Summer is in full swing here in the Northern Hemisphere, which means…
It’s time to put on a bikini or swimsuit!
Even if you aren’t ready to hit the beach en femme, a bathing suit should be part of every girl’s wardrobe. Wear one for sunbathing, lounging by the pool, or posing in a beach babe photoshoot.
But how can you look your best when there’s so little left to the imagination?
This post contains my top trans / crossdressing bikini and swimsuit tips for looking sexy and feminine in swimwear. Read on to learn more!
1. Enhance Your Hips and Bust
To maximize the look of female curves, try these tips:
- Go for ruffles and ruching. These style details are great for adding volume where you might lack curves.
- Wear a padded bikini top. Fortunately, many bikinis and swimsuits come with built-in padding for added oomph.
- Try a skirted bikini bottom. A skirt that flares out at the hips is an easy way to add inches. It’s also great for covering areas you may not feel comfortable displaying.
Ruffles and ruching
Padded bikini top
Skirted bikini bottom
2. Downplay Your Shoulders
Balanced proportions are the key to a sexy figure. By minimizing your shoulders, you can achieve a more feminine balance between your upper and lower body.
Here are some tricks for making broad shoulders appear more delicate:
- Avoid string bikinis unless you are truly tiny. Instead, select a bikini top with wide straps to balance the proportion of your shoulders.
- Try a halter top. Halter tops draw the eye in, creating a slimming effect. They’re also great for showing off cleavage.
- Avoid bandeau tops. Bandeau tops create a strong horizontal line across the chest, making your upper body look even wider.
DON’T: String bikini
DO: Halter top
DON’T: Bandeau top
3. Slim Your Middle
Here are 3 strategies to help create the illusion of an hourglass shape:
- Wear a shaping swimsuit. There are a lot of swimsuits (like MiracleSuit) with built-in control panels to hold in and slenderize your torso.
- Look for suits with side panels in a contrasting color. A color blocked swimsuit is a great trick for slimming your torso. The eye is drawn towards the middle of your body and the sides are minimized, creating the look of a slimmer torso.
- Wear a monokini. A monokini is a sexy swimwear style that has cutout sides. It’s less revealing than a bikini and the cutout side panels create the visual illusion of an hourglass figure.
Shaping swimsuit
Contrasting side panels
Monokini
4. Smooth Your Silhouette
It’s not just about shape and size, but about creating a sleek and smooth silhouette, too. Keep these tips in mind:
- Make sure your swimsuit fits well. A suit that is too small will dig in and create unattractive bulges and belly rolls. A suit that is too big will droop.
- Master the art of the “tuck.” Bikini bottoms leave nothing to the imagination, so you’ll want to ensure a smooth look. There are lots of forums and websites that can give pointers on how to do this comfortably. (Or take my first tip and wear a skirted bikini bottom.)
5. Pose Pretty
Posture is always important, but it’s especially crucial when your entire body is on full display.
You should always be aware of the way you hold your body when you’re in a bikini. Think about your posture whether you’re sitting around a pool chatting with friends or posing for the camera.
Keep your tummy in and avoid slouching at all times. The more long and lifted your posture, the slimmer you will appear.
Ready for your own beach babe moment?
Follow these tips and I promise you’ll look sizzling on the beach or poolside!
Now that you know how to look HOT in feminine swimwear, here’s where to shop for that dream bikini or swimsuit: MTF Swimwear: 10 Best Places to Shop for Transgender / Crossdressing Swimsuits & Bikinis.
Finally, are you ready for some beach babe inspiration? Check out my gallery of 8 stunning transgender bikini models below!
Who is your favorite? Vote below and – if you’re feeling brave – share your own beach babe photo in the comments!
Love,
Lucille
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Truly love Your blog and all the great ideas offered and shared here! Thank You!
Hi Lucille,
As a wearer of women’s swimsuits for many, many years, I will say that many of your tips and tricks for wearing women’s swimsuits are helpful and truthful. Now that I am living totally full time as a woman and dress totally fem and not owning any male clothing at all, I will refer to them as just swimsuits instead of ‘women’s swimsuits’.
The very first start of me wearing swimsuits was when I was 6 & 7 and was first feminized by my babysitter who would have me wear a little girl’s swimsuit to go in the wading pool in the backyard.
When in pre-teen and high school years I would wear my mom’s one piece swimsuits while she was at work and I also dressed fem regularly. My parents were divorced and my mom worked days as a card dealer in a Reno casino back in the 50s and 60s. I had all day to be a girl and did so without mom’s knowledge. She had several one piece suits that I would wear for a bit and view myself in a full length mirror. I was slender then so there was no problem of trying to hide male muscle mass or was not to hairy and I looked like a female in the suit. I practiced tucking so that I would look like a female down there and used tape to hold me in place. I did stuff the bra cups with the foam rubber falsies that were popular with women back then. My mom was small busted and used the falsies often and had a good supply of them.
When I was 18 I moved from my mom to an apartment just so that I could freely live as a female. I had to work as a male but spent the rest of my time at home as a female.
My 36 year old boyfriend, who took my female (anal) virginity when I was 19, belonged to a secret society organization and cult similar to the cult group in “Eyes Wide Shut” (yes there are cults and secret societies like this and if anyone denies this then that would be like saying there is not really an ISIS or Al-Qaida) but it was a society for men that had TG girlfriends and wives. My boyfriend that was just a high school art and Spanish teacher knew these people. I had to be accepted as a female to be allowed into this society. It was also like an anal sex club because all of us girls had to perform and function as a female during sex and that was part of the curriculum. That was expected and required because we were the women of the society. We girls also had kind of a sisterhood between us. It was sponsored by wealthy prominent men (can’t mention any names) that had TG girlfriends or wives and it was kept very secretive. All of us ‘girls’ in this group were feminized genetic males. We had functions that were cocktail parties where us girls were all dolled up to the max in a cocktail dress or a gown and all passed as girls and women.
On occasion during the warmer months we had pool parties at the larger homes and mansions with swimming pools. Of course us girls were required to wear swimsuits at the parties. My boyfriend and I went shopping for swimsuits and tried on a few and wound up buying 3. I discovered at that time that halter suits that tied or attached behind the neck just like in tip # 2 worked best for me. They did make my shoulders appear narrower. The suits I bought were fairly conservative. I did not feel confident enough to wear a bikini. With the conservative suits I used foundation garments to help shape me like a female and had learned how to create cleavage to make it look like I had real and natural breasts. I was good at tucking the also. I pulled it off without any problems and appeared like a woman in a swimsuit at the pool parties. I don’t remember any swimsuits that had ruching then as in tip #1 but I do have suits and dresses now with ruching. It is easier to hide my foundation garments that help shape me like a woman under my swimsuits.
I wore swimsuits whenever I was at an aquatic facility or had the opportunity. In the mid 70s I attended a finishing school for Tgirls. It was located in the Napa/Sonoma wine country in northern California. It was called ‘The Shema Academy: Mistress Olivia’s Finishing School for Special Girls’. Shema stood for ‘Shemale’. I tried to find it again a few years ago but it is no longer there nor any trace of it. It was in a foothill area that was just off a winding 2 lane highway and over a hill and down in a valley on an old abandoned farm. It was operated by some Dominatrixes and we had to wear female clothing and makeup all the time and sleep in pink baby doll nighties. There were 16 of us and the school was expensive. We had classes 6 days a week and many of the things for instruction I was already pretty well versed in. Some of the classes were in applying makeup, hair styling, manicures and pedicures, dressing as a female, tucking, creating cleavage, cooking, maid training, waitress training, wife training, career girl (secretary or receptionist) training and dressing, walking and acting like a female as well as speech classes, and other specialty classes that included having to have a tampon (tampon training) or a butt plug inserted. The classes were all day with Sundays off. There was swimming pool that we girls could use in the evenings and on Sunday. We had to wear swimsuits and we had to look perfect and like a female. We had to be perfectly tucked and looking like a woman down there, if we had any male bulge at all we were told to go back to our room (we each had our own separate girl’s bedroom) and adjust ourselves. It was imperative that we looked like females and young women.
Since then I have been wearing swimsuits now all my life when a chance happens. The foundation garments I wear are waist cinchers, butt lift panties, sometimes hip pads and I do now have my own B cup breasts for cleavage. I have worn swimsuits on camping trips with boyfriends, at functions with other girls, at the beach and at motels when on trips. I have a special gaff that I designed myself that I glue on with Skin Bond or Hollister’s that looks just like a realistic vulva and it makes me look like a woman down there. Sometimes my boyfriend who will soon be my legal husband and I will sit out in my backyard listening to a radio while having a glass of lemonade or iced tea. My boyfriend likes the way I look in a swimsuit and tells me that I look just like a woman. I always look like a woman in a swimsuit.
Hi Julie!
This is the most interesting story i’ve ever herad!! I have some qestions for you if you allowed to me!
I am excited and looking forward for your answer if it is ok at my email.
Xoxo
All I can say is OMG !!! I’m sure in your femme life you have had to overcome some obstacles n tribulations but I must say I’m jealous! !! At 40dressing has been apart of me for as long as I remember . I suppressed it until 3 n a half years ago when i finally bought my first dress. Then came panties n bras n heels,makeup wig etc etc. I’ve evolved immensely but I can’t get enough n am always evolving further . Biggest obstacle I have now is lack of others Being that I live n Alabama pickens r slim other than craigslist . any advice u could give me would b greatly appreciated . Xoxo Elisa Victoria
Thank you girlfriend. I have lived all my life for what I am doing now and that is living as a woman totally 24/7/365 and from now on.
I have set myself up to live as a female financially and just did a few things like getting charge cards under my female name. I pay my bills online and can get what cash I need from my ATM at my bank with my debit card. I also have my steady retirement accounts to live on plus have health and medical insurance.
My doctor knows what I am and allows me to go to my office visits as a woman. He almost sent me away because he never had a patient like me (m to f) before. But I have been going to this doctor for about 20 years before I came out to him. That happened when I went into the office as a male one day and they wanted me to update my info as they do periodically and everything was also the same but where the boxes for sex were they had added another box that said, Transgendered. I couldn’t decide if I should continue to check the box for male or the transgendered. For some reason I checked the transgendered. I created a stir in the office and I could hear some commotion going on. Now they knew. After that I was allowed to go to the office enfemme and as a woman. I can now make my appointments under my female name of ‘Julie’. I let the know I’m there and when they are ready for me the nurse comes in the waiting and ask for Julie. My doctor is a GP but he has given me pelvic exams, breast exams and also referred my mammogram appointment. The pelvic exams were actually rectal exams but because my doctor knows that I have sex as a woman and submit to anal intercourse, he gives me that exam the same as a GG pelvic exam. So being that he does those extra female exams for me I also consider him my gynecologist. And girlfriend, we know how we girls and women need a gynecologist that she can trust.
I only wear women’s clothes now and tossed all my male clothes including my TG clothes because TG clothes are made for a man to appear as a woman and I want to wear something made for a woman to wear.
I do all things feminine and as a woman. I sit to pee, douche and use tampons. My rectum is my vagina.
Yes I have had my set backs, tribulations and obstacles. I guess I could have went the other way and been male but my female side was too strong and won out. When I finally realized I was supposed to be a woman I completely surrendered to it. There were a few times years ago that I was able to live as a woman full time because I worked as a woman and had female jobs. But then there were also the times I lived as a female but had to work as a male. Now that I do not have to work anymore I again live full time as a woman. And I have a boyfriend and I am a girlfriend! Soon we are going to be legally married and I will be a wife and married woman. It will actually be a same sex marriage but to us it is a marriage between a man and a woman. I am going to be a Mrs. and take his last name as my last name and I will be a bride at my wedding. I will be Mrs. Julie Ferris. My estrogen is dominant in my body now my testosterone level is very low. Not only is the estrogen feminizing me physically giving me hormone induced breasts for one but it is also making me feel like a woman mentally.
It was a long road to where I am now but I am happy. My journey started when I was 6 by my babysitter that wanted a feminine daughter and progressed to where I am at now at 60sih (you know women don’t ever tell their real age right?) I have went through changes and I have seen changes. I have done a number female jobs and have had boyfriends and also one former husband.
I wish you well into your journey to womanhood. Don’t ever get discouraged.
This is my latest acquisition. Lucille, do you like it?
Heather, Sweetie. ..are you the Pro Model for this suite Company? ?
You look Totally Amazing!
At 71, I ‘ ve dreamed to look as good, long ago. ..Enjoy being You. …T.J.
Nice top hun!
This was a fantastic article. I love swimsuits. I am addicted to them. I love to wear then whenever I can. The first picture is me. Do you think I look good enough to go to the pool? Let me know.
You look beautiful and I will love to be your friend… You can email me at tgmayte@hotmail.com… Xoxo…. Mayte
I think u look absolutely beautiful and natural . Very classy lady with a youthful sexual flair . Elisa
Thank you. You are very kind. You made my day.
Aloha! 🙂 Well this was me in my better body years!!
This was from my 1st time in public. It actually looks better on me now,
I’m too big in the middle to pull of a bikini, but I’m looking at 2 piece suits now
Hi there. I own a “Speedo” black ladies’ swimming costume (which I think is gorgeously feminine, however it does not lend itself to being able to “tuck”).
Inspired by the information already provided, I am also going to acquire a swim dress style, so that the skirt element will deal with the difficulty. Thank you as always.
I agree with mj