tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-89008443164238307232025-08-22T02:16:52.994-04:00Tracy's Home for Becoming a Gender Illusionist.Tracy Schapeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05305320513599589187noreply@blogger.comBlogger44125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8900844316423830723.post-46504808525467771942009-10-11T10:55:00.003-04:002009-10-11T12:10:18.902-04:00

Jamie Austin is a cross-dresser's best friend. Not only is he great with makeup, but knows how to direct and pose an amateur wannabe model!While at the Southern Comfort Conference I signed up for makeup and a photo shoot. I was going to use one of my usual blond wigs when Jamie directed me to a bunch of his wigs that he had handy. He wanted me in something darker so I picked out a red number.

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I thought I would share this with you. There are nice people pulling for us!Husband and wife playwrights Sam Bobrick and Julie Stein wrote this animation. It was presented as a pilot for Sony Television.From Sam's web site: However, ever now and then a project or idea shows up that I can’t resist getting involved in. Recently my wife, Julie Stein and I created a TV cartoon series called THE

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The "Adventures of Captain Cross Dresser" is a cute animation and is very positive for us cross-dressers. Instead of portraying us as perverts, some very accurate information is imparted. Like most of us are straight, and have a wife and kids. It is done in a very light and clever way. It even has the son of the cross-dresser spouting off homophobic non-sense, and his sister and mom call him out

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My last post had to do with those T-girls that don't know how to start getting out and about. Transgender Conferences are really the way to go. The other main question I get is "How do I look more like a girl and less like a dude in a dress!"My best recommendation has always been to practice and take lots of pictures. But for those that are frustrated or just impatient, may I suggest a

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I've have been neglecting my blog. I had every intention of posting something each week. As John Lennon said, "Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans."I didn't realize what an impact the SCC conference had on me. On one hand I wanted to go back the next day and on the other, some of my "Pink Fog" had lifted. I had somewhat OD'd on the experience, so there was bound to be

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I wanted to write every day about attending the Southern Comfort Conference, but I didn't. But what an experience! I think it was one of my friends, Deja True that said, "Good girls write about their experiences, bad girls can't be bothered!"I will follow up with my impressions of the conference. Right now I'm back home in Michigan reflecting on all the wonderful people I met, and all the things

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With my fascination with all things Japanese, I decided to try and do an interpretation of the Elegant Goth Lolita Fashion. I wanted to do this for this year's Halloween. I'm not sure where that will be at, but I thought I would at least get myself ready.The Elegant Goth Lolita fashion has been credited to a Japanese guitarist who calls himself Mana. He played for a group called Malice Mizer (

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I finally got a chance to create some pictures with makeup since my plastic surgery.A few tidbits of information are left about my surgery. There still is some swelling after one month and five days. Also, I was told afterwards that sometimes the dissolvable sutures do not dissolve, the immune system will push them up and out! And that has happened to me. It was really weird to have some of these

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Today is Thursday September 4, 2008. I feel I've fallen behind in my facelift updates. I think John Lennon said it best: "Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans." But I'm also kinda bummed, I had just bought a brand new Nikon D40 camera and was enjoying the infrared remote control, when I bumped the tripod and crash! I thought at first it was OK because the software

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I'm still waiting for some of the swelling to go down from my face lift, so in the mean time I thought I would post some of my favorite links for Photoshop.One of my favorite sites is the Photoshop Cafe. These are short, to the point, and well illustrated. There's a number of tutorials on this site. Here's some of my favorites that are especially useful for us cross-dressers: Cast or Drop

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I know it's going to take a while to get healed up, and things are coming along nicely according to my plastic surgeon. But that still doesn't stop me from saying, "Hey, hurry up already!"So I'll show you how I look today:I had some of the stitches removed on Monday. The ones under the eyes really smarted, it's a sensitive area. They (the nurse and doctor each took their turns) took out other

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I had to share this. As I was recuperating I was reading an old Simpsons Comics book #74. When I came across this:It seems to me you can't get any more religious that Flanders (you know he has a direct link to the Almighty), and if it's OK by him, it OK by me! LOL P.S. You've got to love the pearls and the mustache together! What a hoot!Tomorrow I get some of my sutures out. After that maybe an

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I've been able to wash my face and head three times now and I think I finally have all the gunk out. But now I remember some of the things the plastic surgeon warned me about. I just shaved and it was weird because I can't feel certain parts of my face. It's like taking a razor to your leather purse and shaving that. Has the same feel.And another thing he warned me about was that my beard will

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Now I understand what Joan Rivers meant! I've been told it's a temporary feeling as the nerve endings heal themselves. Maybe she just doesn't wait long enough between operations. So I had my bandages taken off and sat under a shower to remove all the gunk. It took quite a while and it's still not totally out. I used baby shampoo so that it wouldn't be too harsh. It still feels like the compress

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I Survived! It took a lot longer because of complications, but more about that later.WARNING GRAPHIC PICTURES BELOW!Yesterday I arrived with my wife early, we were supposed to be there at 7:30 A.M., we got there at 7:00. I get out of the car and turn to my wife and said, "Am I nuts?" She says, "No, you've been planning this for a while and you just realized you actually have to go through with it

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I'm excited and apprehensive. I'm at the point where I just want it over with. I'm re-reading my instructions and making sure I've got it right. I have to stop eating and drinking before midnight, but I'm going to stop sooner than that. I don't want an upset stomach!I'm going to watch the Tigers game and go to bed. I need to keep my mind off of tomorrow.So signing off, wish me luck!Love, Tracy

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I have written before that I have lost a good deal of weight, so to reward myself I'm going under the knife this Tuesday, August 12, 2008. This is to deal with the turkey neck that is the result of losing weight along with the fact that my cheeks are now hollow. In addition, I've asked to have the bags under my eyes to be fixed. Here's the offcial "Before" picture. I am wearing a wig and no

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I found this fun application at MyHeritage.com. Load up your picture and they show you which celebrities you look like!I decided to try the Rocker Chick photo to see who she would match:I was surprised by the results. I didn't realize I had created such an exotic look!I've had to look up a couple of these beautiful women:BoaShe is a South Korean singer who performs in Korea and Japan.Kyoko

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Marc Jacobs is not the first nor the last to use transgender themes for advertising. Here's one from the now defunct Clothestime clothes stores:I liked that ad, they used a very convincing TG person and got the point across. I hope this ad didn't kill their store.And I'm not going to rag on Marc too much, he had designed tee shirts for the Human Rights Campaign (albeit with his name interspersed

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I'd like to thank Dana, a friend of mine on crosserdressers.com, for suggesting Colortration for my foundation and beard cover. I think I'm a convert! I ordered their 6 color tester and I think I found a new solution!Here's a picture of me without makeup, my beard is probably an hour after shaving. I know it's not much but it bothers me:Here are the first 4 colors. Number 4 was the only one that

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OK, it seams as if I'm on a Japanese bender here. But I've known about Ranma 1/2 for some time, but just recently bought the first volume of the manga. I had always worried about what people would think if I were to bring the comic book up to the cash register. I worry no more as I am becoming more open about my own proclivities.Ranma 1/2 is a Japanese manga about a young boy who when dowsed with

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Yasumasa Morimura is a Japanese photographer that creates interpretations of famous painters by placing himself in the pictures. He also does pictures of himself as famous movies stars like Marilyn Monroe and Audrey Hepburn. He's done such a good job, that his pictures hang in some of the most prestigious modern art museums in the world such as the Luhring Augustine Gallery in New York city. He

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I haven't posted new pictures in a while, so here is rock & roll picture: There are more rock & roll pictures at my New Picture GalleryHere's some baseball themed ones:

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I said in an earlier post Photo Enhancing Software and it's Uses I would explain later what the picture was all about. If you remember, this was a picture of four school girls, each of which was me in a female latex mask, of a different style.But wow, talk about taboos. For some odd reason a female mask is even hard for some cross-dressers to understand. I get comments from CD friends like: 'It

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Sounds like a great movie title doesn't it? Well I watched "X-Men The Last Stand" this weekend for the first time (yea, I know, I don't get out much). It was the first time I identified with the mutants. Hmm, let's see now, why would that be?Mutants are: FearedDislikedClosetedMisunderstoodHave awesome powersAnd need to be cured.Yep, that's me alright. I'm not the only one to notice the parallels

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