I've been dressing in private for many years and only recently assembled a full wardrobe, forms, make-up and wig. It was all coming together nicely and I was spending a lot of time doing chores at home fully dressed but I just couldn't get persuaded by the wig which just looked messy and unconvincing.
Then one evening, after carefully putting on eye make-up and lipstick again, I adjusted the band on the wig and put it on one more time and checked the mirror. Hey!! I'd finally got it right! The face-frame wig was in the right position and all of a sudden with the make-up it was a plausible female face looking back at me!
I was so excited by the look that I decided there and then to go out. I needed to go to the recycling point but with unshaven legs I changed skirt for leggings, heels for flats, grabbed a handbag, loaded up and drove out for the first time. There was no one else at the recycling point but it still felt exciting to get out of the car demurely, knees together and be out in the open at a public place en femme. Best of all, I hadn't planned to do it...no idea where that impulse came from