you shouldn't take only antiandrogens, your body needs one dominant sex hormone or you'll start having "fun" problems like loss of bone density. what you might be able to do is take a DHT blocker like minoxidil (the oral kind, ideally), which i think can sometimes affect facial hair growth? (pinging @gandalf_der_12te@lemmy.blahaj.zone)

that said, i do want to dampen expectations a bit - you shouldn't assume that any kind of HRT will necessarily affect facial/body hair growth. it can, but isn't guaranteed. i've been doing estrogen monotherapy for just over a year now and my body hair is still growing back exactly as thick and fast as it was before (facial hair is hard to say, it's 95% gone thanks to laser).

finally, i don't know how long you've been doing IPL but if you've been through many sessions and it isn't making a (significant) difference, it may be worth switching to a different studio which offers actual laser hair removal or even electrolysis.

No. Not really. I take an androgen blocker injected every 13 weeks and even WITH estrogen on top of that my facial hair comes back pretty much as soon as it ever did. Also for the six to seven weeks they had me on no estrogen with the blocker, I was experiencing hot flushes, which wasn't fun.

Which would be the least of your problems in the long run because with both low e and low t levels you'll wind up with oesteoperosis. Don't do it kid, nothing good will come of it.

Afaik:

Yes, in the long term, cutting T from body will reduce hairs, and everything, You may be dead on that! OR at least very very very sick on many levels.

Our bodies NEEDS some T and optional E hormones to work, not only for body hairs, but pretty much everything. Yes, girls, both cis and trans needs a little of androgens too! That's why getting correct dose of blockers is so important.

If You feel to be too manly on some aspects, it may be worthy checking if You do not overproduce T naturally, that would be bad too, then ask doctor for small dose of blocker, to put the level into desired amount. No less, doubt that would help much against facial hairs.

I'm on anti-androgens AND Estrogen for a few months and I couldn't observe a meaningful reduction in hair growth so far.

Do you use IPL in the face? I thought that was advised against by all the applicatiins.

It's more expensive but I would look at cryo laser, I got it on my face and bottom surgery area. It sprays liquid nitrogen at the same time and was a lot less painful when I switched. https://milanlaser.com/blog/laser-hair-removal-systems-with-advanced-cooling-and-ergonomic-designs https://www.satorilaser.com/blogs/laser-at-satori/what-is-the-cryogen-system-in-laser-hair-removal

Why would you assume that a doctor wouldn't know of the existence of testosterone blockers?