so the cah pride pack has options for buying it “with glitter" and “without glitter” and knowing cards against humanity they just tip like 3 tablespoons of fucking glitter into the pack of cards and send it out
this is absolutely what they’ve done
No lie, I ordered mine without glitter, not realising, and then, when I saw there was a glitter option, I cancelled and reordered it with glitter.
I am a veteran of twenty years of Sydney Mardi Gras, GLITTER OR NOTHING. ALL GLITTER, EVERYWHERE.
can we please bring body glitter back in 2017. we already have enough to deal with in 2016 but 2017 is the year we need to fully commit ourselves to glitter and all things that sparkle. who is with me.
i hope you all realize that reblogging this is a binding spiritual contract and i expect follow through
You can make your own body glitter incredibly easily. You’ll need:
Pure aloe vera gel. I get a big ol tub off of ebay for like a fiver, keeps me going for a nice long time.
Some small clean jars to put yer goop in. I get a big batch of clear screwtop plastic storage jars off ebay for a quid and make glitter gel gifts for friends. Keeping the goop size small means you use it up fast before it dries out.
An assload of glitter. Again, ebay has this in many different sizes and colours, which is what you want. I also get mine from facepaint-uk.com, which is my favourite shop in the world probably. make sure to get a variety of sizes, colours, and shapes: that looks best tbh. If you can get it in ziplock baggies as opposed to like jars and shit then it saves you money on pointless packaging because who cares
HOW:
Take jar. Shoof a buncha glitter in the jar. Not enough to fill it, fill it like a quarter of the way with a mix of glitters. I usually fill it a third of the way because I like my glitter gel to be excruciatingly glittery
Squirt some aloe gel on top to fill the jar half way. Stir carefully until a gritty paste is formed. nice
Add a bit more aloe and stir again. Keep adding gel a bit at a time until a smooth glitter gel is formed.
Put the lid on and marvel at your creation! Well done. Now wear it all the time. I wear mine to work habitually. It might dry out if you don’t screw the lid on well – but it can be rehydrated with a few drops of water and a good mix. I tend to tear through mine pretty fast though.
Let the contract be bled on and wrought.
For those of you who want to make your own glitter gel, this is a very good tutorial.
(Listen closely: you can hear @peteventers muttering “nooooo not glitter.”)
Also-also – Try to find biodegradable mica-based glitters, rather than plastic/PET-based glitters, as the latter is very bad for the environment when it goes down your drain!
Or, another planet-friendly option if you can’t make stuff or don’t have the time is buy a bunch of Intergalactic and Sunnyside bath bombs from Lush and fucking IMMERSE yourself in cruelty and toxic free shinyness.
I normally don’t like to add to posts, but this is just one of my favorite things about her. I guess Carrie Fisher just carried glitter everywhere, because she did the same thing at Indiana Comic Con when she was there in 2015. She actually kinda got in trouble because she was taking so long with each person who came for autographs because she wanted to “baptize them” with her glitter. She wanted to make sure that everyone who saw her got some glitter.
tldr; she was truly a gift and i sobbed at work when i got a notification that she passed, and i’m crying now as i type this.
So what if we all picked a day and wore glitter for her?
Next May the 4th seems appropriate. Dedicate Star Wars day to the original princess?
LET’S DO IT!!
I am so on board with glitter for Carrie day.
She talked about how her therapist (I think it was in her book Shockaholic but I can’t check right now) always knew when she was having an ‘off’ time in her head depending on how much glitter she’d show up wearing to appointments. It was her way of making the world sparkle and shine even when it felt dark. It made her feel better. Evidently she wanted to share that with others.
I purposely went out and bought glittery body dust in her honor. I’m going to welcome in 2017 lit up like a firework. Ain’t none of y’all going to ever be able to hug me ever again without getting covered in glitter. It’s on. We’re doing this. And on May 4th we’re going to make the world shine.
I’m friends with a makeup artist who worked for a bunch of various comic conventions. Basically, she was hired to make the celebrities up so they would looked polished and professional for photo ops and the like. She did Carrie Fisher’s makeup pretty often for these convention appearances, and she said she’d spend all this time giving Carrie a natural, understated look, and every time, EVERY TIME, she would finish, and ask Carrie if she was okay with how she looked, and Carrie would say, “yeah, it’s great, whatever”, and then my friend would turn her back for like, .02 seconds, and by the time she turned back around, Carrie Fisher would have somehow covered herself in glitter, like some sort of sparkly ninja.
knitting in the dark 