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My Journey (Part 16) - My First Cosplay Convention

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Covid had put a huge damper on events in Singapore since 2020. No festivals, no celebrations, no conventions. With almost all restrictions lifted in 2022, cosplayers started coming out of the woodwork to gather and go for events. And the biggest Anime and cosplay event of the year...

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Google, put me back on your search engine!

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 Recently I noticed via search console that the traffic coming to my blog dropped quite significantly. From daily views of around 200, it dropped down to less than 50 on certain days. This was quite strange, as I checked the blog traffic regularly and never saw such low...

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Shall we talk about Shame

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I was only ever caught once by a family member for wearing a dress. The details of the day are a bit hazy; I was perhaps around 5 years old. I remember I was playing with my sister. One of us initiated that I try on one of...

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My Journey (Part 15) - Halloween Homecoming

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Halloween is known in the community as international crossdressing day. The day where you can step out into the streets wearing almost any outfit, regardless of how slutty it is and not have anyone bat an eyelid. It was also on this day 3 years ago that Isabelle took...

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Omg I hate removing facial and body hair

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 (Warning that this will be a bit of a ranty post)Facial and body hair is a bane of crossdressers' existence. They're a bitch to remove and doing so takes way too long. Of all the things that I detest, the need to remove facial and body hair is...

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Question - I'm scared, but I want to go out in public. Where can I go?

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 (Clarke Quay on the Halloween weekend can be pretty fun)Crossdressers who are still in the closet usually tell me that although they want to go out in public, they are very afraid of doing so. I fully understand how incredibly scary taking the first step out in public...

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The need to be beautiful (hilariously explained by Youtuber Contrapoints)

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 (Transgender Youtuber Contrapoints. She is as gorgeous as she is funny)Contrapoints: "I'm aware that the conventional beauty standards are a racist, sexist, ablelist, fatphobic, transphobic social construct designed to preserve power relations and sell products. But does that awareness mean I desire any less to be conventionally beautiful?...

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Holy shit do I have a generational gap?

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I was recently chatting with a newbie crossdresser who commented that she came out to her friends recently, who turned out to be very accepting of her gender fluidity, positive vibes all around. But she also read my blog and had wondered if she was too daring to...

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My Journey (Part 14) - Unsatisfying dress up session

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After a really busy period, I finally carved out time to take a day's leave and have some Isabelle time to scratch the shopping itch. So on a Monday morning, I did my usual dress-up ritual; wake at 7.30am, travel from my parent's place to my own house,...

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Of community and crossdressing

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Occasionally I have younger crossdressers message me to say they wished there was a local community or event that they could join, to meet others who understands them and to hang out enfemme. I tell them that there is a community in Singapore, but they will need to...

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Too busy and tired to blog....sorry readers! :(

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I told myself to write more this year, but it seems like I haven't been able to keep up with everything going on this year. With a kid that habitually sleeps at 11pm daily and work that borders on soul sucking, writing coherent pieces seems to be the...

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Shopping self-control

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Recently one of my friends in the crossdressing community discovered the joys of shopping in public and oh was she a woman unleashed. Her outings enfemme spiked and she bought a lot more outfits than she would normally do so online.Online shopping has its perks, but it doesn't...

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Crossdressers' Paradox of Privacy

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The term "Paradox of Privacy" usually refers to the disjoint between expressed privacy concerns and actual online behaviour. We bemoan about how big tech companies like Facebook and Google harvest our personal data and insidiously selling it to advertisers, yet we still willingly let them do so in...

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Interesting interview of local transwoman Aerie Rei

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I chanced upon this gem of an interview shared in the sgbutterfly facebook group by the admin. I watched a bit of it without too much expectations and ended up making it through the whopping 3 hours long interview (broken into 3 separate episodes based on the themes and...

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