Looking the part

[brainiac]

This is how I'd like to look on a more regular basis (with a better tie, sheesh)...


(from a few months ago)

Usually I look much less androgynous, but it's something I'm working on.

[clairezoey]

u looks more cute if stay as a girl..u not a fat flat girl

[K8]

I like this thread.  Androgyny wasn't on anyone's radar when I was young.  I envy you for how you can experiment with various combinations.

Clairzoey, it's not all about looks.  We don't stay a girl because we look better as a girl, or vice versa.  If we are androgynes, it would be nice to look androgynous.  But in the end, that's not what this is all about.

One reason I waited so long to transition was that I was convinced I would never make a passable women.  But I got to the point where I didn't care if I made an ugly woman – I could no longer pretend to the world that I was a man.

To some extent, our looks define us to the outside world, but they don't define us to ourselves.  And looking at the pictures here, I see that we can do a lot to change our looks so that the outside world has a chance to see us as we are.

This thread is about looks.  It is a nice, friendly discussion.  And many of you are very attractive.

- Kate

[milktea]

i tried the andro look and didn't do too well guess it's the hair getting in the way but i really couldn't bear to cut it...

[Kinkly]

i tried the andro look and didn't do too well guess it's the hair getting in the way but i really couldn't bear to cut it...

There is more then one way to look Androgynous if you life something about yourself that points clearly toward one side then you can try ballancing that with a few things from the other.

I like my beard so I have long hair wear breast-forms and female clothes and sometimes makup,
If you wanted to try the Positive Androgyne Look a fake beard & male clothes would make a big difference.

there have been times when I feel I'm pushing to hard toward the other side and have to step back a little so that I'm still being true to me.

[LilDoberman]

I'm with Kinkly and think that sometimes, someone with a definitive 'sexed' feature can sometimes pull off androgyny best. 

Personally, I'm not very good at it.  I go through phases where I'm super girly and then usually full-stop and do super boyish, then slowly go towards girly again and repeat.   I'd love to just have one look but I tend to get bored  

[Pica Pica]

You guys are looking good - Doberman the fauxhawk, Zaida the pixie and Brainiac the Titanic Paperboy.
Any of us looking androgynous? Bah, who cares? But looking good - of course 

[brainiac]

That wording made me first imagine a colossal paperboy, his cries of, "EXTRY! EXTRY!" terrorizing the birds out of trees.

[Rock_chick]

I still think i ended up accidentally androgynous dealing with the the GD, but it's definitely more to do with appearance than how I feel inside (I know I'm definitely female), so yeah I do look the part, because initially i didn't want to dress in a really masculine way, but was too affeared to dress in a feminine way...after years and years of doing this it's just become a comfortable state of being.

I am slowly dressing in a more feminine way, but to be honest it's more the female equivalent of what i used to wear rather than a paradigm shift into girly girly mode.

[milktea]

I like my beard so I have long hair wear breast-forms and female clothes and sometimes makup,
If you wanted to try the Positive Androgyne Look a fake beard & male clothes would make a big difference.

well the beard thing is quite extreme for me unless it's halloween. tried guys clothes though but the effect was more of the boyfriend style popularised by victoria beckham...

[insideontheoutside]

@Pica Pica Can I just say, I just want to hug you in your awesome "theatrical" jacket and your PJs.

And also @brainiac I love the vest/tie look!

Really everyone is looking awesome and it's inspiring to see more people who are just kind of beating their own path with attire and appearance. I too have a total mix of clothing. And I like crazy unique pieces now and then too. When I was a kid I wondered why "costume" clothing pieces in every day life seemed "taboo" to people. I was like, have a little fun, jeez! I wish I could pull off dressing like Adam Ant! hee! Actually I probably could pull it off it would just be finding all the epic jackets and frilly shirts. Or a pirate! That would be fun too. Or a post-apocalyptic pieced-together mad max cyberpunk. Maybe it's because part of me never really "grew up" and another part of me rejected the "reality" that everyone else was doing and I found completely boring.

That is not to say that in certain situations (let's say, a business meeting) I wouldn't dress "appropriately" (to society's standards). When I need to do something like that, I consider THAT a costume too haha

[Tree]

You guys are looking good - Doberman the fauxhawk, Zaida the pixie and Brainiac the Titanic Paperboy.
Any of us looking androgynous? Bah, who cares? But looking good - of course 

i guess i do care, but i can also pull it off sometimes. i've been read as "he" by at least four people. i'm usually read as "she"... I think that qualifies? only sometimes. i think looking androgynous, for me, is part of looking good.

[Fenrir]

Finally! Access to images! Computers... can't live with 'em, can't live without 'em. 
This is what I'm looking like today (not binding or anything, can't be bothered today). Not particularly androgynous, just how I look. I wish I could look androgynous, but I'm not cutting my hair anytime soon, so I'll deal with it.



Though I prefer this picture from 2 days ago:

  <Om...

[rite_of_inversion]

I recently had my hair cut in in a new style.  At first I liked it...only to realize it was more of a pain to manage, made my face look wider(because of the fluffytizing effect of all the layers), AND then this gender thing hit me like a 30-pound wet mackerel to the face...
I'm going to let my hair grow out again to a more androgynous look, because right now it looks too girly, until then I'm going to keep it slicked down.

Think a somewhat shorter, and less-layered version of Glenn Danzig's hair( I hope y'all know who that is...) I just wish I could pop out muscles like Danzig...but even female bodybuilders don't get as big as him sans testosterone, and I don't think my carpals would hold for anything near that level of lifting.  Dangit.
If I take testosterone, goodbye ambitions to kickbox, methinks. It wouldn't be looked at as a gender thing in the kickboxing ring, it would be looked at as performance-enhancement, therefore cheating.
(okay, now rambling...)

Actually-I take it back...Glenn's looking kinda ruggedly  old these days-so look like him in the early 90's, when he was, well, still hot.  Now he looks as if he did indeed do too much testosterone himself to get that bulky.

[Lexine]

I wasn't actually TRYING to look androgynous in the pic below. This was actually taken during jury duty and, when the judge called me "Ma'm" and I let out a really deep, "Uhh" the entire room laughed at the judge's mistake. Keep in mind though that everyone didn't laugh until I actually said something.

Now, I probably could've gone along with it but I didn't really want to get picked to go on a trial so I did what I did

What do you think? Too andro? A survey on Facebook at the time said "Yea."

[ilanthefirst]

I wasn't actually TRYING to look androgynous in the pic below. This was actually taken during jury duty and, when the judge called me "Ma'm" and I let out a really deep, "Uhh" the entire room laughed at the judge's mistake. Keep in mind though that everyone didn't laugh until I actually said something.

I LOL'd because I also caused a little gender pandemonium at jury duty!  Courthouses are filled with law enforcement personnel, and they basically herd the potential jurors from one room to the next, again and again all day.  At some point, I needed to ask one where the bathroom was, and when I followed the directions, I ended up at the men's room.  I was actually there with my mom (both got called at the same time) and this happened about a day before I came out to her as genderqueer/transmasculine (to which she essentially replied "duh"), so I wasn't binding or anything, and I do have long hair, so I wasn't planning to go to the men's room, certainly not dragging my mom along with me.  It was basically like that for the next two days, being either intentionally de-pronouned or having people flip from one to the other second-guessing themselves.  What fun!

[Kareil]

You all look awesome - makes me wonder how many people I see IRL that could go one way or another are actually intending that!

Shane...teach me how to dress, I like your look!

[Fencesitter]

@brainiac
Great outfit, looks phantastic. For me, it screams "female" though because of the violet cap.

@fenrir
Gorgeous hair! Sure it does not look androgynous, but it is very very beautiful. Your outfit is absolutely cool as well.

@lexine
Your avatar picture makes me think female, the pic you've posted looks more like male to me. But I'm from Europe, I don't see so many Asians here and therefore lack the skills at gendering them well - once they go for an androgynous or cross-dressing style.

[brainiac]

Thanks. The cap is actually black, it's just that that was taken with my terrible cell phone camera. I AM looking to get a new hat, though...

[brenn]

I like mixing male and female clothing items when I go out. Otherwise, I'm myself.