Hold on! It has to be edible glitter, a hip new condiment that gained fame on Instagram in View all posts by katherineluck. Skip to content. I thought I knew glitter. I was so wrong. Activists have not limited themselves to the merely abhorrently anti-gay, either: Dan Savage and Germaine Greer have been glitter bombed for being transphobic, among other offenses, and Lindsay Lohan was targeted for apparently no reason as she made her hour-late way to a hearing at the Los Angeles Superior Court, which is sad and mean.
Espinosa said he liked using glitter because it is "harmless," but it is certainly not to the ego, which is why it's gone from a fun thing to do to a serious offense. Assholes Gingrich and Huckabee argued glitter bombs should constitute "assault," and while this is obviously stupid, even acknowledging that glitter can scratch your corneas if it gets in your eyes, a University of Colorado-Denver student who attempted to glitter Romney in was arrested and charged with disturbing the peace and throwing a missile.
The latter, more serious charge was ultimately dismissed, as were suggestions that the student, Peter Smith, might be expelled; initially he stated publicly that he didn't regret what he'd done, but he later retracted it—probably because what he'd done also got him fired from his internship at Colorado's Democratic Senate, not because he felt bad for humiliating a politician who deserved it.
No one knows how to have any fun around here. This increased seriousness is not the only reason power of the glitterati is likely diminished for the election; to mix metaphors slightly, the shiny novelty of the gesture has worn off.
Nevertheless, a pro-choice activism organization called Glitter Bombs for Choice unites the glitter bomb with ShipYourEnemiesGlitter: the group mails glitter-filled cards and envelopes to pro-life politicians like Nebraskan representative Jeff Fortenberry, whose aides bore the brunt of a glitter bomb this March. Although Fortenberry was in DC when his office received the offending package, the group's message was heard sparkly and clear; an accompanying note read , "Congrats, you've earned this for trying to deny women their right to choice.
Mind your own uterus. She was peddling the plebeian plastic kind, not the glass version, at least. A similar but more utilitarian project exists in these Etsy glitter pills , which purport to be "not meant for consumption" and yet strongly, temptingly contradict that warning in a form that suggests they will have you shitting novelty. These cases don't seem like selfish capitalists manipulating the dollar-eyed masses but rather like get-rich-quick schemes in which all parties are as mesmerized by potential profits as you are when you go to the cupcake place and see one with gold flake on it.
It's stupid, it's pointless, but it's also kind of irresistible. In a group of Belgian scientists posited that our attraction to shiny things is evolutionarily rooted in our attraction to water. Although our attraction to sparkle and its cheap manufactured manifestation was perhaps originally about attraction, glitter's long-running connection to the feminine and queer has given the substance a significance that few could describe as tacky. Sign In Create Account.
This story is over 5 years old. The History of Glitter. We traced the substance from cave paintings to glitter bombs to Mariah Carey's blockbuster flop.
Is sparkle tacky, a force for political change, or somewhere in the middle? September 14, , pm. In Clothing. In Makeup. The Mariah Carey Movie. It's Annoying. According to this article from "The Huffington Post," the company he founded remains one of the industry's largest in the United States to this day. According to this Reddit AMA answered by a guy who worked in a glitter factory , the color is applied to a sheet of plastic polymer that is glued to a sheet of reflective material, such as aluminum.
The new sheet goes into a rotary crusher and the result is glitter in small pieces of identical size. The smaller the glitter, the longer it takes to make because there are more cuts needed.
According to this article by Mental Floss, for some time the US Air Force used a military strategy called "chaff," which consisted of releasing glitter from the back of warplanes to confuse the radar of enemy forces. The UK also tried a similar trick to fool German radar, using strips of aluminum-coated paper. Fingernails: To remove glitter nail polish, moisten a cotton ball with acetone, place it on the nail, secure it with an elastic band or wrap it with tinfoil, and leave it there for a few minutes.
The acetone will practically melt away most of the polish that's sticking the glitter to the nail, which makes removal very easy. The face: According to makeup artist Hannah Levy Nunes, when you're applying makeup and get glitter in an area where you don't want it, the quickest way to get it off is by using adhesive tape.
Try to use tapes specifically meant for the skin, such as a micropore medical tape, for example. If the glitter is on your person, you can unstick it with oil on a cotton ball. Pro-tip, via Glamour : You can use either a cotton ball soaked in acetone and secured around your fingertips with aluminum foil for as long as it takes to remove the stuff, or try a felt pad soaked in nail polish remover; evidently, the felt is rougher and more durable than just regular cotton.
Remember in , when microbeads , those tiny, supposedly exfoliating beads that come in face washes, came under fire? The beads, made of plastic, are too small to be filtered out by water treatment plants, so they end up in lakes and rivers where they are eaten by unsuspecting fish. Eventually, environmentalists called for bans and several companies stopped using them.
Glitter is similar. But since people still want sparkle, companies are working on ways to satisfy that need without harming the environment. Manufacturers on the consumption end, such as distinctively-scented soaps company Lush, have started using biodegradable glitter made from synthetic mica in their bath products.
There is glitter that you are allowed to eat, but this glitter comes with its own warnings and can be confusing. Just make sure you read the labels, or you know—sparkle poo. Forensic pathologists love the stuff. In , for example, a Fairbanks, Alaska man, Michael Alexander, was convicted of the abduction and murder of year-old Kathy Stockholm after glitter found on her body was linked to glitter found in his car and homes.
Wikipedia claims that between and , more than 10 million pounds of glitter were purchased, but at first blush, this fact seems suspicious. If cities and towns each bought that much for their celebrations, that would be around 31, pounds for one holiday event alone.
Well, yes. Glitter bombing first became a thing in , when Nick Espinosa, a gay rights activist, dumped a Cheez-Its box full of glitter all over erstwhile presidential candidate Newt Gingrich and his wife. But while glitter-bombing is more annoying than it is threatening, authorities took a dim view of the protest: In , a Denver college student who tried to nail Mitt Romney with a fistful of blue glitter pleaded guilty to disturbing the peace ; he only narrowly avoided being charged with a more serious crime of throwing a missile.
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