Meet the woman supporting her cross-dressing partner by doing their hair and make-up together

Meet the woman supporting her cross-dressing partner by doing their hair and make-up together - who says they often get mistaken for two women and approached by guys on a nights out. Linda Bailey, 43, first came across Phil Walsh, 37, in his cross-dress persona on TikTok in December 2021. The pair started supporting each other’s videos, before talking in private messages. By February 2022 they realised they had romantic feelings for each other and decided to meet up in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, in March 2022. After hitting it off, the couple started dating and Phil proposed in June 2022. Now the lovebirds live together in Coventry, West Midlands, and love to dress up and do their make-up together. Linda, who works in clinical diagnostics, said: “I’ve never known Phil any other way as when I first saw him it was on his TikTok in cross-dress. “I don’t see it as anything I need to support him on because it’s just him. “People can assume he is homosexual or trans because he likes to cross-dress. “He gets asked out a lot by men because he looks amazing as a woman. “We’ve had men come up to us to sit with us as they think we’re both women. “He’s better at doing make-up than me too. “We’re both confident in who we are and that’s what matters.” Phil, a field technician, said: "For the last 10 years I would come home from work and put a skirt on. "I've always found feminine clothes more comfortable. "I joined TikTok about a year a go and decided to go for a make-over and had a wig put on and my make-up done. "It was amazing and a massive weight of my shoulders. "I never had to hide who I was from Linda. "She liked both sides of me from the beginning. "We have dress-up nights or come home and put our matching pyjamas on. "She loves me for me." Linda came across Phil after he popped up on her 'for you' page on TikTok and the pair started engaging on each other’s videos. “I saw his social media account which was under his former cross-dressing personality name,” she said. “We started chatting privately and realised it was more than a friendship.” The pair decided to meet up in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, to go ice-skating for their first date in March 2022. “It was a whirlwind from there,” Linda said. Phil, who was living and working in Oldham, Greater Manchester, started staying at Linda’s and commuting from there. In June 2022, Phil asked Linda to marry him and the pair officially moved in together in October 2022, after Phil found a new job in Coventry, West Midlands. “We walked past a jewellers and Phil just asked me which ring I’d choose and then asked me to marry him,” Linda said. “It was very sweet.” Linda has always been supportive of Phil’s cross-dressing a now the pair have a shared TikTok page where they positive videos all dressed up together. “He’s just a man who cross-dresses,” Linda said. “Any negativity doesn’t bother us. “We have no room left for clothes as we both have so much stuff. “We have a massive wardrobe and rail. “We go from looking ordinary to looking insane but we love it.” The couple share wigs and make-up and Phil loves to cross-dress whenever he has time. “We can’t swap clothes as we’re different sizes,” Linda said. “He’s better and quicker at make-up than me.” Phil added: "It took me a while to work out where I fitted and know where my place was. "But a whole new world has been opened up for me now. "I'm not hurting anyone by cross-dressing- it's just clothes and make-up. "When I'm dressed up I feel happy and I've realised it's part of me and just something I do. "I want others to know they are not alone and to just be themselves."