Quote from: Skinny18 on September 27, 2013, 06:32:16 AM
Losing muscle mass will help you a lot, I think. Btw on the last picyou look like Elijah Wood.

Thank you, I have been losing muscle fast. I am not sure if you can tell but my legs used to be much more muscular. Before this, I was a 200 and 100 Meter Butterflier so I was much bigger in the quads, back, shoulders, and ect.

ABout Elijah Wood, I have gotten that a lot! People have told me I looked like that guy from Hangover, and like superman. I don't think so anymore so much but in he past.

Quote from: Michele on September 27, 2013, 08:36:11 AM
A couple of things:

- You have a great smile.  Smiling, like you are already, that nice wide smile, goes a long way towards a more feminine appearance.  Smiling automatically reshapes your chin, raises your cheeks, and brightens your eyes.  Keep that up, even when you're not feeling it on the inside.

- Nice job with the wig.  It's hard to find one that looks not-wiggy and you've done an excellent job.  It's a modern style, not too over the top (you're not screaming "I'm a girl!"), and not too understated (you're not trying to be bland so people don't notice you).

I'd say that from your photos, you look rather pretty.  Clothingwise, you look best in the photo with the jeans and white shirt - until the body size/shape is more feminine, I personally find that the overly-feminine clothing (dresses etc.) doesn't quite work.  Sometimes the key is to dress down rather than up.  I look terrible in a dress, but not that bad when wearing a cute top and a pair of jeans.  Remember that fancy female clothing is designed to emphasize and show off those parts of a female body that we don't have - hips and boobs, thin waist and narrow shoulders - and trying to fit a guy's body into a girl's party dress looks like a guy in a dress more often than not.  Out of the three dress photos, you look best in the first, where the shoulders are covered and the clothing is less formal.  You're also perhaps in the better pose in that photo too, with the legs crossed so that your hips look wider, photo angle looking down on you rather than up so that you appear shorter etc.

All of that said, you're very cute in all of the photos.  HRT will do wonders for you.  I can't wait to see a picture of you a year from now!

Wow, what a response. Very detailed and I am very thankful for your input. I agree with you a lot, but I loved how I felt in that pink dress, and I personally like how I look in the skirt and white shirt the best of all of them. Im very happy with my results from HRT and shocked actually. I really hope that I keep seeing a lot more changes. A for a year from now, that makes two, I cant wait for it!!

Quote from: kasihnya on September 27, 2013, 04:50:02 PM
Wow, what a response. Very detailed and I am very thankful for your input. I agree with you a lot, but I loved how I felt in that pink dress, and I personally like how I look in the skirt and white shirt the best of all of them. Im very happy with my results from HRT and shocked actually. I really hope that I keep seeing a lot more changes. A for a year from now, that makes two, I cant wait for it!!

Yeah, I think you are right on with feeling great in that pink dress. You look fabulous

Actually I really like all of the recent photos. It looks like your muscle tone is already starting to shift and (like most women) with the right dress you are totally a hottie! Take the pink dress for example.. Great choice because it flares out just under the thinnest part of your waist.. helping to accentuate a more feminine curve by flaring over the hips. Wonderful!

Keep up the great work. Really great style!

Oh yeah... and of course you have a great smile

I knid of have to agree on the "downdressing". Sometimes it is good to do that just like other women do it if they dont have some features of the body to match the dress. Thats why there is all the fuzz about fashion and finding those fashion stuffs that look great (and feminine or sexy if you like that) but fit to the own body - even if that woman has narrow hips, smaller breasts or shorter legs. Some things dont work with that then, others emphasize other areas and thus work.

stacey: SMILE! - you look so bitter on the photos. Maybe because of some pain or year long repressing who you are, but liberte yourself from that now and smile on the photos and I think you will look much better in them

Quote from: Jennygirl on September 27, 2013, 05:07:39 PM
Yeah, I think you are right on with feeling great in that pink dress. You look fabulous

Actually I really like all of the recent photos. It looks like your muscle tone is already starting to shift and (like most women) with the right dress you are totally a hottie! Take the pink dress for example.. Great choice because it flares out just under the thinnest part of your waist.. helping to accentuate a more feminine curve by flaring over the hips. Wonderful!

Keep up the great work. Really great style!

Oh yeah... and of course you have a great smile

I love that pink dress, I wish it was mine but it isn't. It is my roommate's I realized a few weeks ago, while I was shaving my legs, that my thighs were a lot smaller and things were so much easier to shave, i.e. behind the knee in the joint. I have a before pic of my torso so they can compare if they want.

I'm just starting to get into the dressing, fashion do's and don'ts. My roommate has helped a lot! I wish I could take the credit. A lot of my friends are saying what a few on here are saying about choosing clothes that accentuate my best parts, and that hide my worst parts. The way I see it, is that women come in all shapes and sizes, so there have to be plenty of women that will have pretty much the same problems I do.

Quote from: anjaq on September 27, 2013, 05:44:28 PM
I knid of have to agree on the "downdressing". Sometimes it is good to do that just like other women do it if they dont have some features of the body to match the dress. Thats why there is all the fuzz about fashion and finding those fashion stuffs that look great (and feminine or sexy if you like that) but fit to the own body - even if that woman has narrow hips, smaller breasts or shorter legs. Some things dont work with that then, others emphasize other areas and thus work.

Plenty of my friends have said just that, down-dressing. There are soooo many things that I would not have thought of for a while or forever if my friends hadn't told me, or people like you didn't tell me.

Quote from: stacey fisher on September 27, 2013, 10:11:05 AM
http://i1313.photobucket.com/albums/t553/stacey_fisher1/27913_zps9fa5a3fd.jpg

not a good pic done on my web cam

Stacey, love the last pic - you have such a charming Mona Lisa smile!  Especially compared to the immediate prior photo, pre-HRT, I can see a huge difference.  Three months has really changed the shape and softness of your face, and I bet that after six, and then twelve months, the results will be even more dramatic.

Quote from: kasihnya on September 27, 2013, 06:46:50 PM
The way I see it, is that women come in all shapes and sizes, so there have to be plenty of women that will have pretty much the same problems I do.

Exactamundo! A lot of MtF's end up with a rectangle or banana shaped body, which is also very common for models and lots of women. A quick google of "how to dress rectangle body shape" will pretty much tell you everything you need to know

Also hint hint... stay away from dark colored pants/jeans. Light colors/washes will make your hips 'n bum stand out in a good way!

I have to disagree (a little) about downdressing.

As Einstein (probably, it is disputed) said: "Make things as simple as possible, but not simpler." I can say:

down-dress as much as possible, but not too much

The key, in my opinion is not only to down-dress but to dress to emphasize the "features" that
everyone has. It has been said that women's dress are often used to emphasize things we don't have
like small shoulders, breasts, hips.

But there are other feminine clothes which can emphasize things we DO have, like usually long
legs.

In my experience I have seen that I am "ma'amed" more often with a skirt (no MINI skirt, just a knee
length skirt) than with a pair of trousers, even feminine.

The key is, as always, as for native female, to find our own style and use it.

For some of us maybe casual, for others maybe more elegant, every woman is different, so every mtf is different.

marina

Quote from: tmarina on September 28, 2013, 01:18:33 AM


The key is, as always, as for native female, to find our own style and use it.

For some of us maybe casual, for others maybe more elegant, every woman is different, so every mtf is different.

marina

Let me add to Marina's comments, dress with similar fashion sense indigenous to your geographic locale, consider time and place as well as what's age appropriate and you'll always be passable.

Omfg you are hot  . Boymode? I would hit on you in a heartbeat and I am not even remotely into boys.

Quote from: Chris29 on September 24, 2013, 01:15:00 PM
How I went out last time in "boymode" with a friend:


I had a lot of akward boy-fail moments
It was this friend's idea to go like this to a goth/industrial party(and mostly her clothes ). Somehow I wonder if she suspects i m different 

Quote from: tmarina on September 28, 2013, 01:18:33 AM
I have to disagree (a little) about downdressing.[...]
But there are other feminine clothes which can emphasize things we DO have, like usually long
legs.

yes, "down"dressing may be the wrong word. Dressing appropriatly is better. According to the own body, local customs or maybe fashion or culture, job, situation, age,... Its something one has to get a feel for, I think. I tend to simplify this and not dress much different but rather in a universal way, but that is a bit boring I admit. I used to be a bit more diverse when I was younger and more slender.

If you have long legs thats great. I think quite a few MtFs have them and that is a good one to show for beauty if you like - I am not blessed with that though, quite the opposite. Is leg length a gender marker by the way or is it just a thing that people find long legs more attractive?

Quote from: anjaq on September 28, 2013, 12:39:21 PMI am not blessed with that though, quite the opposite. Is leg length a gender marker by the way or is it just a thing that people find long legs more attractive?

In a certain sense long legs are a double edge sword.

If a male has short and thick legs maybe he can just pass "better" (ceteris paribus), because
he can "pad" something and create an artificial hip.

Usually long, skinny legs are very attractive but they are usual hold by long, skinny males, with
a waist to hip ratio near 1  , not very feminine...

So, yes, long legs are very attractive but do not show them too much (for example with a mini
skirt) because in this case you tend up to show like a man with a skirt.

The key is always balance, and, as been said, blending with local females of your age/status.

marina

Hmm . So short legs are linked to wider hips? Could be. I have both. This makes me look horrible in any shorter skirts though, so I avoid them. But I still dont get it if long/short lega are in some way gender related. I always thought that they are not.

Flounce and ruffle skirts are amazing for thin hips. Whenever I wear something like this, someone always tells me how flattering my outfit is- and trust me my hips are nothing to go writing home about (not that I hate them)

i.e.....

Quote from: Jennygirl on September 28, 2013, 04:55:30 PM
Flounce and ruffle skirts are amazing for thin hips. Whenever I wear something like this, someone always tells me how flattering my outfit is...

Oh, do show us!

At some point I totally got out of the picture taking mode... Oh yeah that was right about the time that my cell phone went fubar Luckily only a few days left before I get my new one!

Quote from: Jennygirl on September 28, 2013, 05:27:27 PM
At some point I totally got out of the picture taking mode... Oh yeah that was right about the time that my cell phone went fubar Luckily only a few days left before I get my new one!

Ok... I will wait patiently.

http://i1313.photobucket.com/albums/t553/stacey_fisher1/bth_20130929_112512_zpsc16557f7.jpg?t=1380475512
up to date pic of me

Quote from: stacey fisher on September 29, 2013, 08:04:22 AM
http://i1313.photobucket.com/albums/t553/stacey_fisher1/bth_20130929_112512_zpsc16557f7.jpg?t=1380475512
up to date pic of me

Again, I am getting an error while trying to view your picture.