VALENTINES AND GENDER MASKING

 

A MASKING EXPERIENCE STORY

 

 

BY: RITA CHANTE

 

 

 

AUTHOR’S NOTES: in this copyrighted, two part, novelette, Valentine’s Day is shown to be a holiday that is perceived as a wonderful time for the renewing of love or starting a romance, but when masking is involved and the maskers are also into gender bending, all bets are off.  As is the style that has become this series of stories, real happenings and places are liberally mixed with fantasy.  Special thanks needs to be given to Tanya who inspired a good portion of the writing in this novelette by dressing as and acting out the various female and cross-dressed roles that make up the fabric of the plot and sub plots.

                               

 

 

PART ONE

 

 

Fantasies can be a real bitch, even when they come true.  Or maybe I should say especially when they come true.  There is always the unplanned or dreamed of element that gives the fantasy a life of its own as it births its way into reality.  But before I get into that tale I need to state that I think that masks and the whole fantasy process of masking have always fascinated me, but when you add in the art of love making in an alter ego I become obsessed.  In fact, I am into the idea of creating and being in a total disguise during an act of seduction and sex.

 

Until the last twelve to thirteen months, this was my ultimate masked fantasy.  By masked fantasy I mean totally changing your race, culture, size, shape and gender.  From what I have read on female masking, most writers believe that this type of masking is mostly a guy fantasy world, but I have never seen it that way, especially when trying to create a special treat for your lover on Valentine’s Day.  For me, saying that female masking is the exclusive domain of males is just another one of those sexist assumptions that makes our culture so loaded with gender biases and Valentine’s Day is high up on that bias list as well. 

 

Masking is fun and it is about time that women claim their rightful domain as the real queens of the female masking world.  Just like so many other things in our modern culture, masking doesn’t have to be male oriented or transgender male to female just because men claim that they are better than women are when it comes to masking.  Why should men reserve to themselves all the fun things in life like masking and dominate the themes of festivals like Valentine’s Day? 

 

After all, who died and made men the lords of the earth and the kings of joy?  Besides, aren’t many women the people in our modern society who mask their faces on a daily basis with a variety of liners, blushes, powders, pancakes, oils, brushes and lipsticks?  Aren’t we the ones that are the masters at using Cupid’s slings and arrows?  In case there is any doubt, I am here to tell men that women are the superior beings on this earthly plane and especially in the realm of cross-gender masking.  After all is said and done, we are better endowed with more of the basic physical equipment.

 

Having said all that, I need to add that I don’t remember a time in my life when I didn’t have a desire to try on and wear masks.  It seemed to me like a natural thing for a girl to do.  And, when I say masks, I don’t mean just the simple hard plastic Halloween or Carnival face masks, but the elaborate whole head latex masks.  I also have a thing for wearing rubber hoods and gasmasks.  My beautiful lily white skinned Stepmother said that my fascination for masks and masking came out of the fact that I was always the tallest and ugliest girl in the neighborhood.

 

Of course, I have just enough self-esteem to reject the notion that I am ugly, but if I were being totally honest with myself, without a major make over and lots of make-up, I guess that I am kind of plain.  As an adult I filled out a lot, but I am still taller and larger framed than the average woman at five-feet eleven-inches.  Actually, I have come to treasure my well-chiseled frame and I have learned that tall and shapely can be a really valuable attribute, but I am jumping way ahead of myself in the telling of this masking experience story.

 

The members of my family have always told me that my father had adopted me, because I tower over my half-sisters and female cousins, but on the other hand, I look like a clone of my maternal grandmother.  She was also dark skinned and tall like me.  I remember going to her funeral with my Dad when I was ten years old.  My Stepmother didn’t like me spending time with my Grandmother because she was always filling my head with stories about my biological mother and the dreams that she had for me. 

 

From some old pictures that I found buried in the attic I discovered that my biological mother was tall too.  Maybe if she had lived, my life and outlook would be different, but then those big “ifs” are always messing up our lives, goals and desires.  For better or for worse, my Grandmother’s look and stories became even more important to me as I stumbled through my adolescent years. 

 

None of my peers in school had anything good to say about my appearance.  I guess that in farm country they would have called me a plow girl.  Actually that was muted and genteel to some of the things I was called.  I found that I enjoyed sports with the boys more than playing with girls and I got a lot of hazing for that.  Even though I am considered large for my gender by most standards of beauty, I am very agile and well coordinated.  The only advantage to all of this was that I was really good at sports and won a full-ride soccer scholarship to my local university. 

 

None of my half-sisters went to college any longer than it took to hook husbands and my kid sisters were a couple of high school sluts.  By the time that they reached their late teens my two half-brothers were taller than I was, but they had trouble finishing high school and went to work as laborers for my Dad’s construction business.  My Dad was fond of saying that the two of them put together weren’t worth half of the price of one of his other workers.

 

It was while I was in college that both my gender confusion and my masking desires found roots and took off.  The men never seemed to come onto me like you read about in those romance novels and as I became more educated, athletic and cultured, most men that I met seemed to be unworthy of my attention. They always seemed to be more interested in what my body could do for them than who I was.  With great regularity, these patterns seemed to start with how much they wanted to be wrapped up in my long and powerful legs.  Don’t get me wrong, I like men as long as they stay in their place, but as romantic partners they never really existed for me. 

 

When I was in junior high I hated having to go to the school dances because the boy’s noses were just about high enough to be stuck between my ample tits.  High school was also a social bust for me.  It was a good thing that I had my sporting activities to provide me with a social life, albeit that it was always associated with team activities and limited by my part time job and household chores.  All of these realities made any kind of romantic festival like Valentine’s Day a time of sadness and loneliness until I started combining them with my female masking games.

 

My Stepmother said that if wasn’t for my round hips and ample tits that I would have made a fairly ugly and muscular boy.  She wasn’t timid about adding that I had the grace and movement of a bull in a china shop.  But then she made racist and sexist remarks like those about most women of color. I didn’t know what she was really thinking because at the time, I believed that all of her children were half Spic too, as she often put it.  At least she didn’t call me a drugged out whore like she claimed that my biological mother was. 

 

On this topic my Stepmother said that my biological mother was pregnant by the time she was fifteen and that she and my Father had to get married.  To hear my stepmother tell it, she had rescued my Father when her Dad had given him a job after my biological mother allegedly died of a drug overdose.  I guess that my Dad was pretty smart because he had risen through the ranks of the business to successfully run my Step Grandfather’s large construction firm. 

 

Other than a meal ticket and/or a career opportunity, as a teenager, I didn’t know what in all tar nation my father ever saw in that bitchy, but beautiful woman that he picked to be my Stepmother.  I have to admit that she still has enough ambition, fortitude and balls to drive a herd of water starved cattle past an effervescent water hole on the hottest day of the year without stopping for any kind of drink.  Very likely, when my father married my conniving Stepmother, like most “normal” men, he was thinking with his little head instead of his big one.

 

When the opportunity to leave home and go away to college happened for me, I jumped at the chance.  As part of my college general education requirements I took a class in theatrical make-up.  The courses’ female teacher was a fabulous artist and I found that I had a real creative eye and flare for sculpture.  Professor Helena was the most beautiful woman that I had seen to that time.  She was perfect in every way.  She reminded me of a very pretty and feminine Julia Roberts.  She was definitely way out of my class, but I wanted to be just like her. 

 

However, other than my class work, Professor Helena never even seemed to notice me.  In addition, the rest of the art world/scene seemed so plastic to me.  Thus, with the exception of two sculpting classes, instead of taking more art classes and signing up for an art major, I continued in college with my major in physical education and a double minor in business and accounting.

 

Sculpting became a real hobby and by the time I was a senior in college and twenty-one, I had fifteen wonderful masks in my collection. There were Vampires, Devils, Witches, movie stars and celebrities.  My only criterion for a mask to be part of my full head latex collection was that it had to be female.  I even entered a couple of my heads into a college art exhibit hoping that Professor Helena would take some interest in my work, but while she told me that I had a real talent and imagination, nothing else came of that.

 

To my surprise, it was in my senior year that men finally seemed to notice the really feminine realities of my athletic body, but by then, male things and men in general, including masking with and for them, just didn’t turn me on. This is not to say that I didn’t go out on some dates with male jocks, but nothing ever developed from those efforts.  During a couple of my very private masking sessions, I even toyed with the idea of playing a man with some of my masking talents, but I didn’t have any masks in my collection that I felt that I could wear as an alternate male identity on a regular basis.

 

I also toyed with the idea of crossing racial lines into the white world, but when I tried that idea I realized that would require torso/body suit development. So, I put that idea on hold as well.  For the most part I was satisfied with keeping my mask collection in nondescript boxes in the back of the large storage closet in my room.  I would take them out and play with them when I was alone.  Not even my female roommates knew about my secret masking life accept for the fact they thought that Halloween was my favorite holiday.  I never told them that Valentine’s Day was really my favorite holiday and that the idea of being a sexy female and/or male Cupid really turned me on.  Unfortunately, I had no idea how to bring off this concept.

 

Then, late one night I was surfing around on the Internet after I had completed a major term paper for my final senior project, I stumbled straight to the realm of the unexpected.  It was close to the end of my last semester in college as an undergraduate.  I was so wound-up that I couldn’t sleep.  The thought of graduating from college and going out into the real world of a career and work was unsettling to me.  As usual I slid around through the masked websites and Yahoo Groups.  Then one of the link pages I found mask maker who claimed that she could make any female concept into a high quality, custom fit latex mask. The phone number attached to the Website turned out to be local so I called the next day.

 

“Rubber Realities,” purred a strictly feminine voice. “Dizzy, speaking. Your fantasy is our reality.” How can we service you?”

 

I was so glad that I was speaking to a woman.  As I mentioned before, the female mask-making world is so cluttered with men. “Yes, Dizzy.  I found your Website last night on the Internet and wanted to know what your prices were?"

 

“We don’t post a price list on the web because the price of our work all depends upon what you want, Miss.  May have your real name for our records?”

 

“I want you to make me a Caucasian female torso and head for a Valentines Day prank.”

 

“Could I have your real name first?” asked Dizzy.

 

“Sure thing.  I’m sorry.  My name is Desiree Cabrillo.”

 

“Okay, Miss. Cabrillo.  I don’t think that we have made a unit specifically aimed at Valentine’s Day, but we have made dozens of specialized torso and mask units for many other settings.  Occasionally the client has used them to cross gender and racial lines.   What would you like to look like or do you even have a specific image in mind?” probed Dizzy.

 

“Could you turn me into an incredibly sexy and voluptuous redheaded Geena Davis or Julia Roberts type for Valentine’s Day?”

 

“That is interesting.  At first, I thought that you wanted us to turn you into Cupid,” declared Dizzy.  “Valentines can be such a romantic time.”

 

“I hadn’t thought about that as an idea.  Romance wasn’t exactly what I had in mind, but I guess that could be an option as well.”

 

“If we make Julia or Geena for you, do you want to be an exact replica of Geena Davis or Julia Roberts or something that could pass for Geena Davis or Julia Robert’s stunt double as part of this Valentine’s Day prank?” inquired Dizzy.

 

“I think that the ‘something like’ Geena is more what I am looking for.  I have always considered Geena Davis and Julia Roberts beautiful women and I would just die to look like I was related to either one or both of them.”

 

“I hear you loud and clear, Miss Cabrillo.  That is a smart way to approach this, Miss.  How tall are you?” asked Dizzy.

 

“I am five feet eleven and a half inches tall.”

 

“Then that shouldn’t be any problem at all since Geena Davis and Julia Roberts are both tall women.  Are you a Trannie or a real girl?” probed Dizzy.

 

“I am all girl from the point of conception in my mother’s womb.  Why, is that a problem?”

 

“Not at all.  In fact, that reality will make our job a lot easier,” stated Dizzy.  “It is just that often being all girl and/or woman is more of a state of mind than a physical reality in the world of masks and masking.  I have known a lot of genetic females who aren’t women in mind or attitude and I have also met a like number of genetic males who really are women in their heads.”

 

I answered this interesting and unusual explanation by saying, “That is fascinating, but I can assure you that the last time I checked, I was both mentally and physically a female.”

 

“That is all that I needed to hear, Miss Cabrillo,” stated Dizzy.  “We have made several Geena Davis and Julia Roberts units for their stunt doubles.  We may even have a couple of the basic stunt double units left in the storage area.  What specific features would you like us to assign to this Geena Davis and/or Julia Roberts torso and mask?”

 

"Creamy skin, sparkling blue eyes, long, auburn hair and…”

 

“Do you want the hair to be, like, Big Hair? Teased up? Bouffant?  Both Julia Roberts and Geena Davis wear a whole variety of hair styles.”

 

“I like them best in long curly locks like the ones that Geena Davis wore for her role in Cut Throat Island.  Is that doable?”

 

“That is no problem either.  What else would you like?” probed Dizzy.

 

“Full dark red lips, tubes in the nose that will go up into the nostrils, mouth that moves with my mouth, and it must also have matching hands with long dark red fingernails.”

 

“It sounds to me like you know quite a bit about mask making,” declared Dizzy.

 

“I took a couple of sculpting classes in college and I have a well hidden, but extensive collection of female masks.  My collection, including the masks that I have poured, is mostly of the slush latex variety.  I don’t particularly like the feel of the foam latex creations.

 

“That is interesting. It is nice to work with someone that knows the difference between foam and slush latex.  All of our stuff uses slush latex,” declared Dizzy.

 

“As much as I like the female masks in my hidden collection, none of them appear to have the quality of Rubber Realities’ work.”

 

“Thanks for the compliment, Desiree.  Our facilities are out in the open and are probably a lot more extensive than the portable one that can be taken down and hidden away.  How large do you want Miss Davis’ tits to be?” inquired Dizzy.

 

“Pardon me?”

 

“Well you said voluptuous and that means different things to different people,” explained Dizzy.

 

“Right.  I want them to be really large and soft.  Would that be out of character?”

 

“Are you large and soft?” probed Dizzy.

 

“No one has ever complained, but then I never have thought that my chest was one of my best attributes.”

 

“Well we get many female clients that use our prosthetic breasts as a kind of trial run to see if they want to have their tits surgically altered.  Would you like to be larger than you currently are?” asked Dizzy.

 

“My image of the perfect woman has tits that are larger than mine so I think I will still go with the large and soft image.”

 

“Good choice, Desiree.  Do you want just gloves or do you want us to make arms that are part of this Julia Roberts and/or Geena Davis mask and torso?”

 

“What would look better, Dizzy?”

 

“Arms that are attached to the torso will look more natural, but are harder to move in.  However, after a little effort and practice most of our customers seem to prefer the attached units,” declared Dizzy. “If you are changing your body’s skin color then you will need to attach the arms and consider some leg and feet units as well.”

 

“Then make the arms part of the torso.  I will give the leg units some thought.  I could always wear opaque stockings.”

 

“All right! You sound like a client who knows what she wants!  Is this mask/torso unit for you or a sexual partner?” inquired Dizzy.

 

“It is for me at the moment, but I am hoping to have you make a second one for a partner if everything works out for me on Valentine’s Day.”

 

“Excellent.  Our prices per suit and mask are better when we are making more than one,” stated Dizzy.  “How thick do you want the latex to be?”

 

“I want it to look real.”

 

“I know that, but real as in doll like or real as in second skin.  The last mode is almost undetectable once you are dressed and have your make-up on,” stated Dizzy.  “Some of our clients claim to spend hours at a time in them at parties and other activities.  Of course that type unit is also a little more fragile and expensive.”

 

“I have several masks that already give me the ‘Doll’ look, so I guess I want the second configuration.”

 

“Then we will need to schedule an appointment for the casting of your chest and arms and to take measurements of your head.  I will make an effort to wear one of our living mask and body units when you arrive. When can you come in?"

 

“I guess I could come in today after my classes if you aren't too busy.”

 

“Can you be more specific with a time, Miss Cabrillo?”

 

“How about one-thirty?”

 

“That would be fine.  Do you know where we are located?”

 

“I pulled up the directions on Map Quest,” said Desiree

 

“Great.  Then the image of a Miss Penelope Cruz look-a-like will be waiting to assist you with your masked Valentine fantasy at one-thirty this afternoon.  If you want, we can get started today.  The cost per suit on a two-suit deal will be $1,000.00. We'll need 50% down to get started, cash only and the rest when the masks and torsos are complete.  If you decide on the leg and foot units the cost will be $250.00 extra.  Is that okay?”

 

“I hope so.  I will have to check on my finances, Dizzy.”

 

“Will you need some extra time to do that?” probed Dizzy.

 

“That would be a good idea,” responded Miss Cabrillo.

 

“Then we will push our appointment back to two o’clock so that you can go to the bank,” declared Dizzy.

 

“Can I pay my total bill today?  I don’t like having fiscal obligations hanging over my head,” admitted Desiree Cabrillo.

 

“That would be terrific, Miss. Cabrillo.  Miss Cruz will be all fired up and ready to assist you at two,” declared Dizzy.

 

I could barely keep my mind on my class work and getting to the bank seemed to take forever.  My mother had seen to it that I had a large college trust fund before she had died.  My Stepmother’s take on this was that it was dirty drug and slut money that should have gone to serving her children’s needs.  I guess my mother really did have some hopes and dreams for me like my Grandmother had told me, but my father never shared those notions with me. I had been very careful with those funds and shopped around for as many bargains as I could find.  I even called the accounts my car fund because when I graduated I planned to buy a car with whatever was left of my trust fund after I paid off all of my college debts.  

 

My roommates in college said that I had the stereotype “Cinderella” personality and profile.  I guess I was the family laughing stock even though I was the only girl in my family to finish college.  And then, Prince Charming had never charmed his way into my life.  As I stood in that long line at the bank, I wondered if Cinderella was a closet lesbian too?  That bank line almost stretched into eternity.  It seemed like I had picked the day when every little old lady for a hundred miles had come in with their penny banks, but I finally got my money and drove over to Rubber Realities by two p.m. 

 

The shop was located in a windowless and secured industrial complex known for small computer R and D firms.  The place certainly had a low profile.  The sign on the door made the place look like it made rubber insulators for computer hardware.  I parked my old motor scooter and went in.  A lovely and courteous female resembling Miss Penelope Cruz was sitting at the reception desk as promised.  If this were a prototype and/or quality of the masks and torsos like the one that I wanted to order, then I would definitely have to scrape up the money for another one. 

 

Pictures and portraits of satisfied customers wearing their incredible masks and suits hung on the wall behind the reception desk.  I wished that some of the photographs had shown before and after shots so that I could have seen just how much of a transformation was created by the Rubber Reality suits and masks. To be honest, most of the photos looked so real that the small entry office of Rubber Realities looked more like a movie agent’s gallery of famous stars. 

 

“Miss Cruz” was on the phone and waived a big “hello” to me and pointed to a seat as she said, “We still have about thirty gallons of untinted latex.  That should see us through the end of the week, but I will need another order by next Tuesday for that new action thriller starring Sigorney Weaver.  That reminds me, can you include ten pairs of yellow cougar eyes in that order? I will also need two pairs of red, two pairs of brown, and two pairs of green.   I think I'm okay on everything else.  Send it priority UPS.  I like the guy that does their deliveries to this building.”

 

As she hung up her phone, I said, “You look fabulous, Miss Cruz.  That business suit that you are wearing is so tastefully done.”

 

“Thanks for those flattering words, but I always get that reaction when I wear this mask, torso and costume.  The men go bonkers for it.  They can be such disgusting pigs at times, but then they pay out the big money that keeps this business a going concern.  You must be Desiree Cabrillo.  Call me Dizzy.  Every one does.  So you want a complete Geena Davis/Julia Roberts mask and torso?”

 

“Yes, I most certainly do.”

 

“Have you decided to add the legs as well, Desiree?”

 

“Do you think that I need them?”

 

“If you want to be a Geena Davis/Julia Roberts look-a-like you need to be all the same color.  While you could wear stockings or panty hose to cover your legs, that wouldn’t work if you wanted to appear as a ‘Geena’ or ‘Julia’ type on the beach in a swim suit.”

 

“I get your point.  You are a good sales person.  Okay, Dizzy, put me down for a complete ‘Geena/Julia’ mask and torso/body suit. 

 

“You won’t regret that choice.  You definitely have the basic build for that look.  Do you have the money?” asked Dizzy.

 

I reached into my purse and said, “Yes, right here.  It is still in the envelope that the teller put it in, but I didn’t count on the leg attachments."

 

The image of Penelope Cruz counted out the ten one hundred-dollar bills from the bank envelope.  “Is this full payment for one unit or a sixty- percent payment for two units?”

 

“If the masks and suits are of the quality like the one that you have on, Dizzy, then it is a sixty percent payment for two, minus the five hundred dollars for the legs.”

 

“Then your balance current balance will be thirteen-hundred dollars,” said Dizzy as she began to fill out Rubber Realities’ order form.

 

“Can my double order be of two different actresses?”

 

“As long as the bodies are close in design and we have an existing mold for the face of the mask, that won’t be a problem,” declared Dizzy.

 

“Would a Julia Roberts look alike fit that bill, Dizzy?”

 

“That would have been my choice, Miss Cabrillo.”

 

“Great!  Then I will take a ‘Julia Roberts’ look alike in the body we specified over the phone along with my ‘Geena Davis’ order.  I guess I will be riding my motor scooter for a while longer.”

 

“What does that mean?” probed Dizzy thru her “Penelope Cruz” mask and torso. 

 

“I am a student and I am spending part of my car fund on these masks and torsos.” 

 

“We all have to set our priorities.  I will see if I can get you a student discount.  After all since you are a genetic female, the torsos will be a lot easier to make and we have some basic stunt double units of Miss Roberts and Miss Davis in storage,” said Dizzy.

 

“How much of a discount are we talking about, Dizzy?” 

 

“Does four hundred dollars sound fair to you?” asked Dizzy’s “Penelope Cruz” image.  “That would cut your balance back to eleven-hundred dollars.”

 

“That would be wonderful.”

 

“Of course I guess we should also give you a female discount of one hundred dollars which would reduce your balance to an even eight-hundred dollars,” added Dizzy.

 

“That would be even better, Dizzy.”

 

“Well then. Let's get rolling', Desiree.  Go into the back and remove your shirt, watch and rings while I take this ‘Penelope Cruz’ mask, costume and torso off.  I will call Misty to take over the front while I am working with you.  After you get your clothes off and stored in a secured container, come over to this dentists' chair and we'll get your measurements.”  Dizzy looked like a strung out young kid when she stepped out of her business suited ‘Penelope Cruz’ look and went to look for Misty.  I wondered if the pale look to her skin was caused by excessive use of her “Penelope Cruz” Mask and torso. 

 

The transformation of “Penelope” into Dizzy was absolutely amazing.  If I had not seen her do it, I would have thought that they were two different people.  By the time I had changed out of my stuff and had a drape over me, Dizzy changed into some lose fitting coveralls.  Misty came out of the recesses of Rubber Realities to host the front of the showroom. She was dressed in the image of a young “Sophia Loren”.  Once Dizzy had made sure that Misty was settled in, she started to take numerous measurements of my head, neck and chest. 

 

“Misty looks fabulous in that outfit, Dizzy.  She is every bit as convincing as ‘Sophia Loren’ as you were as ‘Penelope Cruz’.  Does Misty do ‘Sophia’ all of the time?”

 

“The ‘Sophia’ look is what our next client is requesting.  ‘Cher’ and ‘Sophia’ look-a-likes are our most requested models and Misty does almost all of them.  Can you believe that Misty is really a straight guy under that get up?”

 

“You are kidding of course.”

 

“Not at all,” said Dizzy while she continued to use her tape to get my measurements.

 

“You certainly had me fooled.”

 

“That is good to hear, because that is what most male to female maskers want to do and Misty shows them how to do it.  That is also why we charge men a lot more for our service,” said Dizzy.  “Of course they don’t know that and I trust that you will keep our little secret.”

 

“You got my word on that, Dizzy.”

 

As Dizzy motioned me over to a tall, backless barstool she said, “Misty is the only guy that we let work here, but then he is so sweet and petite that he is almost one of the girls anyway.  His wife works as our accountant and keeps him on a pretty short leash.  Okay, this stool is where we will make the cast of your chest, arms and hands. You will be here for at least fifty to sixty minutes, so get as comfortable as possible.  After that, I will do your lower half.  This can be boring and tedious for the customer so I could play you a video of Pretty Woman or Cut Throat Island to distract you while we do this if you wish.”

 

“I think I would like to see Cut Throat Island again.  Geena Davis is so athletic and such a control freak in that picture and I just love seeing those characteristics in a woman.  To be honest, I think that kind of woman is really a romantic figure.”

 

“So do I, Miss Cabrillo. You are definitely my kind of female.”  With that remark, Dizzy slipped Cut Throat Island into the DVD player and the large flat screen on the wall of the shop came to life.  “The first thing that we will need to do in the creation of your total body and head mold is to remove all of your body hair.  Are you okay with that?”

 

“I thought that you would have to do that so I shaved my underarms before I went to bed last night.”

 

“That is good, but I am sure that you have some other body hair so lets make sure that it is all gone.  We all have some very fine hair on our torsos that we don’t even think of as hair. If the slightest amount of that fuzz becomes frozen it the mold, removing it will be a painful process and unless you are a pain freak, I am sure that you will want to avoid that experience.”

 

“You got that right, so what do you want me to do, Dizzy?”

 

“Just sit on the stool while I cover you in depilatory creams.  Since you are already relatively hairless, one application should do the job.  This will take about twenty minutes.  Then I will wipe you clean while you watch your movie.”  While the cream was doing its work, Dizzy went into another room and returned with a bucket of yellow gel-like goo and opened the top.  “We will make the mold out of fiberglass. It is very important that you don't move after I start,” she said as she had me pull a rubber swim cap over my long black hair. 

 

After Dizzy removed what was left of my body hair, she sprayed WD-40 on my chest, back, neck, head, arms and hands. I never liked the smell of this chemical very much.  It always reminded me of the fact that my sexist high school counselor wouldn’t let me take auto shop because she said that it was a boy’s class.  I hate it when women in positions of power reinforce male bragging rights and attitudes.  I don’t know why women do that to other women unless they are just seeking approval of their male overlords. 

 

“The WD-40 will prevent the gel from adhering to your skin and the skull cap,” explained Dizzy.  Then, as she gently applied the yellow gel-like goo with her neoprene-covered hands, Dizzy added,  “After the gel sets up I'll cut it off so don't freak out.  I've done this hundreds of times and I haven't killed anybody yet.”  I found the yet part of her last comment a bit disconcerting, but then she seemed to know what she was doing.  I was so glad that a woman was doing this.  Even though she fondled my private parts while applying the depilatory creams and the casting gels, I let myself believed that she was doing it for professional reasons and not personal ones.

 

The fiberglass gel was cool when Dizzy first put it on and then it got warmer the longer that it stayed on. I asked her about this and Dizzy said, “That's normal, Desiree.  When the fiberglass starts to cool down, we will know that it has cured, which means that it will have achieved the proper hardness.” 

 

I had been perched on my stool for about an hour and a half when Dizzy came over and tapped the fiberglass. She placed her hands on different areas and said, “Good.  It's all set-up.”

 

Once again Dizzy disappeared into another room.  When she returned to my side, she was holding a battery powered dremal tool containing a very small, high speed saw bit.  Like an experienced sculptress Dizzy carefully and gently cut the mold loose.  It was wonderful to be free to move around again.  My arm and body muscles were tired from the exertion needed to hold myself rigid while the fiberglass cured.

 

"See Desiree! I got that mold off of you without a scratch!”

 

“You definitely are good at this, Dizzy.  I hope your employers appreciate your skills as much as I do.”

 

“Well, on that matter, I am really my own boss.  I pay a percentage of my earnings to the artist’s cooperative that manages this facility. I will be purchasing the latex cores that I will be modifying into your suits, but how much work and what kind of work that I do is really left up to me,” declared Dizzy after she handed me a sheet to cover my naked and hairless torso. 

 

The video of Cut Throat Island just finished when somewhere behind me a sonorous feminine voice called out, “Hello!  It is lunchtime, Dizzy.  I know that if I don’t feed you that you will forget to eat.  You are so into your living art.” Then turning towards me this lovely woman added, “Hi. I'm Marie. I am one third of Rubber Realities, and Dizzy’s other half. You must be Desiree.”

 

“You got that right.”

 

“You are everything that Dizzy thought that you be.  Nice to meet you, Desiree!” Marie was tall, trim, attractive woman about 50 with long white hair and a warm smile.  She had a Diane Keaton look to her and I wondered if this was how she really looked or if she was wearing one of Rubber Realities’ products. She was all dressed in white leather, had pale green eyes and wore pentagram earrings.

 

“As usual, you have perfect timing, babe!” said Dizzy as she turned to look directly at her lover.  “Did you get everything on your list?”

 

“Have I ever left a job half done, Diz?”

 

“I seem to recall something that happened last night…”

 

“Don’t go there, Dizzy.  You are in for a double treat tonight,” proclaimed Marie.  “I’m just priming you for Valentines Day.  I can’t let you peek too soon.”

 

“Like that has never happened,” said Dizzy.  “Desiree has us creating some sexy torsos and masks for an alleged Valentine prank.”

 

“That’s different.  Most of the time we get calls like that for Halloween or Christmas.  Can you tell us any of the details involved in this prank so I will know what type of make-up to use?” probed Marie.

 

“I haven’t worked out the details yet, Marie.”  Actually I didn’t have any plans at all, yet, but I didn’t want to tell Marie and Dizzy that.  Dizzy was now involved in the process of encasing my lower half in more of the fiberglass goo.  I guess she wanted to do this before we began to eat out lunch.  As we ate that wonderful lunch and talked about my “double project”, Dizzy explained that she and Marie had been together for almost five years.

 

They had met at a lesbian club and had been inseparable ever since. Marie had started the Rubber Reality Company 17 years ago with her former husband.  He had started the business out as a custom wet suit company to serve the large and fanatic surfing community in the area.  The company still made custom wet suits as a summer income, but the rest of the year had been taken over by the costume and masking side of the business. 

 

Because of the stunt double contracts with several of the major studios, the masking and body suit business was a definite part of the all year round income of the company.  They both told me how, Halloween was the busiest time of the year for the company and they shared some of what they considered their weirdest requests.  Marie told me that she had trained Dizzy on all the ins and outs of the wet suit business when they teamed up.   It had been Dizzy who hit on the idea of making fetish latex gear.

 

“Teaming up with Dizzy was simple, Desiree.  I needed help to keep my business afloat and Dizzy needed a job,” declared Marie.  “Besides Misty, there are four other artists that have joined us in this cooperative venture, but none of them work full-time all year long.  June to November is our busiest season.” 

 

As the luncheon conversation continued and my leg forms began to set up, the discussion shifted to what I wanted in the way my “Julia Roberts” and “Geena Davis” look-a-like masks.  Dizzy said that Marie would make the mask form from clay, and then have Dizzy make a mold from the clay bust.  Once the mold was polished and trimmed they would make the basic latex structure from the form. They would then merge this basic mask to the material shaped upon the second clay bust that was to be pressed using the form that Dizzy had made of me. 

 

This process would be refined by the measurements that Dizzy had taken earlier.  The completed double-sided mold would then be filled with liquid latex. Next, the mold was then to be slowly rotated and after about 10 minutes it would be placed outside to cure upside down.  When the 'plug', as they called it, had cured, it was removed from the double-sided mold and the excess latex was trimmed away with a hot, sharp knife.  Marie would then take the plug over to a table and cuts the holes for the eyes, ears, nose and mouth.  Next, she worked on creating the nostril tubes, the ear tubes and the mouth flange. 

 

After that process was completed Marie painted and shaded the plug using an airbrush.  The last steps involved the installation of the eyes and attaching the fingernails.  The same basic process was used to make the limbs and the torso.  Dizzy concluded her explanation by saying, “Many times we put hair on the units, but I have a feeling that you will be trying out several wigs besides the big hair wigs that we will supply.  So we will just apply Velcro strips to the heads of your units.”

 

“That is a great idea, Dizzy.  How do all of the component parts go together?”

 

“I will weld the mask to the torsos with silk fibers and several layers of liquid latex.  That's about it, Desiree. Any other questions?”

 

"Yes. When will my order be ready?"

 

“Let’s see, today is Monday. With our current production schedule and any luck we'll have it done by midday Friday.  Call us on Thursday at noon to confirm,” said Marie.

 

After some more small talk Dizzy cut and removed the leg molds from my lower half.  With that, I went into one of the dressing rooms and put on my clothes.  This had been an amazing experience and my clothes felt really strange on my totally hairless body.  I thanked Dizzy and Marie for lunch and took off to go to the library in order to study for a test that I was taking the following day. 

 

I spent the rest of the week at school and my part time work, while occasionally thinking about the mask and body suit that Dizzy and Marie were making for me.  I wondered what it would fit & feel like. I called Rubber Realities on Thursday to see if Dizzy and Marie were on schedule with my suits and masks.

 

“Hello, Rubber Realities.  You dream them and we will create them.  This is Dizzy.  How can I help you?”

 

“Hello, Dizzy.  This is Desiree Cabrillo.”

 

“Hello Desiree! I have some good news and some bad news!  Which one do you want to hear first?”

 

“I’ll take the good news first, Dizzy.”

 

“Okay, the good news is that we are right on schedule and you can come and pick up one of your masks torsos and legs tomorrow after one o’clock.”

 

“Really?”

 

“Yes!  I would not kid you about something like that,” announced Dizzy.  “We rushed the process as much as we could to give you lead time to practice working in them before you employ them in that alleged Valentine’s Day prank that I still want to hear about.”

 

“What is the bad news, Diz?”

 

“Well the Julia Roberts didn’t come out as good as I wanted to make it, but then again, maybe you will like the results.”

 

“Was there a problem with the molds of the texture of the latex?” asked Desiree.

 

“Oh, no.  Nothing like that happened,” assured Dizzy.

 

“Then, what is the problem?”  I was imagining all sorts of weird looking results.

 

“I don’t know if you will like the base color of the latex, Desiree.”

 

“Did it come out all weird or marbled?”

 

“I guess you would have to be the judge of that.  To my eye, the latex has what I would call a light tan.  I think the effect is exotic and beautiful, but Marie isn’t sure that this look is what you wanted.”

 

“Well, I guess I just better hop onto my scooter tomorrow and drive over to see what you got.  This news actually has me tingling all over.”

 

“I’m glad to hear that, because if you were to ask me, I think these two units are some of my best work,” declared Dizzy.

 

“I have some stuff to finish here tomorrow morning and I have to go to the bank to get the balance of the money to pay your bill.  It will probably be around noon before I can get over to your place.”

 

“You don’t need to be here until one o’clock, Desiree.  I have another fitting at eleven tomorrow.”

 

“Okay, then I will see you at one o’clock.”

 

“Great.  Marie will have everything assembled by then.”

 

The following morning I left the university office where I worked part time as a reader at about 11:30 and drove to the bank to get the payment balance.  Then I stopped at a Chinese takeout place and got lunch.  I pulled up in front of Rubber Realities at 12:45 and walked in the front door. “Lunch ladies!  I remembered what Marie said about you taking time to eat, Dizzy.”

 

“You are an angel, Desiree!  Your two units are done.  Dizzy thinks that they are spectacular.  I am worried about the basic color of the Julia unit.  Do you want to have a peek while Dizzy finishes up with her eleven o’clock appointment?” teased Marie.

 

“You bet I do!  Here is the money for the balance of what I owe you, Marie.”

 

“Give it to Dizzy after you see your units,” said Marie.  After I put the money back in my backpack and Marie placed the food in their microwave oven, she walked with me to the back where Dizzy had just finished with her eleven o’clock appointment and was starting to test the zipper on one of my units. 

 

“Hey, Desiree, these units look just great if I do say so myself.”   She turned the masks/torsos of the well tanned “Julia” and “Geena”.  They were just perfect!  Marie and Dizzy had created a reality that went way beyond my most passionate dreams or any of their claims on their Website.  The suits were obviously tall, full-bodied white women even in their limp state.  The light tan color of the latex that Dizzy and Marie seemed so worried about was still several shades whiter than the lightest parts of my skin color and many more shades lighter than those areas where I had a very dark “tan”.

 

As I stood in giddy shock and amazement Marie said, “Miss Cabrillo brought us lunch, Diz.  I have it heating up in the microwave.”

 

“Unless you are starving, Marie, I think that can wait a few minutes.  Look at Desiree’s face.  Is that the picture that says, ‘color me happy’ or what?”

 

“Do you want to try on one of your units or eat first, Desiree?  KIDDING!” announced Marie. 

 

Without saying a word, I ran into the dressing room and removed my clothes and jewelry.  Dizzy handed me some talcum powder and I shook some on my legs, arms, feet hands and chest while Marie helped the eleven o’clock appointment in the other dressing room and Misty took over the front desk duties.  Dizzy unzipped the body suit and I put my legs in.  Then I pushed my hands and arms into their appendages.  That took a bit of work but finally they were in.  I didn’t even think to ask which one I was putting on.

 

“Okay, Miss Cabrillo. I need you to shrug your shoulders and bend your head forward. I'll slip the mask over your head, position it and zip it up.”  I stuck my head into the mask.  It was dark and tight but finally it popped on.  Dizzy helped me to position the mouth-flange, the nostril-tubes, the ear tubes and the eyes into place.  “Is that okay, Miss Cabrillo?”   I nodded yes.  “Speak to me, Desiree!  Say something.”

 

“Everything fits a bit tight and the eyes have no peripheral vision so I can only see out through the pupils. Otherwise it's fine. The breasts are incredible. And the hands and feet look and feel amazing!”

 

"Good, Desiree,” said Marie when she joined us. “That is the way your suit and mask should feel at first.  As it warms to you it will expand to its working size.  Now we're going to zip you in.”  They pulled the back pieces together and ZZZZZZzzzzip! I was in.  The lip flange made my mouth feel really full at first but the lips moved with mine as if they were glued onto my skin. “There's a mirror to your left.  Take a look.”  I smiled, frowned and opened my mouth wide.  The mask responded to my every move.  It was as if I had left the room and a naked, well-tanned “Geena Davis” look-a-like had taken my place.

 

“Well?” quizzed Dizzy.

 

“It's fantastic! I love it! You did an incredible job!” I said as I danced and clapped my gloved hands for the pure joy of it.

 

“I'm so happy for you.  Let's get you out of this and eat the lunch that you brought us,” said Marie while reaching up for the zipper to my well tanned Geena Davis look-a-like torso/body suit and mask.

 

“Wait, Marie.  Would you mind if I kept it on and put my own clothes on over it?"

 

“Well, no, Desiree. Do you want to try to eat in it?” asked Dizzy.

 

“Sure! Why not?”

 

“You've got really big boobies now, Desiree! I doubt that your blouse will fit.  We took the liberty of getting you/her a bra and tailored black leather sheath.  I'll help you because with those long finger nails you'll never manage.”  Marie helped me into a black push up satin bra with lace trim, then into a black leather pullover sheathe with long sleeves and a cowl neck.  "There. Take a look now." 

 

The sheath hobbled my walk a bit but I loved the look.  I saw a beautiful and shapely “Geena Davis type” that was looking back at me in the mirror.  I never looked this good in my clothes.  Dizzy was right.  None of my blouses or dresses would fit me while I had this torso on.  We ate lunch.  It was a bit different with the lip flanges and the long red fingernails but with a little effort I managed.  In fact as the lunch wore on, I began to feel almost natural in my latex and leather look.  After lunch, while Dizzy helped me get out of the dress, the bra and the “Geena” mask, torso and body suit she said, “You had better try on the ‘Julia’ mask and torso to make sure that it works out as well as the ‘Geena’ unit.”

 

“We made this to help you get the zipper fastened when you go to put it on later,” said Marie as she  handed me a long rod with a hook on the end.

 

“Put the hook in the zipper and pull down.  If it's a bit sticky just put some WD40 on a cloth and rub it on the zipper.  Always check and be sure the zipper teeth are clear before you put it on, Okay?  If the zipper jambs while you have the suit and mask on, you may not be able to take it off without coming back here.”  I put on the “Julia” unit and it was every bit as glamorous and good feeling as the “Geena” unit had been.  The chest on this unit wasn’t as large as the one on the “Geena” unit.  I felt like another person even though my clothes fit this unit in a very snug fashion.  I had arrived as one person and I was going to leave the shop as three people.

 

“Can I wear this unit home?” I asked.

 

“You will have to be very careful if you do that, Desiree,” declared Dizzy.  “We don’t recommend operating complicated or complex machinery when you are encased in your mask and body suit.  You haven’t totally adjusted to the vision provided by your new image.  Your senses of touch, hearing and smell have also been altered.  You will learn to compensate to some extent for these alterations with practice.”

 

“I hear you and I promise to be careful, but I just don’t want to take ‘her’ off right now and I have some errands that I have to run.” 

 

“Well you have to do what you have to do, but you have been warned,” declared Marie.  “Maybe you are just one of those lucky people that were born to mask and instinctually compensate for the alterations to your senses provided by the mask and body suit.”

 

“I think that might be the case, Marie,” I replied with new confidence.  Dizzy loaded my black leather sheath and “Geena Davis” unit into a box and walked with me to my scooter.  I strapped the box onto my utility rack and thanked Dizzy once again. 

 

Driving along on my scooter as a young and carefree Julia Roberts was a total blast.  As my vision adjusted to the lenses in my mask I became more and more secure about my driving.  Normally I wear my helmet and scoot along unnoticed.  Not this time.  I let my long auburn locks fly in the wind.  I was a one-woman parade.  Men rolled down their windows and craned their necks to see me pass by.  They cheered and whistled like I had just scored a game-winning goal against one of our university’s rival teams. 

 

It felt incredibly strange to be noticed by men.  I wasn’t sure if I liked it or not.  I found myself wondering if they liked me because I now appeared to be a white woman or if it was just the beauty of my disguise that was turning them on.  I also wondered if my new image would have the same affect on some of my female roommates.  Oh my God.  What will my roommates say if they see me in this get-up?

 

On the way home I stopped and picked up some large gold hoop earrings, a short red leather skirt, a fitted and collarless red leather blazer, red panties and bra, red pantyhose and a pair of red patent 5" Stiletto pumps.  The female clerks in the store just kept staring at me.  One almost ate me alive with her piercing eyes.  I have to admit that I loved that, although I don’t know if she wanted me or was just jealous of my great appearance.  I was treated with a courtesy that made me wonder if this was because I looked like Julia Roberts or if this was the way that all pretty white women were treated. 

 

By now I was hoping against all hope that my roommates wouldn’t be home.  I couldn’t wait to try on my all red Cupid costume over my Julia Roberts body suit and mask.  My roommates generally weren’t home at this time of day, but our place was kind of a Grand Central Station with girls popping in and out of it all of the time.  If I could just get to my room unseen, then I would be all right.  I really wasn’t ready for a masked  “outing” at this point. 

 

Luck was with me and no one was home, so after I was safely behind the locked door of my room I started to undress and redress my “Julia Roberts” image.  I put on the panties, the pantyhose, and the skirt and tried on the Stilettos.  They fit great. I straightened the long auburn hair in the back.  I picked up the bra and fastened it. I turned it around and maneuvered it into position.  I slipped the red satin blouse on and walked over to the mirror.  Something was missing.  I saw the gold earrings and the necklace and put them on too along with the fitted red leather blazer.

 

I looked again at my masked reflection and saw I needed something more.  I went to my closet and got out a red Victorian corset with purple trim that I had bought at an estate sale.  It was very old but it looked fantastic.  I had forgotten completely about it until now.  I took off the red leather blazer, the satin top and the bra and slipped into the corset.  I placed my heavy latex tits into the cups and I pulled the laces tight . . . then tighter . . . then even TIGHTER!  My waist was now very small making my large boobs look even bigger.  The corset had laces above where the legs joined so I tightened them also.

 

The tight corset made me walk with a distinct sway and limited my breathing to some degree.  I began to feel a little dizzy from the restriction of my diaphragm and the exertion of tightening the corset.   I quickly learned to take a lot of small breaths to increase my oxygen intake.  I steadied myself by putting my hand on the back of my computer chair and I pulled my long, tight bright red leather skirt up and over the bottom my corset.  There was one sexy Julia Roberts look-a-like standing in my room.  “Eat your heart out Cupid”.

 

I decided to study for my kinetics final while I was encased in my “Julia” image just to see how long I could function inside of this new spectacular look.  I still hadn’t figured out what I was going to do for Valentine’s Day, but I wanted to be ready for whatever masked Cupid caper came along.  I really didn’t like my kinetics class, but it was one of those hurdles that one had to jump over to complete a major in physical education.  As I moved around to model some of the kinetic principles being set forth in my notes, I realized that I was really tall in my disguise and stiletto heels.  I guessed that I could have passed for a man wearing a female mask and body suit.  That might be an interesting game for a Valentine’s Day prank.  I wondered if I could pull it off.

 

I really didn’t know enough about the male psyche to imitate one beyond the normal effeminate stereotypes.  Dizzy’s statement about gender being a state of mind played over and over through my well-masked mind.  Was I really a man in a girl’s body like my awful Stepmother had postulated during my adolescent years?  Was this why I was so fascinated by female masking?  These thoughts plus the encased sensation made my time inside of my fantasy come true, just seemed to fly by even though I was reviewing my boring class notes. 

 

On the other hand, being inside of my “Julia” mask and body suit made me feel so pretty and sexy.  I knew that I was going to be wearing “her” a lot once I got a job and a place of my own.  I wondered if the increase in usage of my two masks and body suits would make me paler and more effeminate like it seemed t