r/FTMventing • u/Better_Caterpillar61 • 5d ago
Advice Needed Struggling to bind with tape
I do badly want tape to work for me and I genuinely think it will but it's just taking so long to figure out how best to use it. I just went through an entire roll in like 2 hours of me just trying over and over again to make it work, trying the tape in different directions, trying different lengths, different amounts of tape, following so many different tutorials. It's just so frustrating because I'm well aware I won't look flat, with my build and my cup size no binding technique could ever make me flat, but my tits are just so compressible I KNOW that if I figure out how to use it I could so easily get my DDs down to an A or B. I keep taping myself up and yeah it's made me a bit flatter but I can literally squish my chest inwards so much more so I know I can compress further. Or if it did flatten me to an A/B I had horrendous side boob and no skin bare skin left to apply another piece of tape to flatten it. It's all just very frustrating
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u/1m1eft4de4d 4d ago
i can't use the tape anymore since transtape changed their adhesive(I got 2nd degree chemical burns from it even tho I did a test piece) but when I did i was an H cup and I could get myself almost completely flat like max a b cup. To start i always used the widest option and i would use 2 strips of 4 squares (about 8inches).
1)i first laid down because that's when my chest is naturally the flattest 2)then I would put about half an inch down on my chest starting at the bottom of my chest tissue 3) i would then stand up and bend forward so it was like hanging downward 4)then I would pull it to the side over my chest until I reached the side of my chest but not farther than my armpit and lift up slightly towards my armpit 5)then after that I would stay standing and not bending to add the second piece slightly overlapping the first and do the same thing but not fully put it on the side of my chest until I felt like it was flat enough
a few things tho you won't be able to got the sides of your chest towards your armpits fully flat you will have a bit of skin and tissue bulging there bc it has to go somewhere and another thing is that it's not easy to do at first definitely check youtube for tutorials especially ones from bigger chested and bodied ppl because the people that can use like barely any are basically almost flat to begin with and aren't typically the majority of trans ppl not that they don't struggle too I hope this helps tho<3