** NOVEMBER 30, 2024 UPDATE **

I'm excited to share that I'll be rolling out now (over the coming months) a nice collection of brand new 2024 pics with myself fully en femme and made up for some public outings in August and October. My wife is still working 100% from home, so I have no idea when another opportunity for me to be Grace may arise. But she took a couple short personal vacations this year with girlfriends (while I stayed home attending to our son and getting him to and from school), so this gave me some fabulous opportunities for Grace to be fully realized and strutting out in public once again. I missed it so much!

 

The public outings you'll see pictured are my first times out en femme in about 4.5 years, since Feb 2020. I did have in the intervening time one at-home fully-made-up occasion captured (in Mar 2022) with many pics taken, but I have really missed being out in public as my femme self, in my "full glory." The 2024 outings were still very brief, less than a couple hours each day, as I had to be all cleaned up and back to "drab" mode in time for the end of my son's school day each time.

 

I'll be posting new pics from a total of 5 glorious days in Aug/Oct, and will be including links to a number of videos used to capture some great snaps useful for sharing with you all. I hope you like... :-)

 

** APRIL 22, 2022 UPDATE **

Today, I'm excited to be able to post the first of a set of brand new en femme pics taken just last month, when I had my first opportunity in more than 2 years to get dressed and made up entirely. My wife had an out-of-town event to attend, and while my son was in school on March 7, I finally had a few hours alone at home that I could use to be Grace. I had originally planned to include a short en femme outing to my local Target, and get some pics in a changing room there, but digging out, finding, and trying on clothes, accessories, and makeup took longer than I had anticipated. I was running out of time before I had to pick up my son from school (in drab mode of course), so I canceled my Target outing, and just focused on getting a good set of en femme pics at home. I sorely miss being myself as Grace in public, but that will just have to wait some indefinite period of time before happening once again. My wife is still working 100% from home, with her company's local offices closed permanently, so I have no idea when another opportunity for me to be Grace may arise. But I'll celebrate having the brief opportunity last month, and be sharing pics with you all from that fun day... :-)

 

** SEPTEMBER 22, 2020 UPDATE **

Following up on my update below from April 29, I still haven't had any opportunities to realize myself as Grace during this pandemic, so I have no newer pictures to share now or anytime soon. I still have several pics to post from my last outing en femme in Feb 2020, but once they're done, unless things change soon all I'll have left to post are "older pics with a new look" like I've been doing recently with some retrospectives featuring pics from 2013-2019.

 

Today, I'm adding to the mix another retrospective series, this one featuring pics dating back to as early as 1989, when I had my 1st CD pic taken. Earlier posts of these old pics are "deeply buried" here in my photostream, and warrant now another look. As described in my April 29 update below, my re-posts now of old pics are done so without the horizontal compression I used to use. So in this new 1989-2003 retrospective series I'm only cropping photos and NOT compressing them. Like I described last time, a new more-authentic look at some classic pics of mine is warranted, especially as I wait awhile for an opportunity to be Grace once again... :-)

 

** APRIL 29, 2020 UPDATE **

An unfortunate consequence on my TG life from this coronavirus pandemic is the complete loss of opportunities for Grace to be realized. Sheltering at home with my wife and son 24/7 means I no longer have private time at home to fit in any dressing up, let alone any photo shoots. Things don't look hopeful either for after the stay-at-home orders are lifted, because my wife's company has now closed the two office locations they have in this area, meaning she'll be working from home 100% of the time for the foreseeable future. All I can hope is that eventually they'll open an office again at some point, so that I might have some private time once again to be my full self as Grace at least occasionally.

 

I still have a number of Grace pics in my queue for flickr, including from 3 fully-en-femme outings from January and February of this year. I'm also preparing a new series of retrospective "best of" pics from en-femme outings in 2013. Pics from that year were what I first posted here to flickr, so those pics are "deeply buried" here in my photostream, and at least the better pics from then deserve another look. One technique I used with my early posts to flickr was horizontal compression of all my pics, in part to slim my appearance somewhat but also to better disguise myself (from a fear of being recognized). I no longer have those concerns really, and stopped using the compression technique in 2015 or 2016, so in this forthcoming 2013-14 retrospective series I'm only cropping photos and NOT compressing them. A new more-authentic look at some classic pics of mine is warranted, especially as I wait awhile for an opportunity to be Grace once again... :-)

 

** MARCH 23, 2020 UPDATE **

As I'm presently "sheltering in place" during the coronavirus pandemic, I thought I might write up a little about the ranking #s I tag every one of my pics with, updating the #s typically every day or two. I think of the ranking # placed at the beginning of each pic's title as a "crowdsourced" measure of a pic's general popularity here on flickr. For this, I use 4 metrics provided to me as a flickr "pro" member: (a) flickr's nebulous "interestingness" rankings, based on a proprietary algorithm of theirs, (b) the total # of faves, (c) # of comments, and (d) # of views, for each pic. If I troll through the data, I take into account the respective rankings for each pic across these 4 metrics, and then use the highest ranking among the 4 to assign an overall "popularity" ranking for each pic. Sometimes, a pic's best ranking is for interestingness, and sometimes it's for its #s of faves, comments, or views. Generally, the overall popularity ranking of a pic starts rather poor but rises fastest while it's a new-ish pic, and eventually reaches a generally-stable peak # once it's considered an old-ish pic.

 

I'm a geek and into data, so I find it a very interesting exercise to monitor and update the popularity rankings of my pics. If you scroll over the pic titles in my photostream, it's interesting to see which pics are ranking as more popular than others. With every update I make, the relative rankings change, especially for the pics newer and on the 1st page of my photostream. There have been some people curious about the #s, and if there are any questions, just let me know... :-)

 

** JANUARY 26, 2020 UPDATE **

I'm beginning today the posting of a series of en femme pics and videos taken earlier this month when I was on a work trip to Honolulu. I fit in some extra time to get fully made up and dressed up over 3 days at the end of my trip (I was my "drab" self for the first part of the trip). This was the first time since 2002 that I packed femme clothes, etc. for a trip and had an adventure like this in another city as Grace. The last time 18 years ago I was single and had 6 days en femme in SoCal. This time in Hawaii a few weeks back was different and shorter, but over the 3 days, I was still able to fashion 5 outfits for pics and videos I'll be rolling out over time now. It was such a thrill to be Grace out and about, shopping, dining, etc. over an extended period of time. I hope you like what you see, and do let me know what you think...

 

** MAY 6, 2019 UPDATE **

Today, I start posting pics from my 1st public adventure en femme in 2019, from just last week on May 2. Due to time constraints, all I had out in public was about an hour, at my local mall and the Macy's there, but it was a thrill as always nonetheless. Hoping to squeeze in more public en femme activity when I can, maybe even again this month (all depends on how long I have the house to myself, and the risk associated with my wife possibly coming back home early). Share your comments and feedback... :-)

 

** JANUARY 14, 2019 UPDATE **

Today, I start posting pics from my 6th and final 2018 public adventure en femme, from Dec. 13. The outing that day was all about blue, from my new wig down to the toes peeping out of my ultra-high-heel peeptoe pumps. As always, I love to get your comments and feedback, even just faves noting the pics you like best... :-)

 

** DECEMBER 2, 2018 UPDATE

I had 5 days this year where I was able to be fully made-up and dressed and able to be out en femme in public for a couple hours or so. Pics from April 24-25 and July 26 & 31 have been posted already, and have comprised many of my most popular pics here on Flickr. Today, I'm starting to post a set of pics from October 30, when I had a great occasion to be out in a lovely pink ensemble that garnered some attention and nice comments when I was out in public.

 

For instance, when I was walking in my local Macy's, a couple older women noticed I was approaching, and one said softly to the other "here comes sexy", and then we all smiled at each other as we passed. And when I was walking from my car into Target, a women parked in a car to my side and a little behind me yelled out "Wow, you look **so** cute!"

 

I'm pretty sure what drew most attention that day were: my lovely long pink hair and my very tall pink high heel sandals, all of which stood out substantially from "the crowd". Thankfully, I've had enough experience walking in public in 5" heels and in sexy dresses and such, that I look completely passable, and draw positive attention and comments like these often. These of course are many of my most treasured moments from my times out in public en femme.

 

** APRIL 26, 2018 UPDATE

I'm so excited to share that I'm finally back this week with a couple public outings two days in a row **fully made-up** (yay!), and, with some hot new outfits I've assembled. I'll be posting pics from these two days in the coming weeks. These are my first outings in public en femme in four (long) years, and my first return to makeup in quite some time too.

 

Over the last year, I've been doing a bunch of short crosssdressing at home, with no time for getting fully made up, and thus have been using a couple female masks to round out my image for all the pics I've been taking (i.e. using nice feminine faces to complement the wonderful sexy/cute outfits I've been assembling). I'm not completely done with masks, however, as I was just really lucky this week to have my wife and son away from home for a long enough time for me to get made up and to go out in public as Grace for just an hour or two (and then get back home to clean everything up afterward). I hit the local Macy's and Target stores en femme, and you'll see pics from those excursions soon.

 

I still have a bunch of nice pics from March and April in the queue with me using a female mask, and I think they're still very worthwhile to share -- as I've had some killer dresses and outfits on. But with my excitement over a couple public outings this week as Grace, I'm jumping the queue a little bit with the more recent pics of me fully made up. So a chronological order will be a off a little for a time, while I mix things up with the newest pics (sans masks).

 

Please enjoy, "fave" some pics, and leave me any comments and feedback... :-)

 

Cheers,

 

Grace

 

** AUGUST 7, 2017 UPDATE

* While in the midst of rolling out my series of FaceApp pics described below, I've also been engaging in some short, private crossdressing opportunities at home recently, while acquiring and trying out new clothes, shoes, and accessories. Pictures from these CD activities will be posted intermittently. Of note with these new pics are two items I use now to enhance my femme image at least for private crossdressing at home, one item being pretty cheap and one being expensive:

-- The cheap item you can see used in the pics is a soft latex, feminine mask/wig combo piece I bought a few years ago. I know full well if I used this in public CD activity that it would *not* be passable, and it might cause someone to "call the authorities" on me, being that it is clearly a disguise and arguably creepy-looking. That said, this mask/wig piece works well enough for private dressing and picture-taking, and mitigates a need to shave, put on makeup, etc. So for short, private CD activities at home, it saves me a lot of time and hassle. The mask, though bought from a Halloween retailer, is not a "scary" mask by intention, and is actually meant to foster a pretty & feminine image, with a shapely face, lipsticked-lips, and a cute wig. It has holes for eyes that work reasonably well again for private dressing and pic taking, and I wear it with my femme prescription eyeglasses.

-- The expensive item used in the new pics is a silicone "breast plate" recently purchased at www.imalady.co.uk/. I've wanted for a long time to have some cleavage and be able to wear lower-cut necklines more convincingly or attractively. This new breast plate (I bought the cup size C option) works wonderfully, and I'm having some fun trying on outfits with this. A bonus is it also hides my male chest. so I don't need to shave that now, which my wife would be suspicious of (recall she is unsupportive of my CD activities). If any of you ladies decide to make a similar plunge on a silicone breast plate, one tip I have is to avoid using the rather-firm foam inserts that come with the silicone piece, as I think the breasts are less realistic being that firm and straight-protruding. Instead, I wear under the silicone breast plate a regular bra with my tried-and-true silicone breast forms inserted. Such forms are more pliable and provide a nicer, more realistic "backing" for the new silicone breast plate. I can push-and-pull on the resulting breast shapes better this way, and get to wear push-up bras now to display some nice cleavage. I'd always wanted to wear push-up bras before (especially the balconette or deep plunging varieties), but they didn't look right until now, with this new breast plate and my breast-forms-backing strategy described above. So thrilling!

 

** JULY 18, 2017 UPDATE

• Though there is no real news of mine on the crossdressing front (I'm still on general "hiatus", with just some short, private dressings at home on rare occasions), in the last few months I've discovered this cool smartphone application called FaceApp. It does neat facial image transformations, including two algorithms (“female” and “female2”) that feminize any masculine features in a photograph of a face, whether it’s a typical male face or that of a crossdresser all made up. Starting now, I will be posting a series of FaceApp-generated pics, as described below. Look for one to three pics to be posted at a time, so it will take some time to complete the posting of this entire series.

• I’ve now applied FaceApp on practically all of my old crossdressing photos (from 1989 to 2014), most of which have been posted here in my Flickr collection before, and consequently created a collection of "new" pics that present a more feminine facial appearance for me. I like to think of these new pics in two ways: (a) they portray a vision of how feminine and beautiful I have felt inside when fully made up and crossdressed, and (b) they present how I might have looked with either facial feminization surgery or without the masculinization brought on by years of male hormones dating back to adolescence.

• So while these are not “authentic” images of how I looked to others those days when the pics were originally taken, I feel they are still a legitimate portrayal of me as Grace -- either in my mind, or in the manner of how things could plausibly be with a more feminized face.

• When I look at these new feminized versions of myself, it satisfies an internal desire to look “pretty”, be more passable, and even in some cases appear “stunning”. Even though a computer algorithm has ultimately spit out these transformations, I insist they are not completely fake or just caricatures. I see myself in every one of these pics, and as I look into my feminized eyes, it is always me looking back, and I remember vividly taking those original pics and being out and about those very days as my femme self, Grace.

• This series starts with pairs of facial images, with the one on the left being the original pic, just cropped around the face, and then the one on the right is a FaceApp-feminized version. I used interchangeably the two algorithms FaceApp uses, “female” or “female2”, usually selecting the one that is either prettier or more realistic-looking (occasionally FaceApp produces some weird-looking transformations).

• The first set of pics in this series are pairs with FaceApp-feminized versions of pics of my regular (male) self. As you see, the resulting transformation images are devoid of much makeup portrayed, but it’s still interesting to see myself as a woman (or feminized version of myself) without much makeup on.

• After those pairs with male-to-female FaceApp feminization portrayed, I turn to a chronological run-through of FaceApp feminization of my old crossdressing pics, dating back to 1989, and running through 2014. (I have not been made up as Grace in the time since then.)

• Though the series starts with pairs of pics depicting both the “before” and “after” of FaceApp feminization, I shortly thereafter switch (with Grace pics from 1995 on) to just showing the newly-feminized facial images of old Grace pics, since the original pics have mostly been posted here on Flickr already.

• I welcome your thoughts and comments on these FaceApp pics of mine.

 

*NEWS on June 11, 2014: Earlier in the spring, I nominated for Glamour Boutique's "Glamour Girl Contest 2014", in the Cougar category (ages 40-59) three 2013 pics of mine:

a. www.flickr.com/photos/99244229@N04/9489687737/

b. www.flickr.com/photos/99244229@N04/9736649395/

c. www.flickr.com/photos/99244229@N04/9339027707/

The first one is the one they chose to rate, and I'll admit I was pretty disappointed I didn't even make their top 10 (www.glamourboutique.com/glamourgirlcontest2014cougarswinn...), though I did make the top 30 (www.glamourboutique.com/glamourgirlcontest2014cougarstop3...).

** Don't you think I coulda/shoulda placed higher? :-)

 

*NEWS on April 14, 2014: I'm nearing the end of my old pics to post, and will return to posting current pics in a couple weeks, I project. I just had my first public femme outing in 6 months, and have a few pics from that that I anticipate posting shortly after wrapping up my 2003 pics next week.

 

*NEW on Oct. 4, 2013: I've had trouble uploading videos in Flickr, so I've now created a YouTube channel to post these short videos. Please go to www.youtube.com/user/graceTGvideos/videos, and please add any comments or feedback!

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PROFILE/DESCRIPTION

I'm a transgender/crossdresser, "back in the game" in July 2013, with public outings en femme for the first time in more than 10 years. I'm married to an amazing and beautiful woman I love dearly, but who is not really fond of my femme side. She's known since our third date, back in 2003, and has tolerated it mainly because I promised it wasn't an overriding thing in my life. We have a wonderful and amazing son now, born in 2008, and I've kept my crossdressing very much in the background (private dressing at home only occasionally) for most of our time together. But starting in 2013, I decided to try some short, discreet public outings now and then, and give my femme side more of an outlet it deserves.

 

I get great satisfaction trying to "perfect" my look and to be and appear authentic as a sexy and stylish woman. I know I can pass very well, even walking in rather high heels, though I still get nervous, and know my femme voice could probably be improved upon.

 

I'd love to get your impressions of my new and improved look, as portrayed in the pics from 2013 to now. Starting in fall 2013, while on a break from public outings (I resumed in April 2014), I began posting my early pics dating from 1989 to 2003 (right before the beginning of my 10-year hiatus from public crossdressing).

 

Though I'm very fond of many of my early pics, I think I've substantially enhanced my overall look and style now, with lessons learned over the years, plus an enhanced wardrobe and (especially) an extensive set of accessories. Things I've added to my repertoire since the old days include: nicer dresses, skirts, and tops; sexier, taller and yet classier high heels, with closely-matched purses for each pair of heels; waist belts to enhance my figure; scarves to feminize my outfits and cover my adam's apple; color-coordinated fashion jewelry to go with every outfit; and a variety of complementary hosiery, especially ultra-sheers and patterned tights (e.g. fishnets). As you can tell, too, I'm very big on color coordination.

 

Let me know what you think, and please comment on your favorite pics of mine!

:-)

 

Grace

 

P.S. I've received nice compliments on my figure/shape, and I always welcome and appreciate such kind comments. I do admit to being blessed with a slender figure, but some extra effort has been involved to really "cinch and pad" my waist and hips/butt, respectively, to create an hourglass figure as best I can. With two or more waist cinchers underneath my clothes, and a pulled-tight extra-small high-waist belt on the outside, I can cut ~4 inches there (down to 27 in. waist measurement). And with some layered hip and butt pads, I add as much as ~5 inches there (~40 in. max circumference on my hip section). Padded girdles alone can look lumpy and leave a shape less than authentically femme, so on top of everything I wear a extra-firm-control body shaper (or two) to smooth out any unevenness. I love the resulting shape created... :-)