Virtual Drag Pageant Challenges Male Avatars to Cross-Dress as Hot Women (While Still Being Male Underneath)

This is a clever and subversive sort of SL beauty pageant: It's for male avatars cross-dressing as hot female avatars. Now in SL, you can toggle your gender with a single switch, but for this contest, you can't do that: You have to start with the male avatar substrate, and get creative about layering that over with clothes and skin and other features intended for female avatars, so that your male avatar blossoms into a babe. I.E., here's some guidelines: "Anyone can enter–but their avatar shape must be male, and dressed in drag. Please use a skin that does not have much makeup on it. Bonus points if you start with a skin that is actually intended for men." In other words:

You have to look like a gorgeous female avatar while actually being a male avatar. Your actual real life gender is irrelevant, though I have a feeling that all else being equal, female SLers will probably have an edge, even over all the many men who like to roleplay as hot avatar girls. Kudos to Aemeth Lysette for dreaming up this hands-on experiment in virtual gender identity, and Gorgeous Yongho for promoting it.

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[Vaki]

Hot.

Now let's get some drag kings in there to really make things fun.

[Cake]

If we have enough interest for drag kings, I am up for hosting the pageant!

[Eleri Ethaniel]

a complimentary drag king pageant would be awesome

[shockwave yareach]

Are furry males allowed? :D

[Cake]

Furries are allowed but I think the gender needs to be very apparent as to what that avatar is. It can't just be like, a bunny in a dress. I can't tell if that's drag or not.

[Roger]

Why do they use a female av tuned up to look male/drag-ish in the poster? Isn't that breaking rule#2.

[Gogo]

Roger, that's not a female avatar at all! Aemeth used a male avatar shape, and male skin (I know for a fact cos I sent her my boy av shape).

[Melissa Yeuxdoux]

How fun! I hope the winner will be featured in a photo shoot.