Transvestia

styled just for me. What a difference! Incidentally, just told the clerk I was a female impersonator and wanted to try on some wigs. They were very nice and there were no problems.

Last April I started having electrolysis to remove my beard. Previously, when on trips and things I had tweezed my whole face. I got so I could do it in a week-end, but my face was sore and red and lumpy for a few days and I could never go more than four or five days without shaving. As a result of so much tweezing over such a long period my beard became courser and thicker. The electrologist that I go to advises never to pluck and from my own experience I definitely agree with her. Every pore contains a hair- not necessarily a whisker but more often a very fine hair. When you pull the whisker you often get several of these tiny hairs at the same time. After this happens a few times the tiny, almost invisible hair becomes an ugly black whisker. I go twice a week and it will probably take another year at least. I could have been finished in half the time if I had never plucked. (and even quicker if I had never shaved, but who has money for an electrologist when they first start to sprout a beard)

While on the subject of hair I might mention a pro- duct I use which I have never seen discussed in TV or Femme Mirror. Clairol puts out a bleach called Ultra- Blue which I use on my arms and it does a wonderful job. If you first thin out the hair with an electric razor, then bleach, it will leave the hair a pale golden color and practically indistinguishable. I do this every two weeks and I think it is preferable to shaving because you never have stubble or rash and besides, girls have to have some hair on their arms. I also use it to put a blond streak through my hair and it never gives that brassy red look.

Last summer we didn't travel as two girls as I didn't want to pluck my face, but I did have another terrific experience and one which I had dreamed of all my life. I went into a beauty shop and had a shampoo and set! I wore a girl's plain white blouse and shorts and my legs were shaved, but no bra or make-up. There was only one operator in the shop and she was giving an older