My facial feminizing strategy in detail

Without a reference pic, this post probably isn't going to be too helpful, but I can't seem to get an image in the post to illustrate.  If you're interested you'll have to message me and I'll get you the reference pic that goes along with this post.  It's literally one of the pics on my profile with a couple of geometric shapes that go along with what I'm talking about.  I'll post it anyway in case it may be helpful to somebody.

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I've always felt that femininity really starts in the face. The gender energy a person gives off as a whole, to me, determines their identity. The reason I believe it's more about energy than a particular trait is from not only constant research, but the fact that it's so instant. There are the obvious markers (hair, skin, body type, clothes, accessories etc.), the not so obvious (makeup), then the nearly imperceptible and difficult to define, but it's there. There has to be a reason that we humans can identify gender with such great accuracy within a split second. To put this to the test, just drive down a regular busy street and look around at other people driving... even oncoming traffic on the freeway. Even if the person is wearing a hoodie, a mask, slouching in their seat and you can't see anything else, you can guess at their gender and in almost all cases, you'd be correct. Why is that?????

So that is where all this, where my strategies, come from. And I'm going to try to explain it all here, in detail, to hopefully answer the question I get a million times online... what am I doing to feminize without HRT?

As you can see in the pic, I've drawn a couple of shapes. These shapes come from typical beauty standards and a representation of the "softness" of a woman's energy.

Let's talk about the circle. If you just look at a woman, this area literally is the brightest spot on her face. It's literally the focal point in her feminine energy. For men, it's shaped more square and more concave. In my constant testing, anything I can do in this area to "brighten" or "clear" will simply add a more feminine energy that people perceive. It's this area that is most important. It's all about proportions! It's a complete circle, not oval in any way, and centers near the bridge of my nose to the start of my pupils... that outline border is critical for my strategy as I'll explain below.

So how do I go about doing this...

For starters, brows -- My natural brow actually starts INSIDE of the circle, which naturally, closes off (or darkens) inside the circle. So I've plucked everything until my brows now start right at outside border of the circle. When it starts IN the circle, it creates a heaviness in my face and through my brow bone. This nearly imperceptible change has made a HUGE difference in public. Even in full guy mode, I have been called ma'am more times in the last month since I've worked on this strategy than I have in the past 50 years. I'm getting mis-gendered as a woman regularly now, in full guy mode!

Lashes -- My lashes now start with more space from the inside corner of my eyes. In addition, I trim the length of the actual lashes so that the majority of long ones start outside of the circle. This lightens the inside of the circle significantly. The impact of that also contributes greatly to the upward angle of the energy of my face (the V shape). This shape is a common beauty standard.

Skincare -- I put on sunscreen of course (as we all should), but I use SPF30 on the outside of the circle, and SPF50 on this inside of the circle. While you can't see some sort of definitive line or lightening, the long term effect is it keeps that area within the circle brighter than the rest of my face.

Eyeliner -- I no longer bring eyeliner on my lower lid all the way to the inside corner. You'll see that it starts right at the outer circle border. This includes any dark shadow I use for that smokey eye look. The smokey eye starts light at the circle border, and deepens and gets darker outside of the circle all the way to the outside edges of my eye.

Highlighter -- I ALWAYS use highlighter now on the inside corners of my eyes because it significantly brightens the entire area inside the circle. In addition, the center of my nose is highlighted but only down to the edge of the circle.

So what's the significance of the V shape. Well, based on beauty standards, the upward and outward fluidity of a woman's face is proportionally aligned to this V that starts at the tip of her nose, up and angled with the next anchor point being the outer corner of her eyes and beyond.

Based on that, I now extend my eyebrows to end right where that line hits as you can see in the pic. All my makeup, my lashes, the angle of my blush, is applied to create the illusion that my features follow the same angle and path.

I can get in to a lot more detail, but the bottom line is, those shapes I believe truly make a huge difference in the energy I give off. Absolutely anything I can do (and have done) to follow that strategy makes a huge difference (even if singular technique seems imperceptible) to how my gender is perceived when I'm out in the world.