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the herpes of the craft world — once it's on you, it's forever
means To shine with a bright, broken, sparkling light; or the tiny flecks of reflective material that scatter that shine everywhere they touch.
from From Middle English 'gliteren,' borrowed from Old Norse 'glitra,' meaning to shine. It belongs to a big shimmering Germanic family of 'gl-' words — glint, gleam, glisten, glow — all huddled around an old Indo-European root for brightness. The craft-store confetti sense is a much later spin-off, naming the stuff after the light it throws.
- forensic foe
- Nearly impossible to fully remove from crime scenes
- microplastic
- Most glitter is tiny pieces of etched aluminum plastic
- origins
- Invented by a cattle rancher grinding scrap plastic in 1934
- banned
- Some countries moved to outlaw plastic glitter entirely
- identity
- Manufacturers refuse to reveal who buys the most
burning man festival — approximately 70,000 people cover themselves in glitter annually in nevada's black rock desert
see sparkles body glitter — iconic brand that dominated the 1990s-2000s with pressed glitter compacts sold at claire's stores
drag race makeup tradition — ru paul's drag race contestants use industrial quantities of glitter as standard performance makeup since 2009