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Prologue: OK, so you want to have a real looking female chest. Having cleavage will probably help you pass more than anything else. You can be tall, heavy, maybe not have feminine facial features, or have a really bad hair day , but toss in a great looking rack and you’ll pass 80% of the time. It is really not that hard to do, but like makeup, it takes some practice. I’ve done this about a fifty times and I still have results that come out better or worse than other times. So, lets get to work!

Step One: Lose the hairy chest! Yep, your SO will hate this one. My wife gives me the cold shoulder treatment every Fall season when I get rid of my body hair. This is not like leg hair, where sometimes you can just bleach it and cover them with stockings to hide it. You have to get rid of the hair, period! What method you choose is up to you. Shaving, depilatory, or waxing all get you the same results. I use the latter or I should say, I use an Silk-Epil from Braun…… one of those electric hair pullers. They allow me to go without shaving for up to 3 weeks. The down side is this…. THEY HURT LIKE HELL! If you have never used one, I’ll explain how much they hurt. Place you hand on a cement block. Now get a hammer a smash your thumb. Now wait about five minutes…… Ok, smash your thumb again….. Its that second one that really hurts! That is the type of feeling you get with these devices. *laugh* Yes, that might be an exaggeration, but not by much. They are really not that bad on the legs, but on the stomach and chest get ready for some major stings. Especially, right down the middle where you nerve ending overlap. OUCH! Just wanted to warn you.

Step Two: Cover your chest with foundation. This will accomplish three things. One, it will give you a nice even skin tone to match your neck and face. Two, it will help cover your irritated skin from removing the hair. Which will happen whether you shave, use a depilatory, or pull it out. You can see the little red bumps I have in the first picture. Three, it makes for a nice canvas for your contour powder later. Unlike your face, you can pull the foundation across your skin, just like you do with your neck. You will not need as much coverage as you do on your face. Bring it down from the neck, then blend it pulling out to the sides. Stay within the "U" area I have marked, then set it with a medium tone transparent loose powder. DO NOT get outside the lines with the foundation or the powder! Your tape will not stay attached. A step you will see later and the most important part of creating cleavage.

Step Three: Applying contour powders. You will use a light / white and a dark / brown for this. I use eye shadow for both. I also use a light loose setting powder too. I have exaggerated the application, to make it easier for you to see. You do not have to put it on this heavy. Apply the dark color first. Up from the middle and arc out like a shortened "C" on both sides. Basically and arc… you can see what I am talking about. Also, don’t forget a straight line under your collar bone and a "V" above it. Genetic women are much thinner in this area than men. You want to give the same allusion with the dark color. BLEND all these areas well. Just like you face makeup, you should not be able to tell where colors start and end. Now apply white or light color to the area between your dark "C" and the nipple. This curved line will be shorter and wider than the dark lines. Put a straight line on the collar bone also. If you read my makeup tips section, you’ll remember I said, "light brings out, dark recedes." The same principles for the face applies to the chest area. Blend everything real well! You might want to take a quick break before moving on to the next step. It is the hardest part to get correct. So, smok’em if you got 'em. *puff*

Step Four: Taping the chest. This is with out a doubt the hardest part to get consistent. It can also hurt and leave a scar if not done correctly. There are really only three choices when it comes to taping. Duct tape, Athletic tape, and Surgical or first aid tape. All have their own pluses and minuses. I use the first or the latter, specifically, colored duct tape or Transpore ® surgical tape by 3M. Transpore ® has decent adhesion, is breathable, and slightly elastic in nature. There are also three ways to tape. I will go over the pluses and minus of both issues later near the end of the section. OK, lets get going. First thing, make sure the area you are going to tape is clean and dry! Take a damp washcloth and wipe the area well. This will help clean up any makeup that might have accidentally fallen in this area. Also, if you went a little wild on the antiperspirant, we need the area near your arm pits cleaned too. This is necessary for good adhesion of the tape. Now, get a piece of tape about 12 to 14 inches long. It might be a little shorter or longer, depending on the size of your chest. Feel where you pec muscle is. You are going to apply one end of the tape just to the outside of this muscle, half way between you armpit and your nipple. Apply it at an angle so it ends up just beside and under the nipple. You will also want to slightly curve it as you go, next to, and under this area. At this point, only about one-third to one-half of the tape should be attached. If you have less than that left, your piece is too short. Let the remainder of the tape hang and repeat this step on the other side.

Now, bend over at the waist and with both hands, press your chest skin up and toward the center your neck. I know….. you can get it up that far, but that is the direction you want to push it up. Besides, if you could move you chest up to your neck, you wouldn’t need to be doing all of this work to create cleavage! *smile* You should be able to use you index finger and thumb on one hand to hold it all in one place. If you have a friend or an understanding SO have them help. Grab one of the loose ends of tape and pull it to the opposite side of you chest. Pull it across firm to tight. Pulling to hard will pull off the tape completely or break it. Besides, you not playing "tug of war" with your skin. Attach straight across or at a slight down angle is fine. This is a little harder to do by yourself than it sounds. Its hard not to interfere with the other piece of tape dangling there as you pull the first one across your chest. I usually loop back the loose end of the piece I’m not working with, up on my wrist holding my skin or shoulder. I should have taken a picture of that. Sorry about that, but I think you’ll find out what I mean when you try it. Well, after you get the first piece across and in place, rub you fingers on it to ensure a good adhesion. Repeat the same procedure for the other side. If you think you might be going somewhere warm, you might want to use a third piece over the top for extra security. You should end up with one nice wrinkle in your chest for the cleavage. If you end up with two or three little one, just push on your skin above and below the tape in the middle of your chest to reposition it for one wrinkle. Some people say to just pull as hard as you can on the tape to get cleavage instead of holding the skin up first. You can do that, but you will risk damaging your skin! I know this sounds dumb, but the is a difference between taping skin in place that has been repositioned, and pulling skin in place. The first is moving a whole area in place, then securing it there. The latter will pull on your top layer of skin, which could result in blisters. Also, try to make sure there are few or no wrinkles in the tape. That can also cause a problem. I hope these last two warning makes sense to you. If it doesn’t, it will 6 hours later after you did this the wrong way. Just ask my friend Jo. She had a red skin irritation along with a few blisters for a month!

Step Five: Bra and filling. Go ahead and put on you bra. Any full coverage or ¾ cup will work fine. You can use regular breast forms in a full coverage bra. Stay away from bras with wide seams at the tops of the cups, like Playtex Cross Your Heart or most Minimizer bras. You’ll end up with a two section boob. Also, flat back forms work much better. In the picture I am wearing a full coverage bra with forms. I prefer ¾ cup bras with breast enhancers. Why? I personally think I look too large with regular forms. Most genetic women are not falling out of there tops. The only problem with enhancers are they really are made for 32 to 36 inch bras. They tend to get lost in a 38B or larger bra. Lucy’s carries an extra large enhancer that works pretty well. My only complaint is they are on the stiff side. It more like wearing a rubber ball than a soft silicon form. If you have neither, socks, nylons, rice sacks or foam works very well. If you use any of these , be sure you cover them in tan color stockings or they are flesh color. You don’t want to bend over in public and have onlookers see white athletic socks stuffed in your bra! Also wear a bra with a thick or foam lining if not using a form or enhancers. It will keep a more natural shape. My favorite is Victoria Secret ® Tee Shirt Bra . They are between a full and ¾ cup bra with a thin foam lining. Target carries a generic one just as good and half the price. I’ll get a picture up of this bra in a few weeks if I can find some free time.

Well, that is about it, in a nut shell…..our should I say bra cup *smile* Have fun experimenting with your cleavage. I hope this section helps you evolve more toward your feminine illusion. I will be adding a few more things to this section in the near future. Like a good way to use duct tape without damaging your skin in the process. An added note: when you are ready to remove any type of tape. DO NOT YANK it off. Some of the top layer of skin might come with it! Pull it of slowly and hold your skin in place as you remove it. If you are wearing tape during warm weather, your perspiration will aid in coming off later. In mild weather, your body heat over a few hour , will make the adhesion better. So, be careful when you remove it! If you use a really good tape, you might need to take a hot shower to help remove it. Better than damaging your skin! As in my makeup section, I claim to be no expert at any of this. I am just passing on what I have learned from talking to others or by experimentation. If you have any additional information or comments, please feel free to write me. HAVE FUN AND TAKE CARE!

A few other ways to get cleavage:

Wrap Around: This is with out a doubt the most effective way to create cleavage. You take one very long piece of tape that will go around you body one and a half times. It almost like a belt around your chest. Put this one long piece around you back just below the shoulder blades. Bend over and let free ends hang off your sides. Press your chest up in place like you saw above. Take the ends one at a time and pull them to the opposite side as tight as you can. That’s it. Pretty simple and very effective! Your not really pulling on any skin. It will almost never works its way loose. So what’s the problem? Well, if your wearing something form fitting, it will show through. The worst part is you can not take a deep breath! Basically it works the same way a bust-enhancing corset works.

Pull on sides: We have already talked about this one. Two pieces of tape, criss-cross, pull hard and tight. Pretty darn effective too. Problems. What started out a semi comfortable will hurting in about 2 hours. If your tape doesn’t have any "give" to it, your skin will, as in give up the top layer or blister. The tape tends to get wrinkles in it as your pulling it tight. You basically end up pinching your skin for hours. I have seen a kits made for the procedure. I’ve seen its results and they a very good. There is no tape involved, so you eliminate the wrinkle problem. It pulls together like your shoestrings, so you can adjust it as needed. Pretty neat actually. It is made and sold by Lori Larkin's. Click on her name to see her "Kleavage Kit".

Hormones or Plastic Surgery: Well, for most of us, this is not a option at all. The first takes a minimum of a year to any results. For the most part results are totally disappointing to nonexistent, and for us married TG’s usually followed by impotence and then a piece of paper titled divorce! Which opens the door for plastic surgery, which you can’t afford due to the fact your flat broke from paying off the bills your wife’s lawyer accumulated! OUCH!