#icd be happy if someone else could explain it better and help it get more traction!

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Also randomly this is the flattest chest i've ever managed to achieve with my binder, hooray! It can be tough when you're plus size, the size of binder you need to fit your shoulders is often too loose in the front, or vice versa. But a tip i just learned is that you get a more realistic look if you push your chest into your armpits! Yeah, it sounds unintuitive, i thought i should align the old hell orbs towards the front so theyd get more compression or something. But really binders arent that tight, and it'll just push out more if there's more under it. Its better for holding a tuck in place, yknow? Also on plus size people if you push the middle of your chest down you'll get a sort of spillover effect on your neck and shoulder skin that looks kinda unnatural and gives you trouble passing. Its also why when you look down you might be discouraged thinking your boobs look even bigger than before, but then from a side view it looks okay? Its weird? Anyway i never saw many tips on this stuff before i started binding, so i thought i'd ramble about it even if its a bit TMI. Try and push your dysphoria sacks outward towards your armpits, and downwards as far as possible. It can be hard to do while youre wearing the binder, even if you could do it fine without it. So a good tip is to have one arm down the front of the binder and one backwards through the actual sleeve of the arm. You'll need the power of both to adjust things! I mean you're basically trying to shuffle shrink wrappped fruit from the worst angle imaginable! Oh and this spread out sideways strangeness also makes it way less uncomfortable to wear a binder, as well as better mimicking cis male body fat distribution. I had no clue binders were supposed to hurt before i got one, and i had no clue i was doing it wrong and they DONT hurt until i saw the sideways tit trick! Seriously everyone just says 'put it on and its done' when really you have to do just as much tucking as trans women have to do. (I have so much sympathy for you girls, it must be so much more painful!) And man you better get used to slipping and readjusting too cos every time you bend over its like russian roulette! It takes grand power to find the one perfect sweet spot where you've pushed the thing downwards enough that it wont immediately pop back up again! Ugh damn you real life jiggle physics, the way less sexy and way more annoying version! Nobody else would notice this 2 milimetre bounce on my compressed chest but i'm still super anxious about it. I know that cis dudes dont have a completely flat chest when they're the same weight as me, but i feel i have to overpreform to achieve the same level of respect from people. Anyway ideally wearing your binder shouldnt hurt, you should buy a size that feels a little loose in front, cos that looseness is to make the final result look more human instead of washboard flat. Just gotta spend a bit of time in front of the mirror experimenting with tucking in different directions and seeing how well the compression works at those angles. For me the downwards sideways works, but if you look around other trans bloggers you might find other tips for different body types and chest sizes. I hope everyone can have a momebt like me where they take a dumb selfie for some hair dye and get to be pleasantly surprised by their real self staring back at them (^_^)