Reply To: When you look in the mirror…

[Alexis Moon]

I agree with this 100% – wearing female attire is what allows you to see your true self when you look in the mirror. I think that’s why it’s so important to me to also do hair and makeup when I dress – I don’t want to look like a “dude in a dress” because that’s not who I am. I need to see a woman when I look in the mirror, and consider myself so, so lucky that I’m only 5’7″ with a 29″ waist – yet even at that my arms are too long, my hands are too big…there will always be “tells” you can’t get away from as a trans woman. But part of the magic of clothes, hair, and makeup is how you can use them as tools to help see yourself as you want to be.