Zoom Again?

Ready to Zoom

I really enjoyed doing my Zoom presentation on Tuesday (titled “Confidence: A Crossdresser’s Best Friend”). Once I got over my initial stage fright, you could not shut me up and I talked for nearly 40 minutes straight with only a few short breaks to sip water.

It was only my second time using Zoom, so I was still getting acquainted with its operation. As a result, I missed the questions that viewers were texting to me. I apologize for that.

Anyway, I so enjoyed doing the presentation that I am considering doing it as a regular feature in conjunction with this blog – maybe once per month on various topics.

What do you think? Would you be interested in viewing such presentations? If so, what would you like me to talk about?

Please let me know via a comment below or via an e-mail to stana-stana at-sign sbcglobal.net.

Wearing Rue La La

Volker Spengler (right) in the 1978 West German film In a Year of 13 Moons
You can view the film’s trailer on YouTube.

Father’s Day Plans Trumped

Outfit I planned to wear for Father’s Day

Usually, my wife, daughter, sister and I go to a restaurant to celebrate Father’s Day. This year, I wanted to do something different – I wanted to go to the restaurant en femme.

When I concocted that plan three weeks ago, it looked doable because restaurants (and most everything else) would be reopening in Connecticut on June 17, four days before Father’s Day. But July 17 has come and gone and my family is not ready to dine in a restaurant yet.

Their hesitance has nothing to do with how I planned to dress. Rather, they are worried about how safe it would be to dine in a restaurant under the dark cloud of coronavirus especially when three of the diners are well over 65 years in age.

I would love to dine en femme with my loved ones, but I understand their discomfort. So we will order Chinese take-out and just like so many other thwarted plans, wait ’til next year.

Wearing Venus

Rolling Stone Brian Jones

New Nails

My May 7th post discussed the press-on fingernails that are available these days.

I wrote, “They are very attractive and I decided to take a flyer on one of the less expensive brands (H&M). I will review them here when I have an opportunity to wear them.”

Due to the pandemic, the delivery of the nails was incredibly slow and over a month passed between ordering the nails and their delivery. Not a big deal because I was not going out anywhere to wear them. Anyway, they finally arrived last week.

What follows is not a full review because I have not had an opportunity to wear them out. But as with other fake nails, I was concerned about the width of the fake thumbnail, which is my and probably your widest fingernail.

The thumbnail of the Kiss pre-glued press-on nails that I have been using like forever is about 9/16ths of an inch wide, which matches my natural thumbnails perfectly. The width of the H&M thumbnail is about a 1/2-inch – 1/16th of an inch narrower than the Kiss thumbnail.

Not a big difference – they will probably work OK, but I will let you know when I actually wear them out. (I can’t wait!)

(The photo above are the H&M nails in the silver gray color I ordered.)

Wearing Ollalaa

Matt Bomer femulates in the 2017 film Anything.
You can view the film’s trailer on YouTube.

Stana: Live at Five

I will be live at 5 PM ET today presenting “Confidence: A Crossdresser’s Best Friend” via Zoom, hosted by the Connecticut TransAdvocacy Coalition. There are only 100 spots available, so reserve your spot early by clicking on the banner above. And I will see you at 5.

You’ll wonder where the yellow went

In past posts, I complained about photos of femulators not smiling. You are beautiful women and you should be happy about it, so smile, smile, smile.

I listen to my own advice and smile whenever I am photographed. The only bad part about smiling is that my teeth are yellow. I never smoked, so I assume they are yellow from the beverages I have been drinking the past 69 years, especially coffee, which I consume in at least two big doses everyday.

In March, my daughter birthday gifted me with Crest 3D White Whitestrips. I took the hint and used the strips as prescribed – 30 minutes per day for 5 days and 60 minutes for 1 day.

After 7 days, I was amazed! My teeth were no longer yellow; they were now as white as the new fallen snow.

Three months later, my teeth still look white. Maybe not as white as on Day 7, but a heck of lot whiter than they were on Day 0. (The accompanying photo was taken two months after the white strip application.)

Crest recommends repeating the treatment every six months and I will do so when the time comes.

Every little bit helps and snow white teeth are certainly a welcome addition to my feminine visage.

Wearing Madeleine

Jaloo femulating in the 2018 Brazilian film Paradise Lost (Paraíso Perdido).
You can view the film’s trailer on YouTube.

Supremes decide it’s illegal to be fired for bring transgender

In a 6-3 decision just released this morning, the U.S. Supreme Court decided that it is illegal for an employer to fire anyone for being transgender. Details to follow as soon as I get them.

Click here for the story from CNN.

Click here for the story from HuffPost.

Click here for the story from Fox News.

Not Convincing

Wearing Madeleine

Marc Haller dressed pretty in the 2013 German short film Crossdressing.
You can view the film on Vimeo.

Out with the Girly Boys

Wearing Vince

No civilians at the Oklahoma Military Academy in 1976

Chorus “girls” in the 1943 film This is the Army.
View this femulating-full film on YouTube.

Transgender Health Protections Killed By Trump

Transgender health protections killed by Trump: Read all about it here.

Winter of “her” discontent

Wearing Bebe

This Stetson University “co-ed” strikes a pose at a 1986 womanless beauty pageant.

Rocker Pete Doherty

Ill-Suited

Source: Rue La La

The members of the marching band at Westwood High School in Mesa, Arizona, traditionally don their Halloween costumes when they perform during the football game closest to October 31. In 2000, senior Sean Caulfield's costume caused the “Not a Civilian” alarm to sound loudly.

Professional femulators’ dressing room at La Villa Blanc, Albuquerque, NM, 1971

Wrong Season

Wearing Zimmermann

Episcopal School of Dallas, Texas, 2004

Jake Warden (right) gave his Mom (left) a drag queen makeover for Mother’s Day.
You can view the process on YouTube and thank you, Transcendia, for the story.