Hey all!

First of all, I would like to wish everyone a happy New Year!

Welcome to special edition post and it’s not something I’ve done for a while. This post is all about 2017 and my last day off in 2016, and how it’s the start of probably the biggest challenge of my life which is where I will be starting my transition from male to female to where I will be going full time.

I will get to that later but before I do there is something else I have to talk about. Wednesday 28^th December was my last day off for this year. Normally I would stay in and game/shop for makeup and clothes but  this time I decided not to. Recently I’ve decided to start going to the gym early rather than when everyone else does when the new year comes round and may struggle to get in any classes or equipment. 

Wednesday 28th December, it was a nice day and I didn’t want to stay in so I decided to go for a walk to Scotsman’s Flash pretty much after I got in from the gym. In Wigan you have what are called the ‘Wigan Flashes’ Which is where they have loads of water and where there are bird and people fish in the shortest way to put it, but the views are great and it all looks amazing. I thought that I really want to get some pictures in before my rest window shuts. 

Wigan Flashes

From my house to the Top of Scotsman’s Flash its 3.1 miles and it took about 40 mins to get there before the sun would properly set so the race was on.

At 14:30 I was on the stretch where I would get onto the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, where I would get hit but a surprise and that was that the floor was still frosty and it wasn’t that could either.

With the conditions not what I wanted it did slow me down a little but I still soldered on, even the canal was pretty much frozen for most of my walk to the Wigan Flashes.

Even the ducks enjoy walking on water… technically but it was great to see them all together.

This was still just less than 1 mile away from where I wanted to go but I was touching the start of Scotsman’s Flash so I need to be quick if I wanted to catch the wildlife as well as the sunset.

The Wigan Flashes

With less than an hour to spend there I saw a great view of Scotsman’s Flash, it was the first time that I’ve ever seen it on a clear day, people was still about and the wildlife was around and I loved it.

This was the view I was treated with I’ve not edited these at all and these are just brilliant. This view was a great way to spend my last day off for the year resting. It was peaceful and just paradise for me, sometimes you don’t need to go shopping, buy makeup and go to the cinema where you would be spending money. Sometimes you just need a little walk.

I love these picture and was fantastically timed

The two ripples is the birds going underwater to catch fish to eat.

 I love these pictures also because of how beautiful these birds really are.

After I took this photograph I decided to call it a day at Scotsman's Flash and set off back home, I really enjoyed coming just as I normally do but this was the first time I've been here during the winter and I have to say even without the presents of the chicks and the blossoming of the flowers it was till beautiful. 

On my way home I thought I wouldn't really see anything even walking past Horrock's Flash but that wasn't the case, I tried to get some pictures of some ducks when out popped a swan that thought I had food. Unlucky for the swan I didn't but it still stayed around me and let me take a good few pictures. 

I wasn't long before its mate arrived also and again seemed not to be phased by me being there. 

Those was the last pictures I took on my journey out and I have to say what an amazing couple of hours out of the house it was. The weather wasn’t bad also and the sky was great I would have liked a better sunset but it could have been raining where I would of stopped in. It makes me so happy that where I live because Wigan has many places like this where I can come and get away from the world and chill. Being transgender isn’t easy, we get discriminated against, people that have a fetish for transgender people even cause trouble and people that don’t read profiles.

Just getting away and not having any stress is great.

Okay now for what this post is about and as of today 1.1.2017 it is now the start of my transition where I will be transitioning from male to female and I have set myself a goal of 12 months to achieve where I will live every day of my live as female. From being on hormones, to losing 2 stone in weight and being on the Gender Identity Clinic waiting list. These are to name a few and I know that I now have a massive year to where I will be extremely busy. I will be going to the gym regular at ‘JD Gyms’ which I’m looking for a personal trainer in a few months to help me with my diet and to push me. I won't be doing this alone I have some awesome people that has said that they will help me and guide me the best they can which I can't wait to see how everything turns out. 

It’s weird how far I’ve come on my journey since 1^st April 2014 where I came out as Bi-Gender to now where I’m starting to plan my life to life as female. I never knew I would have the support I have now or be this person that everyone seems to adore and love (that’s how I feel anyway) 3 years ago people didn’t want to know me or hang out with me, I was pretty much alone with barely any friends and yes it wasn’t a great time for me at all.

I look back and think this is how I should have been and never ignored how I felt as now I feel that I’ve missed out on so much like having more friends and even finding love, which is something most of us want at some point in our lives. The hardest part for me is that I’m not into men so that makes it more difficult to find a female that will accept me for me. So hopefully within the next couple of years I will be celebrating New Year in love.

I would like to wish everyone a happy New Year and thanks for reading and giving me the support. I’ve been blogging pretty much from the beginning and I will be sharing every step of the way with you guys.

Love you all!

Sarah

xxx

When I left the last post of August 2015-2016 which I’m doing it was life changing for me as I travelled to my own town as female shopping with my best friend Vicky, I also went to Manchester shopping and had my first make over. Where soon I realised that I’m not Bi-Gender but transgender and my new path is to transition to female and when the time is right to live full time as female.

Okay now is a good time to go grab a snack and drinks as we’re starting this part of August 2015-2016 Part in March.

March wasn’t a busy month for me compared to January and February, but it was when I started to get back into gaming but was where I was presenting as female whist gaming mainly. Again it was a chilled month.

Yep I'm a gamer

On the 13^th March I tried my first ever bodycon dress. It isn’t something I will go out wearing as of yet but I will be doing at some point... maybe. One main reason is because I don’t really have a good figure but the biggest reason is the hardest part of male to female is having a nob. I try my best to tuck but with this type of dress for me is unforgiving and shows everything. So I had to tuck to the extreme where it was the most uncomfortable experience of my life, I’ve never worn this dress since then.

If there’s one thing that I love was when my Dad goes to his girlfriends for a few days, it gave me the chance to be me and not worry and now I’m at the stage where I want to test makeup and new techniques out and I came with this look where I don't have to worry about him seeing me as male then as female.

I wore a leather skater dress for this and decided to do something a little different with my hair. The lighting I got for me makes this picture so much better.

That was pretty much it for March April was better for me. I decided to buy a new dress for an outing with work, this time it would be longer daylight hours and more people could see me but returning to the same restaurant I went to for my Xmas outing at Fat Olive. I decided to look to Amazon for this and found a black dress with a golden belt and I think it looked awesome.

When the Grand National was on people was watching it... For me I was practising yet a new look with makeup and when it comes to pictures I've never look at myself and thought I look nice, I just think I feel better as it’s who I am, but this one I felt I looked good, I felt this is me much.

24 April I went to works night out again presenting as female and it was a great night, I had no trouble, and it got to a point at the bar where they knew what drink I wanted which was a double vodka and coke, then again it’s not every day you get a 6 foot manly women coming to eat.

Unfortunately, it was plain sailing from there and I got busy with work and the weather for me was too sticky so I only presented as female a couple of times till sparkle, which I’m going to leave it till to the next post. During this time although I didn’t present as female I met more people on facebook and I soon started to get inspired by them. One is Chloe.

Chloe 3 years ago

                                                                        Chloe now

I saw Chloe first on her YouTube page where she speaks about being on HRT (Hormone Replacement Therapy) Her videos are whitty and very informative where soon I came across her Facebook profile where she agreed to befriend me. When she befriended me I looked at her pictures where I was like wow! From where she came from to where she is now is truly inspirational. It made me think to myself what I want and feel is achievable. HRT affects everybody differently as its going through another puberty so who knows what will happen to me when I get to that stage in my journey, all I can say is bring it on. 

From three months to sixteen months on HRT (Hormone Replacement Therapy)

Every time I've messaged Chloe she has got back to me and has helped me a few times and has told me of her experiences which she has gone through, I was luckily enough to meet her at Sparkle and have a small chat to her which was awesome. I would like to thank Chloe for sharing her experiences with me, letting me mention her and use her pictures on here but most of all thanks for being an inspiration to many like myself.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwnvWIDR6BZFT5q0rYqQrPQ

I’m going to leave it there for this part as sparkle will make this post extremely long. A big thanks for reading and the next one will be up soon.

Upcoming Posts;

Makeup (anniversary)
Autumn and Winter footwear (Poll to be done)

August 2015-2016; Part 5

Project Posts;
Makeup Challenge (No Date)
Sarah Meets (No Date)

Hey all

Today is a special post as it marks this blogs second anniversary when I created it. It was an experiment for myself  at that time as well as other things. I was Bi-Gender 6 months into my journey, which by this time I had done loads. I came out to work colleagues at McDonald's which from the start people was very supportive and by May I was out to my Brother and my Dad which again was massive, within two months I presented as female to one of my closes friends and even went for a drive on the same day.  Within less than six months I soon was out and about in Blackpool for the illuminations and spent a few hours in Coral Island and went for a walk, So I also thought I would share my experiences to help other Bi-Gender people and see how I progressed on my journey.

(I've put random pictures not in order of my journey) 

Since then we have laugh, cried and now going through a new journey of me transitioning to female and the best part of this journey is that we have witnessed this not just from start but before the beginning and this new year we will see more and more things that I will be going through as I change hopefully physically.

It doesn’t end there I’m planning on making massive changes on here also, bringing more and better content. This time next year my goal is to have something set in stone to when I will start living my life the way it should as female. It could be sooner but I highly doubt it but one thing I’ve learnt in these two years is never say never.

I think looking back to how I looked I will say how proud I am of my journey but most of all I think what the fuck was I wearing or why did I do my makeup this way, but hey to be old and wise you need to be first young and stupid!

I remember the first picture I did was for a laugh as someone I worked with looked like she was plastered in fake tan but gone wrong, I think if her hair was green she would have almost resembled an Umpa Lumpa, which I suppose was a good thing as I’ve never been a person to take things seriously so it brought me to do my first ever picture as female. I think that must have been a young and dump thing at the time as before then and to now I think she is extremely attractive, just too young for me... Unfortunately, with me age is important so two years younger than me is too young.

I bought some foundation it was in a set from lightest to darkest and I thought for a laugh let’s do the darkest, the funniest thing was it got rid of any signs of stubble, compared to now… but made me look ridiculous, I didn’t blend at all, which was pointed out by a few people but hell it was a laugh but my first step.

The other thing was to run this blog alongside of my gaming blog but within a couple of months I knew I had to sort my image out as I was nowhere near ready really to set foot in the world as female, I suppose when I went Blackpool I wasn’t but it was only for a drive which turned to needing the loo then to spending time out. Anyway, I started to mainly concentrate on clothing as I felt at that time my makeup was okay, as I was getting loads of compliments and no bad criticism, but as I kept looking and looking I started to fall in love with fashion and soon within a year makeup. I wasn’t playing games, as they started to pretty much bore me as I became a social gamer so gaming alone wasn’t for me fun and I didn’t really have people to play with often. I was spending around 10-15 hours looking at makeup and fashion blogs and youtube to name a few. Now I spend a lot less maybe between 4-6 hours… maybe a bit more when the new season stuff come out, looking at fashion and makeup as now I have a much better idea of how I want to look.

When I first started I had no idea and I suppose like most people I was naive to hell, I had not many clothes it was just band shirts etc. Then came the dresses that had no shape to them…At all!

But in two years I’ve come along way and now I have a look... Ish where I’m more comfortable with makeup and have moved on from the cheap stuff that wasn’t working well on me to now trying the more premium brands such as MAC, Dior, Urban Decay etc, they’ve not all worked to be honest but it’s the stage that I’m at where I’m trying to test what will work as we all know with makeup that it doesn’t work for everybody.

My style of the way I present with clothes has change, I still don’t have enough and I mean this literally not just the saying “A girl can never have enough clothes.” I’m still trying to get that perfect dress or that perfect combination of jumpers and pants which I don’t really like wearing as I wear them as male and don’t like them. I need different collaboration of footwear not just over the knee boots and suede.

Anyways that it for this post I would like to thank everyone for reading and your support it seems like only yesterday I started this blog and so much has change and I feel for the better, I can’t wait to post about my new journey that I’ve embarked on and share the outcome and we can share the laughter, bad times and everything else.

Thanks again

Sarah

Xx

Next planned posts;

August 2015-2016 Part Four

Footwear

Makeup: Part 4 (This will happen when August 2015-2016/footwear has finished)

Hey guys!

I hope you liked my first part of winter footwear? There was so many OTK boots to choose from but I could only write about so much before it became wayyy to much.  Anyway now we’re back on to the main posts, which is back to “August 2015-2016.”

I left the last post where I finally met one of my best friends Vicky which was a long wait for her to see me as female. 25.1.16 was great because not I managed to be myself around another friend but it was also my first trip during the day into my home town which it didn’t end there I also caught the bus back home on my own. In Wigan we had coffee we went shopping, and we pretty much didn’t have any trouble. Think it was my lucky day… Plus it was on a Tuesday so I’m sure people had run out of their dole money and had to sign on… Just kidding. It was pretty busy which I think was a good thing.

 Trafford Centre

Sunday 7^th February was the first time I had presented as female since I went out with Vicky, this time I was with Ainsley and we went to the Trafford Centre to watch a movie, this was another biggy for me as the Trafford Centre is an extremely big shopping centre where I spend way too much money on makeup, clothes and other items when I’m there. Luckily I had Ainsley who doesn’t like shopping so it stopped me from dragging him around and potentially missing the film time. The film we went watching was Zoolander 2, and a big piece of advice if you haven’t watched it… Leave it that way. It was awful and I mean awful. I went to watch the film because it was mainly to get out of the house as female and take on a new challenge. I went to the toilet many times during the film and for some reason when I present female I tend to use the loo more often than normal.

  Food Court Trafford Centre

From this point I was highly thinking to myself “This is who I am.” I was walking through the Trafford Centre without a care in the world… Even bought eyeliner. I couldn’t have given a damn about what people was thinking. When I was going to the toilets I didn’t care I just went in the females as it felt natural to me.

 

Even though I was starting to get more and more confident I ended up becoming ill again which for some reason I was vomiting, which at first I felt nothing of till the second time I was sick and the third time I was vomiting pure blood. Was this through doing too much since September? Who knows all I know that I wasn’t in a good place. I had to ring for an ambulance and took a massive bad turn while on the phone and from having to wait an hour I waited 10 mins till they came, where they took me to A&E where I had some tests done, luckily it was quiet so I didn’t wait too long, I tore my feeding tube in 3 places and tore some other tubing I’ve forgot everything, but after a drip I went home had a few hours’ sleep and went back to work till 6pm

On the 18.2.16 it was a late finish for me at work but weekdays became gaming nights with people I work/worked with, and soon became a tradition for us to be on for 9/10pm, this was great as I soon started to feel great getting back into gaming again like I used to with people, but there was one thing that was always doing my head in that was I wasn’t presenting female enough and it started to upset me as I was giving me enough time to be me. I was giving it to games so I had to think of how to do both… then it hit me, why don’t I do both? So I did. They both knew about me anyway and didn’t care so why should I? From then if I ever felt any gender dysphoria (unless I was working in the morning) I presented female when I was gaming.Wearing the hat for gaming is also tradition for me when presenting female, not sure why but it feels right.

  

 At the bus stop, I look ill 

During February Vicky got me on a free make over voucher for Benefit cosmetics. I had to think about this for a few days because it meant pretty much going to Wigan bare faced. Which for someone that at this point was in limbo but thinking that I was Bi-Gender wasn’t helping, because I would easily have been clocked by people as they would be able to see my stubble even though I would have shaved and it wouldn’t have felt right. So when the day came (22.2.16) I just wore foundation for makeup. I would have to take it off so we went to the arcade in the women’s toilets where I would wipe the foundation off, after that I rapidly walked to the benefit counter. When I mean rapidly I mean it. I would have put Mo Farah to shame and I was wearing 3 inch heels that day.

After the makeover

It was then on the 25.2.16 where my mind was made up that I was female, I went shopping in Manchester with Vicky and I felt so in my zone, it was like it was meant to be that I was female. We went in the toilets took loads of selfies, and it felt right… Not the selfies in the toilet just the whole experience. I didn’t care at all, it was a girl’s day out shopping, makeup and coffee next time it will probably be booze. The funny thing was I didn’t actually buy that much, I couldn’t find anything that I really wanted, but the day was great and I can’t wait to do it again. Unfortunately, I’ve not presented as female where I’ve out with Vicky since then. Mainly it’s been due to time or issues within the house. The main issue is I won’t present as female if my Dad has seen me as male before. I know it wouldn’t bother him but it just doesn’t feel right for me yet and I’ve struggle loads with this.

 On the train to Manchester and my first coffee with my name on it. 

  

It was in February that I choose a new path to walk and that was to transition. I booked an appointment at my doctor’s surgery, where I was told that I would hear from them. With a new path also comes a new community after admitting that I was going to transition I was invited to loads of groups on Facebook which I soon meet loads of people and my friends list started to grow as well as my Instagram and this blog for views.

The thing was I was extremely naïve and thought the community is perfect but I was soon wrong. I soon found out that the trans community can be a hostile and unfriendly place. I was having a number of people messaging me telling me I should be wearing. I should have been wearing this or I should have been wearing that. One person told me I should have been wearing fishnets tights! I know right fishnets!

I was being told how to do makeup which I didn’t listen to anybody. The worse was the bitching yes, in multiple groups there was loads. I thought when I first joined you would get the help and learn from everyone as you were pretty much in it together… yeah right. I soon found out that the trans community is nothing really special which to be honest I like, yes I like it. Not because of the bitching and the inside war at the time that was going on but because to me it showed that these are normal people and a normal community, I don’t think there is a community in the world where they all get along. My biggest issue is the same with any other person really and that is I don’t like people being condescending or people who are up their own arses. I don’t like where some say you’re a crossdresser unless you’re on hormones. What a loads of shit that is! For people that are trying to get equality some don’t give it to others within their own community. I don’t understand that even now how people can say that? For me it was heart breaking as I came into the community as a newbie trying to learn and you have people like that.

I did get support and met some great people I still speak to today, but I can’t get over the fact that some pages/groups rather than working together they created segregation. Now It has changed and the segregation seems to have left the groups that I’m in but I know it will be still there in others. In February it wasn’t great but all I can say was that things did improve as you will find out in upcoming posts.   

Thanks for reading

Sarah

August 2015-2016 Journey

Hi All!

We are back for Part two which goes from August 2015… well to August. On the last post I left it at my works outing where it was the first time I presented as female in front of work colleagues that I currently work with and that it went so well.

Now is a great chance to go grab a coffee or preferable an alcoholic beverage, a bag of Maltesers and sit back and I hope you enjoy as we continue from my works outing.

  

I’m not a person to look in the mirror and think that I look stunning but these pictures I look at and I think “Wow.” These pictures made me start to question myself, throughout my time with my colleagues at the staff night out I was like “This is so me.” I’ve never felt so in tune with my body and so relaxed which I didn’t want it to end.  

It was the next day where I was presenting as male the dysphoria of how I was presenting hit me. I hated every minute of being who I was brought in the world as, I hated wearing male clothes. I hated everything about myself that I wasn’t female, and it hurt so much I had to run to the toilet and I cried. Crying is something I’m not used to doing or feeling and I haven’t cried in many years.

It was then on the 31^st of December when I next presented as female that was to bring the new year in but this time as female. As per usual I was alone for this new year, it did suck many people was with friends and family, where I thought fuck it and did some pictures in my flat.

After a boring time entering the new year it was on the 3^rd January where I’ve had my first scare going out as female. During the day I went shopping and bought loads of clothes and when I got back I couldn’t get hold of anyone as I wanted to go out, unfortunately it set my dysphoria off in a very bad way and aggressive way. I needed to get out so I decided to go for a walk and that was down a pitch black canal. After walking about a mile I had no issue apart from when I came off the cannel and in a dark street. Where about twenty maybe thirty yards away a guy was running full pelt past me not sure how he spotted me, but he slowed down and crossed the street and was walking towards me. That was all I needed as I thought I would have to talk and at this stage which I’ve not practised any voice training at all. Turned out he was a weirdo that was just looking at me as I walked past him as if he wasn’t there, I proceeded onto the main road probably about 10 yards when I looked back and he hadn’t moved and still looking at me. I picked up the pace and looked back a few mins later when he was following me, he saw me look and put his hand up to wave which I ignored him and carried on. The road got busy and I didn’t see him after that. What a close call.

It was here where I started to talk to Alison as she was also in this situation and we’ve spoken ever since. She is also a trans person that is going through her transition also. Alison is defiantly on my respect list. She has helped me through chatting on Facebook and answered so many questions so a thank you to you hun.

These pictures are import mainly for blogging as it was when I first got my DSLR Camera which is a Nikon D3300. I love this camera and it has made the quality better… Can’t say for the pose here though. I do feel at this time I was tired mentally and physically as I would have been at my job for 4 months and working through Christmas and being ill, unfortunately it’s hard to keep how you feel about yourself at bay.

                   Left: On my way to work.   Right: Just as I was about to clock in.

10^th January this has to be a massive step for me as I went into work as female for the first, it was an extra shift and out of hours so we weren’t open to customers so they wouldn’t see me. The shift went extremely well and I enjoyed it, unfortunately it was hard as I had to lift heavy objects I had help but still heavy work and with the wig being thick I was soon burning up and sweating so I had to remove beanie so I could cool down. The night didn’t end there after finishing the shift I went home got changed retouched my makeup and went out for a random drive with one of my friends. During the journey I needed to stop off at a motorway service at Sandbach in Cheshire for the loo, where I went into the female toilet did my business and fixed my makeup. A women looked at me funny where I didn’t care and did my makeup anyway. I think it was down to me having a full bag of makeup on the side that got her, I don’t think she clocked me as being male though.

 Left: Services

 Right: when I got home from work 

             

It wasn’t long after this on 25^th I decided to meet one of my best friends Vicky. It was something that should have happened over a year before when I went out to a pub around the corner from. Vicky has always been supportive of me from the very start and even gave me loads of makeup to get started which I still used some for almost a year after. That day was the first time I caught the bus by myself on the way home but also was out by myself which I didn’t feel brilliant at the time.

Left: In the town centre alone and scared…ish

Middle: On the bus home

Right: with my bestie while she’s trying to cover a spot… Sorry Vicky

I decided to wear light makeup which for me was;

… Foundation

…Blusher

…Eyeliner

…eye shadow

…mascara (because no women should be without)

…touched up my browns (just not very good)

I wore my long leather jacket from New Look, over the knee boots from River Island, tights to dress down the boots and I think it was a black dress or a red dress from New Look. Even then I still felt over dressed and uncomfortable. This was also the first time I wore my new wig.

January was a busy month so I’ve decided to leave it there as right now if you have come this far you have read over 1000 words which include numbers. January was not just about what I did, but also social networking. Just after I went out for the works night out I started talking to plus a few others. My popularity in group soon started to rise and I was chatting to more and more people, mainly in January, I was being invited to more Trans* groups but I quickly learned that the Trans* community wasn’t all that friendly and in stayed in clicks. It opened my eyes and soon learned the type of people I didn’t want to associate with.

I really didn’t think that one month would take up a whole post but this is something I can’t plan and will back track on the next one about the people that I spoke with, my decision to transition and joining the Trans* Community plus much more to come. 

Thanks for reading

Sarah

xx