There are a lot of different transgirls in the community. Ones who don't mind looking a little geeky, like tomboys, or even androgynous. We have lesbians and straight girls. We have many different people in the community. If you want to look like a tom boy...read no further. There are a lot of transwomen who want to attract a lot of men and look feminine. For many of them, if they trace their evolution...it goes back to drag queens.
Say what you will about gay men. A good majority of them make beautiful, ultra feminine girls that look better than any TS or GG. From makeup application to wearing clothes that flatter their figures, most of them are experts at looking feminine. Now many gay men are born femme to begin, but the WERQ they do to look good is amazing.
I have about a hundred drag queens on my fb list. We correspond, we talk, we share makeup tips. Once they figure out I am not a crazy drag obsessed fruitfly. They then applaud me on living what they do on the weekends...FULL time. Whether we want to acknowledge it or not. We essentially live in drag 24/7. For many of us, our goal is to depreciate our masculine features and look as pretty as we can possibly can. Want to see how you'll look like a femme girl: Get a mac makeover, a good wig, and the clothes you intend to wear. Then set that as the goal... That way there are no surprises later on. Hormones do a lot, but you do most of the work.
Now I know a lot of people here are thinking drag queens are clowns with too much makeup. But as pics of my friend prove...it's all an subtractive science:
This is my friend on a day to day basis:
This is him in QUEEN drag:
And this is him in light drag:
Many transluminaries such as Candis Cayne, Calpurnia Addams, Jessica Savano all got their start in drag. So it's about time that we start seeing drag queens as our "abstract" cousins and maybe learn a few things from them.
