Ok, time for another useful post. Everyone asks me how to do their makeup better, and I’m certainly no expert, but I’ll tell you what I’ve learned over a few years of doing it. And it all starts with foundation (or coverup, same thing).

I’m going to fly in the face of modern dermatology here, but you’re going to want a good thick cream foundation. Everyone these days uses powders or liquids or whipped foundation because they are lighter and let your natural skin color show . . . and they don’t clog your pores. But they also don’t cover up stubble. And I’m not talking about “I didn’t bother to shave this morning” stubble, most modern foundations won’t ever cover “I just shaved 5 min ago” stubble. Unless you are lucky enough to have really fine hair, in which case ignore everything I say.

Don’t fret too much if you need cream coverup, you probably don’t wear it often enough or long enough to worry about clogging your pores – remember most gg’s wear the stuff 12 hours a day every day! The only trick is finding the stuff (and in the right color). Look for makeup in a compact, not in a bottle or jar. And make sure it says “cream”. Neutrogena makes a pretty decent one if you need a place to start looking. Or you can try Ultima II which is available off of Amazon, but it’s a bit light on coverage for a cream.

Colors have semi-standardized names, so you can guess a little bit, but your best bet is to go into a store and compare the color sticker on the package to the skin on your wrist (palm side). You’ll probably want something just a tiny bit darker than your skin if you’re in between shades, otherwise get the closest match. If you’re guessing from the names, here’s a basic guide. “Ivory” is the lightest shade and has little color in it. “Natural”, “Amber”, or “Nude” are light skintones with some color in them (not color as in tan, but color as in more yellow than grey). “Buff” and “Beige” are usually medium tones but with a bit less yellow (leaning towards grey). “Golden” and “Honey” are medium tones with color. “Tan”, “Almond”, and “Cocoa” are exactly what they sound like. And of course there are combinations of the colors like “Natural Ivory”. And then sometimes the colors just make no sense. If you’re just looking at the colors on your computer screen though, err on the light side – most people guess a little too dark, and because your screen is backlit colors will look brighter than they are in real life.

Before you apply your new makeup, take a shower. Seriously. And wash your face, but don’t over-do it – you want to get any dead/dry skin off, but you don’t want to dry your face out and created new dead skin either. Stay in the shower for awhile with pleasantly warm water . . . makes a great time to shave your legs too. Now, if you want great makeup, apply a quick and thin coat of foundation while your face is still damp (not dripping, just damp). The moisture will keep the makeup spread out thin. Go cool off and dry yourself off, letting the foundation set up. Obviously don’t touch your face for a few min or stick it in a towel!

When you’ve got your foundation in hand and are ready to apply it (this goes for the base coat if you put one on, or your “topcoat”), use a sponge or cotton pad – lots of coverup will come with a sponge anyway, which is great. “Brush” in the direction of hair growth as a general rule, unless you find a little hair that you missed when shaving in which case go over it in the opposite direction first and then in the direction of growth. Spread the foundation out thin at first, you don’t want cakes of it, and you can always go back over and add more if you really need. Keep it off your eyebrows and hair, because that just looks funny. Feel free to go over your eyelids and lips though, as that will help keep your eyeshadow and lipstick in place when you apply them overtop the foundation. And don’t forget the little places, like the undersides of your eyes, and underneath your nose. Take the foundation all the way down your neck, but spread it out *really* thin towards the base of your neck – you want it to cover any stubble down your neck, but the color needs to fade out to your natural skin gradually. Don’t rub it in, just gentle strokes in one direction.

That’s it, all there is to it Ok, that plus a LOT of practice. But you’ll get the hang of it. And don’t worry, it may not look like much, but you’re well on your way to being one hot crossdresser :bubbles:

I had a photoshoot this weekend and got to wear that outfit I’ve been dying to do a set in Yup, the green plaid jumper, purple argyle tights, and platform saddle shoes. Did I mention that I love dressing up as a schoolgirl?

Well anyway, I’ve got this great antique school desk too (seriously, it has a hole for an inkwell and everything! I did mention that I love playing schoolgirl, right?) and I collect old books so . . . naturally I had to do a “vintage” schoolgirl set. It’s not completely vintage because I couldn’t bring myself to do the shoot in black and white and lose the gorgeous red color in my pigtails (not to mention the purple in my tights!), so I just went for an “aged” look . . . but I think it came out well. And just in case anyone missed the fact that I love my school uniforms . . . take a look at the upper right of the photo D

Just got this week’s update to The Crossdresser .com posted, and let me tell you, it was a doozy! 166 photos of me in purple fishnets I was in the mood for a kind of crazy and fun outfit and had been saving the pantyhose for just such an occasion. So I pulled out all of my other purple clothes too . . . a purple shirt, a purple miniskirt, purple panties, and purple sandals. And of course I couldn’t do something normal like sit around the house decked out in an outfit like that . . .

So I  got out a big bottle of lotion and started rubbing it in to my pantyhose-clad legs. And by the time I was finished, I had lotion everywhere – I looked like I’d gone swimming in it Of course being all slippery and lubed up like that, it would have been a shame not to take advantage of it. So I pulled my cock out of my panties and started rubbing it on my messy pantyhose. I love the feel of pantyhose on my dick, I’m not sure how girls don’t just orgasm all day long walking around in them. But the lotion made it feel even better, and it wasn’t long before I was adding my own special cream to the mess.

Lucky for me, I caught my cum in my purple sandal, so I got to play with it on my toes for a bit. I don’t have any other purple shoes though, so I had to wear my cum filled sandal around the rest of the day . . . not that I really minded feeling the thick mixture of lotion and cum squishing around on the sole of my foot as I walked

:bubbles: So I just spent the past 2 days trying to change the default emoticons in WordPress (that’s what I use to write my blog). And aside from the fact that I had to write a little code (little = a single variable array), it should have been pretty easy considering I had several step-by-step guides at my fingertips.

But no, all the guides say to put a space in front of your text codes so that if you type “(I had 8)” it doesn’t come out “(I had “.  So I followed that clever piece of advice only to discover after 2 days of banging my head on my keyboard that those little spaces were causing WordPress to not recognize my smilies

Take that WordPress :fight:

Oh, that’s me, I’m the beautiful crossdresser! And let me tell you, I was giving Jade a pretty serious pounding when these pics were taken I have to admit though, I was so horny that I had to stop a few times and calm myself down. What can I say, Jade has a nice little pussy, especially when she shaves it for me.

Aside from my other friend not showing (can you imagine this set as a threesome?!) everything was just falling in place for these pics. Shaving went well that morning, my skin was in good shape, my makeup was behaving, the lights were in the right places, Jade was shaved silky smooth too and had straightened her hair . . . and then of course my outfit, which is always my favorite part about being a tgirl.

Actually I had no idea what I was going to wear so I just started sorting through my closet pulling out any of my new stuff that caught my eye. And I ended up picking out my new pepto-pink plaid skirt (I know, it looks a little red in the pics, but I promise it’s pink!) and my new black short-sleeved tee, which really fits great it turns out. I spent forever debating over socks or pantyhose because I figured with a threesome I’d want something easily accessible but couldn’t find any socks that suited the outfit. I think the black, back-seamed, cuban-heel thigh highs made a very nice compromise though

And of course I shouldn’t neglect my standby black garter belt – I can always count on that one to stay in place and for the straps to run down my legs just so. Then there’s my oh-so-cute pink gingham sandals which I’ve grown to love recently because they just seem to go perfectly with every outfit . . . guess that says something about me, as I don’t think most girls can get away wearing something as eclectic and cutesy as pink gingham sandals with 90% of their outfits . . . Anyway, to top everything off I threw on a pair of neon pink and green panties. That way anyone who looks up my skirt gets two surprises

Hope you enjoyed the pics, and don’t forget you can download the entire set at The Crossdresser (sorry, shameless plug, but hey, I gotta pay for new outfits somehow!)

Ok, so I was doing some research on SEO (search engine optimization) because I want people to read my blog. I mean legitimately read my blog if it fits what they were searching for, not tricking search engines into listing me first. But anyway, one of the more popular terms that people search for is MTF (male to female, also written M2F). Now I don’t have anything against the term per se, and of course it’s an appropriate term to refer to crossdressers or tgirls, but how the heck do you use it in a sentence?

I mean, I guess I could describe myself and say “Hi, I’m Katie Ann, a M2F crossdresser” but a) it’s redundant, and b) it sounds stupid. So outside of clarifying that I’m a genetic male that likes to wear panties as opposed to a genetic female that . . . I don’t know what . . . there’s absolutely no reason to use the term.

Ok, moral of this story: Please stop searching for MTF because you will only end up finding sites that are trying to improve their rankings by throwing it in a few times. And you will perpetuate the need for legitimate sites like mine to write stupid posts like this!

Yes, my stunt cock canceled at the last minute today, *sigh*. And I was so looking forward to a nice load of cum on my face So I had to make do with my own cock and a nice little shaved pussy. Overall, it wasn’t a bad backup plan though

Don’t worry, I had my camera out. And the video camera. Some of the shots are downright incredible (imho) so I will post a couple here in the next couple days. Aside from the skirt and thigh highs I’m wearing, you’d think I was on a professional porn set!

As for the cumshot, I did the next best thing . . . one of the best parts about being a tgirl is that I can make my own cumshots when needed. When I couldn’t take any more fucking, Jade flipped me over and started jerking me off until I squirted all over my own tummy and chest. And by the time I had the camera downstairs and was downloading the video, I was totally getting hard again watching my own orgasm!

I think I’ve been spending too much time working on my site and not enough time having sex lately, because I’m horny. Like I’m probably going to call a couple friends this weekend to help me out because one will just not be enough. I should count myself lucky that both of the friends I have in mind think I look hot in pantyhose and a skirt. And you should count yourself lucky too, because you know there’s going to be a camera around somewhere I just hope I can keep my big clit tucked in my panties well enough that it doesn’t stick straight out the front of my skirt! Not that I think you’d really mind, but I like to at least feel pretty and presentable before we get started.

I guess I should be keeping my fingers crossed that they’re both available too . . . but I’m pretty sure at least one of them will drop any plans and come running if I beg him to let me suck on his cock for awhile. I just seem to have that effect on guys, I can’t help it! Besides, I need my regular dose of cum, and who would want to deny a cute crossdresser of that?

I was just doing some more design work on TheCrossdresser.com and started thinking about all the changes I’ve made to the site over the years . . . and if my design doesn’t look professional today, how amazingly bad it looked when I first started. I mean, never mind that the first version was just a yahoo group (which still exists, by the way – AmateurCrossdressingPhotos).

Anyway, I dug through my files and found some pics of my old site layouts so I thought I’d share them . . . maybe against my better judgement

All I could find of the very first design was this photo that happened to include it in the background. Photo is actually part of one of my sets, where I was pretending to be working on the site But anywho . . . this wasn’t actually the very first design since there’s graphical button links . . . but it’s as close as I can find. Notice that I couldn’t figure out how to make my border continue all the way around, so it just stops in the title. I did actually manage to erase some of the background from the photos in this version though so it almost looks like they’re part of the site layout instead of random photos . . .

I started to get fancy on this layout . . . I learned a little more about Dreamweaver and just updated everything, so now there’s a continuous border. And I played with Photoshop a bit more and managed to erase a good bit of the background from the layout photos . . . but notice all the photos have big black areas because that was the only way I could get them to blend into my black background!

Now this is not a version of the site I’m proud of . . . as evidenced by the fact that the only image found of it came from an outdated third party review’s screen capture of the members’ area that they still have posted . . . but that’s another subject. Anyway, the tour pages didn’t look quite this bad (I don’t think), but I really have no excuse for re-using the old title banner in a new color scheme. Believe it or not though, this design was a huge improvement in site navigation. Plus I figured out how to get images on the right side of a text block. I still couldn’t get all the background erased from the images in Photoshop though . . . oh well, one step at a time, right?

Which brings us to a familiar image, the current site design. I’m still fond of this one (introduced in 2007), and I put in a TON of work on it. Not the least of which was (finally) finding a reasonable color scheme. Which is easier said than done, considering that I’m colorblind. Though I don’t think even colorblindness is much of an excuse for some of the original designs. Of course, this layout’s already a bit outdated – I learned an amazing amount this year about how to use Photoshop (and Illustrator) the right way . . . when I did this layout I still couldn’t figure out how to get images in the background that looked natural, and I didn’t know the right compression settings to get the site exported with reasonable file sizes . . . and I didn’t know how to use slices, so I hand cut, saved, compressed, and re-aligned all the pieces. Eek! And of course by the time I did all that I decided I wasn’t going to go back and fix the small issues because it would mean hand re-building everything again!

Well I’m not ready to give up on the above design, but I did end up putting together a 2008 version which I’m currently using as an alternate tour. This one needs a little tweaking still, but at least the files are set up so that I can do it! Anyway, I like it, but it’s not as clean as the above design either. Maybe they’ll just attract different types of people though

I wasn’t going to take photos today since I had a ton of stuff to do on the website (obviously, since I’m just now finishing up at 3:30am, yikes!) but I wanted to dress up just for fun. Ok, actually I tried on 5 or 6 outfits – some of the new stuff I bought the other day – wore one outfit for a couple hours, then decided to try something new. And wow . . . I wish I were taking photos today. Well, this outfit is definitely going to be my next photoshoot:
The very best part about the outfit is the shoes! Oh my god, who gets to wear high-heeled saddle shoes?? These shoes are amazing. Ok, they’re a little narrow, but they’re patent leather, they look exactly like the saddle shoes girls used to wear to school when I was growing up (with the exception of the heel ), and they’re really well made. From Trashy.com if you want a pair.

The socks and tights are equally amazing, but they’re not new . . . in the interest of fairness though, I’m also wearing my favorite pair of white lace anklets (I add these socks to any outfit that I can because they’re unobtrusive but adorable), and a super thick pair of cotton argyle tights. Yes, that’s right, cotton argyle tights. Another of those rare items that I absolutely love and treasure.

To finish off the outfit, I’m wearing a green plaid jumper. I was amazed to find this at a regular store (Forever 21 I think), because it really looks like a grade-school jumper. The plaid pattern is authentic. The cut is loose, straight, and pleated. The only “problem” is that it’s far too short Ok, I’m really not complaining about that, I think it’s pretty hot.

Hope you enjoyed hearing about my outfit . . . but now that schoolgirl Katie has finished her homework she has some personal things to take care of in her uniform. Don’t peak, ok? I’m going to pull my skirt up now . . .