Do you want to feel confident and look your best when presenting yourself as a woman?
The great news is that looking attractive is more about how you present yourself than it is about natural-born beauty.
Studies show that physical attractiveness is mostly influenced by “self-care” — how you groom, style your hair, and dress.
This makes grooming and self-care essential to your feminine image!
In this blog post, I’ll share five simple grooming tips to include in your regular beauty routine, all tailored with practical trans / crossdressing advice.
1. Hand Care
Your hands say a LOT about you!
Since your hands may be larger than the average woman’s, it’s especially important to take good care of them. The last thing you want is for your hands to draw unwanted attention.
Beauty prescription:
- Every 1-2 weeks: Give yourself a manicure – or better yet, get a manicure at a nail salon. Clip or file your nails and push back the cuticles with a cuticle pusher.
- Daily: Clean underneath your fingernails with nail brush and apply hand cream several times per day.
2. Hair Removal
You already know that beard stubble and chest hair can undermine your feminine image. But it’s essential to consider other often neglected areas too.
Do you have unwanted hair in any of these particular spots?
- Nose and ears
- Knuckles and toes
- Eyebrows
- Back
- Bikini area
- Arms
- Legs
Beauty prescription:
- Once per week: Shave, trim, wax, and/or pluck the above-mentioned areas as needed.
3. Exfoliation
Exfoliation is the process of scrubbing off dead skin cells. Dead skin cells can dull your complexion and lead to ingrown hairs.
Exfoliation will give you smoother, younger looking skin, which can greatly enhance your appearance as a crossdresser or transgender woman.
Beauty prescription:
- Once or twice per week: Exfoliate your face and body using a washcloth, loofah, or exfoliating scrub. (When exfoliating your face, be sure to use facial products only.)
4. Foot Care
It’s easy to forget your feet, especially during the winter, when they are covered up with shoes and socks. But that’s no excuse to ignore them.
Could you imagine a beauty icon like Marilyn Monroe or Angelina Jolie with cracked heels and ragged toenails? No way – and neither should you.
Beauty prescription:
Twice per month: Treat yourself to a pedicure at home or in a salon. Trim your toenails and (optionally) apply polish. Remove calluses with a pumice stone.
5. Face Mask
Applying a face mask once per week should be part of every girl’s routine. Besides targeting specific skincare concerns, relaxing with a mask is a great way to pamper yourself.
There are face masks designed to address every concern from acne to wrinkles. In addition to cream and clay masks, sheet masks are a popular and convenient option.
Beauty prescription:
- Once per week: Apply a face mask suited to your skin.
What are YOUR must-do beauty rituals?
Being pretty and polished is a great confidence booster. These habits can also make you look better in guy mode, so it’s a win-win.
What are YOUR must-do beauty or grooming rituals? Please share in the comments below!
Love,
Lucille
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So nice routine …..mmmmm
All good advice, I guess I’d add that personally I like to keep things looking natural, so many trans girls seem to overdo things & end up looking like Stepford wives or daytime hookers.
Body hair is my battle, too fair for lazer, but I’m hoping it will get a little easier when I start HRT, kind of laughable the claims that I hear “since starting HRT I have virtually no body hair” I mean how many cis females are totally hairless? Lol. But a little less would be nice!
I’ve found my epilator a painful, but valuable tool 🙂
Had my beard removed. HRT took care of all body hair. I have no hair on my legs or under arms. Clippers once a month takes care of the light hair on my arms. I have two massages a month. One deep tissue that includes a foot scrub and one a relaxation that includes a facial. After each shower, I lotion my whole body and use a very high quality lotion twice a day on my face and hands. I use little makeup. A very light base and a neutral lipstick. Face cleansing morning and evening. While having the beard removed I also had my brows shaped permanently. Both brows and lashes are tinted each month with the facial which will last the whole month. Saves time and not much more expensive than buying the products to do it daily.
From Victoria:
Adding on to previous comment:
I electric shave my body every 2 weeks at most, one week usually. Works better for me than blade shaving(except bikini area) or waxing.
my routine includes a facial every 4 mos. in a salon, at least one face treatment per year94 this year); home microdermabrasion 2x’s per week;
botox 3-4 times a year on brows and forehead, a Radisse filler 1x per year on cheekbones, folds and corners of lips and face. All these plus daily and weekly routines discussed. A tinted sunscreen topping off toner, treatment, and moisturizer daily.
I shave, microdermabrasion and moisturize my hands as needed; manicure and pedicure both home and salon.
I lotion and/or oil massage my body daily, and I USE tinted moisturizer and spray-tan in a salon covering bikini and bust with bra and tong to highlight rest of body tan. Perfume or mist to top off ,always
This routine goes daily whether going out as a woman, going to work and business as a man, whatever. Adds years to one’s life, gets positive attention and feedback whatever/wherever mode I am in.
Try it, Girls, it is worth the time and money.
Of course we should not forget the need to cleanse and moisturize every night at bedtime. It’s only in the movies that women go to bed and wake up fully made up.
Hi Lucille
As always excellent article, I star my laser treatment in my body that’s the solution to get rid of the hair that is my advice to all the girls .
Me too I waited for your products for the lips and the boty. love
xoxo joanna
I am an idler so I do not have to concern myself about how I look at a job which I don’t have. I get a manicure and a spa pedicure fairly regularly as well as getting my body waxed but I should start getting face masks. I have gotten rid of my beard but still have some unwanted hair growth on my face.
My once-abundant head of hair is no longer such but with the addition of a curly haired topper and in curling my own hair to go along with it my head of hair looks pretty good anyway and I get lots of compliments on it from admiring women. I have my own personal tanning bed so I am tan year around but I use it not to tan but just to feel good. I am happy to have discovered the curling wand which is so much better than the older curling iron and does not damage the hair! I am also happy to be able to hula-hoop at my age and rather well too!