[Alice]

I’m a little surprised at that, Briony.

I haven’t used the velcro type attachables in several years, having moved on to the adhesive gel backed type.

Did you check whether the price from The Breastform Store was for one pack or for two packs? If it’s a pack of lefts and a pack of rights, $58 is obviously better than $31 per pack.

[Alice]

I have 9 wigs. Of those, I’ve worn 7 to the Newcastle cafe nights in the past 2 years. All of the ones that I wear now are longer than shoulder length, straight with a solid fringe and skin top parting.

The other 2 were an expensive mistake made at a local shopping centre years ago. One is a brownish red bob that almost matches my own hair colour. Sadly, I just don’t like the bob look and haven’t even tried it on in years. Maybe I should give t a good clean and brush and see if I can stand it. The other one was actually bought for my wife, and is a style that suits her but the colour is wrong. The only person it really suits is our 6yo son, who looks a little like the feral kid from Mad Max 2 in it.

I had a waist length black wig that I gave to my mother about 8 or 9 years ago after she had borrowed it for halloween one year. It was scruffy with horrible feeling fibres but she likes it for once a year use…

I’m still looking for an absolutely white wig in a similar style to the other wigs that I wear regularly.

If anyone feels like throwing out a wig because it doesn’t suit them but it’s still in good shape and it has a fringe, throw it in my direction.

[Alice]

I went through a phase of getting my brows tinted darker.

Now, I go the opposite way. I leave them naturally pale. I trim the hair length, and I gradually shaped my brows more and more until I had removed the entire outer half and made the underside of what was left rise at a steeper angle.

When I apply my makeup, I draw over the remaining parts of my brows, then draw the outer half in a new higher arch. Without makeup, the shape of the brow bones gives the illusion of the blonde brows being there.

I could never make the brow wax work either.

[Alice]

Ironically, in the couple of years since I started this thread, I’ve grown my hair long again in spite of the widows peaks. Apparently my wife prefers me with long hair.

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how ever as a younger girl I would like to be able to show off a little cleavage every now and then and even though I wax my chest I still do not get that lovely soft chest and cleavage line that young women get

Kate,

It appears that I stuffed up the link to the fake cleavage technique in my earlier post. I’ve fixed it now. It points to the wikipedia article that I wrote on how to fake cleavage without a fancy prosthetic. A cheap adhesive bra, a pair of breast forms and a regular bra is all that is needed.

It doesn’t allow the full-on plunge style that the full prosthetic allows but it also doesn’t tie you down to conventional bra straps and a top with matching shoulder straps like the crop top does.

With that crop top design and other similar ones I’ve seen before, the transition at the neck is not small enough to be hidden just with a necklace. A wide choker might work.

Alice

[Alice]

I’m guessing that you’re talking about these.

If you look at the larger versions of the photos on that page, there are clearly visible joins where the outline of the breast forms join onto the crop top.

The neck seam also appears to be something that has to be hidden using a scarf or similar.

While it might not give as much of a showy cleavage, I think I’ll stick with my fake cleavage technique.

Alice

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I have been taking saw palmetto and and feenugreek tablets and Phyto-Estrogen for 5 months and all the hysteria that this will work is false hoods it does not work at all no enlarged Titties.

So for all you girls looking to build BOOBS with Herbs forget it it wont help but your purse will suffer

I have tried fennel and fenugreek on and off and seen no discernible improvement in bust size, but they do help to clear the nose.

Alice

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I recently had my first go at getting my arms waxed (first waxing ever) and after a week and a half or so, I had noticeable regrowth on my arms. So I was wondering if the first time you get it done and then the regrowth period, does that stay fairly constant or is it possible that it wil change later or its just a lottery?

The first few times, you tend to get quite a few hairs that will snap off level with the skin and hence you’ll see regrowth in a time comparable to shaving. Over multiple waxings, the hairs become less brittle and the results improve. The hairs also regrow with a smaller diameter and less pigmentation (paler) in the tip after waxing (or epilation), and gradually thicken and darken to normal if not waxed again.

Some people find that frequent waxing will result in the regrowth getting finer and paler each time until it’s virtually invisible right up to when it’s long enough to wax again.

The quality of the waxing job also affects the rate of snapped off and completely missed hairs.

The time between waxings being needed will depend on how fast your hair grows and how good the last waxing was.

Alice

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How have children affected you with your feminine features?

Not long after I got my ears pierced (about September 2000), I had a customer’s young daughter comment to her father that I had both ears pierced, to which he replied that her mother said that she could get hers done when she turned 18 but if it was his decision, she’d have to wait until she was 36. Yes, he was from a minority christian church…

The 2nd time I’ve ever a comment about my earrings was just before xmas this year. A girl from my son’s preschool commented at a party about my having earrings in both ears I responded “so do you” and she went on to say that I looked like a girl. She also claimed that I was wearing makeup (sadly, I wasn’t).

Alice

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What’s on top of your list for 2009?

Hmm. Let’s see. In no particular order,[ul]Get out more often in girl mode.
Get down to 65kg, which means getting a lot more exercise than now.
Drink more water and eat less chocolate!
Take better care of my skin.
Get back into belly dancing and yoga.
Get more practice with makeup, maybe even a lesson or two to find out where I’m making mistakes.
Be out to more friends and relatives.[/ul]That’s just for starters!

Alice

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With the forms though, do you need a mastectomy bra or can you use just a standard one?

I’ve never owned a mastectomy bra.

My most recent 3 all came from DJs.

Alice

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I think those who are saying ‘no’ maybe missing the point of the hypothetical. Would your life be so much simpler, not that not being a cross dresser means that ‘life would be easy’. But be honest, at least admit life have had less strain or stress if you weren’t a cross dresser?

Of course life would be simpler, but I’d never get to experience the euphoric highs that I get from going out dressed. It’s more fun than I’ve ever experienced as a male. It’d be a bit like a drug for bipolar disorder that prevents the euphoric highs but still allows the suicidal lows.

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From what I can see, the general consensus seems to be that buying from the breastformstore seems to be the way to go.

I admit to being biased on account of having known Tanya from the breastform store over 20 years ago and having bought new forms from her early this year.

In my experience, their service is second to none. Considering that I got a quote from another place near me (where I bought my previous pair of forms) and their price was over double what I paid at the breasform store, I can’t honestly see myself going anywhere else.

Alice

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This is just the topic i am currently racking my brains over at the minute, so in my male mode, the thought of being with a guy is nt something i could ever think of….its just not there. On the flip side as my female self, there seems to be no inhibitions at all, I enjoy the attention of males, the problem is when having to revert back to male mode, thinking “what in earth am I doing”. I kinda like it to the nutty professor with Eddie Murphy, male me is conservitve Sherman Klump…. and when en femme… I m a Buddy Love…except more like a very excited teenage girl….but the next morning I think whats going on? I know the gender and sexuality of a person are seperate….but the lines do seem to get blurred when one constantly hops between the genders. Does any of this make any sense? Please let me know if anyone else feels like this….. would appriciate any comments.

I’ll take a guess. I’m not a shrink, so all of what I say could be complete and utter rubbish…

I was raised by a very homophobic father. Since I didn’t find males attractive anyway, that didn’t bother me. In effect, it instilled in me a deep fear of homosexual “predators”, which took me years to overcome. Even this year, I was spooked by a tranny chaser who followed me to my car, so I probably haven’t entirely shaken off that fear.

From what you’ve described, I’d guess that you may have had a homophobic person in your upbringing. In male mode, you’re held back from your attraction to males by that upbringing, but changing to female mode allows you to lose that along with your masculinity.

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Sadly this is a steam train coming down the tracks no one can stop. I am not sure how it will pan out for goups like our own here at TR in the future but we must hope for the best.

I think it’s more like a home-made jumbo jet hurtling down the runway at full throttle. Nobody knows whether it’s going to get off the ground but drop bits everywhere or whether it will crash and burn at the end of the runway. One thing for sure is that it cannot ever hope to work in the way that Senator Conroy apparently believes.

As far as I can work out, the greens and coalition are aware that it’s technically impossible and even attempting it would be seriously damaging to the nation. I expect that it will be blocked in the senate.

Alice