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Are we there yet... Ok, I understand that you're going to find the title of today's post a little misleading, but I hope you'll understand why I chose it once you've read this. Now, when someone local contacts me, especially when someone finds me in a messenger or chat, they don't seem to realize just what it takes to become Brianna. I'll admit this is most prevalent with guys than it is with the ladies. Let's face it women getting dolled up is pretty similar to what I (or most crossdressers who go all out) do to just be presentable. So, let me give you an idea what I do every time I crossdress. I'm not going to go into detail about what I do, this isn't a discussion of makeup techniques or a transformation guide, just a quick rundown to explain why it takes 3+ hours to become Brianna. First off, I have a male body, that means mean old testosterone, which means HAIR almost everywhere. Fortunately, I was blessed in that I'm not extremely hairy, but I didn't get lucky enough to have no body hair. And don't get me started on facial hair. So, I have to start with shaving. So, if I've been out and about, I've already shaved my face once, but if I haven't it starts there. Then I'll either take a shower or a bath and shave the rest of me. Now we all know the Ladies shave their legs, but keep in mind, my body is not the same. I have a lot of area to shave. I usually work from the top down, so arms, underarms, chest, dangly bits and rear, and legs. Now keep in mind I'm 6'2" and these days close to 200 lbs. and that means those areas comprise a lot of surface area. If I don't want to lose too much blood it usually takes about 40 minutes to shave all that. I consider myself lucky that I have yet to need to shave my back. Don't know how I'll accomplish that should it ever become an issue. So, I'm done shaving and showering, probably an hour and a half total. So, if I'm in a hurry, I'll simply put my hair up and move immediately to doing the makeup. I hate doing things this way. I mean what's the point of having long hair if I'm going to wear a wig. So, most of the time, I use hot rollers to do my hair. While my hair sets, I get started on doing my face. And that means shaving again. I know you're going, "Huh? Wait, you shaved already." I shave a second time, because no matter how close you think you've managed to shave you leave the barest of stubble. I let the stubble relax while I shower and then go back over my face to get what's left. It leaves the face smoother to the touch, and it is less difficult to hide the beard shadow, as I don't have that stubble trying to poke through my makeup. Once I shave my face a second time, I start in on my makeup. The first thing I do is try to hide the beard shadow. Now for those of you who don't know, the beard shadow is the darkening of the face where the dark beard hair is visible through the translucent outer layers of the skin. The darker your natural hair color the more pronounced the beard shadow. Now, there are a number of ways to handle the beard shadow. Some foundations provide the kind of coverage to do it, but most consumer foundations don't. I actually use a product used to hide scars, heavy discoloration and blemishes. Once I've got the beard shadow hidden, I apply a normal foundation to even out my skin color. Now the fun begins, I start with contouring. That is I apply a darker makup to to assign areas of highlight and shadow to my face. This is used to tweek the face, make more prominent cheeks, more depth to the forehead, help hide the adam's apple and such. After going over the contouring with a blending brush I move onto my eyes. So, we've got eyeliner to apply, at least two shades of eye shadow, mascera, and and defining the eyebrows. If I got my eyes the way I want, then I can apply rouge to my cheeks, and lip liner and lipstick. Now the face is done, but I'm not. It's time to take the curlers out of my hair, brush it out and spritz it with hair spray. And that finishes everything above the shoulders for another hour and a half to two hours (sometimes longer if I'm doing something really elaborate). The rest is just a matter of putting on the clothes and shoes I selected to wear. You can figure another 10 to 20 minutes. More if I'm wearing something really crazy. My point in all this is, Brianna does not spring forth from whole cloth, I am meticulously created. That creation takes time. Sometimes lots of it. Fortunately, I'm patient enough to go through it all. One day I might find some shortcuts to speed up the process, but for now it's a time intensive work of love. You can like it or not, but I hope now you'll at least appreciate the amount of work that goes into it each time Bri is free. Take care Brianna |
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12/5/2019 2:26 pm |
A good lesson for those who don't realize how much goes into our creations.
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nnjpaulasm, I thought so. When I decided to write this it seemed like guys thought I somehow pulled some magical Linda Carter transformation. Doesn't work that way. For one thing I'm dizzy enough without trying to spin around really fast. lol
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