Been doing my nails at home on the weekends for a bit now and taking them off come Monday, but this week I decided that if I can’t even have painted nails in public then how am I ever gonna come out or present fem?

Nobody cared. Didn’t get a single comment.

I tried to keep it subtle with a nude pink shade so it’s not like I was asking for attention but they were definitely noticeably pink and shiny so I’m sure people saw.

Baby steps but a big win for very masc-presenting me 😎💅

  • Bryllyg@quokk.auEnglish
    10·
    8 days ago

    Awesome!! I’m very proud of you!

    Baby steps are sometimes the most meaningful. You can do it!

  • briar1312@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    8·
    8 days ago

    Thanks for sharing your baby steps! Inspiring for me, I have only just admitted to myself that I have gender envy might be non binary. I painted my nails for fun last night and I was thinking of keeping them on since people probably will just think it’s a Halloween thing. And yeah also nobody cares, people think about you way less than you think they do.

  • KaRunChiy@fedia.io
    5·
    8 days ago

    I went straight in with cement. I love the brutalist aesthetic, people stopped questioning me after the first week

  • tmyakal@infosec.pubEnglish
    4·
    7 days ago

    I started leaving mine always-painted a few months ago. I’ve only gotten two comments: I met up with some friends from high school for a game of Magic and got one person saying they looked nice; and I had to give my super-conservative Christian father-in-law a ride to a doctor’s appointment, and he saw my fingers and said, “Red?” I told him it was to match my sneakers, and he left it at that.

    It makes me feel good, and if people notice, they mostly don’t seem to give a shit. Have fun with it, girlie!