Off to ballet!! I really wish my hip would hurry up and heal so I can stretch properly :( #ballet #me #dance #leotard #smile #happy
Many of you have asked how I got into Cross-Dressing, so here’s my Story (sorry it’s long):
I’ve always been a little feminine, when I was a child my Mum and I used to go shoe shopping and I always tried on some high heels. Every time we went to this town I looked forward to wearing some heels again. This went on for a while until we visited the town a few times without going shoe shopping and after asking my Mum why, she said that the shop was closed. I hoped it would open again but after a while I realised it wouldn’t. Also my childhood favourite song was Shania Twain’s ‘Man! I Feel Like A Woman’.
Then a long time after in my early teens my older brother had a couple of girl-friends over and they wanted to do his makeup for fun, I was desperate for a picture of him all made up. So he said I could take a picture if I had my makeup done too, I agreed and will always remember the feeling and smell of the foundation going on for the first time. It was such a great experience and I will remember it forever, I wish I could tell them I Cross-Dress and show them pictures of Lucy. Then a little later towards my mid-teens my Mum and I where bored during half term with my Dad out for a long day at work so we thought it’d be fun to dress me up as a girl, I was a little nervous at first but ended up loving the experience. After I’d dressed up in girls’ clothes my Mum started doing my makeup, nothing dramatic but it was unexpected as I thought it was just going to be clothes. However the make-up made the experience more memorable, I wore a flat hat as we had no wig which didn’t look great but it was the experience that counted.
Then in my mid-teens after asking to dress up every half term I realised that she was not going to let me do it again, then I thought about it over some time and just thought I may just like wearing the tights. So later in my mid-teens I started asking my Mum if I could have some tights, I said I loved the feeling of them and I found a video online explaining that a lot of guys liked wearing tights. After a while she kindly gave me some knee high tights. I was happy to have some tights at last but it was not long until I wanted to have full waist high tights. I also actually said to my Mum once that I didn’t want to dress up as a girl and referred to it as 'weird’, I wonder what changed. I certainly don’t see it that way now as now I’d say being able to make yourself appear as the opposite sex is a form of art, especially when you add all the makeup and outfits. Cross-Dressing is something I’m truly passionate about, I’m always excited to meet other people and cross-dressers who feel the same way.
Then a little after my mid-teens my Mum was comfortable with me having some waist high tights, so I paid her for a pack of black tights that she brought me online. I kept these tights hidden for around a year and wore them occasionally at home, I thought it may have just been a phase but after having these tights for a few months I realised that it wasn’t. After this I became aware that I wanted to cross-dress, so I told my best friend that I wanted too and that I had tights. He took it as a joke but knew I was serious (we never really spoke of it again until I went public). Sometime after telling my friend I found an app called 'whisper’. On this app I met other cross-dressers & supportive people who helped me gain enough confidence to tell my parents and above all helped me understand why I wanted to cross-dress and if this changed me as a person. I realised I was the same person I’d always been, I’d just found out a little something about myself that not many other people do. After this I needed to prepare for questions I may be asked when I told my parents. So I needed to know my sexual orientation and why I wanted to Cross-Dress.
After a while I’d figured most of it out but I was still not confident enough to tell my parents. So I decided to tell my best friend online, he took it well but wasn’t really talkative about it. I then went back and started talking to more people on whisper and met someone who I’ve lost contact with but she gave me many helpful tips on Cross-Dressing and boosted my confidence. After talking to her for a while I finally got enough confidence to tell my Mum, I was confident that she would be accepting of my hobby as she is a loving, caring and accepting mother. I was also confident as she’d dressed me as a girl before. Then after sitting down with my Mum and explaining that I had something important to tell her I lost all confidence and was speechless, unable to say “I want to cross-dress”. She comforted me and said it was ok if I couldn’t say, and I couldn’t so I said I’d tell her in an email. I then went upstairs and emailed her telling her that I wanted to cross-dress, I was relieved to find out she was okay with it.
Over time we emailed back and forth with questions etc. about my new hobby (Cross-Dressing). Then at 18 I got my bank account and wanted to start buying clothes to Cross-Dress in. I didn’t want to cross-dress behind my Dads back so I composed a letter which I emailed to him for him to read whilst I went out for a walk. I didn’t want our strong father-son relationship to change, I just wanted him to know I was going to cross-dress in private. I was relieved to get a comforting and loving hug shortly after getting home (we didn’t talk about it for a year after this and he has yet to see a picture of Lucy). Then I started buying clothes online with any money I could spare. The more I dressed the more I became comfortable with my hobby and feminine side, dressing in girls clothes was an experience unlike anything I’d felt before, girls clothes are so comfortable to wear and was like nothing I’d felt before and I loved it. However it was a little arousing at first but after online research I found out that this was the brain interpreting the cross-dressing as female contact and that it would go away the more I cross-dressed. After getting my first outfit and wig I showed photos of myself cross-dressed to other cross-dressers on whisper seeking advice. I met many people on whisper that helped me understand my hobby, find my female sizes etc.
Then a while later the best friend that I’d told online introduced a girl into our little group of friends. A couple of weeks after meeting her I had a strong gut feeling that I should tell her about my hobby, so I did without hesitation. Telling her is one of the best decisions I’ve ever made, to this day she has supported me with my hobby and encouraged me to go the distance. She’s answered every question I’ve had about it and helped me whenever I’ve needed it. To this day I cannot thank her enough (as without her help I probably still wouldn’t be public with my cross-dressing). After meeting her she gave me tips with everything girly, helped me pick out clothes and commented on my outfits. She also helped me name my feminine side Lucy and boosted my confidence, she also taught me that the world was more accepting than I’d originally thought by encouraging me to tell my friends and my brothers through time one-by-one. All my friends supported me and treated me no differently after I gained the confidence to tell them. My brothers reacted extremely well and where proud of me having the confidence to tell them.
After telling my close friends & family, I had so much girls’ clothing and enough support and encouragement that I finally gained enough confidence to go public. I then let my parents know I was going public and went public on Facebook telling everyone about my hobby and linked a blog named 'Lucy’s Blog’ that I’d started to show my feminine side. I thought about starting a blog as I wanted a way to publish all the great pictures I planned on taking of Lucy, I also had recently found a blog on Tumblr (prettycd.tumblr.com) that was filled with images of other Cross-Dressers and these pictures have been a great inspiration to me. Since starting this blog I’ve gained almost 5,000 Followers and improved so much with makeup, outfits and generally everything to do with Cross-Dressing. I will always seek to improve my cross-dressing wherever I can and hopefully one day soon I’ll be able to Cross-Dress outside more. Also for those that don’t know, I’m working on a feminine voice so that I don’t only look the part when I dress up but I can sound it too.
But nothing smells better than leotard and tights soaked with sweat left in an insulated lunch bag for 12 hours in the hot car.
Hey everyone, this is my 250th post so I thought I’d take the time to answer 10 FAQ’s for you all. I can’t believe I’ve posted so much really, and to think that most of those posts are ten pictures each… that’s a lot of pictures, I’ll also start uploading the rest of the pictures from last time I dressed up tomorrow <3
1. Can we chat & be friends? Feel free to start a conversation with me at any time on Tumblr or on Kik (My username is: PinchedSlinky), friendship however must be earned and has been by many. Although I shall not participate in a conversation if the other is for example; a guy requesting nudes.
2. Do you consider yourself Transgender? No, however I have considered this many times as I know my personality is naturally feminine but I am aware that I do not feel the way that transgender guys and girls do. I enjoy CrossDressing occasionally but do not feel the need to one day become Lucy.
3. Do you ever want to stay dressed as Lucy? Yes, there have been many times when all I want to do is stay dressed up after taking pictures because I look and feel so great. Although I prefer to spend every minute I have dressed up taking pictures. It’s just a shame that sometimes I only stay dressed up for an hour or two and spend more time dressing up than I do dressed up. Occasionally I do stay dressed up a little longer but as I almost always dress up late at night I just want to sleep after I’m done.
4. How did you realise you wanted to CrossDress? A while ago I took the time to remember everything I could leading up to the creation of my blog, you can read all about it here: My Cross-Dressing Story
5. Are you aware and does it bother you that your pictures are re-blogged by a lot of NSFW Blogs? Yes I am aware that a lot of NSFW Blogs follow mine and re-blog my content, I am aware that many others do not appreciate their content being on these blogs. However as far as I’m concerned if my content is on one of these blogs, it’s because the host of that blog likes my content and wished to re-blog it. I do not feel that this associates me with them in any way, all I feel I’m associated with is what I post here on my blog.
6. Where do you buy your clothes, makeup etc? I buy most of my clothes on Amazon but I have started also looking on eBay recently. I buy my makeup on Amazon too but I do not have any brand preference, I buy items with good reviews and value for money. I buy wigs and heels on Amazon too, my favourite brand of heels currently are Viva Shoes as I have brought a few pairs from them and they’ve all been great. I buy all my wigs from MelodySusie on Amazon as the wigs they sell are great value at roughly £15 each and they are excellent quality.
7. How did you learn to do your makeup? I learnt my make-up very gradually, when I started dressing a year before I started this blog I used to just wear foundation and lipstick along with some girly sunglasses and a wig. This made me look fairly feminine but it was months until I tried eyeliner and my first attempt wasn’t too bad. Since then I have been practicing those basic makeup skills and over time improved. I also learnt to use a few other makeup items to give me a more feminine look, if I didn’t know how something was done I would find one or two YouTube videos explaining it and then practice until I got the result I was looking for. After learning all I needed to about the makeup I wanted to use I improved every time I dressed up and progressed to now. I’m using almost exactly the same makeup now as I was when I started my blog, so the difference you see is simply practice as I’m still using the same products. So for anyone out there who is looking to learn, start with the basics and once you’ve learnt those move onto the next makeup product you feel would help improve your look. Then when you feel your starting to look feminine, keep doing what you know and don’t try to learn more just yet. When you’ve gotten the best you believe you can with what you know, you may want to try another makeup product to make yourself look even more feminine. I can’t guarantee this will work for you but this is how I learnt and got to where I am now.
8. Do you ever go outside dressed as Lucy? I went outside for a short five minute walk around my block when I started my blog just to see what it would be like walking outside dressed up, this was a very memorable experience. Since then I haven’t been outside anywhere other than the garden dressed up, this is not something I aim to do more often either. I enjoy dressing up and taking pictures, going outside dressed up after spending all that time dressing up seems like a waste and I’d rather be taking pictures at home in various outfits. It would be nice to go out as Lucy one day so long as there’s a reason for it, for instance going out and taking pictures with a girl or another crossdresser, but for now I’m happy taking pictures dressed up at home.
9. Who takes the pictures? The first pictures of me ever taken dressed as Lucy outside were taken by my mum. Other than that all pictures have been taken by me, to get most of the pictures outside I use a tripod and a 10 second timer on my camera.
10. Got any tips for a beginner? I do, however I would go on for
far too long talking about them. Although another Tumblr CD, Jessica Blaise has
put together a rather nice CrossDressing Compendium which is full of
Tips/Tricks & Advice for beginners. I have also personally helped a little
with this although it is not completely finished yet. If you like my content I
also recommend you follow Jessica too and if you ever have any questions you
can contact either of us on Kik anytime (Jessica’s username is: Jessica_Blaise).
amyday83 asked:
abbycatsuk answered:
I’ll start by saying it’s wonderful that you have an interest in your husband’s cding. Many partners see dressing as a rejection of themselves, they’re not good enough.
It is a difficult subject though, as many people have spent their lives keeping it a secret or in denial of how they feel. It also brings up questions of sexuality, etc, yet most dressers are just typical guys who want to look and feel temporarily, like those who they’re attracted to.
Your husband might be feeling that if he is open with you, he might have to be open with himself, and that might be hard for him.
As for myself, well I am not in a relationship and haven’t been in one while Abby has been in my life. So as yet it’s not been an issue that I’ve had to deal with.
I’d like to think that if I met someone I could be open about Abby, I guess we want a partner who an love all aspects of us. I am sure that any conversation and dressing with your partner feel awkward, at least at first.
I’m not sure I can offer much advice, I would just show you’re interested, but don’t push it. Maybe start out by asking him to help you buy some clothes or make-up for yourself. Ask him what fashions he likes, etc, get him comfortable talk about it before you suggest he dresses with you.
I hope that helps 😊
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