I hope you're not suggesting I know anything about applying makeup! :lol: However, that said, I do have a small suggestion that comes from my stage days more than anything: regardless of what foundation you do use, you'll want to blend it all the way down your neck and chest. And I agree with monster, the purple eyeshadow is subtle and very nice!

actually, on the eyes, I checked.

I used three different colors. Krisp on the inside, Digit in the middle and Intoxicate on the outside. All of these are by Mac. My lipstick is Plumful and my eyeliner is Macroviolet Fluidline. Yes, I keep records! There are also different shades of foundation, concealer, highlighter and blush. Mostly plum in color.

I'm glad you're comfortable sharing with us. Are there any health implications for you in your change?

All this make up talk is making me feel unfeminine and dumpy :(
I only wear it 2-3xs a year and always feel like a clown (and yes I do know what looks good and how to do it ect but it still takes me an hour or so b/c my hands are so shaky I often have to restart with the eyes).

Hmf!

Pam, I'm sure you have checked, but what about online clothing stores target towards the transgendered? Also, "plus size" specialty stores (what a stupid term IMHO - most plus sized clothing is not that far from average. Instead of having plus sized clothing in special store/section they ought to do that with the tiny clothes) might have more things that would fit your frame.
All women have issues finding affordable/flattering clothing.

I think I have applied make-up about 4 times in the last 18 months :p

My secret: I don't have big toenails...they've both been removed due to ingrown issues. Been gone since HS.

Pretty fucking boring, I know.

Two fewer to paint.

I usually paint the areas anyway.

I would paint the remaining 8 and glue googly eyes on those two.

:lol: .

Yes there are. But I have preexisting issues. My doctor is working on the big ones first, then the smaller ones. So we're getting me on the right meds to control my wildly out of control thyroid first and foremost.

Then, the vitamin deficiencies will be addressed.

My hormones fit in the middle somewhere.

The basic transition without the complications can be dangerous if you are allergic to any of the drugs, if you don't follow the directions exactly or don't get your blood checked frequently.

But mostly there is little real risk if I do what I'm told.

I can elaborate if you wish but that should answer the question. I hope.

Fuck out of control thyroids...blech. We should start a club!

Technically some1 else put mine on me at least 2 of the most recent times. Sister's wedding - pro, Halloween - a friend.

Yes mtp, I have. And I do buy some things online but I prefer to try them on. I just hate the gamble of guessing my size, waiting for it to arrive, trying it on then returning it for exchange. It takes forever just to buy a blouse! I do NOT understand female sizing at all!

The plus sizes still don't really fit until I get to 2X or 3X but then while my shoulders and chest fit, the rest is way too loose. I sometimes take something I otherwise love to a seamstress and have her resize it to fit me but that is spendy!

I have threatened to parade around in maternity wear to see what happens but haven't quite had the nerve yet!

why even bother with make up? most of you are so pretty without it, the make up serves as a distraction.

(As a general comment and not because I count myself in the category described by Sarge).

I don't wear very much makeup at all but putting on at least a layer of foundation and powder has become like getting dressed or brushing my hair or my teeth. If you leave the house without doing these things, you feel uncomfortable. Stupid, I know, but it's a habit.

I also think of the chapter in Almost French where the writer is about to go to the bakery in her tracksuit pants as she would in Australia and her French partner begs her not to go without getting dressed 'properly' (as the French do). When she asks why, his answer is "it's not fair to the baker".

Yeah that is one of the major issues with online buying. NO ONE understands female sizing because it does not make sense.

Hmm, learn to sew? You did say you needed another direction to go. Maybe you could get into fashion design, and you would have a unique perspective.

I have seriously considered maternity wear also...my tummy likes to grow and shrink without the rest of me.

Female clothes sizing is a joke. Every fecking shop does their own thing. I go into NewLook and the jeans that fit me are a size 10 (8 US). I go into Matalan and I need a size 12. Some shops I have to get size 14. That can be on the same day, so it isn't that I have been size shifting in the meantime.

Same with the 'long fit' and 'normal fit'. Some shops the 'normal fit' barely reaches my ankles. Other shops the 'long fit' is long enough to trip me up.


On the wearing make-up: I think it's one of those things that once you get into the habit of it, you don't feel quite right without it. I have had very brief periods of wearing make-up. But I just dom't like it. I don't like the feel of it on my face. I like the look of it, when I do wear make-up, but it's only in a blue moon that i do it. And when I do, I don't wear foundation/base or anything like that. Usually, if I am doing make-up it's just a little brown/black mascara, having first removed most of the stuff from the brush onto a piece of tissue, to it's barely there. A little onto my eyebrows, again barely there. And some lipstick. Very occasionally, I'll add a little eyeshadow.

Perhaps, but for me, makeup is usually the difference between man in a skirt and female. If you forego makeup and someone notices, it won't change your gender in their eyes. I truly have to "put on my face" when I go out.

However, there is as ray of hope. Eventually, as the estrogen does it's thing and my body changes over, the male will be less noticable and I might get away with much less makeup. Getting rid of the beard is a huge plus in this. That gets rid of layers of warpaint right there. Eventually, I will have most of the makeup/no makeup options available to most women.

Now, all I need is six to eight thousand bucks to get rid of the beard. :(

I tried make up & I didn't like it. With my Lupus, I sometimes get the butterfly mask effect on my face. The Army had a cosmetologist (they also provide make up for burn patients or others with heavy scarring) teach me and they even gave me the make up. I couldn't stand the feel. At first, I wouldn't leave the post when I had an outbreak because of the stares & embarassment. Now I've learned to accept it. When someone stares, I simply smile & wave. Little kids can be the most fun because I'll stick out my tongue or make a funny face. It usually gets a laugh and breaks the ice.

What I'm trying to say is, don't dress or wear things for others. Learn to be comfortable with yourself & screw what others think

I stopped wearing mascara because I nearly always rub my eyes during the day and ended up with panda eyes which take ages to remove.

Panda eyes? Hmmm....I use to have this fantasy about being lost in a bamboo jungle and then there was a cute little female panda wearing a...

Actually, I revealed a secret of sorts in my newest blog post, which might surprise you long-term Dwellars that actually know me: http://thebosque.us/?p=327

Hello!

I'mma make a guess that this is Infinite Monkey making the point that the anonymous account is used more than it should be.

That point was made long before me

http://www.cellar.org/showthread.php...803#post720803
http://www.cellar.org/showthread.php...808#post720808
http://www.cellar.org/showthread.php...815#post720815

:eyebrow:

Like Superman, I am. ;)

Yeah, I saw those and figured somebody logged in and forgot to log out. Certainly not anonymous worthy.:3eye:

I am annoyed.

Hello.. my ass.

This is what I mean. I'm done. Someone is using it to troll. Let's exalt that for some reason: it could very well be one of the favorite ass-suckers.

Nobody is using it to troll. Not today. Not yesterday. I have this account for the "Who am I" thread.

So just use it for that, dickhead.

Who cares?

I do, when a decent board like the cellar is turned into a pile of shit by people too gutless to use their own names when they feel the need to troll and wank in public.

You wank in public all the time. So what.

And you fail to get even that simple point. I don't hide behind anon. Congrats on trashing another thread with your idiocy :)

The POINT is nobody is hiding or trolling.' Trashing',' wanking',' dickhead'. You project a lot don't you.


Oh, I just love crazy females. NOT

You're trying to tell me what my point is? All that unnecessary jabbering from anon is trolling. Your personal attack was trashing. Not that I give a shit what you "think", but if you want to parse this fucker to death, so be it. If the cap fits, wear it. I'll go back to ignoring you now.

I have only used the anonymous account in one particular thread. Based upon my keen insight, I realize there were at least 2 different individuals using this account in the past 24 hours

Wow! Talk about an overnight change! This place was OK when I was lurking around here yesterday. Today it's a pile of shit? :thepain:

Heh! I've been more effective than I thought!

Cock

I shall now force this thread back on track, but instead of sharing secrets that make me awesome, I will now share embarrassing secrets.

1.) I have had recurring plantar's warts on my feet for years. Dr. Scholl's bandaids fix 'em up good though.

2.) Last night I slammed my own head in a door. It was like this: open pantry door with left hand, bend inside to toss something on the floor of pantry, close door quickly and emphatically but fail to stand up fast enough. Just slammed the fucker right on my noggin. Got a modest lump now, too.

You guys will never believe this one: I have imperfections. I know, I know. Screws me up sometimes too.

Also, back in aught 5, I killed a family of 37 mormons. They were at the movies eating popcorn and talking, and they pissed me off. WTF does a bunch of mormons want with seeing The Wedding Crashers, anyway?

I think that's all.

not secret as much as factoidal:
By the time I was 30 I had moved over 40 times. Since then, I've moved 12 more times.

I had 7 different jobs in 2006. Taxes were a bitch in 2007.

When I was fourteen, I lived across the road from a Mennonite family that had 15 kids.

They had a small farm that they worked, only enough farm to give the kids chores and keep them busy.

The father worked for Harrisburg Dairies, and every day he would drive home with his station wagon full of expired cartons of milk and such.

It was the kids' job to open up all the cartons and pour the milk into the trough for the pigs.

Sometimes I would help because it was so amazing. The pigs loved the stuff. Sometimes he would come home with eggnog, and I would reserve a pint of that for myself. Too good for the pigs.

The kids were not allowed to listen to radio or watch TV. They could only read the newspaper.

Their mom and dad were very nice folks though, and were thankful to me for being a friend to their lot, especially when I gave them all the little soccer balls and footballs I didn't need when I moved away after a year and a half.

I've heard it's a rough life living on the lam.

Yaa-aaa-aaaaah, it is.

And if he'd stay away from the lambs he wouldn't have to move so much [/groucho impression]

"I don't know but I've been told it's hard to run with the weight of gold.
On the other hand, I've heard it said it's just as hard with the weight of lead...

One way or another this darkness has got to give."


It would seem I am knowledgeable, if not expert

Farmer Wilson walks over to Farmer Jones' place and says
"Jones, I got me a problem and I gotta to go to court - I need a lawyer, do you know any?" Farmer Jones replies, "yeah, I know a couple of those guys. One is a hell of a trial lawyer, great guy but expensive as hell; the other, not so great, but the guy sure knows how to pick a jury and he's a lot cheaper." Wilson thanks his buddy and moves on thinking to himself, well I don't have a lot of money so I guess I know what I have to do.


Wilson's day in court finally comes and the first witness called to the stand is his neighbor Mrs. Smith. Mrs. Smith is sworn in and the prosecuter asks her, "Mrs. Smith, would you please tell the court what you saw on the day in question. "Why yes I can", she says, "I was doing my dishes, looking out my window over the sink when I saw Farmer Wilson come out from behind his barn and grab one of his goats". Yes mam, and then what did you see? "Well after he grabbed that goat he proceeded to drop his pants and fornicate with that there goat!" Is that all mam? "Well no, after it seemed like he had his way with that goat, the goat turned around and proceeded to lick him clean!"


It was at this point of the testimony that one man on the jury turns to another man on the jury and says "you know, a good goat will do that"..

and your anon ass should be in the dweller nsfw thread. imo. don't like it? dial the freakin number i had in my sig. line before i was grounded by the FAA.

sorry wrong boobs

I'd say go for it, particularly if you locate a good shop assistant who will be able to pick out suitable pieces for you.

A good friend of mine's mother-in-law had a high-end maternity label for many years a while ago. A lot of the clothing was beautiful and I bought quite a few pieces which worked irrespective of whether a person was pregnant or not. I still have a skirt and a coat which gets compliments often, so obviously no-one notices and I have never been asked ever if I'm pregnant.

I'll see if I can find a pic or two. You won't be able to tell.

Brits call 'em verrucas. That's why the name is so funny in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. My pediatrician is married to a Brit, so never corrected/edumacated me, and it wasn't until one of Hebe's got so bad it needed freezing off and I had to make an appointment with the receptionist that I learned that Americans don't call them that.

Oh verrucas! Yeah. I have one on each foot, right in the centre of the front pad of the foot. Been there for years. Can't bear the idea of a chiropadist mauling with my feet so I use the plasters.

So is that the deal, the salicylic acid bandaids aren't really enough to kill it and they keep coming back in the same spot until they've been professionally frozen off? I have several that rotate so I haven't really noticed if they're coming back in the exact same spots or not. It's my own damn fault for going barefoot everywhere for years on end.

If it doesn't bother you, there's no need to get it frozen off, but if it's painful and won't go away, then you should. Dani, it no longer hurts like it used to when we were kids, they don't hack at them any more. A quick blast of freeze spray and they leave the dead skin to grow out in it's own time like a scab. At least that was Hebe's experience. You can even buy the freezy spray over the counter here if you're brave enough.

I got one and my doctor said adults don't usually get them because you eventually become immune, but when you have young children and take them swimming/to other places where barefoot is de rigeur, then your body gets assaulted by it and you sometimes get a relapse. I haven't had one for at least 5/6 years, now.

I had plantar warts a few years ago. Hurt like a mother.

I never go barefoot anymore. If it's farther that the bedroom to the bathroom, I put on flip-flops at least.

Verruca? That sounds like an oddball houseplant.

Reminds me of salt
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ygnKxktO6t...ruca_salt1.jpg

I want a bean feast.

I had one in the same spot and it finally went away after I was running on a stony beach and landed on a sharp pointy rock directly in the center of the wart. It was one of the most painful things I've ever felt. Two days later the wart just fell out and never returned. I highly recommend running barefoot on stony beaches as an effective treatment modality.

This thread has become almost as gross as the Period Cup thread.