Ask Canhamiana: Photos and Stuff…..Part Two

Welcome to part two.  Sorry it took me so long to get to this.  My excuses are: Life, laziness, playing with my cats, and habitual staring at blank blog screens for hours on end. I’m really good at that last one.

Anyway, let’s play!

Canhamiana before……I found this pic in my files.  It was taken on Guam in 1991 I think.   I was  there on a government boon doggle.  The actual business was scheduled for a week, but was over in a day and a half.  That left the rest of the week to find something to do.  I ended up visiting an archaeological site and helped open a pit until it was time to head back to Honolulu.  As you can see, I’m appropriately dressed for Indiana Jones style tomb raiding.

Check out those glasses and that hair.  God I’m a hottie.

By 1995 I was well into transition leaving those glasses and hair behind.

Canhamiana 1996 Santa Rosa,  CA.  This was taken the morning after an all day and night “T” party.  I was still pre boob job then.

Canhamiana 1998, Fairfax, VA.  Art Show.  I was doing an art show with “blondie” in Fairfax when she took this photo.  We were selling wood sculpture then. The banana boxes behind me were full of parts which we would assemble on site. Stop looking up my skirt!

Canhamiana 2000 Santa Rosa, CA.  Yeah this is a Canhamiana Xmas.

Canhamiana 2000, Santa Rosa, CA.  These were originally taken for a Naughty and Nice web page.  Naturally I got to be the naughty one.

Canhamiana 2000 Santa Rosa, CA  You’d be amazed at the many ways one can use a candy cane.

Canhamiana 2002 Warren MI.  I’ve talked about the “Bitch” Tattoo on my ass.  Here it is in the flesh, so to speak.  I was up in Warren doing a photo shoot for an SM website.  I don’t switch often….like hardly ever.  However, Mistress Janice asked me to sub for this shoot and I was more than willing because she trained me, and I got to enjoy a scene with her husband, a wonderfully skilled Master who knew just how to push my sub button…..Notice the leather glove….it went with a particular type of uniform.  OOOOOO Yumm O!!!!

Don’t bother to ask me for the link to that site.  It’s down, and has been down for the past few years.  I’m not sure why.

Canhamiana 2002 Warren MI.  This is from that same photo shoot/scene.  That felt so good!  The Domme Canhamiana was totally absent that day.

Canhamiana 2004  Cape Canaveral, FL.  I was up at the nudie beach posing in the water trying to be all sexy and stuff…..but I got whacked by a wave and this is the result.

Canhamiana 2003 Cape Canaveral, FL.  This is before the wave hit me.

Canhamiana 2004 Palm Bay, FL  I was practicing for a Victoria’s Secret bra add.

The Lady Canhamiana 2006 Port St. John, FL.  Yay! Play party fun.  There’s nothing like having at the ass of a sweet girlie sub with a crop.

The Lady Canhamiana 2006, Satellite Beach, FL.  This was a xmas eve play party at Casa Whack.  What Xmas party is complete without a rack, ropes, whips and chains?  I mean really. If you’re going to do it….do it right.  Tranny Claus even showed up at that party and gave everyone a spanking.

That’s it for part two.  Part three won’t happen until I have some new pics taken.  D, that’s your job!

Canhamiana

Ask Canhamiana: Photos and Stuff…..Part One

Welcome to Ask Canhamiana.  Tonight’s topic is Canhamiana Photos….and this post:

“let me start by saying PLEASE forgive this question. I am wondering what your physiche looked like pre-premerin.I know we all want to be accepted for who we are now and not our “before”,but id love to see a before and after photo….to compare the true effects of the premerin. Again im very sorry for this, but can you please share a before look?”

OK, so let’s start at the very beginning.

Canhamiana! Since 1955

I was sweet and innocent back then.  Well, OK, sort of. First born loin fruit to J and M. Born at 10:10 PM, 21 August, 1955, (Leo) in Niles, Michigan.  Unknown attributes at birth: Transsexual, Dyslexic (I mean way Dyslexic),  Artist, and a card carrying Iconoclast and cat person.

Back to the present. Semi Vital statistics:

I’m 5′ 11″ tall.  Weigh 168 as of this morning.  My hair is red. My measurements as of 20 minutes ago are 38DD-33.5-39.  My eyes are hazel.

I began HRT 25 July 1994.  I used DES 10 mg a day for the first six months and then the Doc switched to Premarin 5 mg a day. No AA or other additives to kill DHT.  2000 while in the care of the Trans Clinic at the San Francisco VA I began using Zolodex pellets as an AA because it was part of their HRT protocol.  That lasted 6 months until I moved back to FL.  Continued 5 mg Premarin a day until a few months ago when I switched to EV IM.  Currently shooting 10 – 20 Mg once a week depending on my mood.  I also played with 100 MG Susten IM every 4 days for a few months.  Results were, ehhhh. Discontinued when supply ran out.

Electro complete 1996.  Name and sex marker changed in 1996.  Breasts augmented 1997, 425 CC. Revised 2007 to 650 CC. No FFS, no Trachea shave. No other surgeries for feminizing.  Don’t need it.

Back to the past:

Canhamiana, 1974, Port Huron, MI. I had one HS pic taken. This is it.

Canhamiana and the boys in the band, 1975, Port Huron, MI.  Which is me? Hint: I have a thing for hats.

Canhamiana, 1980. Okinawa, Japan, USAF half drunk making awkward sexual advances and art, but not war.

Canhamiana 1983, Tokyo Museum of Modern Art at Ueno, First one “man” show. Artists are required to stand in front of their work and look smug when being photographed. I should explain the hat….I was a member of a Japanese painters guild called The Genten. When members were doing art stuff they were required to wear the hat. It was kind of like a uniform. There were braids attached to the back which indicated your ranking within the guild.  I had subsequent shows in 84 and 85.

Transition:

I didn’t do it right.  I had no support.  No planed out checklist. No mentor and no freaking internet groups. I was in Melbourne, FL and the only other TS in Brevard County at that time was a coke addict doing shows at the local Gay bar. I had a therapist, the SOC, a bottle of DES….(I dumped the SOC shortly after beginning transition) I jumped off the transition cliff…..and never looked back.  Having done that I don’t suggest the method for anyone…..unless you want to have a real adventure.  I had no plan “B”.  I transitioned blindly and was miserably alone the first 18 months….but I never gave up.

Canhamiana 1996. Richmond, VA,  18 months HRT. Six months DES, 12 months Premarin. No AA or DHT blockers. Is there anything hormones can’t do?  That’s my real hair too.

Canhamiana 1996, Virginia Beach, VA,  celebrating my name and sex marker change.  Yup, that’s a wig.  The only time I ever wore one.  That night only.  Hugh, my lover then, asked me to try it on.  Then he took the pic.  I took the wig off immediately after the pic was taken and have not worn one since.  I did play with hair extensions in 2002….what a pain!

Continued in part two……

Ask Canhamiana

While I fumble my way through MySQL, PHP and Perl on my web server I’ve decided to take a break and add a new feature to my portion of the Blagosphere.  Besides, I still have to get the required Sorceress hat and cape….writing code is really pointless without the appropriate props. Ask Canhamiana will answer questions related to hormones, transition and related subjects.  The first question comes from the ever fun and often interesting Hormone list.

Our question today is:

“HI was just wondering if, anyone has ever waxed their face hair. MY
sister says she dose, and it is not that bad. I am getting farther in
my fem look and I cannot afford electro. And if I shave any harder I
will have no skin left.”

I used to wax my face all the time.  Just let those gross hairs grow out 3-4 days and rip them out.  Hurts like anything at first……but you do get used to it….sort of.  Those hairs I missed got the tweezers.  Truth is, I did that for a couple of years prior to electro.

Some popular myths…..No, your hairs won’t come back in thicker and in greater volume. No, you won’t rip your face from your skull. No, you’re not a masochist…unless the intense pain turns you on.

My zapper told me how it was so much easier to clear my face since because I’d torn the hairs out of the follicles for so long. I damaged and weakened them making it easier for her to kill off those hairs.

No, I never got an infection or ingrown hair from the painfully violent uprooting.

The “clearing” will last from 2 to 3 weeks then you get to do it all over again. It’s will become a happy “Girlie Time” ritual to anticipate and lose sleep over.

It helps to pray while you are yanking the carpets of hair from your soon to be, delicate hormonal girl face.  Examples of appropriate prayers are:

“Oh God! Holy Crap! Jesus Freaking Christ , Damn!”
“Oh God I’m in pain….Shit! What am I doing to myself?”
“My Lord this hurts like hell!”
“FUCK ME! Oh My God, Holy Shit!!!!!!!” (repeat this as many times at it takes…as loud as you can. It helps you work through the agony and pisses off the neighbors)

None of these prayers will ease  the unimaginable pain you will experience, but yelling about it does help to some degree.

It helps to fortify your courage with a few quarts of gin or a quarter ounce of quality California sinsemilla before beard ripping.  That is if you’re not an alcoholic/addict in recovery.  If you are….eat some Motrin, call your sponsor,  and hang out with the eleventh step.

Ice packs help after the ripping. So does crying.  However, you will be crying all through the violence of your beautification process.  Smear some overpriced soothing facial glop over the red, sore, and maybe swollen skin. Make sure the overpriced glop is not alcohol based or you’ll be saying your prayers again.

Don’t forget that once you smear the wax on…..you are committed to ripping wax off.  It helps to anticipate the upcoming agony by counting 1-2-3…then chickening out 7 or 8 times before working up the courage to actually rip out a waxy wad of facial hair on 3.

Remember…very few women in transition are fortunate enough to experience the agony and ecstasy of ripping their facial hair out by the roots.

Have fun.

Canhamiana

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