Hello, I am a transgender female in need of a lot of help.

[glenellyngirl]

On October 22 I crossed the great divide and crossdressed in public. It was exciting and terrifying. And not one comment was made that was rude to me. A lot of puzzled looks, some laughter, and a lot of blank stares. All through it I was in mortal terror. But I am committed to this and every day it will be a little easier to step out that door.

I have a need of help in learning to do my makeup. That is why I joined the forum. I know that it is possible that girls will find it something of an intrusion for someone born a boy to be asking into the circle of sisterly counsel as an equal, and I accept that such an intrusion will cause suspicion and worse. I am willing to be patient.

I searched for a tutorial on makeup for blue eyes, which mine are, and looked at a video that presented so many points and details that I was dizzied. I'm going to need to start slowly, with just beginning hints. In some ways I am like a five year old child just seeing makeup as a future concern and looking for ways to mimic the big girls.

I don't intend to throw myself into the fire on this. I have to be convincing. If I do something, it has to be perfect, so that my masculine features are less apparent than the effects of the makeup. That much I can figure out myself. But how to do that? What a vast subject!

Any advice here would be helpful and I'll be eternally grateful.

[Daantje]

i think you are very brave and i doubt you will have a hard time on mug. i do however would say that it would be so much easier for us to help you if you could post a picture of your face (so we can see teint, hair/eyecolour and especially shape of the brows/jaw/cheekbones) but can also imagine you wouldnt feel comfortabele doing that...as far as the blue eyes go: golden/coppers/bronzes and purple shades e/s all work miracles so for e/s colours thats what i would recommend.

[glenellyngirl]

Thanks so much, Daantje. It will be such a relief to find a community here!

One thing I have discovered is that there is a vocabulary to makeup, especially the parts of the face. I will look in the tutorials here for that.

Aha. Gold, Copper, Bronze and Purple. I'll look into those.

Posting a photo is no problem. Thankyou for suggesting it. It's my face, after all, and there's no point in agonizing over it, just doing what I can with it. But how do I put the photo file into a post?

[KeLLStaR]

YouTube is definitely a great place to actually see someone putting on makeup on - invaluable help, especially if you are a visual person & there are a lot of videos with tips from transgender females as well (I've learnt a lot from women & men!).

MakeupGeek is great to chat makeup with others & share opinions/tips too.

I think no matter how professional anyone is with makeup, like a lot of other things, you never stop learning so we're all in the same process - just different stages.

Good luck!

[KeLLStaR]

Posting a photo is no problem. Thankyou for suggesting it. It's my face, after all, and there's no point in agonizing over it, just doing what I can with it. But how do I put the photo file into a post?

Create a Photo Bucket account (www.photobucket.com) & upload the photo, copy the URL/Address (it will tell you how) & then when you type your post here on MakeupGeek click the Img button, and then paste the URL.

[glenellyngirl]

I tried Flickr and it didn't work, said it couldn't determine dimensions of the images. Now I'll try Photobucket.

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[glenellyngirl]

Looks like I haven't got it yet.

[shellygrrl]

Image embedding has been a problem on these boards for MONTHS, and it still hasn't been sorted out. (And even if it was working, you're trying to embed IMG tags around HTML ones, so it still wouldn't work. Photobucket gives you the BB code as well as HTML, and the former is what you would've needed to copy and paste here.) However, since you can't embed images hosted on other sites, you need to upload it as an attachment.

viewtopic.php?f=8&t=42242#p351634

Anyway, we've had cis males post here as well as trans* ones; I seriously doubt you'll have any issues here. (And there are also cis males who make videos on Youtube (gossmakeupartist, dustyohunter, EnKoreMakeup, petrilude).)

[glenellyngirl]

Ok. I'll try to upload them as attachments.

[glenellyngirl]

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[shellygrrl]

Like this...

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But again, embedding images from another website doesn't work on these boards right now and hasn't for months.

[Daantje]

ah so good of you to post pictures! You have a very friendly face.
One thing we mugs usually advice to make the face more female and what does so much for the look is eyebrows, the shape and colour just do soooo much for the face, there probably tons of videos on youtube on how to make the best of brows.
Another thing is bonestructure. Were not all blessed with a great bonestructure in the face and make up helps us fake it .
http://www.makeupgeek.com/tutorials/how ... y-bronzer/ and http://www.makeupgeek.com/tutorials/how ... your-face/ are great tips for contouring (shaping the face). And curl your lashes, that will open the eyes immediately!
Marlena also has a great tutorial for blue eyes http://www.makeupgeek.com/tutorials/mak ... blue-eyes/

I hope this helps for now!

[glenellyngirl]

Thanks, Daantje! That will keep me busy for some time. I didn't expect brows to be that important so it's great to know.

[glenellyngirl]

I am wondering how to remove my natural eyebrows so I can redo them with makeup.

[Daantje]

I am wondering how to remove my natural eyebrows so I can redo them with makeup.

You can shave/wax them and then get them tattoot or draw them, i however would advice to use a pincet to get rid of the hairs that are too much/out of place and use a mal to colour in the shape you want to create...