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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There’s one of these I feel I can’t do – my toes. Before I transitioned I used to self harm to deal with the gender dysphoria and my toenails are all deformed. So unfortunately my toes have to stay under stockings – I’m terribly self conscious of them in the Summer.
Clean skin is beautiful skin I exfoliate regularly and clean my face with a makeup cleaning towelettes twice a day . I want to add a nice white smile is very important take good care of your smile aswell
As male to female trans-women we have WAY more places with hair that we need to tame than cis-women. In my opinion, one of the most important, but often overlooked places, is our eye brows. NO cis woman has crazy bushy eyebrows. You look at old women who hardly wear makeup anymore but their eyebrows are trimmed. You can look at a Muslim woman whose entire body is covered from head to toe so that you can only see here eyes through her veil, but her eye brows are trimmed. No woman has unkept eyebrows. I trim mine down with an eyebrow shaver to keep them from getting too bushy and I have them waxed to shape them when I get my nails done. Threading is another option. You can go get that done even if you’re en drab.
You do have lovely brows. Have you tried threading instead of waxing? Yeeouch! It’s much more painful than waxing, imo. It’s on a par with electrolysis, but the latter goes on longer. Lasts longer too, so it’s a balance.
Have a great day,
Adeline
I try don’t ignore the 5 Feminine Grooming Habits , please give me your opinion
I think these tips are great. I also try to get a facial every two weeks as well. I just got back from shopping. What do you think of this dress? Also, try to smile a lot, makes a nice lady like impression.
Suzy, that is the sexiest dress i’ve ever seen you wear. And, that hair color is perfect on you – the prettiest I’ve ever seen on you.
Love,
Amber
Wow Suzy, that’s one of your best and most feminine pics yet! And I luv that hairstyle on you dear. You Always look so feminine, but this pic makes you look really young. It really accentuates your breasts and adds to your femininity.
xo
AmberLinn
Thanks so much AmberLinn! It’s so much fun being a girl! Hugs, Suzy
Thanks Lucille! Yep, I follow all of your tips religiously! It’s always fun for me to see my manicurist for my weekly manicures and pedicures. Nothing makes me feel more feminine to talk girl talk with her while she does my nails! Here I am the other day after one of my appointments trying on a dress at the mall.
It is a lot of work and it never let’s up. I will say, ” it is worth it.” Every now and then I just let it all go, but I can’t stand to let it go for long. Pretty soon I right back in there with all my creams, pluckers, epilators, makeup, and all the other things are necessary to maintain that feminine image. It is definitely a lot of work, but I love it.
you are absolutely beautiful! especially your eyes. also what color lipstick is that. I wish I could accomplish 1/3 of how beautiful youi look! thanks for sharing! M
I believe that shade is Maybelline Amethyst Ablaze. I buy most of my lipstick and shadows from A1Greatdealstore on Ebay. Buy 2 get 1 free. They have some really good prices and delivery and service is unmatched in my book.
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