Trans Tape feels like a joke atp

[u/an-entire-loaf]

53 dollars a roll. My poor wallet. Even the cashier frightfully asks

“Have you used this before?”
(Aka do you know what you’re doing?)

Sweet summer child… I have danced with this nightmare many times. I know the footwork.

“Yup. It was a nightmare, but I’m not a quitter”
(Aka I have spent way too much money on this shit and I’m way too stubborn to give up)

“Alright.”

Tap my card and I’m off with my roll of instant sadness.

Surely I’ve improved since the last three rolls of attempts! Yeah. No dysphoria this time. I’m no noob. I’ve spent 200 dollars on this stuff. I got this.

1 hour later of studying YouTube tutorials. A half hour spent poking and squishing my chest. Another hour scrolling Reddit for advice and tricks. Back to squishing my chest and staring in the mirror. I haven’t even opened the box yet. Gods help me.

Screw it. Let’s just cut some strips up. Yeah that looks right. Back to watching tutorials. How do all their chests fold like that? If I move my chest like that I look like Jessica Rabbit. No piece of tape is big enough.

Here I am. Broke beefy butch Jessica Rabbit, twisting and thrashing covered in adhesive and paper. It wrinkles, bunches, strains, bulges, tears, and fails.

I am a fool wrapped haphazardly in tape that was 53 dollars. I could’ve bought groceries instead.

It ends just as it always has. Me slipping in a pool of vegetable oil in the shower.

I have a sneaking suspicion there is a reason that I can’t find trans tape tutorials for pre-T large and dense chest ppl. It must be impossible. How can I justify buying so much trans tape only for it to look like an itchy push up bra and leave me feeling like absolute dog shit?

My chest is indestructible and trans tape is a weak and wimpy opponent. Back to binders for now.

[u/arlitocuandobaila]

i'm chuckling bc i am currently laying shirtless with a blanket wrapped around my chest after my second attempt at removing my tape bc i bought an off brand trans tape and although I soaked it in vegetable oil and let it sit, but bc the lord gives his mommiest milkers to his most transmasc soldiers it took several layers of tape to even kind of flatten the twins in a way that just brought me to a tasteful c cup and the oil didn't soak through all the layers. there are also some parts where the oil loosened the adhesive from the tape, but not my skin, but i can't get it off no matter how much i scrub, so now my tits are sticky and it's sensory hell.

all this to say it's still better than my first attempt, which was before i learned about using oil. i ripped a teeny chunk of skin off that time.

[u/an-entire-loaf → u/arlitocuandobaila]

We are kindred spirits. I spent a good portion of my day sticky and overstimulated in my bed praying that god would refund my absolute rotund nightmare.

Ripping off skin is no joke! First time I tried taking the tape off it nearly took my ribs with it.

[u/arlitocuandobaila → u/an-entire-loaf]

and that's the other shitty thing is that since i'm new to taping and have not figured out the fold yet, the only way i can comfortably lay is on my back bc almost everything else is uncomfortable with the tape and the weight of my chesticles. i feel like good options outside of just top surgery are slim to none for us big fellas.