If you want to learn how to feminize yourself, mastering your movements is a big part of your feminine image.
But what if you feel like you could use a little help in the “grace” department?
The good news is that there are some simple techniques for feminizing your body movements, whether you are a crossdresser or a transgender woman.
In this blog post, I’ll share 7 simple tips to make your gestures and overall deportment more graceful and feminine. Let’s get started!
1. Slow Down
It’s common to speed up your movements when you feel nervous or self-conscious. This can make you appear jerky and clumsy.
To look more poised, avoid rushed movements. Every move you make should be deliberate and precise. Take your time as you sit down, stand up, gesture, and reach for things.
2. Keep Your Knees Together And Your Elbows In
I’m sure you’ve heard this from Day 1, but it’s easy to let old habits slip in, especially if you spend most of your time in “guy mode.” That’s why it’s important to be mindful of keeping your knees together and your elbows in.
When you keep your knees together, you’ll exude that ladylike elegance, especially when sitting.
Why elbows in? Well, when your limbs are spread out all over the place, it’s easy to be clumsy. So, by keeping your elbows close to your body, you’ll instantly make your gestures more graceful. Simple as that!
3. Stretch Out
It’s impossible to move gracefully if you have a tense and tight body. That’s one reason why dancers spend so much time stretching.
You too should make stretching part of your normal routine – particularly before you present yourself as a woman. Here’s a 10 minute full-body stretching routine you can try:
4. Don’t Fidget
Fidgeting makes you look awkward and insecure, so avoid nervous movements like:
- Twirling your hair
- Biting your nails
- Shaking your leg
- Tapping your fingers
- Compulsively checking your phone
Instead, practice the art of graceful stillness! You will look confident and in control of yourself.
By the way, fidgeting isn’t the only body language mistake to avoid. See my post on 27 MTF Body Language Mistakes to Avoid for a Flawless Feminine Image to learn more.
5. Study Graceful Women
There’s a lot to be learned from studying poised, elegant women. Pay attention to the way they move and carry themselves in public.
See the video below for a fabulous example of the ever-graceful Marilyn Monroe. Notice how elegantly she sits and stands, how deliberate her gestures are, and how she never fails to keep her knees together.
6. Take Dance Classes
If you’re really serious about becoming a graceful, elegant woman, then I highly recommend taking dance classes. The grace and coordination you’ll learn through dancing will carry over into your day-to-day life.
Any type of dance class is helpful, be it belly dance, salsa, or ballet. If you’re shy about showing up for instruction en femme, take salsa classes in “male mode.” You’ll still get some awesome hip movement training!
7. Practice
Finally, remember that being graceful takes practice. I recommend practicing your movements and gestures in front of a mirror. Or, better yet, record a video of yourself so you can evaluate your movements objectively.
Here are some specific movements to practice:
- Sitting down
- Standing up
- Gesturing as you speak
- Greeting other people with a hand shake or air kiss
- Table manners
- Getting into and out of a car
What do your movements say about you?
You might not be able to change your height or the overall shape of your body, but the good news is that you have a lot of control over your body movements.
Use these 7 tips to become a more graceful, elegant woman!
Now I’d love to hear from YOU on this topic.
Do you struggle with your body movements or are you naturally graceful? Do you have any other feminine movement tips you can share with us?
Please leave your comments below!
Love,
Lucille
P.S. If you found these tips helpful, I have even more I’d LOVE to share with you!
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Hi
I think that Heidi Watney from the show Quick Pitch on the MLB station is one of the sexier girls on the planet.
Her movement of her hands and the way that she walks in her high heels is a classic look.
She always looks eligent and moves in a eligent sexy way.
I think about the way that she moves her feet and try to emulate the way that she walks when I’m out shopping or going into a restaurant for dinner.
When going into a restaurant is one of the places that you are being watched as you are walking to your table
The way that you walk and sit down is a testament to passing as a lady
I always keep my feet together and when I sit down I bend my knees as I’m sitting down
I try to smooth my skirt as I’m starting to sit which I think that a lady should do as she’s sitting down
I like to think that this is the way that Heidi Watney would sit when she’s out dining and I try to emulate her in anyway I can
She’s my go to girl
I’ve found that by slowing your movements down a bit, relaxing in everyday situations, and remembering you are a cute young woman and not an astronaut, you’ll not only pass, but get several “passes” your way.
Kisses xxxooo
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I agree! Dancing is an excellent way to learn grace! I was a lead for C&W, Swing and Waltz for years and now enjoy dancing as the graceful follower of a handsome stud!
it is certainly true that you become more elegant from dancing.
i used to dance, and since I was small for my age I always got the female part, what I did not mind, of course.
kisses xxx
I thought that Audrey was related to Katherine in some way or another but it appears that there is no immediate relation.
Hepburn was born on 4 May 1929 at number 48 Rue Keyenveld in Ixelles, a municipality in Brussels, Belgium.[5] Her father, Joseph Victor Anthony Ruston (1889–1980), was a British subject born in Úžice, Bohemia,[6][a] to Anna Ruston (née Wels), of Austrian descent,[7] and Victor John George Ruston, of British and Austrian descent.[8] A one-time honorary British consul in the Dutch East Indies, Hepburn’s father had earlier been married to Cornelia Bisschop, a Dutch heiress.[6][9] Although born Ruston, he later double-barrelled the surname to the more “aristocratic” Hepburn-Ruston, mistakenly[8] believing himself descended from James Hepburn, third husband of Mary, Queen of Scots.[9]
Her mother, Baroness Ella van Heemstra (1900–1984), was a Dutch aristocrat and the daughter of Baron Aarnoud van Heemstra, who was mayor of Arnhem from 1910 to 1920 and served as Governor of Dutch Suriname from 1921 to 1928. Ella’s mother was Elbrig Willemine Henriette, Baroness van Asbeck (1873–1939), who was a granddaughter of jurist Dirk van Hogendorp. At age nineteen, Ella had married Jonkheer (Esquire) Hendrik Gustaaf Adolf Quarles van Ufford, but they divorced in 1925. Hepburn had two half-brothers from this marriage who were both born in the Dutch East Indies: Jonkheer Arnoud Robert Alexander Quarles van Ufford (1920–1979) and Jonkheer Ian Edgar Bruce Quarles van Ufford (1924–2010).
Hepburn’s mother and father married in the Dutch-Colonial Batavia (now Jakarta), Dutch East Indies, in September 1926. They moved back to Europe, to Ixelles in Belgium, where Hepburn was born in 1929, before moving to Linkebeek, a nearby Brussels municipality, in January 1932. Although born in Belgium, Hepburn held British citizenship through her father.
As a result of her multinational background and travelling with her family because of her father’s job, she learned to speak five languages: Dutch and English from her parents and later French, Spanish, and Italian. Hepburn began studying ballet when she was five years old
Slowly I’m remembering I don’t always have to cross my legs just keep them together I do have something to protect habits even bad ones are hard to break I will get better at moving like the feminine lady I used to be I’m just very much out of practice I used to be a proper young lady once I had no one else to emulate until I was 11 years old but my sisters and mother at 11 was when I started getting in trouble for being so girly at school and at home by my step dad he wasn’t that bad to me but it didn’t take much I wasn’t used to men at the time slowly he began to drink more he still wasn’t that bad to me he focused more on drinking than anything else Love M.J.
Hi Linda I hear you that were supposed to appear feminine not effeminate but doesn’t that apply only to men appearing effeminate when they move gracefully as women do I could be wrong and often am as I used to be very effeminate before I made an effort to change to keep from getting beat up many years ago