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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Does anyone here use under garments from Classic Curves? I know they are a bit pricey so I would like some opinions before I indulge in some glamorous hips.
Personally, I also think their prices are very high. Plus, you are ordering on-line, so your measurements have to be spot on. I think you can get great under garments at your favorite mall store like a Macy’s or JC Penney. I have been buying some Spanx products there recently and really love them. Suzy
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I love your tranformation tips they have done wonders for me I am now very close two a d cuup and will sone post my progressive pics so everyone of your girls can see true progress of a true gurl and how happy I am love bethlynn
hi Lucille , i love your works and i love you 🙂
Thanks for everything! i’m sorry i dont know how to download or I’d be more involved. Again, thanks! Dawn
Hi Lucille,
I love your site and the information is very helpful for many girls in our area. Thanks so much for gathering all this together for those of us that could use some help here and there.
A friend turned me to a Miami business “underworks.com” site for their padded panty ‘style 514’. They have a high, elasticized waistline that holds in your belly and the waistline, while giving the extra padding where needed. There are four individual pads that are contoured together to give you a full smooth transition from the hips around to the back and the butt area. My friend wears hers in her business she runs en femme, and I wear mine any time I’m dressed, out in public. They look great under tight fitting jeans as well as filling out any skirt or dress. I’ve had mine for a few years and they still look and hold up like new, they are good quality garments.
This is why I LOVE, you Lucille. I hope you dont mind if I share this information. Its one of very few ‘expenseless’ things I have left to work on, is my waist. Thanks again xoxo
Thank you so much Lucille. Some good ideas, but I will simply pass along to everyone that it still comes down to diet and exercise. When I really committed to exercise everyday, and eating more salads, only Special-K for breakfast, no more sodas or beer, only drink water/sparkling water, and no more evening snacking, I got down to 176lbs (I’m 6’2″) from 205lbs and I have STAYED there. My waist went from 35″ to 29″ and at 3+ years on Lucille’s F2F program, I’m now 38-29-35, and comfortably wear a C cup. I don’t have much of a feminine butt shape, but my very flat tummy and thin legs are very convincing feminine look and feel in pencil skirts, fitted dresses, knit tops (size 10, sometimes 12). It’s now completely part of my entire lifestyle, and not a burden, just my regular natural routine. My shoulders have become much thinner with very feminine collar bone showing, thin arms and neck. Before when I was at 36″-37″ across my breasts, I was still 35″ right under bust. Now I’m down to just 31″ under my bustline so it makes my breasts look so much bigger, looser + rounder shape as they hang, a much more full. I think I might try hip pads to see if adding 2″ to 3″ and being 38-29-38 would make me look even more feminine.
Hello, Nice job, I am almost there with my transformation and what fun it is to be this woman that I am becoming. thanks to the flat-to-fem program. All of my new friends love the change that has happened to me.
Donacia