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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I have my nose waxed every time I get a hair cut .It is quick and for the most part painless.
Yes having your nails done by a pro is the surest of the grooming mentioned to feel and look like a female. but babes if your truly a girl why hide it? i have done that a year ago. im a 24/7 woman now. i am so happy i done that and have no regrets at all. actually my only regret is i waited longer then i needed to. now im living my dream. you would be surprised that no body will bother you about it but loved ones. i have only been bothered by family.it also improved my sex life. i just dont understand why people are afraid to show who they are. you dont get bothered really in fact a lot of people are interested in trans gender and ask you all about it.
Annie
Tough questions (maybe) for you. Trimming my “bikini area” is a big problem for me. (I know: this is personal”). How to trim around my testicles and on my crotch area is difficult. Do other MTF report the same problem? Any hints? Don’t want to get cut. Help. Bobbi
Thank you, thank you for your tips, I do need some help to remembers things . Love to dress and be the best I can be. Can pass now but will take all to make me look more female.
All great ideas. Extras:
-Threading brows monthly (groupon)
-laser or electrolysis (groupon!)
-thining arm hair with #1 or #2 razor clip
-shave hands past bracelet area
-for eye bags use WOW from itWorks or some other line plumper
-scented bath salts and lotions
-facial care regiment is essential.
-whiter teeth in three weeks is easy with better toothpaste formulas.
Two and a half years later these are still very worthwhile tips. They obviously work well as you are very pretty.
Hugs,
Jenny D
beautiful! absolutely beautiful please share more pictures!
Steph:
You look Fabulous GF!!
All your “extra ” tips were spot on, as well. You could teach the class. You appear very young, very youthful look, nice.
As you get older you will appreciate what us “mature gurls ” have to do to keep up with you young Foxes!
ENJOY BEING YOU! T.J.
PICS, For your comments. ..be kind, I am 71yrs. ..
Wow, you really look Beautiful.
Jessica mentioned that she was having trouble growing out her nails. I happen to make jewelry that involves wire and I had the same problem with my nails splitting and breaking. I decided to have acrylic nails applied, now if you are not familiar with this it is not fake nails super-glued to your nails to add length. It is a powder combined with a liquid that hardens when it dries and thickens along with strengthening your natural nails. I have clear gel polish applied on top to protect the nail and give me beautiful shiny nails even in guy mode. When I go out in femme mode I can apply color right on top of the gel polish. Another plus is that as my natural nails grow the acrylic protects them from cracking, splitting or breaking. This method is more expensive than stick on nails but they look and feel great. If you are worried about someone questioning why you (as a man) have acrylic nails you can simply say it’s because you are a guitar player.
If you wa t to be a girl than live it full time sure theres a lot of maintenance to be s women but when you are able to to keep up with it.
All feels dam good
I love the tips. I get a pedicure every 4 weeks at a nail salon and have my toes painted. They are bright green now for St. Patrick’s Day. I do my own manicures every 2 weeks and keep my nails painted with clear polish all of the time.