Do you long achieve a more feminine figure as a crossdresser or transgender woman?
If so, the secret lies in creating a more feminine hip-to-waist ratio – that coveted hourglass shape!
In this blog post, I’ll share 5 MTF tips on how to slim your waist and enhance your hips, ultimately helping you achieve a more feminine and flattering body shape.
1. Try Waist Training With a Corset
If you’ve never worn a corset before, prepare to be amazed: A corset can take up to 6” off your waist and make you look and feel ultra feminine.
A corset can even be used for a semi-permanent waist size reduction. Waist training with a corset isn’t fast or easy, but it can work wonders when combined with a proper diet and exercise.
Check out this Guide to Waist Training from Orchard Corset to learn more about what waist training is and how to properly use corsets for this purpose.
For a deeper dive into the wonderful world of corsets, don’t miss my post on Transgender / Crossdressing Corsets: How To Wear A Corset (MTF Guide).
2. Wear a Waist Cincher
As lovely as corsets are, they aren’t always practical. A big drawback is that corsets can look stiff and bulky under most clothes. And they’re not exactly known for being comfortable.
Waist cinchers, on the other hand, are designed to be worn under clothing. A waist cincher can take 1-4 inches off your waist while still allowing you to move and breath easily.
Here are 3 top-reviewed waist cinchers available in small to extra-large sizes.
- Maidenform Waistnipper Firm Control Shaper
- Squeem Firm Control Waist Cincher
- Rago Shapette Shaping Girdle 821
Maidenform Waistnipper Shaper
Squeem Firm Control waist Cincher
Rago Shapette Shaping Girdle 821
3. Improve Your Posture
Good posture can make you look 10 pounds lighter around the middle, so pay attention to the way you sit and stand. Think: stomach in, chest lifted, and shoulders back.
Even better – put on your waist cincher! A waist cincher improves your posture by forcing you to keep your tummy in and your spine straight.
4. Do Stomach Vacuum Exercises
Traditional exercises like crunches and sit-ups can overdevelop your abs and increase the size of your waist. This is obviously the last thing you need in your MTF body shaping journey.
Instead, consider doing stomach vacuum exercises. This exercise tones the transverse abdominis – the innermost ab muscle that holds your stomach in and acts like a built in corset. Everyday crunches don’t target this muscle.
Stomach vacuums (also known as the vacuum pose) can take 2-4 inches off your waist, so it’s definitely worth a try. I personally lost 1 inch off my waist after doing this exercise for 2 weeks!
Here’s how to do it:
- Exhale all the air from your lungs.
- Expand your chest and suck in your stomach as much as possible. Imagine trying to touch your belly button to your spine.
- Hold this pose for 5-15 seconds and then relax.
- Repeat for 3-5 minutes.
Stomach vacuums should be done on an empty stomach and can be done standing, sitting, or on your hands and knees.
Watch the video above and/or check out this article to learn more about stomach vacuum exercises.
5. Enhance Your Hips
A small waist is only half of the equation. Your hips should appear approximately 10 inches larger than your waist for true hourglass proportions.
Here are some tips for enhancing your hips:
- Wear padded panties. Classic Curves carries the best hip and butt enhancers for crossdressers and transgender women. You can also find a big selection of removable hip and butt pads on LoveMyBubbles.com.
- Go for skirts and dresses with gathered waistlines. Gathers are the easiest way add inches to your lower body and create the illusion of hips.
- Look for peplum styles. A peplum is a ruffle or overskirt attached to the waistline of a top, dress, or skirt. This is a feminine style that adds instant fullness to the hips.
For more tips on enhancing your hips, be sure to see my post on MTF Hip Widening: Top 5 Ways To Get Bigger Hips.
Padded panty
Gathered waist
Peplum
In conclusion
I hope this article gave you some new ideas for getting the sexy curves and hourglass figure you desire!
I’d love to see your results, so please share your photos below – along with any other waist or hip shaping tips you might have.
Love,
Lucille
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The info is very informative and helpful. I have an athletic body that I am trying to trim to more fem. I will try these things to help. I prefer to use the waist clincher being that I am very active (work & gym) and need something that I can get around.
Thanks for the advice you give. I could use all that I can get.
The info is very informative and helpful. I have an athletic body that I am trying to trim to more fem. I will try these things to help. I prefer to use the waist clincher being that I am very active (work & gym) and need something that I can get around.
Thanks for the advice you give. I could use all that I can get.
I certainly will be buying even more corsets
Dear Lucille,
You have shown a best way to get body shape as women have…
Thanks again…!
Love,
Archana
I think all Lucille’s tips are great and there’s no doubt how amazing a corset makes you feel. But if you are living as a girl 24/7 you HAVE to be more practical … a girl needs her comfort! For me a combination of control knickers, high waisted skirts (or skirts gathered at the waist), nice big girly belts and of course chicken filets, make me look natural and feel great. It’s still a relief to take all this off at the end of the day … but then again it’s always a pleasure to slob around in a nightie for the rest of the evening! Thanks Lucille – wonderful website.
Kath xx
Thanks again Lucille!
Love,
Marian
Thanks Lucille, very good tips in here. Gathered waists work well
for me. Tops left out also work as a “concealer”!
Hi Lucille,
This is right on cue. A couple of years ago I decided to try and get back some old slimness. Measured everything with some horror here and there. I was always a slim person. Back then, years ago. In my earlier days on a beach, my (then) mother-in-law remarked to my then wife that I had a “lovely figure”. These centuries later (it seems), I was annoyed with me. I am very active and yet my waist had gone. I started leaving some of my main meal on my plate my partner would then gradually see that I wanted less and adjusted portions appropriately. Then came some strange “luck”; I seriously pulled my back – and having had such problems before, and had advice, this time I got myself a waist shaper, partly to give my back that support (which it does well enough) and partly as an idea that it could train my body to a bit of slimness. Well, it does. Last night, I decided to go a step further and wore it overnight too, after having it on for three days whilst busying around in the daytime. So this morning it all seemed a bit tighter round there, so out came the measure – Hey! I have lost, truly, ten percent of waist and better still, my hips are the same as they were when I started this. 37″ hips and 29″ waist. OK. Getting there. First target is to get down to less than 28″ but 25 to 26″ would be nice.
Now this particular support garment is an Esbelt (Brazil made I think). As its top comes just below my boobs, it also has some slow effect in training my rib cage back into position (sticks out at bottom due rib fractures way back).
I am coming to the conclusion that much of the body can be “trained” into new shapes. My feet for example are responding to tighter width shoes. Even the bony stuff may respond – slowly. But the softer tissue can respond quite quickly. The younger you are, of course, the quicker.
Not sure about my actual weight just now but maybe I’ve lost like 5 lbs doing this. That’s only three percent but it feels better. I shall do the vacuum training – great idea, thanks. I would also think that “body twists” could be added without a bulk penalty. They seem to help in pulling the sides in a bit.
Thanks for the great tips and courses, Lucille. It all helps.
Gen XX