I'm wondering how to look more feminine without going through HRT or surgery. Does eating food with estrogen in them help?

I got both my ears peirced the other day and have started wearing a more feminine styled watch. I also shave every where on my body and pluck my eyebrows. Using moisturisers, hand creams etc, also helps your skin get a little softer if you keep doing it.

I could be wrong, but I don't really think eating foods with estrogen in them would help that much but another member may be able to shed some light on that. I know some people have taken herbal supplements, but once again I am not too sure if they work or not.

All the "estrogenic  herbs" and phytoestrogen-rich food are a farce..they DO NOT work for TG/TS people...

One would have to consume stupid quantities of food with estrogen like substances in them for effect. The effect of gaining weight and other health issues from imbalanced nutrition would be a greater issue than any perceived gains would be.

Not to mention it'll cost more than going through the process like everyone else (therapy, doctor's visits, etc).

If you don't feel like a girl, looking like a girl is not gonna work. I have a girl wardrobe with clothes, necklaces, bandrings, nail polish, hair products, girl's makeup which I have not used, girl hats, girl glasses and more. It's about mannnerisms of a girl and that is hard to fake. Why not hard for me, Im allready a girl somewhat inside.

As for looking. Well I know girl fashion/style pretty well. I know what colors go together and what looks good. I could say Im more of a tomboy but Im pretty girly whenI feel like a girl.

Hair! Im always learning more and more and know biotin works with vitamins and am figuring out how to make my hair long, thicker and fuller. If your gonna dress like a girl, hair is total must!

Nail polish is great for me, I can hide it and my favorites are sparkly blue and pink from forever 21.

Necklaces are easy for me.

Im trying to lose belly fat myself and I have pretty skinny arms.

also I shave my legs and chest now and than.

Def shave your face, use makeup like panstick or such. Know how to do makeup or you wont work out. I learned makeup watching some chris crocker videos.

Being a girl is not easy but above is a little info without HRT or surgery. Why easy for me, well Im a girl also inside even along with a guy but being a girl makes it easy to know this all. Being a part girl inside since forever makes this all easy to me but I hope I could help more but Id have to write. Go read some of my other threads and maybe it can help you out.

 Looking feminine outside of HRT and surgery is a fine art - typically, "traps" (a younger-generation term aimed at young hobbyist drag artists) will have the best advice in this regard.

There are make-up tricks to learn, like how to shade your face in order to emphasize your feminine features, and de-emphasize your masculine features. You can also use make-up to help supplement the illusion of breasts.

Breasts themselves can be created with a taping method, or an adhesive-based strapless bra method. Basically, it works by pulling skin and fat together to create cleavage, and then adding make-up and an actual bra to make the cleavage and breast look more realistic.

Dressing for your body shape and age is important, too. If you look like a teenager or early-twenties person, you should feel free to dress quite cutely. Once you start to look more mature, your fashion should mature to match - ideally, it will develop into a refined, stylish, classy look.

Hair care is pretty important. You'll have to find a wig if yours isn't grown out nice and long - and if you have been growing it, there are youtube videos on how to style it. If you want to look feminine very occasionally, then you can go all-out by brushing, straightening (and/or curling, to add wave), waxing, and spraying it into perfection. If you want the look all the time, you should look into some basic hair care/products, and avoid applying too much heat to your locks.

A little subtle jewellery helps, as does shape-wear. Getting rid of body hair is obviously important - arm hair tends to be forgotten, I've noticed.

Do all these things (and possibly more), and you will probably look pretty fab - perhaps even passable.

Moisturiser is one thing. It wont make your skin as soft as female skin but does help smooth out the rough edges.

A good wig (if your hair isnt long enough to have it styled) Be carefull to pick one that is not too far from your normal hair colour. Also google wig types for face shapes the correct style will help alter the appearence of face shape.

Make up is important. But more important than the makeup itself is to do it right. I spent some time putting on so much foundation and concealer trying to get flawless skin that i looked rediculous. Personally i have Sheer cover powder foundation. And have discovered that in effect less is more. i use very little concealer only a little on my top lip as i have a few very deep pores, and a little on a couple of very visible acne scars. The foundation powder itself i use a small amount. i have discovered that trying to get the flawless look like models in magazines is impossible. but i put on just enough to even out a few of the darker and lighter patches. So i dont look like i have perfect skin but effectivly good skin without being able to tell i have foundation on. Last thing i do (apart from lipstick and eyeshadow/mascara) is blush. In my case i have fat cheeks lower down so when i blush i bring it down a bit to pull this in a little. Warning the last tip depends on your face shape.

Take a look at the women you come across in your life. What do you notice? Do you not notice that every woman looks differently from the rest and yet they look feminine?

The core essential of femininity is being individual and expressing your own individual femininity. This is how it works.

The good thing about femininity is (from our perspective) is that you don't have to be female to be feminine. Dustin Hoffman, Robin Williams and Patrick Swayze have all been transformed into feminine women in their careers.

Be creative, just like an artist. Artists start out with just basic shapes. Knowing the basic shape of your face and body is the first step. The shape of your face will determine what hairstyles and wigs will suit you, and the shape of your body will determine what clothes will look better on you. You can get lots of ideas off the Internet. Just google 'face shapes' or 'body types' and you'll see the pages come up. Explore.

You also have to remember the three key words which are

LENGTH
STYLE
COLOUR

This applies to clothing just as much as it applies to stuff like wigs, jewellery, and apart from size is the most essential information a woman thinks of when she's looking for things to present herself in.

Let's take for example skirts. What's the first thing you need to think about? The SHAPE of your legs. Do you have long legs? Short legs? Do you have bandy legs? Are you knock-kneed?

The shape of your legs will determine the LENGTH, STYLE and COLOUR of the skirt which looks good on you. You'll see that skirts come in different lengths - mini, micro, knee-length, long, maxi, and calf length. The style of the skirt can be a pencil skirt, A-Line, flared, gypsy and so on.

Same thing again for tops, dresses, wigs, accessories, anything you can think of. They will all be defined by those three words - length, style and colour.

You can go back and look at the women you come across and see how quite often their clothing and accessories will match when it comes to these three things and they will also be dressing to either accentuate or camouflage their shape.

Colours of course have to match, usually between two or three. Often there is a primary colour such as black, blue, or brown with which brighter colours are worn.

For example colours match usually between a coat or jacket, handbag and shoes, which are all the same colour, and quite often this is a primary colour worn by the woman - such as black, brown, grey or blue.

Hope this helps.

You want to "look more feminine" without HRT or surgery. Since you ask about estrogen in food, you apparently are serious enough to consider some degree of body alteration. I've read a lot on this and never heard of anyone getting any sort of real changes from diet alone (I listen if anyone wants to correct me on that).

Here's a short list of things the average g-male can do to make his body look more feminine:

-Remove all indication of facial hair - this is often the singular factor that makes a person look masculine. Anything else you do to look feminine will be pointless if you have beard shadow.

-Hair - Grow long hair and wear it in a feminine style. Wigs are possible, but it's super difficult for a g-male to not look draggish in a wig.

-Voice - Most males can learn to speak in a way that sounds entirely feminine, but it's not easy. Check around this forum for more on it.

-Mindset - If you have an inner woman wishing to come out, allow her to emerge in everything you think and do.

-Clothes - Dress like a normal person who is feminine (most of these are women). This doesn't even have to be crossdressing and if you overdo it you'll look like a man in drag.

It is possible to develop at least some degree of breasts without pills or surgery but results vary greatly and it takes a great deal of effort. There's a method known as "skin stretching" and requires frequent lengthy suction sessions of the breast over months or even years. It may and may not be permanent. One thing you can do is Google "Noogleberry" for more on this.

~ Lyric ~

Remember, being a girl and being girlie are not the same.

There are no shortage of cis females in dire need of a proper lecture on how to act feminine

There are likely a few ways I am more feminine than my wife. The thing is, cis females, well know one is telling them how feminine they need to be to be regarded as female, so they often gt lazy at it too.

I sure see a lot of lazy examples walking in and out of Tim Horton's during the day. 'Good grief girl, are their no mirrors at home?'.