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This is the face she made after she jumped on my head while I was sleeping (her way of waking me up)..
This image is for the group Theme of the Week. This week's theme: Guilty Pleasures.
Here my step-daughter Caitlin and I are settling in on the couch, wearing our pajamas, and preparing to eat mocha-brownie ice cream with fresh warm brownies drizzled with homemade salted caramel sauce, and watch Grey's Anatomy (or as we call it, "Gary's Anatomy") and Private Practice (we call the two combined "Gary's Privates").
Made EXPLORE May 17th #451.... too funny
My dog loves to get in the bathroom and get the roll of toilet paper. lol. Caught her tearing it up in her bed and had to laugh at the look on her face. She knew she was in trouble
As a transvestite I enjoy looking at female clothing styles, make-up techniques, hairstyles and women’s shoes. I am influenced by women who are dressed more formally in suits, tailored shirts, elegant court shoes and wear make-up more formally for their work. One such look I love is the television presenter, they always wear full make-up, have their hair styled nicely and wear elegant stylish clothing.
As I’m a man that enjoys dressing up as a woman I simply cannot resist attempting to create the appearance of such a woman. I am aware we all have our own motivations for cross-dressing. My own approach being I seek to try and pass convincingly as I can, I fail in my aspiration but I endeavour to do my best. My ambition is to be seen as female and nobody is aware I am really a man, what a thrill that would be!
I am guilty of posting a variation on this picture a few months ago but I saw it again this week and this version is a closer portrait shot. I believe that trying to look female facially is the biggest challenge we face as transvestites. It is relatively easy to get the body shape as one can employ techniques such as shaving legs, wearing breast forms and hip shapers and choosing dresses, skirts and heels that are very feminine and flattering. The face though...well, we are stuck with what we have so what can be done?
As a man I have a very dark beard shadow and my normal eyebrow shape is thick and bushy with no real shape at all. For the last ten years I have been plucking my eyebrows to be more shaped and defined and reduce the density of the number of the hairs. Nobody appears to have noticed this. In fact people I’ve not seen for a long time often say I’m somehow looking a bit younger. Never underestimate how much effect a nicely shaped eyebrow can have. I don’t like super thin eyebrows and feel a nice tidy shape is better. My current eyebrow plucking seems to work okay in both male and female modes. I may have them defined a bit more if I’m going to record a video as Helene or planning a photo-shoot.
My method for disguising the fact I’ve plucked a bit neater than usual is I let my beard grow for a few days then I pluck my eyebrows or have them waxed into a neater shape at a salon then I shave off the beard. People just assume I look tidier after the scruffy beard stubble.
I require a lot of foundation make-up to cover my beard shadow as even after an ultra close facial shave the dark shadow is present. I don’t mind wearing heavier make-up as I enjoy make-up and like the effect it has upon my confidence, I feel good and better in make-up. I have a weak looking face for a man which helps my efforts to look like a woman as I have no strong facial features and a weak looking chin. This suits me and I am grateful I’m not very masculine.
The secret to getting make-up to work is placing it wear it works. This maybe to bring out an aspect or to reduce an area so it is less noticeable. Too many people, including many real women, just put make up on without ever considering how to use it to enhance ones features. Transvestites love to put on make-up that often is too much as it all at one level leaving the features one has that would look at their best to be hidden in this dominant all over make-up approach.
One should ensure the whole face looks nice and even and softer so much effort needs to be put into applying foundation properly to achieve this. Once the foundation is complete and looks soft and smooth one should aim to enhance their best feature not go mad and try and enhance everything. In my case I have no real cheekbones to make use of, my lips are not nice being very thin and my top lip virtually non existent. For me I was left with only one facial feature I could make use of and this was my eyes. My eyes are not very nice either so I use make-up to try and rectify that and add a bit more a feminine eye shape.
A common mistake is to put eye-liner right around the whole eye. An effect on most people (Male and female) it makes their eye look smaller. The aim is to open up the eyes and make them more feminine. To this end one needs to lift the eye. As our eyes are set in position an illusion of the lift and feminine shape can be added by making the upper eye and lashes stand out more. In this picture because I don’t have feminine eyelashes I am wearing false eyelashes on my upper eye. To finish the upper eye look I have eye-liner drawn from the inner upper corner out to the edge of my eye. I have also used brown shades of eye-shadow with a lighter brown in the arch of my eyebrow to make it stand out more. I also lightly pencilled my eyebrows to give them more definition.
On my lower eye I have eye-liner drawn on from the outer edge but only two thirds of the away across. the line should be thicker at the outer edge and get very thin at the end. The effect is a more feminine, more open eye that looks softer.
As my lips are not attractive they are played down against the eyes. Soft pink lipstick with lip gloss gives them a presence but helps my eyes stand out more. A bit of softly applied blusher on my undefined cheeks adds a bit of colour and healthiness to my face.
To maintain the look I am aware that shorter wigs look better on my facial shape and so produce a result that is more convincing. I like contemporary short female hair style with the hair not just flat as the wig typically is straight out of the box. This short wig was back combed and fluffed up to add more volume and that contemporary feel. It was the liberally sprayed with hair spray to maintain its shape.
I do not have pierced ears so I chose clip on hoop ear rings which can look quite convincing but be aware, they fall off easily if your hand or hair brush catches them
To completely get into the character I was portraying I chose a fitted trouser suit. This required a genital tuck as the fit was tight, and I wore a bra in which I placed my breast forms. I thin wore a plain fitted lycra t-shirt and donned the suit jacket. I chose a pair of burgundy stiletto pointed court shoes with 4 inch heels and as a final flourish painted my nails with pink nail varnish and dabbed on some perfume.
I was finally Helene the woman! I was now ready to walk on set and do my interview.
I have no real idea if I succeeded in my efforts to create the female look, I put my all into it but when one is a middle aged bald man with a dark beard shadow one cannot quite disguise all of this. It is a delight and real thrill to be a man and dare to attempt becoming a woman. I really enjoyed filming the interview. The interview with with another T-girl and was posted on You Tube for awhile but unfortunately it had to be removed due to a change in her circumstances. It’s not always easy being a transvestite but it certainly is an amazing experience and feels fantastic.
This photograph encompasses two of my guilty pleasures, and this is the picture that I planned to get today. The first, candy (especially chocolate), is obvious. The second is that of being a nerd and seeking out the history of the places I visit. This building on Williamson Street was built in 1903 for the Madison Candy Company. There's a historical marker on the front, but other than the facade and the painted signs (there's another just like this on the opposite side), there isn't much remaining of the former tenant.
I returned home after being gone five days and the first thing Doo did was run for the front sidewalk and roll in the dirt (all that gray on his upper body is evidence). This is his caught-in-the-act look. For a better look, large.
"We must remember that the heart of our religion is alive and that each person has the ability within to awaken and walk in a sacred manner." ---- Thomas Yellowtail, CROW
The Native Spirituality is full of life. When we seek it we become alive. Even if we have gone astray and have conducted ourselves in a bad way, we can look within and have a new awakening to life. Maybe we have drunk too much alcohol; maybe we have cheated on our spouse; maybe we have done things that make us feel guilty and ashamed. If we look outside ourselves, we will not find life; if we look inside, we will find life. Anytime we choose to change our lives, we only need to look inside. How do we do this? Take some sage and light it, close your eyes and say to the Great Sirit, I'm tired, I need your help. Please help me change. Great Spirit, I know you exist inside of myself. Let me awaken to your teachings.
* Higher * ~ song lyrics by Creed
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKmWm_wEuVQ
When dreaming I'm guided to another world
Time and time again
At sunrise I fight to stay asleep
'Cause I don't want to leave the comfort of this place
'Cause there's a hunger, a longing to escape
From the life I live when I'm awake
So let's go there
Let's make our escape
Come on, let's go there
Let's ask can we stay?
Can you take me Higher?
To a place where blind men see
Can you take me Higher?
To a place with golden streets
Although I would like our world to change
It helps me to appreciate
Those nights and those dreams
But, my friend, I'd sacrifice all those nights
If I could make the Earth and my dreams the same
The only difference is
To let love replace all our hate
So let's go there
Let's make our escape
Come on, let's go there
Let's ask can we stay?
Can you take me Higher?
To a place where blind men see
Can you take me Higher?
To a place with golden streets
So lets go there, lets go there,
Come on, lets go there
Lets ask can we stay?
Up high I feel like I'm alive for the very first time
Set up high I'm strong enough to take these dreams
And make them mine
Set up high I'm strong enough to take these dreams
And make them mine
Can you take me Higher?
To a place where blind men see
Can you take me Higher?
To a place with golden streets
Can you take me Higher?
To a place where blind men see
Can you take me Higher?
To a place with golden streets
Una imagen de muestra del evento Anime Expo Santiago. La verdad tome tan pocas fotos de este evento que no subire una galeria a photowalkers y solo ire mostrando imagenes en flickr y facebook.
Modelo: Egda.
Personaje: Inori (Guilty Crown).
Fotografo: Cyberia.
Lugar: Centro Cultural Estacion Mapocho.
I only have one pink-cupped daffodil blooming this year, but it's so fragrant I had to pick it and bring it inside.
I don't want to shoot picture of my equipment. I think I should use it for shooting rather using it as a model......but....isn't it beautiful?
what a sweet guilty pleasure.....
Japan & Germany collaboration
Pentax Spotmatic F + Carl Zeiss Jena Biotar 5.8cm f2.0
Yes, I did it. I freely admit that I ate all my food as well as my sister's. It's quite obvious from the way my ears are pinned back that I feel very guilty about the whole thing. Scheeeeezh. . . .
(No dogs were mistreated in the taking of this photograph. Beanie hates her picture taken and assumes the ears back position every time). :-)
There's always work to be done...what's that old saying "a woman's work is never done"? Well, ironing has always been my least favorite chore...with dusting coming in a close second. I'd much rather be pushing a brush than an iron!
Seriously though, this was done late yesterday afternoon during our 30 hour power outtage after a terrible thunderstorm, capturing the last bit of light I had from the window. It was a pleasant way to pass the time...and I thought it was a light-hearted look at the inconvenient situation...see, I couldn't iron...so why not paint?
This was completed with Golden's fluid acrylics on 8 x 10" gessoed hardboard coated with fine pumice medium for a nice ground.
One of my so called guilty pleasures is to put one some half ass attempt at 60's make-up, part my hair like Twiggy and take selfportraits!
If I didn't like so many kinds of fashion, I'd dress up as a mod girl every day :D Loooove the 60's <3
These pictures also look really desaturated at Viewfinder, hopefully they'll look like they use to look on Flickr :x
And yes, it's quiet busy with that background but I was too lazy to change it :P