When was your first time with makeup

I only wear lipstick/lipgloss.was supposed to have a cd acquaintance show me what to use and how to apply it.she flaked on me. still dying to do the makeup thing,maybe one of these days I will go and get a makeover.......Jamie

I must have been 12 or 13, and my Mam had been an agent for Avon so had a few tiny little makeup samples. I acquired a lippy and tried it on. I loved the look and the taste of it. I tried eyeshadow a little while later, and even tried messing about with some coloured pencils that were water soluble (that was fun)

I tried my mom's lipstick and nail polish when i was a teenager.

I started recently to wear lipstick with men's formal clothing when I don't wear a tie. It is a color not much different from my lips.

I also bought one of those cheap makeup sampler gift kits from Walmart and have tried the mascara, eye shadow, and eyebrow pencil when I wear a dress with hose and heels. My wife is now bumming off of that kit as well as bumming off of my nail polish. Mind you my wife NEVER wears a dress, let alone a dress with hose and heels.

I don't have distinct "en homme" or "en femme" modes - for me it is a continuum.

Johanna

I started putting on lipstick in the privacy of the bathroom at around 8, maybe 10. Since the beginning to this day, I have always loved deep dark red lipstick applied heavily. It was always especially pleasurable to apply lipstick while wearing high heels, and I was fortunate to be the same size as my older sister through several teen years, and also fortunate that she wore really high heels. Other makeup items didn't draw much interest until my late teen-early twenties years. Now, one of the best things about about cd-ing is watching the transformation in the mirror as the makeup goes on. I love heavy makeup, especially monster eyelashes with black liquid eyeliner and lots of eye shadow. Makeup mesmerizes me, on me or on others.

I was 11 when I first tried lipstick, blush and face powder. They were my mother's. I also tried on her bra, panties, slip and hose at the same time. I was hooked after that first time and have been dressing for 60 years.

I would have been about 7 maybe 8. The first time I really recall was staring, facinated as my sister put on her makeup at a lighted vanity mirror. When she got done with a particular part like eye shadow, or lipstick, she would do me. NICE.

Great question Marina! I've played with make-up since around 9ish, but it was pretty simple, lipstick, maybe a touch of eye-shadow. Being young I required very little.....I wish it was that simple now. lol From 16 to 18 was a new chapter in make-up. I had gone through puberty so my need to step up my make-up technique was necessity. Unfortunately, I was very closeted, so I had to learn, through trial and error. Brushes, tones, concealer, bronzer, lip liner, liquid eye-liner, etc
It can be TOTALLY daunting at first

As of gotten older and more accepting of myself, I've gone to the mall and had the MAC girls show me some tricks. Plus my girlfriends share their beauty secrets as well.

The main problem I've encountered when some over zealous girl tries and do my make-up, when she has no understanding about Drag techniques. The way your average GG puts on make-up; is approached completely different from TG. Because of this, I always did my own make-up. Needless to say I'm still learning, but the trick is PRACTICE. Like anything in life. Unless you have a stylist, of course.


XO KatT

I have'd tried some make-up since my divorce(within the last year). I just made arrangements with the young lady that sells Avon to the other woman in my apartment complex. She is coming over next Wednesday to help me out and purchase some products. She has said once they come in she will show me how to apply the products. Her only request was that I had to be dressed as a woman while she is here. I AM SO EXCITED....

I used it for a skit in college where I wore a mini-dress. Did't really try it again until 20 years later. Only really got good with it 15 years later!

[SIZE="3"] My Mom had a large assortment of Avon lipstick samples to play with. The samples were just the right size for me. I remember using the lipstick samples for the first time when I was in first grade. I loved all the different colors. I started using mascara in second grade. Things progressed as time went along. I had way more time using makeup, before I started dressing. [/SIZE]

I got into my mom's makeup a few times when I was really little, probably 3 or so, made a mess of trying to put on lipstick and have a vague memory of hiding a tube of lipstick in my bed, got it all over the sheets.

Carol

I made attempts to do my own makeup when I was 12 or 13. When I was about 19 or 20 I would go to a local drug store or a nearby Kmart and buy some makeup items. 2 or 3 days later I'd chicken out and purge. When I was 22 a CD freindly female companion taught me the rudiments of makeup. When I was about 30 my SO gave me lots of pointers. I'm no Tamarav or Karen Hutton but I can say that I know how to do my own makeup even though I could probably still use a few pointers.

It was pretty late, when i was about 21 years old. I am a late-bloomer. :)

hi my first time was 3 weeks ago it was a mess but my wife did it and i look great i thing
love deanna

2003, Panama City Beach Fla

what a disaster, I let her put it on me, I walked down the beach for 100 yds or so and stepped up on Thomas Drive and looked in a car mirror..

YeGads, a UGLY doode wearing a wig and makeup, attempting to get back to the room I did a no-no and stepped over a rail instead of using the walkway, right there is a armed security guard.. Back I stepped ,, he followed, the closer he got, the deeper into the ocean I went..

Eventually he gave up, I had a 2-way radio and told her to come get me down the street, bring makeup remover and MY clothes,, it was a while before I tried that again..

The fix for me was for ME to learn how much and what color matched my Indian skin color. I turn red in long sun exposure..

She's pale and tried to fix me up using her colors,, no worky for me..

For me it was when I was 20 and went away to a neighboring state and stayed at a motel for my first all weekend enfemme adventure. I purchased all of the makeup along the way at a department store and had no idea what I was doing. It turned out ok but after that I got brave and went to a local Mary Kay lady for help.

Rocky Horror. No kidding.

This was the "birth" of my "gothic beauty" get up. Pale makeup, dark eyes and lips (NOTHING like mine are now), black spandex minidress with a lace back, no forms, black pantyhose, high heeled shoes and (shock and horror) a long BLONDE wig. LOL.

I had a ball those first times out in such an outfit. What was really fun was having to work on my bug before being able to drive home from Rocky with my friends. :). You don't really know how it feels to be an "empowered female" until you have crawled under your car, whilst wearing a very short and tight minidress. lol

I think I was 20 or 21 years of age.

Played with lipstick and rouge and stuff on my mom's dresser when I was 8 or 9 and did it for a couple of years without being caught. I stopped doing it when I realized that the girls, whom all the boys in school despised at that age, would grow up to be women who used makeup. Started using makeup as an adult about 14-15 years ago, using stuff that my wife had around. I did get caught by her. Bought my own makeup kit, compact, nail polish and and various brushes, pencils and how-to-book a year or two after that.

I started experimenting with my mom's makeup around 12 or 13. It was the mid 70's and so long ago that I dont remember much, other than a lot of blue or green eye shadow (ugh)! I do recall a lipstick shade called watermelon and spritzing myself with either Charlie or Wind Song.

The first time for me was when I was about 6 or 7. On Halloween my mother dressed me as a ghost, basically a sheet with holes in it for my eyes and mouth. She put bright red lipstick on me. Not much later than that, I would get into that same red lipstick whenever I was home alone. Boy did I have a time getting it off, unsuccessfully I might add.

As far as I can remember, not a spot of makeup until the first time my wife and I went shopping for Tina (my first real time transforming to what we now know as Tina). My wife dragged me into a drug store and to the makeup section, looked for a second and then grabbed eye liner and mascara, turned to me and said, "Tina will need these now". "I'll show her all about it when we get back to our hotel room!" Mind you, were were out it public, Tina was VERY young in our lives, and yet it was just as if she had been handing me a plum from the fruit counter, talking about no one in particular, yet here we were conversing about my young feminine self!

:)

tina

First time wearing makeup would be lipstick during a drinking game where a card drawn actually said "Go put on lipstick now." and if there was none around, you'd have to drink your entire drink vs. one shot. We happened to be at a friend's place, and she had lipstick! I never thought too much of it then, but thinking back, that was a great feeling.

i think i was 8. i put everything on that my mom had to offer when she wasnt home :p

i used to wear lipstick the most, bright red!

and always with bra and a skirt or dress.

and her pumps when i used to fit into those.

Well Marina, for me it was the other way, I wore my first dress and panties at age 7 and having three older sisters, I experimented with their clothes until age 15 when I dressed fully for the first time. I was experimenting with makeup around the same time. Most of the face makeup then was either in powder or pancake form and lipstick was mostly red. I would watch my sisters apply their makeup and lipstick and then try my luck at it. It took a lot of trial and error before I was satisfied with the look.

When I was 16 I went to a halloween party as a girl and had a GG friend help me with my outfit and makeup. She did a fairly decent job with the makeup but my wig looked fake and I still wore my male eyeglasses. That was back in my infancy of crossdressing, now I consider myself a seasoned pro, but with one little flaw. I still can't do *#%$& eye makeup.