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What are some ways I could make myself look more androgynous? I have long hair, which I don't want to cut quite yet, as I haven't come to a full decision. I would like to test things out first, as that seems to be the way I soul-search.

I have thought of some ideas for looking more androgyne, but I am afraid they may look too feminie still:


1. No more make-up

2. Boy-ish clothing

3. A watch

4. One earing in the left ear, but no earing in the right.

5. Hair tied back, but unsure how exactly to tie it


Unfortunately, I do not have access to a binder, so I cannot do that as of yet. I will just use loose clothing, or if there are other things I could use to bind my breasts, I would like some suggestions.


Thanks,


-InBetween

You might want to check out the FAQ.
There's a section on appearance/clothing regarding neutrois. Should help ;)

Probably if you are physically delicate and 'feminine' looking you may only look androgynous by dressing as a man. I am small and fine-boned. Some people say I pass for male quite well, but I more often get the impresion that people find me eerily sexless-looking in my suits. I would rather look like a man in my suits and eerily sexless in androgynous clothes, but alas. If you are in this situation, foregoing the makeup and wearing androgynous or 'boyish' (but not distinctly masculine) clothing will not make you look androgynous, and may even make people believe that you are deeply at home with and confident in your femininity, and wearing only one earring will just make people inform you that you've lost the other one.

If you're fairly androgynous-looking to begin with, your milage will vary.

A waistcoat (vest) that buttons up fairly high and has a stiff front (a leather biker's one, or one from an old-fashionedish three-peice suit) can do a good job of making you look flat-chested, depending on what size you are. You can try a pair of women's support panty-hose, with the legs cut off for armholes and the crotch cut out for a neck hole. Put this on and then reach up under it and pull your breasts down and apart.

Try your long hair pulled back tightly and secured at the nape of your neck, not the back of your head. The effect will be better if you slick it back over your head, with pomade or summat. Or just water when you're trying it out for the mirror. You want to slick down all the little soft fringey bits, which are very feminizing.

can i just ask how us that are gonig at this from the other direction achive this mythical andro look :) sorry to lazy to start a new thread.

I'd say it's in the eyebrows. They are really important and so heavily overlooked. Men tend to have thicker less shaply eyebrows. The women go in for the shaping and curving and thining and waxing. ??? So some eyebrow attention is a good yet subtle gender marker.

1. Cut the hair.
2. Slouch.

Insta-boy. ;D

Quote from: Prince_Eric on September 13, 2007, 03:32:28 PM
I'd say it's in the eyebrows. They are really important and so heavily overlooked. Men tend to have thicker less shaply eyebrows. The women go in for the shaping and curving and thining and waxing. ??? So some eyebrow attention is a good yet subtle gender marker.

Funny one. My honest opinion?
There's a density issue here; female eyebrows have less hair density, therefore letting them grow results in a somewhat scattered hair scenery. This is great if you're going for the unneat/unibrow look, but that's not one on my list of recommendations[...] Also; it doesn't make you look masculine, it makes you look like you don't take care of your eyebrows.

I'm pretty lucky on this one though; my eyebrows look naturally evil and aren't too thick or too thin. However, I do pluck and trim them in order to look neat.
As a sidenote; I've met too many men who plucked their eyebrows and shaved their legs to believe in fables.

Look decent; trim them, pluck them where necessary; look like you take care of yourself; natal male, natal female or natal IS. It's the age of metrosexualism darlings.