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Lush bath bomb and glitter = trouble.

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JazzieJeff · 26/04/2011 13:47

I've got glitter in my lady garden. It isn't coming out. Ive tried everything, hopping in the shower, towelling it vigourously, it's not cutting it.

It was one of those royal wedding bath bombs with ticker tape and festive glitter in it. I was enjoying it ever so much up until I started washing, and discovered to my dismay that the glitter went much further than previously anticipated. The stuff is hanging on for dear life. Its like having shiney crabs. (not that ive ever had crabs, but if they were shiney, I bet this is what they'd look like).

For God's sake I thought I'd spruce myself up on my afternoon off to look nice for DH when he gets back from work. Instead, I've got some sort of accidental vajazzle.

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Computermouse · 27/04/2011 22:51

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JazzieJeff · 27/04/2011 22:49

Yes! I shall have fellow pound shop vajazzlers! You can tweet me @JazzyMcJeff and follow my hideous glittery progress....

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CatPower · 27/04/2011 22:41

Is it wrong that some friends on Twitter and I are planning on buying the street party bath bombs and self-vajazziling in solidarity with JazzieJeff's predicament?

hab35 · 27/04/2011 22:11

Okay not strictly relevant but I am loving this thread and felt the need to share.... You know that lovely edible cake glitter you get? Well, I discovered from my 2-year-old's nappies that it may well be edible, but is not digested, so it also gives you a glittery bottom & glittery poos when it comes out the other end!

naturalbaby · 27/04/2011 19:38

what about the wipes you get with home waxing kits? baby lotion and baby wipes are famed for removing anything and everything, got either of those in the house?
just noticed my lush shower gel seems to have glitter in the bottle but not noticed it on my body yet, think i'm due for a glitter explosion when i get to the end of the bottle.
i do like the thought of giving Dh shiny disco balls [csmile]

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JazzieJeff · 27/04/2011 19:23

I have tried the hairdryer laweasel, yesterday. I think I may need to get up close and personal with a mirror and some tweezers. Oh Lordy...

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LaWeasel · 27/04/2011 19:17

I don't know if this is silly, but maybe you could try and dry out your skin with a hairdryer and then pad them off with a pit of slightly damp kitchen roll...

Evenstar · 27/04/2011 19:13

Thank you for this I have just started a new job at a day nursery and came in feeling shattered, I have laughed so much at this thread and feel much better now!

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JazzieJeff · 27/04/2011 19:02

Oh yes, waxing strips. I don't have any of those though, and I'm DS is upstairs asleep so I can't pop out. Would sellotape have the same effect/be sticky enough?

tits how unnerving....

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TitsalinaBumSquash · 27/04/2011 18:53

It's funny you should say this OP, I got really drunk the other night and woke up covered in glitter, my bed was covered to, I am yet to find the source..

SoupDragon · 27/04/2011 18:50

One of those sticky lint rollers? Waxing strips?

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JazzieJeff · 27/04/2011 18:46

buggerlugs you are welcome

Seriously though, there must be some sort of product for glitter removal from body parts? I'm not actually joking now, more people than I must have had this problem. I'm going to the doctors tomorrow and am beginning to consider bringing it up. I've got a smear test next week and I'd really rather not be sporting my shiney crabs.

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buggerlugs82 · 27/04/2011 18:14

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Becaroooo · 27/04/2011 18:03

I use a sieve

LaurieFairyCake · 27/04/2011 16:12

I used one of the gold glittery ones around Christmas. Dh went into work the next day with glitter in his moustache and goatie. He had to pretend he was making Christmas cards with dd rather than confess to his year 11's he was er .......

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JazzieJeff · 27/04/2011 15:57

soupdragon that's the best idea ever. I may well do that when I use my disease infested (see above posts) seaweed bath bomb.

teebee unfortunately it's not just in my pubes; it's on the skin surrounding it too and seems to be particularly attracted to recently shaved parts. It's like it's superglued on. I even tried scratching at the glitter earlier but to no avail.

kreecher hats off to you. Your plant blows my glitter tale of woe clean out the water was it some sort of cress plant, perhaps? Those grow awfully quickly. I grew some in preschool on some damp cotton wool in three days.

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SoupDragon · 27/04/2011 12:31

What sort of plant was it BTW?

SoupDragon · 27/04/2011 12:30

You know those hundreds of little bags you have stuffed in a drawer... the ones that came with the washing powder tablets...? Put the bath bomb in one before putting it in the bath. It catches all the seaweed/confetti/petals (but not glitter)

TeeBee · 27/04/2011 12:27

Could you use a nit comb?

Becaroooo · 27/04/2011 12:24

Becaroooo · 27/04/2011 12:23

kreecher

That is, quite possibly, the funniest thing I have ever read on MN

Thank you!

LaWeasel · 27/04/2011 12:23

hahaha!!

The plant is amazing!

I got a lush box last christmas but gave it away (I have allergies so only use certain products and cba to discover if lush is okay or not) starting to think I was very lucky!

kreecherlivesupstairs · 27/04/2011 12:17

I recently related our Lush disaster on here. DD convinced me to buy her a bit of lush soap. It had seeds in it. A couple of weeks later, our plughole grew a long grassy plant. It was impossible to get rid of it so I used to cut it back every couple of days.
[Wonders if new tenants in our old flat have managed to destroy the plant]

HeidiKat · 27/04/2011 12:08

I got a lush gift box for christmas, the bath bombs were fine they were the non glittery kind, but I've only just got round to using the soap bar that was in it and it's a PITA. It's bright orange and every time anyone uses it, it leaves bright orange stains all over the white sink, I am sorely tempted to throw it out but I know they are expensive and it came from my brother who never has much money so it seems a bit mean.

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JazzieJeff · 27/04/2011 07:41

soupdragon don't do it to yourself!

Took ds to nursery this morning and kept noticing bits of glitter in his hair. Just popped back home and there's a kind of baby snow angel type shape of glitter on his mattress where he'd been in the night

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