Glitter Dot experiment.

[GlitterDot]

AIBU to ask for some lab assistants, to help me with a groundbreaking experiment. I propose that the expensive Glitter Dots, are just plasticine mixed with glitter. I have done some pretty high tech lab work so far, but lack an actual Glitter Dot for the blind trials.

The best results are using the same colour plasticine and glitter, the finer the glitter, the better.

The photo shows a sample group, a silver glitter, and a mix of blue fine and course glitter.

I'm not saying we will get a Nobel prize for this work....but it's highly likely.

Crosses Thevolturis name out of my Nobel acceptance speech.

I think you're going to just have to shag the ceo of crayola and get a lifetime supply of glitter dots.

I want his secrets, TheVolturi, not his dots!

I think shagging will still work 🤣

I really enjoyed a trip around the Crayola factory - I didn't see any glitter dots though to steal any secrets. I did put a label on a crayon... back to front.

I'm stunned that nobody is rushing to to tests for me 😭, do you people have lives or something!?

You can soften plasticine by mixing in vaseline

We like glitter dots in this house. Definitely not playdoh. It’s more like the tacky but mouldable glue dots that you get when free shit is stuck to the front of a magazine. Or how PVA goes if you leave it out for several days.

Interesting @Firsttimecatlady. I wonder if I could mix glue in with my diy-dots to give them some tackiness?

I'm beginning to think I might be further away from The Truth about Glitter Dots, and plasticine isn't the secret answer. I'd like to promise not to give up and strive onwards, but....even I have slightly better stuff to be getting on with 😄

It's been a long bloody lock down hasn't it?

Whatever do you mean, @Laiste 😅. I refuse to believe that vital scientific work involving glitter dots is a low point of my life!!

Apologies for derailing the science, but I really dislike the word opaque. I feel like it should mean the opposite.

@Firsttimecatlady

We like glitter dots in this house. Definitely not playdoh. It’s more like the tacky but mouldable glue dots that you get when free shit is stuck to the front of a magazine. Or how PVA goes if you leave it out for several days.

So like gloopy PVA or really thick slime?

You need to get out more.

OP, you are up there with the likes of Marie Curie. Ignore those jealous vipers. Yours is a worthy cause...

Alas, I tidied away my lab equipment. I think maybe if I added Vaseline to the plasticine, it might give it a tacky, glue like feel....if my kids get a sudden craving for the craft of squishing glittery blobs into 'art', I shall probably just buy the bloody kit 😅