"My coworker brought in their kid and she was practicing" I'm sure there is an age appropriate thing you could also wiggle in.

After that I only did pedi cause my parent ain't got xray vision. As long as I'm not wearing flip-flops.

Oof

My first time getting my nails done I figured "oh yeah my family isn't that observant and I won't be interacting with them much for awhile"

Very next day, my mother asks me to help clean out a bit of my grandparents house, and hands me something, which I grab without thinking.

I could tell from the look she made she saw the polish (it was a trans flag theme with a full rainbow in the center instead of white) but she never said anything.

I plan on just responding to my family with "yeah, and? What's your point?" When they find out. They can be cool with it, or not. I'm not too attached to my family.

The only real issue is if they decide to be not cool enough to decide to kick my spouse and I out, since they own the property I live on currently.

I figure it's only a matter of time before the rest of my family finds out, I'm out at work and have actually bumped into my current brother in law at work (he was distracted and I had sunglasses on that hid most of my face since I was just walking in), and work with my sister's ex husband when there's a shift overlap.

Good luck with things, I second the "I've made friends and while out with some female friends they wanted to polish my nails and I figure why not" route

Oh shit. Wishing you good luck ❤️

Oh hell no, I wish you all the best with that. Sounds like you have a really uncomfortable situation at home. There might not be anything you can or want to do about that but I would still recommend calling 147 or 143 at some point, you might get help there.

Nail polish does feel pretty easily explainable for the most part. "I was out with some female friends, and they thought it would be fun to paint my nails". Its not a wildly unusual thing even for hetero boys, if anything, it means you have female friends.

Good luck.

Do you need me to adopt you?

are you my actual sister because it sounds like we have the same parents! i have visited/ gone to family gatherings with nails painted and while i'm sure things were said out of earshot, it hasn't been world-ending. i've also never directly come out to my parents. not when i identified as enby and not now. there are parts of me i feel they aren't deserving to share in. i hope the talk goes well. fingers crossed for a positive outcome

I'm sorry, that sounds like it's gonna suck :(

Unfortunately I'm a terrible liar so I can't really offer any advice, but I hope everything turns out alright.