How Often Do You Wear Makeup? How Often Do You Wear A Skirt Or Dress?

[Donna Elvira]

Make-up every day, mostly just eyes and lips with maybe a very light touch of blush. Very much a "less is more" approach. Dresses as often as I can which for now is just weekends but for me they work better than skirts as with dresses ( empire and garçonne cuts) it is easy to hide the fact that my waist, while slim, is not as slim as a typical cis-woman who is otherwise as slim as me. Also, I also just love the way a dress moves with my body, pure pleasure. However I do wear skirts in the winter, typically with loose fitting pullovers that narrow around my hips.
On this score, I can't wait to transition at work, not too far off if all goes well, to be finally able to indulge completely in my love for very feminine dress, winter being almost better than summer allowing lots of variety in leg wear: coulored stockings, knee boots, ankle boots etc.. Just love it!
Donna

[noleen111]

I am girlie girl,

Dresses/skirts: wear one must days.

Makeup- I wear some everyday,  Not too much, lip stick, eye shadow and mascara. When I get a night out with the girls, then I wear darker and more makeup

[Assoluta]

I wear dresses at least 3 or 4 times a week - normally smart work dresses during the week and more casual ones at the weekend. I feel much more comfortable in them, far more comfortable than jeans or other 'casual' clothing. In fact, it's not really my style to wear jeans very often. I always like wearing something that isn't plain, that has a special feature, like ruffles, pattern or a certain shape, so that I never tire of it.

Funny thing is, my sister's a bit of a tomboy and hardly ever wears skirts/dresses, nor makeup or uses special hair products - so it's actually often ME teaching her about such 'girly stuff' despite me never having been exposed to it growing up :p

[Northern Jane]

Well after 40 years, lets see ......

Makeup:
A little mascara anytime I am going to town 'cause my lush eyelashes are almost transparent without it.
Add eyeliner and maybe shadow if I am going out for the evening or on a date.
Haven't used anything else in decades - prefer the "fresh & natural" look

Skirts:
Sometimes when going to town in the summer or going out visiting

Dresses:
First choice for a date (in the summer) or more formal gathering

Skirts and dresses pretty much disappear up here in the winter. Only the teenagers freeze their knees at -20!

[Oriah]

Makeup-a few days a month

skirts, about once a week, usually in the evening

dresses.....very rarely

[judithlynn]

Makeup every day - Although I have had pretty extensive electrolysis and laser I still have  a fair amount oh hair to go, so I wear a foundation put on using a wet sponge and when I am going out I always wear a lipstick with some lip gloss (Bobbie Brown). I always do my eyes and spend a bit of time on them, but generally only use Eyeliner in evenings. I also feel quite naked without some mascara.
I also don't go out unless my fingers and toenails are well manicured and I have one of my autumn type nail colours on.
In terms of clothes, I wear skirts and blouses  with cardigans or jumpers in winter and mostly leggings. For summer I usually wear a very sheer stockings (7 denier) or open toe pantie house. I rarely wear trousers or pants except around the house as I feel really liberated as a woman wearing a skirt or dress.  During the Australian summer I like to wear short sleeve dresses (making sure my legs and arms (and underarms are waxed). Like a couple of others, I really like the feeling of how my body moves in a dress and I revel in my  femininity. I especially like it when people comment what a nice dress I have on. Since I had my colour analysis done and I discovered I was an Autumn person, I find that with well manicured hands, the right combination of makeup and lipstick, I very rarely get read any more. Mind you 9 months on HRT have helped and the fact that I have No Adams Apple is a tremendous benefit. One thing I have found recently is that whilst before HRT, when I had my legs and bikini line waxed, the hair returned after 4 weeks or so, since I have ben on HRT for over 8 months, what hair that does return after waxing is barely noticeable, very fine and even after 9 weeks barely evident.
Hugs

[Naturally Blonde]

My primary concerns and objectives are to look female, no matter what I wear. I am far more concerned with physicalities than clothing. I know plenty of cis females who never wear dresses or skirts and very little make up but they look radiant and female.

I am trying to improve my physical body (which isn't easy) and try and achieve some kind of fat re-distribution. I've been taking HRT and anti-androgens for many years and I still keep working on it. I'm not really bothered about wearing skirts as my legs are boney and look slightly bowed and look awful in skirts. I don't have the right fat distribution in my legs and so I have to wear more appropriate clothing to mask the fact that my legs look bad.

I've seen so many t women who look awful in ultra feminine clothes which seems to only highlight their maleness instead of highlighting their femininity. Those who can pull it off and do have the right fat distribution I salute you but unfortunitly I'm still not there yet.

[WFane]

When I lived in NH, I wore makeup every day! I work in brooklyn now, and I dont think it'll go over too well... I can still style my hair, shave my legs and wear pants and flats though, so that works for work.

If I had more than 1 skirt, I would wear it every day! I only let myself get 2 days out of clothes before I throw them in the wash though...

I am only full time at home. Right now I'm trying to establish myself as a guy with a very strong "I think he is a she" vibe, so when I do transition to full time, it wont be a surprise to anyone. But either way, my job requires pants.

[PHXGiRL]

I live in Arizona so I wear skirts, dresses, or short shorts everyday. Make up I wear everyday.

[Joanna Dark]

I put on makeup everyday. Eyeliner and mascara, foundation, blush (though it's light pink and barely there and is just to add color), and light pink lipstick (again for color.) I'm all about the eyes.

The last time I wore a dress was Sunday when i was shopping with the BF but I just tried it on for fun in the dressing room. I was going to buy it and should have. I mainly wear skinny jeans, tight tops, and ballet flats. But I actually think it is much more femme then wearing a dress because it shows off my every curve and boobs nicely. I just started wearing a bra because I my chest bounces too much if I don't and my nipples stick out. It looks trashy so I started wearing one.

[Horizon]

I've never done either of those, but eyeliner is on my "to go absolutely nuts with" list 

[Lesley_Roberta]

Makeup, not at all, will when I conquer the hair situation. I am not pretending I will not look silly with just some make up on.

Reality is a bitch and she has no sympathy for those unwilling to accept her.

Skirts and or dresses. I currently own a single female top article of attire. I plan to wait to start dressing in female fashions when my wardrobe has enough outfits I can go a week and not be wearing the same friggin thing all week Hey people will talk

Now, the moment I can do a whole week, the guy clothing likely will be given notice it won't be getting replaced.

My goal is to be able to walk out the door with the right hair, the right face and the right clothing all the time. Because, I am not planning to be a guy at all ever again. I am still looking like I do under protest.

I am not cross dressing after all, that is something cross dressers do. Ok if that is your thing.

If my appearance requires I put out some effort to look adequate, and if that effort demands I use makeup daily, then it just means my Avon lady will enjoy visiting me
My wife never wears make up, but most cis females can look dreadful and no one cares, they are clearly female and not in need of expending any effort to erase any misconceptions. Until I can get a surgeon to eliminate any doubts, I won't have that prerogative to dress like a dreadful female.

[Heather]

I wear makeup just about everyday until I can afford to get my facial hair removed I have too. I try to wear as little makeup as possible to look as close to other women my age as I can. But I know I can get away with just concealer, foundation, and massacre. I actually do love makeup and I'm constantly trying to improve my skills with it.
As far as dresses or skirts are concerned I really don't wear dresses or skirts. It's not I don't like them I just don't feel like I have the body for them. I mainly stick with jeans and nice top for my look and I guess that's what I'm comfortable with.

[Windy1234]

Hrrmmm...good question. I'm not completely out to people yet, but I do think that I prefer skirts to jeans. They make me feel more womanly, and they're very comfortable too. I do like jeans too, but I think on the whole I'll be wearing skirts a lot more often (70:30). And as for dresses...hah, I love them most of all. To me they don't feel quite so exposing as skirts. I'd honestly wear a dress every day if I could.

Makeup? Hrm...if I'm going out somewhere, sure. If I'm going out for a night on the town with the girls on goes the full slap lol, but usually I just make do with some simple mascara, lipstick and foundation to cover my beard shadow. Unless I'm lolling around the house, in which case nothing haha.

[KatelynRain]

I LOVE wearing makeup.  It's so fun especially with all the 'lost time' that I couldn't get to do it in my past.  I'm sure that maybe one day I'll get tired of it, but that time is a long ways away.  And I'm not really a dress person, but I love pencil skirts!!

[Tessa James]

I LOVE wearing makeup.  It's so fun especially with all the 'lost time' that I couldn't get to do it in my past.  I'm sure that maybe one day I'll get tired of it, but that time is a long ways away.  And I'm not really a dress person, but I love pencil skirts!!

I like what you said about the "lost time."  Many of us consider this transition an opportunity to recover a lost girlhood or to redo a puberty that makes sense.  For me the deprivation I forced on myself with a too willing cultural push means now I am free to wear what I want and live as myself.  For me that means skirts and dresses and lovely soft clingy things that just make me squeal out loud.  Early on I bought a pair of furry boots with tassels that some insisted "just do not go with anything."  Ha ha ha i still wear em whenever the mood strikes and likely look a bit eccentric but have you seen those websites about the people of Walmart?  I'm no better or worse than any of them but deserve every bit of freedom I can allow to be myself.

[MariaMx]

Light makeup (eyeliner, shadow and mascara) when I leave the house. Skirts or dresses I wear rarely but I do on occasions. Not sure why exactly, it's just how I am. I turned out to be much more of a tomboy than I had initially pictured, I usually wear bell-bottom or flared jeans (raggedy or not), converse, tank tops and hair in a bun or ponytail, it suits my personality perfectly and I still get a lot of attention from the guys

[anjaq]

I think I have not used makeup for over a year. Possibly I did for the family dinner at Christmas. There are usually two kinds of occasions that I do wear a skirt or dress. One is said family dinner, the other are special events like my sisters wedding, in which cases I dressed in some home made clothing that includes a skirt. The other occasion is medieval fairs which I really like to participate in and which of course demands a clothing that matches the time of the reenactment and as all of this is before 1900AD (more like 1250 or even earlier than that) and womens attire at this time in Europe always included dresses, thats what I have then. I cheat a bit though by using short gym pants (those used for cycling) underneath as underwear. Mainly because otherwise my lack of that "thigh gap" everyone talks about these months gives me skin rashes on the skin of my legs. That - and impracticability in many situations - is also what often keeps me from wearing any dresses or skirts - I hate skin rashes and I dont like to have to watch for too much cloth getting in the way during daily activities like gardening, fixing stuff in the house, cleaning, walking the dogs, care for our beehives,... I somehow thing that skirts or dresses are cumbersome in these activities. No wonder women largely stopped wearing those during daily activities when it was ok to do so

[Cindi Lane]

Bare faced and drab when presenting male at work and other non-out situations (relations, old family friends, government/legal).  Even when in presenting male, I always wear earrings in my pierced ears and I pull and tie my long (but thinning) hair back into a ponytail and my toes are manicured (covered with socks).

The rest of the time, when I can be myself...

When at home, my makeup ranges from just lipstick to light makeup (light dusting of mineral powder foundation, lipstick mascara).

Once in a while I feel confident enough to leave the house with just my light makeup on.

When going out, typically full makeup including a nice manicure, lighter for casual, full nine yards for social events and going out.

I'm most comfortable in a dress and wear them the vast majority of the time. I really like skirts and I believe my comfort level will improve as I reduce my waist size. I own one dressy jumpsuit and a just couple of skorts, shorts, jeans, Capri's and a romper.  I will wear some old (male type) overalls when doing dirty/messy/scratchy outdoor activities (weed eating, fighting blackberry bushes, etc).

[anjaq]

hey, speak for yourself! I rather do any of those things in a skirt or a dress! that's why you have skirts and dresses of different lengths... I find everything from jeans to gym pants cumbersome and mostly very uncomfortable! skirts are comfortable... and gym pants underneath, really? why didn't you wear tights (pantyhose) that's what they're for... hey, no judgment xD just find it interesting that someone would find gympants more comfy than skirts!

Hehe, of course I AM speaking for myself - answering the question in the OP
I actually did wear skirts occasionally some 12 years ago around the time I had surgery. I was young then, in my 20ies - it was fun in summer in the holidays or when going to a dance club or when I had my "gothic" fashion phase where I put together some more weird clothing . Sadly I gained weight since then so for me now it is not really fun usually because of the skin rub and because most skirts just dont look good on me. Plus I often find it too cold for skirts. I liked dresses more, but it is extremely uncommon for women to wear dresses at work here, so I did not really want to stick out. What I really dont like is pantyhose - maybe in part it is because of my weight issue, but I do not feel comfortable with them - too scratchy or too sensitive. I dont like clothes that get holes or other damage easily. Its annoying if I have to buy new pantyhose every week because they get holes from touching a piece of rough wood or a nail for example. Gym pants are better as the legs are mostly free and they do not break as easily. Besides I really look ->-bleeped-<-ty in short skirts. The few skirts that I have are all long (not always easy to find as fashion seems to prefer shorter ones).
But yep that is me - I like to be able to move as I want and not have to think about where that skirt would go now and if it would get damage or it would be inappropriate in public. Plus I do have some hobbies that just do not mix well as I said - like working in the garden (with chainsaw on a ladder cutting branches) or working with wood or keeping bees or hiking,... but I guess most of it is that I am just not very comfortable in skirts most of the time. May be because most of the women I know in daily life also dont really give much about wearing skirts a lot.
Uh - didnt want to sound much like I want to "defend" my position, yet I did. Overall, I guess it is whatever you are comfy with - I prefer pants over skirts in most situations. Not gym pants though - that was only for occasions I really want to wear a skirt and not have skin rub while avoiding pantyhose.

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