the stupid gift shops full of stupid touristy stuff. (Bought one shotglass for $3.)
Transition Progress at this point: On hormones since 8/1 (7 months); injections since 12/22 (2 months) [13 so far]. Full-time female since 9/15 (5.5 months). Publicly out as trans since 10/11 (4.5 months). Legally female since 12/21 (2.5 months). 2 group speech therapy classes taken at GW Speech Clinic since 2/22. Plastic surgery consults continuing (5 for FFS, 3 for lipo). Have seen endo/primary therapist 5X, and secondary therapists 9X. Weight down to 143lbs (54 down from 197). Hair removal includes 32 electrolysis treatments totaling 25 hours; 30 laser hair removal sessions (51 area treatments: 16/15/13/12/8 mouth/goatee/face/neck/armpits, 7 legs/chest, 6 ears/Brazilian); and bi-weekly at-home IPL on arms since 6/17 (8.5 months). Latisse for eyelash lengthening since 4/17 (10.5 months). 2 dental implants, and prep work for Zoom Whitening For Life. Pierced ears. Dyed/layered hair (no haircuts for 3yrs--since 1/2015). Twice daily hydroquinone treatment on leg hyperpigmentation since 2/14 (2 weeks), and it's starting to peel red now (looks awful). Female wardrobe replacement wasup to 656 items. Total transition expenditures now over $17,400 at this point.
Clio.
taking picture.
buildings, cell phone, reflection, teardrop sculpture.
shiny. trans milestone.
Manhattan, New York City, New York.
March 4, 2018.
... Read my blog at clintjcl at wordpress dot com
BACKSTORY: I booked an FFS (Facial Feminization Surgery) consultation with Dr. Bart Van Der Ven of 2Pass Clinic (Belgium). I'm really glad I went, because this was the surgeon I ultimately chose to do the surgery on September 4th, 2018. Skype consults are a thing, but there's no substitute for sitting there next to a surgeon, as he holds a metal ruler to parts of your face. Or his photography equipment for the "before" pictures. I received my simulation videos on the bus back to Virginia!
THE PLAN WAS A BIT CRAZY, THOUGH: We go to the club, then when it close at 3AM, we go home, and Clio then drives to DC to get on a bus to New York, arriving around 9AM, then finding her way to the consultation by 11AM, and back to the bus by 2PM, and back home by 7PM. And then straight to bed until the next day.
TRIP IN SUMMARY:
Failed repeatedly to drive into the Union Station parking garage, or any parking garage. End result: panic, hastily chosen street parking, and 4:35AM running toward Union Station dark and alone in DC .. I barely had water for the trip cause I used it all to run
The Megabus wifi sucked, but it was enough to keep up with things. It was that other non-megabus-bus that I took back, that had the broken wifi that didn't work.
I got there with time to spare - completed my consultation before it was scheduled to start - and had to kill like 90+ minutes before I left, as well. So the schedule was tight, but fine. I saw the empty slots in his booking and knew there'd be nobody before me (unless they booked after I did), so I knew if I showed up early I'd probably earn some extra wiggle room
Uber ended up costing more and taking longer than a taxi, because they charge you if you don't get picked up because you can't see the fucking car even tho the app is showing it go down the street right there and you are reading every license plate and the fucker just isn't there when the app says he's there. $5 each time. ... so it was like $9 Uber $12 taxi but I paid like $19 Uber because it took 3 Ubers for them to pick me up... And I had to fuck around for like 15 minutes ... Time for credit card disputes.
But the Uber BACK to the bus went well
IT WAS A TOUGH TRIP, but I did not keelover, and really was only miserable the last 2 hrs of the last bus trip. Though I WAS under-dressed with a light jacket and no hat/scarf, I don't deal with cold well, and I'm not from New York, so there were definitely a lot of moments where everyone in NYC was acting like a normal person, and I was jogging in place like a crazy person, out of breath, just trying to stay warm. At one point I ducked into the subway and hung out in a pissy area near a unconscious homeless dude because he knew what the fuck was up about avoiding this cold. But eventually I had to go into gift shops because the piss smell of NYC's subways is pretty ubiquitous and overwhelming
Dr. Bart Van Der Ven of 2pass Clinic ( www.2pass.eu ) saw me. He said I only need a Type 1 forehead reconstruction... Though if it ended up needing to be a Type 3, he'd only charge me for Type 1 [for reference: facialfeminization.surgery/index.php/forehead/ ]
But basically, he said I only need a Type 1 forehead reconstruction, not Type 3, because of where my brow bossing is
He measured my nose-to-lips and said I didn't need a lip lift. Dr. Bart simply rattles numbers off from his head, holds a ruler up.. I fell within female numbers anyway for the lip-to-nose distance. Something I've become increasingly LESS dysphoric of lately, as I look at more and more women through the eyes of one learning gendered skull structure knowledge.
He didn't want to do the cheek implants, just nasolabial ones. He said 4 implants has more infection chance than 2. Tho taking them out is rote and can be done locally. So why NOT get 4? Hmmm. [But the estimate came with cheek implants, and I ended up getting small ones, so hey! :)]
Sadly informed that something something lower orbital rim too far back compared to most people, not "abnormal" but uncommon means that something something something maybe that's why he only wanted the 2 implants [uh oh -- I got all 4 implants though. Sure wish I remember what that something something was]
He wasn't into wanting to do as aggressive of a jaw shave as I seemed to want, and ultimately it really wasn't that aggressive, and I wonder if I should have insisted on more, though I'm pretty happy with the results, and at the time of posting this (November 2018), swelling still hasn't gone down yet, to make a final judgment on just how happy I am with things. I'm fairly happy with the results so far. :)
Carolyn posted on Facebook about a conversation between her brain and her bladder because her co-worker mentioned that she had to run to the ladies room. This video is Clio's response to that post. Basically complaining about making HER need to pee.
Transition Progress at this point: On hormones since 8/1 (7 months); injections since 12/22 (2 months) [14 so far]. Full-time female since 9/15 (5.5 months). Publicly out as trans since 10/11 (4.5 months). Legally female since 12/21 (2.5 months). 3 group speech therapy classes taken at GW Speech Clinic (since 2/22). Plastic surgery consults continuing. Have seen endo/primary therapist 5X, and secondary therapists 9X. Weight down to 141lbs (56 down from 197). Hair removal includes 33 electrolysis treatments totaling 25 hours; 30 laser hair removal sessions (51 area treatments: 16 mouth, 15/13/12/8 goatee/face/neck/armpits, 7 legs/chest, 6 ears/Brazilian); and bi-weekly at-home IPL on arms since 6/17 (8.5 months). Latisse for eyelash lengthening since 4/17 (10.5 months). 2 dental implants + Zoom Whitening. Pierced ears. Dyed/layered hair (no haircuts for 3yrs--since 1/2015). Twice daily hydroquinone treatment on leg hyperpigmentation since 2/14 (3 weeks), and it's peeling red now (looks awful). Female wardrobe replacement up to more than 656 items. Total transition expenditures now over $17,400 at this point.
Clio.
peeing, talking.
car.
driveway, Clio and Carolyn's house, Alexandria, Virginia.
March 14, 2018.
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Dr. Darm has practiced aesthetic medicine for the past 15 years, performing over 50,000 laser procedures. Previously, Dr. Darm was a board certified Emergency Medicine physician (ER doctor) with over 20 years experience. He graduated from Stanford University with a Bachelor of Science in Biology and a minor in Psychology. His medical training was obtained at OHSU.
Dr. Darm opened his private practice, Aesthetic Medicine, in 1995. Initially specializing in weight loss, he expanded to include hair removal and rosacea treatments in 1997. Since that time, new services have been added yearly to promote health, wellness and beauty. Dr. Darm has pioneered his own trademark procedure, LaserLift™ for the treatment of wrinkles, and LipoLift™ for the treatment of unwanted fat and cellulite. He is internationally recognized and sought out by patients from all over the world.
For more information log on www.drdarm.com.
KEYWORDS:
"Dr. Darm" "Aesthetic Medicine" "Medical spa Portland" "Day spa Portland" Lasers "Laser Treatments" "Skin clinic Portland" "Laser skin clinic Portland" "Laser liposuction Portland" "Laserlift Portland" "Laser lift Portland" "Lipo lift Portland" "Plastic surgeon Portland" "Dermatologist Portland" Esthetician "Board certified plastic surgeon" "Weight Loss Center Portland" "Medical Weight Management"
"Dr. Darm" "Aesthetic Medicine" Laserlift Lipolift "Laser Lipolysis" Velashape Mesoporation Mesoderm Slimlipo "Lipolift I" "Lipolift III" "Oregon Lipo" Lipo Liposuction "Cosmetic Surgery" "Portland Liposuction" "Laser Liposuction" "Body Sculpting" "Liposuction Portland" "Body Contouring" "Cosmetic Surgery Oregon" "Liposuction Surgeon" "Lipo Portland" "Plastic Surgeon" "Body Contour" "Affordable Liposuction" "Water Liposuction" "Water Lipo" "Board Certified Plastic Surgeon"
"Board Certified Plastic Surgery" "local plastic surgeon" "Liposuction Surgeon Portland" "Portland Liposuction Surgeon"
"Fat and Cellulite" Fat Cellulite "Orange peel" "Body Sculpting" "Lipolift I" "Lipolift III" "Lipolift trilogy" Mesoporation Mesoderm Mesotherapy Velashape Slimlipo "Laser Lipolysis" "Laser Liposuction" IPL "Laser surgery" "Laser surgery Portland" "Intense Pulsed Light"
"treatments of wrinkles" "Anti-aging" "Skin aging" "Age spots" "Age spots treatment" Botox Dysport Fillers Juvederm Restylane Laserlift "Skin resurfacing" "Laser skin resurfacing" "Chemical peel" "Chemical peeling" "Dermal fillers" Microdermabrasion Dermabrasion Photofacial Photorejuvenation Dermatologist Esthetician
"Skin Problems" "Laser skin" Acne "Acne vulgaris" "Acne scar treatment" "Acne cure" Moles "Skin tags" "Sun damage" "Dark circles" Rosacea Birthmarks Scars "Actinic keratosis" "Cosmetic laser" "Skin pigmentation treatment" "Stretch marks" Hyperpigmentation Hipopigmentation
"Hair Removal" "Hair Removal Portland, Oregon" "Laser hair" "Hair laser removal" "Hair laser removal Portland, Oregon" "Unwanted laser hair removal" "ELOS technology"
"Spider veins" "Spider veins treatment" "Spider veins before and after" "Varicose veins" "Vein therapy before and after" "Vein therapy" "Vein therapy Portland" Sclerotherapy "Sclerotherapy before and after" "Sclerotherapy Portland" "Radio Frequency"
"Weight Loss" "Medical weight management" "Medical weight loss program" "Low Calorie Diet program" "Healthy Solutions program" "Weight Loss before and after" "aesthetic medicine" "Dr. Darm" dietician nutritionist
"Facial Plastic Surgery" "Plastic Surgery Portland" "Plastic Surgery" "Plastic surgeries" "Plastic Surgeons"
"Face plastic surgery" Rhytidectomy Facelifts "Face lifts" Abdominoplasty "Tummy tuck" Rhinoplasty "Nose job" Otoplasty "Ear surgery" "Neck lift" "Cheek lift" Broplasty "Brow lifts" Blepharoplasty" "Eyelid surgery" "Reconstructive surgery" Microsurgery "Treatment of burns" "Breast implants" "Breast surgery" "Breast augmentations" "Breast reconstruction" "Boob job" Mammoplasty "Breast reduction" "Buttock augmentation" "Butt implant"
Dr. Darm has practiced aesthetic medicine for the past 15 years, performing over 50,000 laser procedures. Previously, Dr. Darm was a board certified Emergency Medicine physician (ER doctor) with over 20 years experience. He graduated from Stanford University with a Bachelor of Science in Biology and a minor in Psychology. His medical training was obtained at OHSU.
Dr. Darm opened his private practice, Aesthetic Medicine, in 1995. Initially specializing in weight loss, he expanded to include hair removal and rosacea treatments in 1997. Since that time, new services have been added yearly to promote health, wellness and beauty. Dr. Darm has pioneered his own trademark procedure, LaserLift™ for the treatment of wrinkles, and LipoLift™ for the treatment of unwanted fat and cellulite. He is internationally recognized and sought out by patients from all over the world.
For more information log on www.drdarm.com.
KEYWORDS:
"Dr. Darm" "Aesthetic Medicine" "Medical spa Portland" "Day spa Portland" Lasers "Laser Treatments" "Skin clinic Portland" "Laser skin clinic Portland" "Laser liposuction Portland" "Laserlift Portland" "Laser lift Portland" "Lipo lift Portland" "Plastic surgeon Portland" "Dermatologist Portland" Esthetician "Board certified plastic surgeon" "Weight Loss Center Portland" "Medical Weight Management"
"Dr. Darm" "Aesthetic Medicine" Laserlift Lipolift "Laser Lipolysis" Velashape Mesoporation Mesoderm Slimlipo "Lipolift I" "Lipolift III" "Oregon Lipo" Lipo Liposuction "Cosmetic Surgery" "Portland Liposuction" "Laser Liposuction" "Body Sculpting" "Liposuction Portland" "Body Contouring" "Cosmetic Surgery Oregon" "Liposuction Surgeon" "Lipo Portland" "Plastic Surgeon" "Body Contour" "Affordable Liposuction" "Water Liposuction" "Water Lipo" "Board Certified Plastic Surgeon"
"Board Certified Plastic Surgery" "local plastic surgeon" "Liposuction Surgeon Portland" "Portland Liposuction Surgeon"
"Fat and Cellulite" Fat Cellulite "Orange peel" "Body Sculpting" "Lipolift I" "Lipolift III" "Lipolift trilogy" Mesoporation Mesoderm Mesotherapy Velashape Slimlipo "Laser Lipolysis" "Laser Liposuction" IPL "Laser surgery" "Laser surgery Portland" "Intense Pulsed Light"
"treatments of wrinkles" "Anti-aging" "Skin aging" "Age spots" "Age spots treatment" Botox Dysport Fillers Juvederm Restylane Laserlift "Skin resurfacing" "Laser skin resurfacing" "Chemical peel" "Chemical peeling" "Dermal fillers" Microdermabrasion Dermabrasion Photofacial Photorejuvenation Dermatologist Esthetician
"Skin Problems" "Laser skin" Acne "Acne vulgaris" "Acne scar treatment" "Acne cure" Moles "Skin tags" "Sun damage" "Dark circles" Rosacea Birthmarks Scars "Actinic keratosis" "Cosmetic laser" "Skin pigmentation treatment" "Stretch marks" Hyperpigmentation Hipopigmentation
"Hair Removal" "Hair Removal Portland, Oregon" "Laser hair" "Hair laser removal" "Hair laser removal Portland, Oregon" "Unwanted laser hair removal" "ELOS technology"
"Spider veins" "Spider veins treatment" "Spider veins before and after" "Varicose veins" "Vein therapy before and after" "Vein therapy" "Vein therapy Portland" Sclerotherapy "Sclerotherapy before and after" "Sclerotherapy Portland" "Radio Frequency"
"Weight Loss" "Medical weight management" "Medical weight loss program" "Low Calorie Diet program" "Healthy Solutions program" "Weight Loss before and after" "aesthetic medicine" "Dr. Darm" dietician nutritionist
"Facial Plastic Surgery" "Plastic Surgery Portland" "Plastic Surgery" "Plastic surgeries" "Plastic Surgeons"
"Face plastic surgery" Rhytidectomy Facelifts "Face lifts" Abdominoplasty "Tummy tuck" Rhinoplasty "Nose job" Otoplasty "Ear surgery" "Neck lift" "Cheek lift" Broplasty "Brow lifts" Blepharoplasty" "Eyelid surgery" "Reconstructive surgery" Microsurgery "Treatment of burns" "Breast implants" "Breast surgery" "Breast augmentations" "Breast reconstruction" "Boob job" Mammoplasty "Breast reduction" "Buttock augmentation" "Butt implant"
Dr. Darm has practiced aesthetic medicine for the past 15 years, performing over 50,000 laser procedures. Previously, Dr. Darm was a board certified Emergency Medicine physician (ER doctor) with over 20 years experience. He graduated from Stanford University with a Bachelor of Science in Biology and a minor in Psychology. His medical training was obtained at OHSU.
Dr. Darm opened his private practice, Aesthetic Medicine, in 1995. Initially specializing in weight loss, he expanded to include hair removal and rosacea treatments in 1997. Since that time, new services have been added yearly to promote health, wellness and beauty. Dr. Darm has pioneered his own trademark procedure, LaserLift™ for the treatment of wrinkles, and LipoLift™ for the treatment of unwanted fat and cellulite. He is internationally recognized and sought out by patients from all over the world.
For more information log on www.drdarm.com.
KEYWORDS:
"Dr. Darm" "Aesthetic Medicine" "Medical spa Portland" "Day spa Portland" Lasers "Laser Treatments" "Skin clinic Portland" "Laser skin clinic Portland" "Laser liposuction Portland" "Laserlift Portland" "Laser lift Portland" "Lipo lift Portland" "Plastic surgeon Portland" "Dermatologist Portland" Esthetician "Board certified plastic surgeon" "Weight Loss Center Portland" "Medical Weight Management"
"Dr. Darm" "Aesthetic Medicine" Laserlift Lipolift "Laser Lipolysis" Velashape Mesoporation Mesoderm Slimlipo "Lipolift I" "Lipolift III" "Oregon Lipo" Lipo Liposuction "Cosmetic Surgery" "Portland Liposuction" "Laser Liposuction" "Body Sculpting" "Liposuction Portland" "Body Contouring" "Cosmetic Surgery Oregon" "Liposuction Surgeon" "Lipo Portland" "Plastic Surgeon" "Body Contour" "Affordable Liposuction" "Water Liposuction" "Water Lipo" "Board Certified Plastic Surgeon"
"Board Certified Plastic Surgery" "local plastic surgeon" "Liposuction Surgeon Portland" "Portland Liposuction Surgeon"
"Fat and Cellulite" Fat Cellulite "Orange peel" "Body Sculpting" "Lipolift I" "Lipolift III" "Lipolift trilogy" Mesoporation Mesoderm Mesotherapy Velashape Slimlipo "Laser Lipolysis" "Laser Liposuction" IPL "Laser surgery" "Laser surgery Portland" "Intense Pulsed Light"
"treatments of wrinkles" "Anti-aging" "Skin aging" "Age spots" "Age spots treatment" Botox Dysport Fillers Juvederm Restylane Laserlift "Skin resurfacing" "Laser skin resurfacing" "Chemical peel" "Chemical peeling" "Dermal fillers" Microdermabrasion Dermabrasion Photofacial Photorejuvenation Dermatologist Esthetician
"Skin Problems" "Laser skin" Acne "Acne vulgaris" "Acne scar treatment" "Acne cure" Moles "Skin tags" "Sun damage" "Dark circles" Rosacea Birthmarks Scars "Actinic keratosis" "Cosmetic laser" "Skin pigmentation treatment" "Stretch marks" Hyperpigmentation Hipopigmentation
"Hair Removal" "Hair Removal Portland, Oregon" "Laser hair" "Hair laser removal" "Hair laser removal Portland, Oregon" "Unwanted laser hair removal" "ELOS technology"
"Spider veins" "Spider veins treatment" "Spider veins before and after" "Varicose veins" "Vein therapy before and after" "Vein therapy" "Vein therapy Portland" Sclerotherapy "Sclerotherapy before and after" "Sclerotherapy Portland" "Radio Frequency"
"Weight Loss" "Medical weight management" "Medical weight loss program" "Low Calorie Diet program" "Healthy Solutions program" "Weight Loss before and after" "aesthetic medicine" "Dr. Darm" dietician nutritionist
"Facial Plastic Surgery" "Plastic Surgery Portland" "Plastic Surgery" "Plastic surgeries" "Plastic Surgeons"
"Face plastic surgery" Rhytidectomy Facelifts "Face lifts" Abdominoplasty "Tummy tuck" Rhinoplasty "Nose job" Otoplasty "Ear surgery" "Neck lift" "Cheek lift" Broplasty "Brow lifts" Blepharoplasty" "Eyelid surgery" "Reconstructive surgery" Microsurgery "Treatment of burns" "Breast implants" "Breast surgery" "Breast augmentations" "Breast reconstruction" "Boob job" Mammoplasty "Breast reduction" "Buttock augmentation" "Butt implant"
Dr. Darm has practiced aesthetic medicine for the past 15 years, performing over 50,000 laser procedures. Previously, Dr. Darm was a board certified Emergency Medicine physician (ER doctor) with over 20 years experience. He graduated from Stanford University with a Bachelor of Science in Biology and a minor in Psychology. His medical training was obtained at OHSU.
Dr. Darm opened his private practice, Aesthetic Medicine, in 1995. Initially specializing in weight loss, he expanded to include hair removal and rosacea treatments in 1997. Since that time, new services have been added yearly to promote health, wellness and beauty. Dr. Darm has pioneered his own trademark procedure, LaserLift™ for the treatment of wrinkles, and LipoLift™ for the treatment of unwanted fat and cellulite. He is internationally recognized and sought out by patients from all over the world.
For more information log on www.drdarm.com.
KEYWORDS:
"Dr. Darm" "Aesthetic Medicine" "Medical spa Portland" "Day spa Portland" Lasers "Laser Treatments" "Skin clinic Portland" "Laser skin clinic Portland" "Laser liposuction Portland" "Laserlift Portland" "Laser lift Portland" "Lipo lift Portland" "Plastic surgeon Portland" "Dermatologist Portland" Esthetician "Board certified plastic surgeon" "Weight Loss Center Portland" "Medical Weight Management"
"Dr. Darm" "Aesthetic Medicine" Laserlift Lipolift "Laser Lipolysis" Velashape Mesoporation Mesoderm Slimlipo "Lipolift I" "Lipolift III" "Oregon Lipo" Lipo Liposuction "Cosmetic Surgery" "Portland Liposuction" "Laser Liposuction" "Body Sculpting" "Liposuction Portland" "Body Contouring" "Cosmetic Surgery Oregon" "Liposuction Surgeon" "Lipo Portland" "Plastic Surgeon" "Body Contour" "Affordable Liposuction" "Water Liposuction" "Water Lipo" "Board Certified Plastic Surgeon"
"Board Certified Plastic Surgery" "local plastic surgeon" "Liposuction Surgeon Portland" "Portland Liposuction Surgeon"
"Fat and Cellulite" Fat Cellulite "Orange peel" "Body Sculpting" "Lipolift I" "Lipolift III" "Lipolift trilogy" Mesoporation Mesoderm Mesotherapy Velashape Slimlipo "Laser Lipolysis" "Laser Liposuction" IPL "Laser surgery" "Laser surgery Portland" "Intense Pulsed Light"
"treatments of wrinkles" "Anti-aging" "Skin aging" "Age spots" "Age spots treatment" Botox Dysport Fillers Juvederm Restylane Laserlift "Skin resurfacing" "Laser skin resurfacing" "Chemical peel" "Chemical peeling" "Dermal fillers" Microdermabrasion Dermabrasion Photofacial Photorejuvenation Dermatologist Esthetician
"Skin Problems" "Laser skin" Acne "Acne vulgaris" "Acne scar treatment" "Acne cure" Moles "Skin tags" "Sun damage" "Dark circles" Rosacea Birthmarks Scars "Actinic keratosis" "Cosmetic laser" "Skin pigmentation treatment" "Stretch marks" Hyperpigmentation Hipopigmentation
"Hair Removal" "Hair Removal Portland, Oregon" "Laser hair" "Hair laser removal" "Hair laser removal Portland, Oregon" "Unwanted laser hair removal" "ELOS technology"
"Spider veins" "Spider veins treatment" "Spider veins before and after" "Varicose veins" "Vein therapy before and after" "Vein therapy" "Vein therapy Portland" Sclerotherapy "Sclerotherapy before and after" "Sclerotherapy Portland" "Radio Frequency"
"Weight Loss" "Medical weight management" "Medical weight loss program" "Low Calorie Diet program" "Healthy Solutions program" "Weight Loss before and after" "aesthetic medicine" "Dr. Darm" dietician nutritionist
"Facial Plastic Surgery" "Plastic Surgery Portland" "Plastic Surgery" "Plastic surgeries" "Plastic Surgeons"
"Face plastic surgery" Rhytidectomy Facelifts "Face lifts" Abdominoplasty "Tummy tuck" Rhinoplasty "Nose job" Otoplasty "Ear surgery" "Neck lift" "Cheek lift" Broplasty "Brow lifts" Blepharoplasty" "Eyelid surgery" "Reconstructive surgery" Microsurgery "Treatment of burns" "Breast implants" "Breast surgery" "Breast augmentations" "Breast reconstruction" "Boob job" Mammoplasty "Breast reduction" "Buttock augmentation" "Butt implant"
Still trying to kill 2-3hrs time, without leaving the bus stop area, Clio had no choice but to eat and drink. Clio ate 3 exotic tacos: ahi tuna, seared tofu, and a vegan one. They were all good. Even the vegan one. Clio had an apple-garlic-ginger martini that was SUPER spicy - and a turmeric-pineapple martini that wasn't spicy enough, but was interesting to sample. Tourist trap!!
Transition Progress at this point: On hormones since 8/1 (7 months); injections since 12/22 (2 months) [13 so far]. Full-time female since 9/15 (5.5 months). Publicly out as trans since 10/11 (4.5 months). Legally female since 12/21 (2.5 months). 2 group speech therapy classes taken at GW Speech Clinic since 2/22. Plastic surgery consults continuing (5 for FFS, 3 for lipo). Have seen endo/primary therapist 5X, and secondary therapists 9X. Weight down to 143lbs (54 down from 197). Hair removal includes 32 electrolysis treatments totaling 25 hours; 30 laser hair removal sessions (51 area treatments: 16/15/13/12/8 mouth/goatee/face/neck/armpits, 7 legs/chest, 6 ears/Brazilian); and bi-weekly at-home IPL on arms since 6/17 (8.5 months). Latisse for eyelash lengthening since 4/17 (10.5 months). 2 dental implants, and prep work for Zoom Whitening For Life. Pierced ears. Dyed/layered hair (no haircuts for 3yrs--since 1/2015). Twice daily hydroquinone treatment on leg hyperpigmentation since 2/14 (2 weeks), and it's starting to peel red now (looks awful). Female wardrobe replacement wasup to 656 items. Total transition expenditures now over $17,400 at this point.
margarita, tacos.
trans milestone.
Taco Dumbo, restaurant, Manhattan, New York City, New York.
March 4, 2018.
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BACKSTORY: I booked an FFS (Facial Feminization Surgery) consultation with Dr. Bart Van Der Ven of 2Pass Clinic (Belgium). I'm really glad I went, because this was the surgeon I ultimately chose to do the surgery on September 4th, 2018. Skype consults are a thing, but there's no substitute for sitting there next to a surgeon, as he holds a metal ruler to parts of your face. Or his photography equipment for the "before" pictures. I received my simulation videos on the bus back to Virginia!
THE PLAN WAS A BIT CRAZY, THOUGH: We go to the club, then when it close at 3AM, we go home, and Clio then drives to DC to get on a bus to New York, arriving around 9AM, then finding her way to the consultation by 11AM, and back to the bus by 2PM, and back home by 7PM. And then straight to bed until the next day.
TRIP IN SUMMARY:
Failed repeatedly to drive into the Union Station parking garage, or any parking garage. End result: panic, hastily chosen street parking, and 4:35AM running toward Union Station dark and alone in DC .. I barely had water for the trip cause I used it all to run
The Megabus wifi sucked, but it was enough to keep up with things. It was that other non-megabus-bus that I took back, that had the broken wifi that didn't work.
I got there with time to spare - completed my consultation before it was scheduled to start - and had to kill like 90+ minutes before I left, as well. So the schedule was tight, but fine. I saw the empty slots in his booking and knew there'd be nobody before me (unless they booked after I did), so I knew if I showed up early I'd probably earn some extra wiggle room
Uber ended up costing more and taking longer than a taxi, because they charge you if you don't get picked up because you can't see the fucking car even tho the app is showing it go down the street right there and you are reading every license plate and the fucker just isn't there when the app says he's there. $5 each time. ... so it was like $9 Uber $12 taxi but I paid like $19 Uber because it took 3 Ubers for them to pick me up... And I had to fuck around for like 15 minutes ... Time for credit card disputes.
But the Uber BACK to the bus went well
IT WAS A TOUGH TRIP, but I did not keel over, and really was only miserable the last 2 hrs of the last bus trip. Though I WAS under-dressed with a light jacket and no hat/scarf, I don't deal with cold well, and I'm not from New York, so there were definitely a lot of moments where everyone in NYC was acting like a normal person, and I was jogging in place like a crazy person, out of breath, just trying to stay warm. At one point I ducked into the subway and hung out in a pissy area near a unconscious homeless dude because he knew what the fuck was up about avoiding this cold. But eventually I had to go into gift shops because the piss smell of NYC's subways is pretty ubiquitous and overwhelming
Dr. Bart Van Der Ven of 2pass Clinic ( www.2pass.eu ) saw me. He said I only need a Type 1 forehead reconstruction... Though if it ended up needing to be a Type 3, he'd only charge me for Type 1 [for reference: facialfeminization.surgery/index.php/forehead/ ]
But basically, he said I only need a Type 1 forehead reconstruction, not Type 3, because of where my brow bossing is
He measured my nose-to-lips and said I didn't need a lip lift. Dr. Bart simply rattles numbers off from his head, holds a ruler up.. I fell within female numbers anyway for the lip-to-nose distance. Something I've become increasingly LESS dysphoric of lately, as I look at more and more women through the eyes of one learning gendered skull structure knowledge.
He didn't want to do the cheek implants, just nasolabial ones. He said 4 implants has more infection chance than 2. Tho taking them out is rote and can be done locally. So why NOT get 4? Hmmm. [But the estimate came with cheek implants, and I ended up getting small ones, so hey! :)]
Sadly informed that something something lower orbital rim too far back compared to most people, not "abnormal" but uncommon means that something something something maybe that's why he only wanted the 2 implants [uh oh -- I got all 4 implants though. Sure wish I remember what that something something was]
He wasn't into wanting to do as aggressive of a jaw shave as I seemed to want, and ultimately it really wasn't that aggressive, and I wonder if I should have insisted on more, though I'm pretty happy with the results, and at the time of posting this (November 2018), swelling still hasn't gone down yet, to make a final judgment on just how happy I am with things. I'm fairly happy with the results so far. :)
Dr. Darm has practiced aesthetic medicine for the past 15 years, performing over 50,000 laser procedures. Previously, Dr. Darm was a board certified Emergency Medicine physician (ER doctor) with over 20 years experience. He graduated from Stanford University with a Bachelor of Science in Biology and a minor in Psychology. His medical training was obtained at OHSU.
Dr. Darm opened his private practice, Aesthetic Medicine, in 1995. Initially specializing in weight loss, he expanded to include hair removal and rosacea treatments in 1997. Since that time, new services have been added yearly to promote health, wellness and beauty. Dr. Darm has pioneered his own trademark procedure, LaserLift™ for the treatment of wrinkles, and LipoLift™ for the treatment of unwanted fat and cellulite. He is internationally recognized and sought out by patients from all over the world.
For more information log on www.drdarm.com.
KEYWORDS:
"Dr. Darm" "Aesthetic Medicine" "Medical spa Portland" "Day spa Portland" Lasers "Laser Treatments" "Skin clinic Portland" "Laser skin clinic Portland" "Laser liposuction Portland" "Laserlift Portland" "Laser lift Portland" "Lipo lift Portland" "Plastic surgeon Portland" "Dermatologist Portland" Esthetician "Board certified plastic surgeon" "Weight Loss Center Portland" "Medical Weight Management"
"Dr. Darm" "Aesthetic Medicine" Laserlift Lipolift "Laser Lipolysis" Velashape Mesoporation Mesoderm Slimlipo "Lipolift I" "Lipolift III" "Oregon Lipo" Lipo Liposuction "Cosmetic Surgery" "Portland Liposuction" "Laser Liposuction" "Body Sculpting" "Liposuction Portland" "Body Contouring" "Cosmetic Surgery Oregon" "Liposuction Surgeon" "Lipo Portland" "Plastic Surgeon" "Body Contour" "Affordable Liposuction" "Water Liposuction" "Water Lipo" "Board Certified Plastic Surgeon"
"Board Certified Plastic Surgery" "local plastic surgeon" "Liposuction Surgeon Portland" "Portland Liposuction Surgeon"
"Fat and Cellulite" Fat Cellulite "Orange peel" "Body Sculpting" "Lipolift I" "Lipolift III" "Lipolift trilogy" Mesoporation Mesoderm Mesotherapy Velashape Slimlipo "Laser Lipolysis" "Laser Liposuction" IPL "Laser surgery" "Laser surgery Portland" "Intense Pulsed Light"
"treatments of wrinkles" "Anti-aging" "Skin aging" "Age spots" "Age spots treatment" Botox Dysport Fillers Juvederm Restylane Laserlift "Skin resurfacing" "Laser skin resurfacing" "Chemical peel" "Chemical peeling" "Dermal fillers" Microdermabrasion Dermabrasion Photofacial Photorejuvenation Dermatologist Esthetician
"Skin Problems" "Laser skin" Acne "Acne vulgaris" "Acne scar treatment" "Acne cure" Moles "Skin tags" "Sun damage" "Dark circles" Rosacea Birthmarks Scars "Actinic keratosis" "Cosmetic laser" "Skin pigmentation treatment" "Stretch marks" Hyperpigmentation Hipopigmentation
"Hair Removal" "Hair Removal Portland, Oregon" "Laser hair" "Hair laser removal" "Hair laser removal Portland, Oregon" "Unwanted laser hair removal" "ELOS technology"
"Spider veins" "Spider veins treatment" "Spider veins before and after" "Varicose veins" "Vein therapy before and after" "Vein therapy" "Vein therapy Portland" Sclerotherapy "Sclerotherapy before and after" "Sclerotherapy Portland" "Radio Frequency"
"Weight Loss" "Medical weight management" "Medical weight loss program" "Low Calorie Diet program" "Healthy Solutions program" "Weight Loss before and after" "aesthetic medicine" "Dr. Darm" dietician nutritionist
"Facial Plastic Surgery" "Plastic Surgery Portland" "Plastic Surgery" "Plastic surgeries" "Plastic Surgeons"
"Face plastic surgery" Rhytidectomy Facelifts "Face lifts" Abdominoplasty "Tummy tuck" Rhinoplasty "Nose job" Otoplasty "Ear surgery" "Neck lift" "Cheek lift" Broplasty "Brow lifts" Blepharoplasty" "Eyelid surgery" "Reconstructive surgery" Microsurgery "Treatment of burns" "Breast implants" "Breast surgery" "Breast augmentations" "Breast reconstruction" "Boob job" Mammoplasty "Breast reduction" "Buttock augmentation" "Butt implant"
After the consultation, Clio had to kill some time in New York. About 2-3hrs hanging around the bus stop area, wherever this is. It was cold. She looked at the chrome poop in the middle of the square, ate tacos, drank margaritas, and toured the stupid gift shops full of stupid touristy stuff. (Bought one shotglass for $3.)
Transition Progress at this point: On hormones since 8/1 (7 months); injections since 12/22 (2 months) [13 so far]. Full-time female since 9/15 (5.5 months). Publicly out as trans since 10/11 (4.5 months). Legally female since 12/21 (2.5 months). 2 group speech therapy classes taken at GW Speech Clinic since 2/22. Plastic surgery consults continuing (5 for FFS, 3 for lipo). Have seen endo/primary therapist 5X, and secondary therapists 9X. Weight down to 143lbs (54 down from 197). Hair removal includes 32 electrolysis treatments totaling 25 hours; 30 laser hair removal sessions (51 area treatments: 16/15/13/12/8 mouth/goatee/face/neck/armpits, 7 legs/chest, 6 ears/Brazilian); and bi-weekly at-home IPL on arms since 6/17 (8.5 months). Latisse for eyelash lengthening since 4/17 (10.5 months). 2 dental implants, and prep work for Zoom Whitening For Life. Pierced ears. Dyed/layered hair (no haircuts for 3yrs--since 1/2015). Twice daily hydroquinone treatment on leg hyperpigmentation since 2/14 (2 weeks), and it's starting to peel red now (looks awful). Female wardrobe replacement wasup to 656 items. Total transition expenditures now over $17,400 at this point.
reflection, teardrop sculpture.
shiny. trans milestone.
Manhattan, New York City, New York.
March 4, 2018.
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BACKSTORY: I booked an FFS (Facial Feminization Surgery) consultation with Dr. Bart Van Der Ven of 2Pass Clinic (Belgium). I'm really glad I went, because this was the surgeon I ultimately chose to do the surgery on September 4th, 2018. Skype consults are a thing, but there's no substitute for sitting there next to a surgeon, as he holds a metal ruler to parts of your face. Or his photography equipment for the "before" pictures. I received my simulation videos on the bus back to Virginia!
THE PLAN WAS A BIT CRAZY, THOUGH: We go to the club, then when it close at 3AM, we go home, and Clio then drives to DC to get on a bus to New York, arriving around 9AM, then finding her way to the consultation by 11AM, and back to the bus by 2PM, and back home by 7PM. And then straight to bed until the next day.
TRIP IN SUMMARY:
Failed repeatedly to drive into the Union Station parking garage, or any parking garage. End result: panic, hastily chosen street parking, and 4:35AM running toward Union Station dark and alone in DC .. I barely had water for the trip cause I used it all to run
The Megabus wifi sucked, but it was enough to keep up with things. It was that other non-megabus-bus that I took back, that had the broken wifi that didn't work.
I got there with time to spare - completed my consultation before it was scheduled to start - and had to kill like 90+ minutes before I left, as well. So the schedule was tight, but fine. I saw the empty slots in his booking and knew there'd be nobody before me (unless they booked after I did), so I knew if I showed up early I'd probably earn some extra wiggle room
Uber ended up costing more and taking longer than a taxi, because they charge you if you don't get picked up because you can't see the fucking car even tho the app is showing it go down the street right there and you are reading every license plate and the fucker just isn't there when the app says he's there. $5 each time. ... so it was like $9 Uber $12 taxi but I paid like $19 Uber because it took 3 Ubers for them to pick me up... And I had to fuck around for like 15 minutes ... Time for credit card disputes.
But the Uber BACK to the bus went well
IT WAS A TOUGH TRIP, but I did not keel over, and really was only miserable the last 2 hrs of the last bus trip. Though I WAS under-dressed with a light jacket and no hat/scarf, I don't deal with cold well, and I'm not from New York, so there were definitely a lot of moments where everyone in NYC was acting like a normal person, and I was jogging in place like a crazy person, out of breath, just trying to stay warm. At one point I ducked into the subway and hung out in a pissy area near a unconscious homeless dude because he knew what the fuck was up about avoiding this cold. But eventually I had to go into gift shops because the piss smell of NYC's subways is pretty ubiquitous and overwhelming
Dr. Bart Van Der Ven of 2pass Clinic ( www.2pass.eu ) saw me. He said I only need a Type 1 forehead reconstruction... Though if it ended up needing to be a Type 3, he'd only charge me for Type 1 [for reference: facialfeminization.surgery/index.php/forehead/ ]
But basically, he said I only need a Type 1 forehead reconstruction, not Type 3, because of where my brow bossing is
He measured my nose-to-lips and said I didn't need a lip lift. Dr. Bart simply rattles numbers off from his head, holds a ruler up.. I fell within female numbers anyway for the lip-to-nose distance. Something I've become increasingly LESS dysphoric of lately, as I look at more and more women through the eyes of one learning gendered skull structure knowledge.
He didn't want to do the cheek implants, just nasolabial ones. He said 4 implants has more infection chance than 2. Tho taking them out is rote and can be done locally. So why NOT get 4? Hmmm. [But the estimate came with cheek implants, and I ended up getting small ones, so hey! :)]
Sadly informed that something something lower orbital rim too far back compared to most people, not "abnormal" but uncommon means that something something something maybe that's why he only wanted the 2 implants [uh oh -- I got all 4 implants though. Sure wish I remember what that something something was]
He wasn't into wanting to do as aggressive of a jaw shave as I seemed to want, and ultimately it really wasn't that aggressive, and I wonder if I should have insisted on more, though I'm pretty happy with the results, and at the time of posting this (November 2018), swelling still hasn't gone down yet, to make a final judgment on just how happy I am with things. I'm fairly happy with the results so far. :)
Dr. Darm has practiced aesthetic medicine for the past 15 years, performing over 50,000 laser procedures. Previously, Dr. Darm was a board certified Emergency Medicine physician (ER doctor) with over 20 years experience. He graduated from Stanford University with a Bachelor of Science in Biology and a minor in Psychology. His medical training was obtained at OHSU.
Dr. Darm opened his private practice, Aesthetic Medicine, in 1995. Initially specializing in weight loss, he expanded to include hair removal and rosacea treatments in 1997. Since that time, new services have been added yearly to promote health, wellness and beauty. Dr. Darm has pioneered his own trademark procedure, LaserLift™ for the treatment of wrinkles, and LipoLift™ for the treatment of unwanted fat and cellulite. He is internationally recognized and sought out by patients from all over the world.
For more information log on www.drdarm.com.
KEYWORDS:
"Dr. Darm" "Aesthetic Medicine" "Medical spa Portland" "Day spa Portland" Lasers "Laser Treatments" "Skin clinic Portland" "Laser skin clinic Portland" "Laser liposuction Portland" "Laserlift Portland" "Laser lift Portland" "Lipo lift Portland" "Plastic surgeon Portland" "Dermatologist Portland" Esthetician "Board certified plastic surgeon" "Weight Loss Center Portland" "Medical Weight Management"
"Dr. Darm" "Aesthetic Medicine" Laserlift Lipolift "Laser Lipolysis" Velashape Mesoporation Mesoderm Slimlipo "Lipolift I" "Lipolift III" "Oregon Lipo" Lipo Liposuction "Cosmetic Surgery" "Portland Liposuction" "Laser Liposuction" "Body Sculpting" "Liposuction Portland" "Body Contouring" "Cosmetic Surgery Oregon" "Liposuction Surgeon" "Lipo Portland" "Plastic Surgeon" "Body Contour" "Affordable Liposuction" "Water Liposuction" "Water Lipo" "Board Certified Plastic Surgeon"
"Board Certified Plastic Surgery" "local plastic surgeon" "Liposuction Surgeon Portland" "Portland Liposuction Surgeon"
"Fat and Cellulite" Fat Cellulite "Orange peel" "Body Sculpting" "Lipolift I" "Lipolift III" "Lipolift trilogy" Mesoporation Mesoderm Mesotherapy Velashape Slimlipo "Laser Lipolysis" "Laser Liposuction" IPL "Laser surgery" "Laser surgery Portland" "Intense Pulsed Light"
"treatments of wrinkles" "Anti-aging" "Skin aging" "Age spots" "Age spots treatment" Botox Dysport Fillers Juvederm Restylane Laserlift "Skin resurfacing" "Laser skin resurfacing" "Chemical peel" "Chemical peeling" "Dermal fillers" Microdermabrasion Dermabrasion Photofacial Photorejuvenation Dermatologist Esthetician
"Skin Problems" "Laser skin" Acne "Acne vulgaris" "Acne scar treatment" "Acne cure" Moles "Skin tags" "Sun damage" "Dark circles" Rosacea Birthmarks Scars "Actinic keratosis" "Cosmetic laser" "Skin pigmentation treatment" "Stretch marks" Hyperpigmentation Hipopigmentation
"Hair Removal" "Hair Removal Portland, Oregon" "Laser hair" "Hair laser removal" "Hair laser removal Portland, Oregon" "Unwanted laser hair removal" "ELOS technology"
"Spider veins" "Spider veins treatment" "Spider veins before and after" "Varicose veins" "Vein therapy before and after" "Vein therapy" "Vein therapy Portland" Sclerotherapy "Sclerotherapy before and after" "Sclerotherapy Portland" "Radio Frequency"
"Weight Loss" "Medical weight management" "Medical weight loss program" "Low Calorie Diet program" "Healthy Solutions program" "Weight Loss before and after" "aesthetic medicine" "Dr. Darm" dietician nutritionist
"Facial Plastic Surgery" "Plastic Surgery Portland" "Plastic Surgery" "Plastic surgeries" "Plastic Surgeons"
"Face plastic surgery" Rhytidectomy Facelifts "Face lifts" Abdominoplasty "Tummy tuck" Rhinoplasty "Nose job" Otoplasty "Ear surgery" "Neck lift" "Cheek lift" Broplasty "Brow lifts" Blepharoplasty" "Eyelid surgery" "Reconstructive surgery" Microsurgery "Treatment of burns" "Breast implants" "Breast surgery" "Breast augmentations" "Breast reconstruction" "Boob job" Mammoplasty "Breast reduction" "Buttock augmentation" "Butt implant"
Dr. Darm has practiced aesthetic medicine for the past 15 years, performing over 50,000 laser procedures. Previously, Dr. Darm was a board certified Emergency Medicine physician (ER doctor) with over 20 years experience. He graduated from Stanford University with a Bachelor of Science in Biology and a minor in Psychology. His medical training was obtained at OHSU.
Dr. Darm opened his private practice, Aesthetic Medicine, in 1995. Initially specializing in weight loss, he expanded to include hair removal and rosacea treatments in 1997. Since that time, new services have been added yearly to promote health, wellness and beauty. Dr. Darm has pioneered his own trademark procedure, LaserLift™ for the treatment of wrinkles, and LipoLift™ for the treatment of unwanted fat and cellulite. He is internationally recognized and sought out by patients from all over the world.
For more information log on www.drdarm.com.
KEYWORDS:
"Dr. Darm" "Aesthetic Medicine" "Medical spa Portland" "Day spa Portland" Lasers "Laser Treatments" "Skin clinic Portland" "Laser skin clinic Portland" "Laser liposuction Portland" "Laserlift Portland" "Laser lift Portland" "Lipo lift Portland" "Plastic surgeon Portland" "Dermatologist Portland" Esthetician "Board certified plastic surgeon" "Weight Loss Center Portland" "Medical Weight Management"
"Dr. Darm" "Aesthetic Medicine" Laserlift Lipolift "Laser Lipolysis" Velashape Mesoporation Mesoderm Slimlipo "Lipolift I" "Lipolift III" "Oregon Lipo" Lipo Liposuction "Cosmetic Surgery" "Portland Liposuction" "Laser Liposuction" "Body Sculpting" "Liposuction Portland" "Body Contouring" "Cosmetic Surgery Oregon" "Liposuction Surgeon" "Lipo Portland" "Plastic Surgeon" "Body Contour" "Affordable Liposuction" "Water Liposuction" "Water Lipo" "Board Certified Plastic Surgeon"
"Board Certified Plastic Surgery" "local plastic surgeon" "Liposuction Surgeon Portland" "Portland Liposuction Surgeon"
"Fat and Cellulite" Fat Cellulite "Orange peel" "Body Sculpting" "Lipolift I" "Lipolift III" "Lipolift trilogy" Mesoporation Mesoderm Mesotherapy Velashape Slimlipo "Laser Lipolysis" "Laser Liposuction" IPL "Laser surgery" "Laser surgery Portland" "Intense Pulsed Light"
"treatments of wrinkles" "Anti-aging" "Skin aging" "Age spots" "Age spots treatment" Botox Dysport Fillers Juvederm Restylane Laserlift "Skin resurfacing" "Laser skin resurfacing" "Chemical peel" "Chemical peeling" "Dermal fillers" Microdermabrasion Dermabrasion Photofacial Photorejuvenation Dermatologist Esthetician
"Skin Problems" "Laser skin" Acne "Acne vulgaris" "Acne scar treatment" "Acne cure" Moles "Skin tags" "Sun damage" "Dark circles" Rosacea Birthmarks Scars "Actinic keratosis" "Cosmetic laser" "Skin pigmentation treatment" "Stretch marks" Hyperpigmentation Hipopigmentation
"Hair Removal" "Hair Removal Portland, Oregon" "Laser hair" "Hair laser removal" "Hair laser removal Portland, Oregon" "Unwanted laser hair removal" "ELOS technology"
"Spider veins" "Spider veins treatment" "Spider veins before and after" "Varicose veins" "Vein therapy before and after" "Vein therapy" "Vein therapy Portland" Sclerotherapy "Sclerotherapy before and after" "Sclerotherapy Portland" "Radio Frequency"
"Weight Loss" "Medical weight management" "Medical weight loss program" "Low Calorie Diet program" "Healthy Solutions program" "Weight Loss before and after" "aesthetic medicine" "Dr. Darm" dietician nutritionist
"Facial Plastic Surgery" "Plastic Surgery Portland" "Plastic Surgery" "Plastic surgeries" "Plastic Surgeons"
"Face plastic surgery" Rhytidectomy Facelifts "Face lifts" Abdominoplasty "Tummy tuck" Rhinoplasty "Nose job" Otoplasty "Ear surgery" "Neck lift" "Cheek lift" Broplasty "Brow lifts" Blepharoplasty" "Eyelid surgery" "Reconstructive surgery" Microsurgery "Treatment of burns" "Breast implants" "Breast surgery" "Breast augmentations" "Breast reconstruction" "Boob job" Mammoplasty "Breast reduction" "Buttock augmentation" "Butt implant"
Dr. Darm has practiced aesthetic medicine for the past 15 years, performing over 50,000 laser procedures. Previously, Dr. Darm was a board certified Emergency Medicine physician (ER doctor) with over 20 years experience. He graduated from Stanford University with a Bachelor of Science in Biology and a minor in Psychology. His medical training was obtained at OHSU.
Dr. Darm opened his private practice, Aesthetic Medicine, in 1995. Initially specializing in weight loss, he expanded to include hair removal and rosacea treatments in 1997. Since that time, new services have been added yearly to promote health, wellness and beauty. Dr. Darm has pioneered his own trademark procedure, LaserLift™ for the treatment of wrinkles, and LipoLift™ for the treatment of unwanted fat and cellulite. He is internationally recognized and sought out by patients from all over the world.
For more information log on www.drdarm.com.
KEYWORDS:
"Dr. Darm" "Aesthetic Medicine" "Medical spa Portland" "Day spa Portland" Lasers "Laser Treatments" "Skin clinic Portland" "Laser skin clinic Portland" "Laser liposuction Portland" "Laserlift Portland" "Laser lift Portland" "Lipo lift Portland" "Plastic surgeon Portland" "Dermatologist Portland" Esthetician "Board certified plastic surgeon" "Weight Loss Center Portland" "Medical Weight Management"
"Dr. Darm" "Aesthetic Medicine" Laserlift Lipolift "Laser Lipolysis" Velashape Mesoporation Mesoderm Slimlipo "Lipolift I" "Lipolift III" "Oregon Lipo" Lipo Liposuction "Cosmetic Surgery" "Portland Liposuction" "Laser Liposuction" "Body Sculpting" "Liposuction Portland" "Body Contouring" "Cosmetic Surgery Oregon" "Liposuction Surgeon" "Lipo Portland" "Plastic Surgeon" "Body Contour" "Affordable Liposuction" "Water Liposuction" "Water Lipo" "Board Certified Plastic Surgeon"
"Board Certified Plastic Surgery" "local plastic surgeon" "Liposuction Surgeon Portland" "Portland Liposuction Surgeon"
"Fat and Cellulite" Fat Cellulite "Orange peel" "Body Sculpting" "Lipolift I" "Lipolift III" "Lipolift trilogy" Mesoporation Mesoderm Mesotherapy Velashape Slimlipo "Laser Lipolysis" "Laser Liposuction" IPL "Laser surgery" "Laser surgery Portland" "Intense Pulsed Light"
"treatments of wrinkles" "Anti-aging" "Skin aging" "Age spots" "Age spots treatment" Botox Dysport Fillers Juvederm Restylane Laserlift "Skin resurfacing" "Laser skin resurfacing" "Chemical peel" "Chemical peeling" "Dermal fillers" Microdermabrasion Dermabrasion Photofacial Photorejuvenation Dermatologist Esthetician
"Skin Problems" "Laser skin" Acne "Acne vulgaris" "Acne scar treatment" "Acne cure" Moles "Skin tags" "Sun damage" "Dark circles" Rosacea Birthmarks Scars "Actinic keratosis" "Cosmetic laser" "Skin pigmentation treatment" "Stretch marks" Hyperpigmentation Hipopigmentation
"Hair Removal" "Hair Removal Portland, Oregon" "Laser hair" "Hair laser removal" "Hair laser removal Portland, Oregon" "Unwanted laser hair removal" "ELOS technology"
"Spider veins" "Spider veins treatment" "Spider veins before and after" "Varicose veins" "Vein therapy before and after" "Vein therapy" "Vein therapy Portland" Sclerotherapy "Sclerotherapy before and after" "Sclerotherapy Portland" "Radio Frequency"
"Weight Loss" "Medical weight management" "Medical weight loss program" "Low Calorie Diet program" "Healthy Solutions program" "Weight Loss before and after" "aesthetic medicine" "Dr. Darm" dietician nutritionist
"Facial Plastic Surgery" "Plastic Surgery Portland" "Plastic Surgery" "Plastic surgeries" "Plastic Surgeons"
"Face plastic surgery" Rhytidectomy Facelifts "Face lifts" Abdominoplasty "Tummy tuck" Rhinoplasty "Nose job" Otoplasty "Ear surgery" "Neck lift" "Cheek lift" Broplasty "Brow lifts" Blepharoplasty" "Eyelid surgery" "Reconstructive surgery" Microsurgery "Treatment of burns" "Breast implants" "Breast surgery" "Breast augmentations" "Breast reconstruction" "Boob job" Mammoplasty "Breast reduction" "Buttock augmentation" "Butt implant"
Dr. Darm has practiced aesthetic medicine for the past 15 years, performing over 50,000 laser procedures. Previously, Dr. Darm was a board certified Emergency Medicine physician (ER doctor) with over 20 years experience. He graduated from Stanford University with a Bachelor of Science in Biology and a minor in Psychology. His medical training was obtained at OHSU.
Dr. Darm opened his private practice, Aesthetic Medicine, in 1995. Initially specializing in weight loss, he expanded to include hair removal and rosacea treatments in 1997. Since that time, new services have been added yearly to promote health, wellness and beauty. Dr. Darm has pioneered his own trademark procedure, LaserLift™ for the treatment of wrinkles, and LipoLift™ for the treatment of unwanted fat and cellulite. He is internationally recognized and sought out by patients from all over the world.
For more information log on www.drdarm.com.
KEYWORDS:
"Dr. Darm" "Aesthetic Medicine" "Medical spa Portland" "Day spa Portland" Lasers "Laser Treatments" "Skin clinic Portland" "Laser skin clinic Portland" "Laser liposuction Portland" "Laserlift Portland" "Laser lift Portland" "Lipo lift Portland" "Plastic surgeon Portland" "Dermatologist Portland" Esthetician "Board certified plastic surgeon" "Weight Loss Center Portland" "Medical Weight Management"
"Dr. Darm" "Aesthetic Medicine" Laserlift Lipolift "Laser Lipolysis" Velashape Mesoporation Mesoderm Slimlipo "Lipolift I" "Lipolift III" "Oregon Lipo" Lipo Liposuction "Cosmetic Surgery" "Portland Liposuction" "Laser Liposuction" "Body Sculpting" "Liposuction Portland" "Body Contouring" "Cosmetic Surgery Oregon" "Liposuction Surgeon" "Lipo Portland" "Plastic Surgeon" "Body Contour" "Affordable Liposuction" "Water Liposuction" "Water Lipo" "Board Certified Plastic Surgeon"
"Board Certified Plastic Surgery" "local plastic surgeon" "Liposuction Surgeon Portland" "Portland Liposuction Surgeon"
"Fat and Cellulite" Fat Cellulite "Orange peel" "Body Sculpting" "Lipolift I" "Lipolift III" "Lipolift trilogy" Mesoporation Mesoderm Mesotherapy Velashape Slimlipo "Laser Lipolysis" "Laser Liposuction" IPL "Laser surgery" "Laser surgery Portland" "Intense Pulsed Light"
"treatments of wrinkles" "Anti-aging" "Skin aging" "Age spots" "Age spots treatment" Botox Dysport Fillers Juvederm Restylane Laserlift "Skin resurfacing" "Laser skin resurfacing" "Chemical peel" "Chemical peeling" "Dermal fillers" Microdermabrasion Dermabrasion Photofacial Photorejuvenation Dermatologist Esthetician
"Skin Problems" "Laser skin" Acne "Acne vulgaris" "Acne scar treatment" "Acne cure" Moles "Skin tags" "Sun damage" "Dark circles" Rosacea Birthmarks Scars "Actinic keratosis" "Cosmetic laser" "Skin pigmentation treatment" "Stretch marks" Hyperpigmentation Hipopigmentation
"Hair Removal" "Hair Removal Portland, Oregon" "Laser hair" "Hair laser removal" "Hair laser removal Portland, Oregon" "Unwanted laser hair removal" "ELOS technology"
"Spider veins" "Spider veins treatment" "Spider veins before and after" "Varicose veins" "Vein therapy before and after" "Vein therapy" "Vein therapy Portland" Sclerotherapy "Sclerotherapy before and after" "Sclerotherapy Portland" "Radio Frequency"
"Weight Loss" "Medical weight management" "Medical weight loss program" "Low Calorie Diet program" "Healthy Solutions program" "Weight Loss before and after" "aesthetic medicine" "Dr. Darm" dietician nutritionist
"Facial Plastic Surgery" "Plastic Surgery Portland" "Plastic Surgery" "Plastic surgeries" "Plastic Surgeons"
"Face plastic surgery" Rhytidectomy Facelifts "Face lifts" Abdominoplasty "Tummy tuck" Rhinoplasty "Nose job" Otoplasty "Ear surgery" "Neck lift" "Cheek lift" Broplasty "Brow lifts" Blepharoplasty" "Eyelid surgery" "Reconstructive surgery" Microsurgery "Treatment of burns" "Breast implants" "Breast surgery" "Breast augmentations" "Breast reconstruction" "Boob job" Mammoplasty "Breast reduction" "Buttock augmentation" "Butt implant"
At Aesthetic Medicine in Portland, Oregon, Dr. Jerry Darm and his dedicated staff have promoted wellness, health and beauty for over a decade. Over 50,000 procedures performed utilizing 25 different lasers and aesthetic devices have made Aesthetic Medicine one of the largest medical spas in the United States. The innovative 21st century technologies, the attention to detail and the dedication to customer service have given Aesthetic Medicine an A+ rating with the Better Business Bureau.
Skin Problems
Skin problems such as acne, rosacea, sun damage, pigmentation, scarring, unwanted hair, and moles can be safely and effectively treated with lasers and aesthetic devices.
Wrinkles
Fine lines, deep wrinkles,pore size, dark circles and overall skin texture are best treated with the Laser Lift™. This exclusive procedure combines microdermabrasion with three FDA approved lasers which rejuvenate and tighten the skin while building new collagen.
Injectables
Botox® and Dysport® are used to treat wrinkles in motion around the eyes and in the forehead. Injectable fillers including Juvederm® and Restylane® are used to fill in the deeper frown lines around the mouth and chin.
Unwanted Fat / Cellulite
Unwanted fat can be removed from the neck, arms, chest, abdomen, back, flanks and thighs using the unique Lipo Lift™ procedures developed at Aesthetic Medicine with minimum pain and downtime. We are one of the busiest centers in the United States and have performed over 500 Lipo Lift™ III (Laser Lypolysis ) procedures in the past year. For the noninvasive treatment of fat and cellulite we have combined several FDA approved devices (LipoLift™ I ).
Weight Loss
Dr. Darm and his staff of dietitians and nutritionists have over 40 years of combined experience in Medical Weight Management. The average participant loses 40 to 60 pounds in a 3-6 month period. Thousands of patients have achieved success in this comprehensive program.
Spider Veins
Unsightly spider veins are successfully removed using sclerotherapy and laser treatments.
Facial Plastic Surgery
Blepharoplasty, Facelifts, Rhinoplasty, Necklifts, Browlifts, and related procedures are performed by our experienced board certified surgeon.
At Aesthetic Medicine in Portland, Oregon, Dr. Jerry Darm and his dedicated staff have promoted wellness, health and beauty for over a decade. Over 50,000 procedures performed utilizing 25 different lasers and aesthetic devices have made Aesthetic Medicine one of the largest medical spas in the United States. The innovative 21st century technologies, the attention to detail and the dedication to customer service have given Aesthetic Medicine an A+ rating with the Better Business Bureau.
Skin Problems
Skin problems such as acne, rosacea, sun damage, pigmentation, scarring, unwanted hair, and moles can be safely and effectively treated with lasers and aesthetic devices.
Wrinkles
Fine lines, deep wrinkles,pore size, dark circles and overall skin texture are best treated with the Laser Lift™. This exclusive procedure combines microdermabrasion with three FDA approved lasers which rejuvenate and tighten the skin while building new collagen.
Injectables
Botox® and Dysport® are used to treat wrinkles in motion around the eyes and in the forehead. Injectable fillers including Juvederm® and Restylane® are used to fill in the deeper frown lines around the mouth and chin.
Unwanted Fat / Cellulite
Unwanted fat can be removed from the neck, arms, chest, abdomen, back, flanks and thighs using the unique Lipo Lift™ procedures developed at Aesthetic Medicine with minimum pain and downtime. We are one of the busiest centers in the United States and have performed over 500 Lipo Lift™ III (Laser Lypolysis ) procedures in the past year. For the noninvasive treatment of fat and cellulite we have combined several FDA approved devices (LipoLift™ I ).
Weight Loss
Dr. Darm and his staff of dietitians and nutritionists have over 40 years of combined experience in Medical Weight Management. The average participant loses 40 to 60 pounds in a 3-6 month period. Thousands of patients have achieved success in this comprehensive program.
Spider Veins
Unsightly spider veins are successfully removed using sclerotherapy and laser treatments.
Facial Plastic Surgery
Blepharoplasty, Facelifts, Rhinoplasty, Necklifts, Browlifts, and related procedures are performed by our experienced board certified surgeon.
Dr. Darm has practiced aesthetic medicine for the past 15 years, performing over 50,000 laser procedures. Previously, Dr. Darm was a board certified Emergency Medicine physician (ER doctor) with over 20 years experience. He graduated from Stanford University with a Bachelor of Science in Biology and a minor in Psychology. His medical training was obtained at OHSU.
Dr. Darm opened his private practice, Aesthetic Medicine, in 1995. Initially specializing in weight loss, he expanded to include hair removal and rosacea treatments in 1997. Since that time, new services have been added yearly to promote health, wellness and beauty. Dr. Darm has pioneered his own trademark procedure, LaserLift™ for the treatment of wrinkles, and LipoLift™ for the treatment of unwanted fat and cellulite. He is internationally recognized and sought out by patients from all over the world.
For more information log on www.drdarm.com.
KEYWORDS:
"Dr. Darm" "Aesthetic Medicine" "Medical spa Portland" "Day spa Portland" Lasers "Laser Treatments" "Skin clinic Portland" "Laser skin clinic Portland" "Laser liposuction Portland" "Laserlift Portland" "Laser lift Portland" "Lipo lift Portland" "Plastic surgeon Portland" "Dermatologist Portland" Esthetician "Board certified plastic surgeon" "Weight Loss Center Portland" "Medical Weight Management"
"Dr. Darm" "Aesthetic Medicine" Laserlift Lipolift "Laser Lipolysis" Velashape Mesoporation Mesoderm Slimlipo "Lipolift I" "Lipolift III" "Oregon Lipo" Lipo Liposuction "Cosmetic Surgery" "Portland Liposuction" "Laser Liposuction" "Body Sculpting" "Liposuction Portland" "Body Contouring" "Cosmetic Surgery Oregon" "Liposuction Surgeon" "Lipo Portland" "Plastic Surgeon" "Body Contour" "Affordable Liposuction" "Water Liposuction" "Water Lipo" "Board Certified Plastic Surgeon"
"Board Certified Plastic Surgery" "local plastic surgeon" "Liposuction Surgeon Portland" "Portland Liposuction Surgeon"
"Fat and Cellulite" Fat Cellulite "Orange peel" "Body Sculpting" "Lipolift I" "Lipolift III" "Lipolift trilogy" Mesoporation Mesoderm Mesotherapy Velashape Slimlipo "Laser Lipolysis" "Laser Liposuction" IPL "Laser surgery" "Laser surgery Portland" "Intense Pulsed Light"
"treatments of wrinkles" "Anti-aging" "Skin aging" "Age spots" "Age spots treatment" Botox Dysport Fillers Juvederm Restylane Laserlift "Skin resurfacing" "Laser skin resurfacing" "Chemical peel" "Chemical peeling" "Dermal fillers" Microdermabrasion Dermabrasion Photofacial Photorejuvenation Dermatologist Esthetician
"Skin Problems" "Laser skin" Acne "Acne vulgaris" "Acne scar treatment" "Acne cure" Moles "Skin tags" "Sun damage" "Dark circles" Rosacea Birthmarks Scars "Actinic keratosis" "Cosmetic laser" "Skin pigmentation treatment" "Stretch marks" Hyperpigmentation Hipopigmentation
"Hair Removal" "Hair Removal Portland, Oregon" "Laser hair" "Hair laser removal" "Hair laser removal Portland, Oregon" "Unwanted laser hair removal" "ELOS technology"
"Spider veins" "Spider veins treatment" "Spider veins before and after" "Varicose veins" "Vein therapy before and after" "Vein therapy" "Vein therapy Portland" Sclerotherapy "Sclerotherapy before and after" "Sclerotherapy Portland" "Radio Frequency"
"Weight Loss" "Medical weight management" "Medical weight loss program" "Low Calorie Diet program" "Healthy Solutions program" "Weight Loss before and after" "aesthetic medicine" "Dr. Darm" dietician nutritionist
"Facial Plastic Surgery" "Plastic Surgery Portland" "Plastic Surgery" "Plastic surgeries" "Plastic Surgeons"
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