(Note: these don't look great to me flipped to be oriented the way everyone else would see my face IRL, but I'm 99.9% sure it's just because I'm used to seeing myself in the mirror, since the more I look at these versions the better I feel about them)
So I decided to power through my artblock (the Eggbug chuckster doesn't quite count to me because that was mostly just tracing an official pianta render, though it did help to get the creative juices flowing) and figure out what the fuck I want to do with my appearance once I grow my hair out and start going out in public presenting as a gal, and to do that I redrew a photo of myself, left out the hair beyond what's on the scalp so I could put things on top of it more easily, embellished a few things (like giving myself a bit of mascara and/or eyeliner, since I'm fond of that look), colored it a bit, and then planned to do sloppy paint-overs to get a feel for what might look good or bad on me, but I wound up already being super happy with the base, which caught me off-guard.
And then I went ahead and (messily) put my MH hunter's hair (MHR style 29, which IIRC was added in Sunbreak) onto the base and uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh holy shit? Hoooooly shit, I didn't get hit with a wave of gender euphoria, I got hit by a fuckin' tsunami of the stuff (disclaimer: I normally brush my bangs to my right, hence the hairstyle being flipped from how it appears in-game)
I still need to figure out what I want to do in terms of glasses, but already I feel fan-fucking-tastic about all this, since I was genuinely expecting to have to try a few hairstyles before I found anything that looked good. So the fact that I hit upon something that I sincerely think would look super fucking cute on me so quickly is a really fucking pleasant surprise ❤️❤️❤️ (I might experiment with some other types of accessory as well, like a Celeste Foley-style miniscarf, or maybe even something like earrings, which I've never put much thought into when it comes to what I'd want to wear)
(side-note: if anyone feels like offering suggestions for things they think would look cute on me in terms of hairstyles or accessories, feel free to edit the base 
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