The deep dive of glitter

Hello my sparkly friends!! While I'm waiting for the Glitter book to come into my library, I have been watching videos on glitter. One of the videos I have found with some information on glitter is talking about who/ what the biggest buyer of glitter is. After an interview with Glitterex there is no straight answer. They are not allowed to tell the interviewer who it is. But the worker does know who it is. There is lots of talk of who people may think it is there is talk that the biggest buyer is toothpaste brands and car paint. And the one they have found the most controversial is boat paint. All of those are great possibilities of who it could be; we so far do not have a solid answer. There have been multiple conspiracy theories that have formed from Glitterex not being able to give us a straight answer. After watching my second video there was a lot of overlapping information, but this second video also gave me so much new information. I'm going to list some of the ideas of where glitter could be that were brought up in this video. There were quite a few that surprised me but some of the top ones that made me question the people who make them are rocket fuel and explosives. They both make sense and could easily have glitter in them that we probably wouldn't notice since the average person is not normally around either of those things. There were other ideas that were brought up that just sound fake such as having glitter in food or drinks that we all consume on the daily biases. It is possible that could happen but at the same time that would be horrible just think of all the things a buildup of glitter could do in your body. But that could be the reason the main buyer of glitter wants to keep it under wraps. The number of lawsuits that would come up oh I’m having this pain it has to be the glitter right.  The creator of the second video said that consuming glitter might give us some kind of power. They did not explain what or how that would work but maybe consuming glitter is the reason we are the way we are. I highly doubt we are consuming glitter on a daily basis. At least I hope we aren't.

After watching the other two videos I wanted to know more about the conspiracy theories.  So that is exactly what I did. I found another video that talked all about the theories of glitter that was brought up. All the conspiracy theories were brought up and the topic of conversation on the internet was after a New York Times article created by Caity Weaver.  Weaver went into Glitterex to take a tour and to talk to workers of the company. She was only allowed to tour certain parts of the building. She was not allowed to be anywhere near where the glitter was being made; she couldn't hear anything or see anything. In the third documentary I watched, simply nailogical or Christine made a comment asking if the reason the reporter couldn't hear it was because it was screaming while being produced. That sounds very silly but at the same time it makes you wonder why the reporter can’t be close enough to the glitter production line to even hear it. What are they doing in there that they can’t have any other humans near it. This documentary goes into talking about what could have glitter in it. The one thing that has been brought up in every video has been toothpaste but every single person in these videos have debunked that theory saying that toothpaste brands cannot be the biggest buyer of glitter they all have their reasons with some of them being similar and some being different. In the most recent video, it was stated that what we see in toothpaste is not glitter, it is shimmer. The idea that was brought up in this video was that whoever makes money could be the biggest buyer. They go on to explain that there is about a trillion dollars rotating throughout the United States that has glitter ink on it to make it easier to not be copied. They also brought up that Canada's currency has glitter ink in it. This thought honestly makes the most sense to me. It is a good way to keep counterfeits off the streets. With the average person not knowing how to make glitter ink it would be a thousand times harder to make money that actually looked real. And with the government keeping it a secret it wouldn't come to much of a surprise to any of us. With this many loose ends it looks like I'm going to have to keep digging to see if i can find any thing new.

Hello again my sparkly friends!! Let's talk more about people that are involved in the glitter world. Someone who you may not think of any more that uses glitter a lot is simply nailogical. When you google simply nailogical you will be led to a YouTube channel of a happy go lucky person excited to talk about the newest nail tools of the time. You are probably wondering who runs the channel and that would be Cristine Raquel Rotenberg. Rotenberg used glitter in most of their nail designs. They created different ways to apply the glitter to make it last longer. They tested about different kinds to see what was the best. They even went to the extent of making their own nail polish brand, Holo Taco. Holo Taco has hundreds of different shades and has been up and running for about three years now. They are very successful. Cristine is very proud of her company and says that the only reason they are as successful as they are because of the customers. 

Hello my glittery friends!! This post is going to be a little bit different from my previous ones. I found a video on YouTube posted by iSuoChem Effect Pigment that I found to be very informative. It shows the process of how this type of glitter is made. I personally feel that this process is better understood by watching it rather than reading about it since there are so many steps that go into it. I know I would not be able to follow along if someone was writing about machine names when I have no idea what they look like or how they work. So, if you have not picked up on it yet I will be doing things how I want them to be done. Also, another fun fact about my posts that I hope you all have picked up on. I do not know how to title them so they will most likely just be getting weirder. I am also going to be adding a picture of a glitter piece that I currently have in my room. I wanted to add some sparkle to my dorm room without making too much of a mess. So, I took the cover off of my mini fridge and covered it with super glue and then dumped glitter on it just to brighten my roommate and i’s days.  

What is glitter?

Hey all my sparkly friends!! I hope you all are here ready to start the dive on all things sparkly. The first thing I am going to do is define some of the types of glitter. The type of glitter is classified by the size, shape, and color, such as metallic, holographic, iridescent, and luminous. Let's just go in the order I just listed. Metallic is relating to or resembling metal or metals. Holographic is reflecting shimmering or iridescent colors. Iridescent is showing luminous colors that seem to change when seen from different angles. Lastly luminous is full of or shedding light bright or shining especially in the dark. All these definitions are according to Dictionary.com. I have heard of most of those terms when I have shopped for glitter in the past, but I never thought to investigate what the official definition of them were. I just based my definitions from the looks of each glitter. 

My next post will be about who invented glitter and why they did. I will also be talking about the timeline of glitter. Meaning I will talk about what it was first used for and what it is used for now. According to the Oxford English Dictionary  glitter is defined as intransitive. To shine with a brilliant but broken and tremulous light; to emit bright fitful flashes of light; to gleam, sparkle. 

According to Wikipedia ``Glitter is associated with "fringe cultures", which often use excessive glitz and glamor (such as glitter) to evoke a deeper understanding between the relationships of commercialized popular culture and "high" culture, or "high-brow" art.” Now you are probably wondering what fringe culture is. I know I had the question when I first came across the term. So what I've found is  according to William Morrison “fringe culture is defined as Any group on the edge or fringes of society. Not part of mainstream culture. The goths, the hippies, and punks are/were examples of youthful groups in the past. Some are still around and are not so young anymore. Some packed it in and joined the rat-race. Some still wave their freak flags high.”. To explain that in fewer words glitter is associated with people that don't follow the mainstream culture. I hope you are just as excited as I am to dive deeper into the glitter world.