1 Pretty T Girls June 2014 The Magazine for the most beautiful girls in the world A publication of Pretty T Girls Yahoo group 2 Pretty T Girls June 2014 The Magazine for the most beautiful girls in the world A publication of Pretty T Girls Yahoo group 3 In This Issue Page Editorial by: Barbara Jean 4 The Future of Pretty T Girls Magazine 5 Busting Down the Closet Door 7 Expert Tips for Makeup That Last 8 11 Easy Ways to Make Your Eyes Look Bigger 12 At Home Hair Removal: Will it Get Easier 16 The Adventures of Judy Sometimes 21 The Exploits of Barbara Marie 23 Do Definitions Matter? By Rhonda 25 Work With What You Got by: Angela Gardner 27 Humor 29 Angels In the Centerfold 30 Mellissa’s Tips & Tricks 33 Tasi’s Fashion News 40 Dress Better Over 40 43 Nine Expert Tips for Walking in Crazy Heels 45 Lucille Sorella 48 Easy Figure Fixes 52 Bald is Beautiful by: Annette 54 The Gossip Fence 57 Fantasia Fair Scholarship Information 64 Shop Till You Drop 66 Calendar 75 4 The Silver Screen An Editorial by: Barbara Jean A recent conversation on the TG Woman board was concerning the portrayal of TG’s on the silver screen and television. In the British mini Series “Hit & Miss”, Chloe Sevigny, a genetic female portrays a MtF transsexual who works as a hired killer and then discovers she has a son by a previous marriage and now must be the parent to that child after the mother passed away. In the Movie “TransAmerica” Felicity Huffman, a genetic female portrays a MtF transsexual preparing for her surgery. The question come about, why does Hollywood always use genetic females to portray a MtF transsexual? Certainly an actual MtF transsexual could do a better job or portraying a transsexual. Now I will be the first to admit that I am not familiar with the hiring process used by the television and movie industry. Certainly they do not put an ad in paper or use the employment service to find an ac- tress. As I understand actors and actresses have agents who they would hire through. In any case no doubt there are a number of actresses that would audition for the part and then the powers to be in the industry will choose who they want for the movie or TV role. I guess this brings the first problem, finding a MtF actress. How many MtF transsexual are there that are working/seeking work as an actress? And while an actual transsexual could do a better job of portraying a transsexual, can they otherwise play the part that is required for the movie/TV Show? It is only today that we now see Lavern Cox an actual MtF being employed on the silver screen. Another problem is the roles that Hollywood has crossdressers and transsexual characters in. The portrayal of us as either criminals or prostitutes. In the mini series “Hit & Miss” our transsexual Mia works as a hired killer, I do think they did a wonderful job of portraying us in “TransAmerica” and also in the HBO film “Normal”. I have not yet seen the movie “Dallas Buyers Club”, but in it Jarad Leto plays Rayon, a transgender person who has AIDS and along with his co-star who also has AIDS they go to Mexico to buy drugs that are not yet approved in the United States that may help them and others live longer. Perhaps this is a step up in the portrayal of the transgender on the silver screen. Yet we do so much wish that an actual transgender person was used to portray Rayon. “Tootsie” portrayed a person who crossdressed to get a job, “Mrs. Doubtfire” portrayed a person who crossdressed so that he could see his children more, “Bosom Buddies” portrayed two men who dressed as women so they could live in a place that was for women only. While these did not portray us as 5 as criminals or prostitutes, they did portray us more for the purpose of laughs. In “Pricilla, Queen of the Desert”, and “Too Wong Foo” it was not crossdressers or transsexual that were portrayed, but rather drag queens. While Lavern Cox may be the first actual transsexual to play a transsexual on the silver screen, I have to wonder how long it will be before we see more transgender people in staring roles in the movies and on the television. The big question comes how many transgender actors and actresses are there? I also have to wonder what kind of roles they will be given. The Future of Pretty T Girls Magazine By: Barbara Jean (publisher) Four years ago I took over the task of producing the Pretty T Girls magazine. The first issue that I produced had like 36 pages and today it averages around 75 pages. Almost as soon as I finish producing one issue, I am starting work on the next. In 2012 everything was in one survey, while this year there were two surveys, one to ask how one was getting their magazine and one to ask what they liked to read in the magazine. Of the 32 who answered the survey, 5 indicated that they did not read the magazine. Of those who did read it the majority received their copy from my personal mailing list while about six use the group file and three got it from Rachel Williston’s website. So What items did the readers like, what didn’t they like? Of course few people will read a magazine from cover to cover. Rather they look to see what is in it that they might be interested in reading. In our most recent poll Mellissa’s Tips and articles on makeup seem to take the top spots, and right after that came Angel’s in The Centerfold. Least read was the Gossip Fence and Miscellaneous TG Articles and yet even while the least, they did show that half of those who read the magazine read those items. Currently the Gossip Fence has taken the most pages in the magazine for any one item and I do think in the future we will see fewer pages here. I will have to be a little more selective in what news articles I put in this section. Rather interesting to me was that almost every type of article that we have published in the magazine it showed at least half of those who responded read. One new series that has been started but was not asked about in the survey is “Busting Down the Closet Door”. This is a series of stories from girls telling how they came from the closet and also stories of how they told their wife of their transgender needs. Currently I have enough of these stories to continue for at least another six months. It is my hope that those who are seeking to come out of the closet will gain value from these stories and that they will give them the information and encouragement to emerge from their own closet. In asking how to improve the magazine the one thing asked the most for was more pictures. Currently 6 ALL contestants for the cover girl contest were printed in the magazine. Those that did not make cover girl or calendar girl were put in the Angels In the Centerfold section. The more entries that we have there, the more photos there will be for that section. I have noticed that since Yahoo changed to their new neo format there have been fewer entries to our cover girl contest. I know working anything new is always a pain, but hopefully as time goes on more and more of you girls will learn to work the new system and we will return to the larger number of girls entering the cover girl contest. In additions it was asked for themes. Starting with our next issue we will have them. Next month will be Summer Fun (get your summer fun photos in for that girls) and I plan a September Bride layout for September, Halloween Costumes for October, and Christmas photos for December. These will not be contest and you will not be limited to only one photo. (I may have to limit some if too many come in, but will include ALL who submit a photo for the theme) Size, the size of the magazine does pose some problems. I originally create the magazine using Microsoft Publisher and then I let publisher convert it to a PDF file so everyone can read it. With my old XP computer I was using a version of Acrobat that was intended for Windows 95 and worked even with XP, but I discovered that that version will not work with my current Windows 7 computer. Acrobat did a far better job of compressing the file and as a result the file size now is about twice the size it was using Acrobat. Living on a fixed income I cannot afford the current version of Acrobat. (about $260) A problem is that Yahoo Groups will only allow files up to 5 MB and as a result I must put the magazine in the group files in sections. (currently usually 3) Publisher does not really let me do this so I must make like 4 copies of the publisher file and then start deleting pages. Of course for part 2 and 3 this changes the page numbering. Will the magazine get any bigger? I may allow it to get a few more pages larger, but of course it would affect file size which is currently between 10MB and 12MB.