My Pictures Have Arrived!!
it took 3 days, more or less, but I finally got my feminine pictures in.
Here's the original in all it's crappy quality glory. By the way, I do wear glasses but I took them off because of the glare and not to obstruct my face.
And here's the finished version
My first thought was, welll, I had to stop laughing and pick myself up off the floor first. Then I thought, "OMG! If that ain't my mother!" Seriously! That's pretty much what she looked like in the 70s. Same hairstyle and everything! All the pic needs is a flapper dress and I'd be all set! Remind me to find and upload an old pic of her so yo uguys can see the difference.
I also noticed I look Vulcan. And not the cool, neck-benching Spock version either! I got that freakish Tuvok glint about me. If you imagine that the hair is covering the ears, you're all set! You don't even have to do anything to my eyebrows since they're already rediculously arched.
I will be getting that fixed... ¬.¬
As for what they changed, I couldn't believe it when I read it. All they did was change my nose and slightly narrow my chin. That's it! They have have changed highlights but they are inline with my face's natural curvature. They didn't even apply any makeup or smoothe the coloring of my skin, which I'm a bit peeved about. I let it go though because instead of $40, they only charged me $25. Still, if I had known it was so little work, I would have attempted it myself.
I almost didn't post this because I see it as highly embarrassing, however, a promise is a promise and I did promise a lot of you. It doens't meet my satisfaction though. The look is still rugged and on top of that, very comical. The more I look at it, the more comfortable I become but I still don't like it. It has dissuaded me a lot from pursuing crossdressing. In degree of effectiveness, I'd rank it higher than the talk with my mother. I still don't care about passing as a woman but I'd rather not be able to pass as a Vulcan. That's just... ugh!
I have a friend that has offered to do the same process for me. I've seen some of her work before so I know she has the talent. I also know she's nutty enough to do it just for the shear zaniness. I think I'll take her up on her offer and pay her the same wages to see what she can come up with.
On a final note, there's one thing that irked me abot this whole process. The studio is run by transgendered women so in every email they sent me, they've been calling me sister, baby, girlfriend and close with phrases like "Loves and Kisses!" I put up with it because I understand that's how these women are. Hell, that's how every freakin' T=girl I come across is but GAH!!!!! It doesn't just get under my skin! No, that crap savagely burrows into my epidermal layers as if there was gold in dem dere hills! I know they want to, "talk the talk and walk the walk," but very, very, very few real women are that feminine and most of them are perky past the point of being annoying! CALM THAT !@#$%^&* DOWN!!! PLEASE! For the sake and sanity of the rest of us alt-stylers, put it on the back burner and let it simmer. The world will thank you for it.
Tashi, Mummy, Spooky, Hoowee and the rest of you, if I ever start acting that way, even in the slightest, you have my full permission to slap hard, fact and ugly! Not only do I want you to put some stank on it, I want you to slap the stank off too!
Here's the original in all it's crappy quality glory. By the way, I do wear glasses but I took them off because of the glare and not to obstruct my face.
And here's the finished version
My first thought was, welll, I had to stop laughing and pick myself up off the floor first. Then I thought, "OMG! If that ain't my mother!" Seriously! That's pretty much what she looked like in the 70s. Same hairstyle and everything! All the pic needs is a flapper dress and I'd be all set! Remind me to find and upload an old pic of her so yo uguys can see the difference.
I also noticed I look Vulcan. And not the cool, neck-benching Spock version either! I got that freakish Tuvok glint about me. If you imagine that the hair is covering the ears, you're all set! You don't even have to do anything to my eyebrows since they're already rediculously arched.
I will be getting that fixed... ¬.¬
As for what they changed, I couldn't believe it when I read it. All they did was change my nose and slightly narrow my chin. That's it! They have have changed highlights but they are inline with my face's natural curvature. They didn't even apply any makeup or smoothe the coloring of my skin, which I'm a bit peeved about. I let it go though because instead of $40, they only charged me $25. Still, if I had known it was so little work, I would have attempted it myself.
I almost didn't post this because I see it as highly embarrassing, however, a promise is a promise and I did promise a lot of you. It doens't meet my satisfaction though. The look is still rugged and on top of that, very comical. The more I look at it, the more comfortable I become but I still don't like it. It has dissuaded me a lot from pursuing crossdressing. In degree of effectiveness, I'd rank it higher than the talk with my mother. I still don't care about passing as a woman but I'd rather not be able to pass as a Vulcan. That's just... ugh!
I have a friend that has offered to do the same process for me. I've seen some of her work before so I know she has the talent. I also know she's nutty enough to do it just for the shear zaniness. I think I'll take her up on her offer and pay her the same wages to see what she can come up with.
On a final note, there's one thing that irked me abot this whole process. The studio is run by transgendered women so in every email they sent me, they've been calling me sister, baby, girlfriend and close with phrases like "Loves and Kisses!" I put up with it because I understand that's how these women are. Hell, that's how every freakin' T=girl I come across is but GAH!!!!! It doesn't just get under my skin! No, that crap savagely burrows into my epidermal layers as if there was gold in dem dere hills! I know they want to, "talk the talk and walk the walk," but very, very, very few real women are that feminine and most of them are perky past the point of being annoying! CALM THAT !@#$%^&* DOWN!!! PLEASE! For the sake and sanity of the rest of us alt-stylers, put it on the back burner and let it simmer. The world will thank you for it.
Tashi, Mummy, Spooky, Hoowee and the rest of you, if I ever start acting that way, even in the slightest, you have my full permission to slap hard, fact and ugly! Not only do I want you to put some stank on it, I want you to slap the stank off too!