Awesome!! I'm very proud of you!
Baby steps are sometimes the most meaningful. You can do it!
this post was submitted on 01 Nov 2026
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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.
I went straight in with cement. I love the brutalist aesthetic, people stopped questioning me after the first week
You're doing well. Congrats!
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!