I found these "royal" blue stockings at a thrift store yesterday. It's no secret that I prefer pantyhose, but these stockings were just the right shade of blue, and I felt inspired to take a few photos with them.
Please excuse that these are only photos of my legs. I prefer to include my face, but time was short, so I was unable to apply makeup or other feminine effects.
Out, that is...
For the second time in as many weeks, Larissa will be spending tomorrow night out of town. These opportunities are quite rare, which makes me feel like I need to dress up and go out.
Like last week, I have to work the next day, and really shouldn't be out late.
And of course, I have a long list of tasks to complete tomorrow to stay on track to earning my daily / weekly rewards...
I feel like I'm really back on track with my tasks / rewards scheme, so the responsible thing to do would be to stay home and get those tasks knocked out, slip into some sheer hosiery and take it easy at home.
So I guess that's the plan. Larissa doesn't spend many nights away, but she does indulge me when I decide to have a GNO (Girls' Night Out), so it isn't like I won't have another opportunity to venture out. Truth be told, I was out just a week ago, and I had an amazing time with some truly wonderful friends. I shouldn't be greedy. Another night out this soon would probably be a letdown after last week's adventure.
If I have time after I finish my chores tomorrow, maybe I'll put on some makeup, try on a few different outfits and take some photos. Would anyone be interested in seeing them?
With Larissa out of town for the night, and despite already having worked 12 hours, I decided to let Marika off the chain for a couple hours
For the first time in, well, forever, I applied my own makeup and was really pleased with how it turned out.
I'd love to go into detail about the night, but I have to be up for work in less than 4 hours, so I'll leave you with these lovely photos and bid you all a good night.
Short post today!
My lace dress arrived just a few moments ago, and I couldn't wait to try it on....and it fits very well!
Seeing as though I have already "earned" this dress, I'll most likely wear it out to the club this Friday night.
In my last post, I teased a review of my absolute favorite ultra-sheer pantyhose, Hanes Perfect Nudes. So here we are, ladies and girls!
Most people in the USA are familiar with the Hanes brand. They've been selling pantyhose here for longer than I've been alive. In the time that I've been wearing (and buying) pantyhose, I've found their offerings to be quite good, if a little on the pricy side.
The BasicsAt $10 a pair (a package deal Kohl's offers when buying 3 pair), Perfect Nudes are on the higher end of department store pantyhose brands. Having said that, they are what they claim to be. They're very sheer, very soft and moisture-wicking, which means no sweaty legs even when it's really hot outside.
Standing 5'7" tall and weighing in at a svelte 190 lbs, I usually fall right on the borderline of most pantyhose sizes, but that's not the case with the Perfect Nudes. Their size "1X/2X" fits me just right. They're not too tight and they're not always falling down. They fit so well, in fact, that a few minutes after putting them on, I completely forget I'm wearing them. That is of course assuming I don't rip multiple holes in them in the process of putting them on (the pair I'm wearing now has 3 holes in it because I rushed to put them on and didn't cover the rough skin on my hands beforehand).
It's safe to say that the Perfect Nudes run true to size
What can I say about the finish on these pantyhose other than it's absolutely perfect? They have a very nice matte finish and the color distribution is flawless. If you buy them in a shade close to your own skin tone, they practically disappear on your legs. The first time I wore them in front of Larissa, she didn't realize I was wearing pantyhose until I pinched them and pulled them away from my skin to show her. The shade "transparent" is as close to invisible on my legs as any hosiery I've ever worn. Of course, in the summer, my legs are darker, so the next darker shade ("buff") would probably look better.
As I mentioned above, these are EXTREMELY delicate pantyhose. They will rip and run (ladder for those not in the USA) if you even look at them sideways. Seriously!
Overall, I really love these pantyhose. They're super soft and super comfortable, and they look absolutely wonderful on my legs. If you can (unlike me) show some restraint and handle them very delicately, I whole-heartedly recommend buying them (Link). If you buy them, I recommend buying 3 pair at a time from Kohl's, bringing the price down to $10 per pair, about half of what you'd pay for them on Amazon.
I explained in my last post how I'm using crossdressing as an incentive to be more productive. Thus far it has worked perfectly. Every week, if I complete all my tasks for the entire week, I reward myself with a little something extra. The weekly reward for this week is a black lace dress...
It's a beautiful dress and I'm looking forward to wearing it on a future GNO (Girls' Night Out). In fact, I may wear it out this Friday evening if everything goes right.
Anyway, a few hours after I ordered the dress from Amazon, I received an email from Amazon, alerting me that an item from one of my lists was a "lightning deal" for the next few hours.
So here I sit, typing a blog post, wearing this dress:
Don't get me wrong, the dress is wonderful and fits me perfectly. The problem is that I didn't earn this dress. I earned the lace dress by completing all my tasks last week. I had already decided that this week's reward would be a garter belt, and next week's reward would be 3 pair of metallic stockings. So I'm faced with a dilemma here. Do I accept this purple dress as this week's reward (if I earn the weekly reward this week) and push the garter belt and stockings off a week, or do I take this dress off and refuse to allow myself to wear it until I have properly earned it? I love this dress. The fact that I'm still wearing it is a testament to just how much.
I think the proper thing to do would be to keep the dress, but not wear it until it has been properly earned. I have to have discipline. Buying this dress was a slip in my discipline, and I shouldn't reward myself for that. Of course, there's no way I'm sending this dress back. It will hang in my closet until such time as I believe I deserve to wear it.
</rant>By the way, the Hanes Perfect Nudes pantyhose in "True Black" arrived today as well. Shall I review them for you? Ask (or don't, it is the same price) and ye shall receive! My Perfect Nudes review will be posted tomorrow morning at 9:00 Central (US) Time.
Somewhat related: If I were to start a YouTube channel where I reviewed different brands and styles of hosiery (as a man), would you be interested in watching? Please comment and let me know. It's an idea I've been playing with.
I'm addicted to pantyhose. I think I've established that pretty well in my previous posts. They're just so soft and silky and wonderful!
I already own anywhere from 30 - 100 pair of pantyhose in various styles and shades. I honestly don't have an exact count because they're EVERYWHERE in my bedroom. Sure, I have a special drawer in my lingerie cart dedicated to pantyhose and tights, but it can't hold the whole collection, so there are pantyhose in my nightstand, pantyhose in almost every drawer of my dresser...hell, there are even 6 pair of brand new Hanes Silk Reflections Silky Sheer pantyhose sitting in the end table drawer next to my couch!
With all the various pantyhose I own, there is no good reason to buy more pantyhose.
It started off innocently enough! My project was simply to buy new sandals (slides, actually) from Kohl's. I bought 3 pair of Under Armour slides (2 black & pink - one for me and one for Larissa, and one black and white - for me when I'm out in public with Larissa). Kohl's has a sale on the Under Armour slides, so all 3 came up to $74 and some change. Kohl's offers free shipping orders over $75. Do you see where I'm going here? Faced with the option of paying for shipping (I'm genetically predisposed to avoid this) and ordering one more item, it was a no brainer. But what to order?
Oh hey, wait a minute! Kohl's has those buttery-soft, ultra-sheer Hanes Perfect Nudes pantyhose, that I enjoy wearing immensely, at 3 pair for $30! I've never tried them in black, so...now I have 3 pair of Under Armour slides and 3 pair of black Perfect Nudes en route.
I have a sickness, folks. I'm addicted to not only wearing pantyhose, but to buying new pantyhose. In my own defense, those Perfect Nudes are super fragile. I have a pair I often wear to bed, because they have several holes in them. I never did anything strenuous in them, mind you. They're just very fragile. If you look at them the wrong way, a hole materializes in them. If only they weren't so addictively soft and comfy!
Such is the life of a pantyhose-obsessed crossdresser. I guess it could be worse. I could be obsessed with really expensive shoes.
Was my last post really in March? I apologize for not posting sooner!
Over the past few days, I've been trying something new. Several months ago, while recounting my passion for crossdressing to myself, I realized that crossdressing is a reward to me, but without any sort of effort. I've simply done it whenever opportunity and desire intersect. This, of course, makes the act of crossdressing, in my mind, a right, rather than a privilege.
The concept to correct this mindset was simple -- I would deny myself any crossdressing time if I didn't complete a certain list of tasks. It seems like a great plan, right? It was a great plan, but I ended up mentally skipping over the tasks and crossdressing whenever I chose, as always. I have lost count of how many times I swore to myself I would carry this out, only to regress the very same day or soon after. That is, until this week.
If you've read this blog for any amount of time, you understand that I have a very intimate and personal relationship with sheer hosiery, pantyhose specifically. I love pantyhose. No, seriously. I especially love wearing pantyhose to sleep. Something about it makes me sleep better, wake up rested and feel happier overall. I realize that a man wearing pantyhose (particularly to sleep in) is very unusual, but I've been wearing them since I was a child, and I see nothing strange or wrong with it. I love them, am comfortable in them and really like the way they make my legs look.
I've been on a streak of wearing pantyhose to bed every night for the past week. It started Tuesday. Usually, once or twice a week, I'll slip into my favorite pair of Hanes Silk Reflections "silky sheer" just before bed. For some reason, Tuesday was different. On Tuesday, after hitting up the local watering hole for some tacos, I returned home. My lovely fiancee (whom I call "Larissa" - not her real name) was at a concert 2 hours away and I had the entire house to myself, so I seized the opportunity to slip on a pair of panties and my absolute favorite sleepwear (yes, pantyhose!). When I woke up on Wednesday, I felt euphoric to still be wearing my nylons. The euphoria stayed with me all day Wednesday, even at my job, which usually puts me in a foul mood to one degree or another. I attributed my positive mood on Wednesday to sleeping in pantyhose, and decided to do it again. To my delight, I woke up in a great mood again on Thursday, so I did it again and had the same awesome mood when I woke in my nylons on Friday. Now, whether or not my mood was a product of my choice of sleepwear is largely irrelevant. I slept in pantyhose and woke up feeling great 3 days in a row, causing my mind to assume a connection.
Wow! I'm being a bit verbose today, aren't I? Sorry about that, but I'm excited to share.
So where was I? Oh yes, at work on Friday...
One of the perks of my job is that there tend to be long periods of "downtime", during which I can basically do whatever I like. Often, during these slow periods, I sit in my car and journal. On Thursday, I was doing just that, putting pen to paper, writing out my stream of consciousness. I recounted how much I had enjoyed sleeping in my silky hosiery, and how I would wear them 24/7 if I could get away with it. At this point I realized that wearing pantyhose has become an addiction, albeit a harmless one. I decided at that moment to turn that addiction into a motivating force.
As I mentioned above, I've committed many times to deny myself the pleasure of crossdressing unless I "kicked ass" on my to-do list, and just as many times I've failed spectacularly to do so. This time would be different, I thought. This time I would follow through. Then it happened...
I wrote in my journal a list of 5 tasks I would complete before going to bed on Friday. Nothing too difficult, but 5 tasks that would take real focused effort to complete in the 3 hours between work and sleep. I also wrote that my reward for completing these 5 tasks would be the privilege of wearing panties and pantyhose for the rest of the night, and the penalty for falling short, even a tiny bit, would be to spend the rest of the night in my boring "male" clothes. I let myself get very amped up about the tasks, the reward and the cost of failure. Then I went home and became a man possessed. I spent 2.5 of my 3 hours hustling around the house, ticking off my tasks one by one, until they were all finished. The prospect of putting on my favorite legwear drove me to finish every single task, and the reward was very sweet, to say the least. I slept like a baby and woke up in a tremendous mood yet again.
Buoyed by my productivity on Friday, I journaled again while at work on Saturday. Another 5 tasks, and again the promise of spending the rest of the night in silky nylon bliss if I complete them all. This time, however, I added an extra bonus. If I completed all my tasks each day for 3 days straight, I would allow myself to indulge in a "full-on femme day" on Monday (today, woohoo!). Long story short, I destroyed tasks Saturday and Sunday, slept in pantyhose both nights and am, at this very moment, minutes away from bringing Marika fully out of her cage for the entire day.
I crushed my tasks, now I'm rewarding myself. Time to write down my tasks for today...
