Re: GEMS: STICK ON VS SPIRIT GUM?

by saloner on Mon Oct 24, 2011 6:17 am

What is EKD? IS THAT SHORT FOR SOMETHING?

by saloner on Mon Oct 24, 2011 6:32 am

I went to AC Moore. There is one over 2,000 miles from me, so ordering online is what i will have to do......I want to start out using "diamond" looking gems. but what size should I use for say a childs forehead 4mm,5mm,6mm,or 8mm. I don't know this for of measurement. Can someone help me out. I want to use it as the center piece for just above the brows. What size would you use? I think if I got them too small, it would be a waste of money.

by Miss Ronnie on Mon Oct 24, 2011 8:59 am

I don't care for too big of a gem...especially on a little girl. The biggest I use...and I don't use it very often is just a little bigger than a pea. On little girls I mainly use small gems on anything princessy, mermaidish, the head of a butterfly or to embellish an eye design. Kids can't help but touch them (it's in their genes!) and they will come off if you play with them too much... so using a large one is too tempting for them... you can't afford to replace the larger ones when they walk up to you with teary eyes and tell you they lost their jewel...

But the package in Wal-Mart offers all different sizes...and like I said, $4.96... That's a better deal than paying shipping and handling for anything online.

by saloner on Tue Oct 25, 2011 8:12 am

so what do you attach these gems with? They fall off easily huh? Once you put (I think eye lash adhesive) the glue on, how long do you wait until it is secure? And does it adhere to the paint? I think it would be a waste of time to paint the design and then take a Q tip to remove the paint where the gem goes. Any ideas?

by Indigo Colors on Tue Oct 25, 2011 12:58 pm

MommaKat wrote:Is there any type of adhesive that comes off with water like face paint? I'm hesitant to add any bling to my designs (except for my own kids!) because I'd hate to have to explain to the parents that they'll need rubbing alchohol or something to remove it? Is that a weird thought?? lol

There is

Kryolan Hydro Mastix...based on water so you can use this with children and it comes of with water. The normal mastix you have to remove with mastix remover and is not really suitable for children.

by Ester K-D on Tue Oct 25, 2011 6:53 pm

Chuckle

....I'm EKD or formally E K-D (first name Ester....the K-D are the initialls of my hyphenated last name! Smile

)
If you have a walmart close...check them out. I don't recomment the sets of gems where there are quite small ones as part of the set...unless you have the patience to use them on yourself (for advertising) etc. The "size of a pea" given is probably a good example...at least 1/4" accross/ 3/4cm ...anything smaller is awkward to handle and doesn't show up well. You can certainly use 'several' gems...but FPs must be time wise. I like the ones that are stuck to a plastic sheet (no tiny backing to try to peel off). I've even had these work quite well on slightly damp paint but a dab with kleenex will assure that the tiny spot is dry...and they stick quite well (kids - being kids...if they touch/play with it enough it will come off!...I use my smaller gems for 'replacements' if one is lost). Even dollar stores have some of this bling for scrapbooking! Try these first!! Good Luck! bounce

by fesspenter on Tue Oct 25, 2011 7:26 pm

The weird tip of the week:
My youngest daughter Holland retrieved a capsule of squishy goo shaped like a flat gelatinous hand from one of those claw machines at the arena where she plays hockey. She was torturing the family with it before dinner...slap/grabbing her sisters' homework papers, throwing it at the wall and watching it momentarily stick and then yanking it off with much pleasure at the disgusting shlorpy noise as it let go of the wall. Holland threw it toward me and my facepaint practice head and got me with it. That was it. I peeled it off my face and said, "Thank you! It's MINE now.". I tossed it toward my open container of Swarovski crystals and little jewels we use for Facepainting at SickKids hospital. The squishy hand had jewels stuck to it. I picked up the squishy hand and realized it makes the most perfect applicator for those teeny, tiny little jewels. I squeeze out a tiny blob of non-latex eyelash glue and then I plop one of the crystals into the glue.
The gelatinous squishy hand resides in my FatMax. It works, in spite of the fact it is missing it's middle finger due to a FatMax accident.
I believe the squishy hands are available at hockey arenas with claw machine everywhere. When it gets disgustingly covered in fluffy scum from my case, I wash it with mild dish detergent and it becomes squishy & sticky again.
Lisa
fesspenter

by Ester K-D on Tue Oct 25, 2011 7:34 pm

Lisa...that is hysterical (these things are available at the dollar store too - especially now they sell ones that are in the shape of little bloody footprints). You are a grand example of 'mother of invention'....you can make useful (litterelly) anything thrown at you!! Very Happy

by elantaura on Tue Oct 25, 2011 9:51 pm

that is genius but untill i get a sticky hand of foot I used a ds stylus. i touch the tip with prosaide very lightly it remains tacky for some time/applications then pick up gem with it place on head etc. my version of the sticky pen also learned when the kids placed the ds on table as I was packing away glitter tattoos and cleaning up.

by fesspenter on Tue Oct 25, 2011 11:14 pm

Dear Elantaura:
The DS stylus sounds like a more professional tool than my gelatinous squishy hand. I believe you have saved a lot of face painters from hanging out at hockey arenas and bowling alleys, commandeering the claw machine looking for those squishy thingies. Thank you so very much.
I was thinking of cutting off another one of its fingers and using only that to apply the jewels. I worry that Holland will ask for her squishy hand back and it's already missing one finger. I just can't do it.
A DS stylus would be cheaper to purchase than putting toonies into the claw machine. Also, I would be able to get a receipt and write it off. Claw machines don't give receipts.
Thank you!
Lisa
fesspenter

by elantaura on Tue Oct 25, 2011 11:48 pm

Dear Lisa Fesspainter,
Although the DS stylus dose appear more professional, I feel that the giant sticky hand may have is advantage for mass application of gems in a simple wack of the client. And the ds stylus has a tendancy to be embezzeled buy children who live in the proximity who have misplaced there stick.
when you find said child I sugest the sticky hand full of gems to teach the child a lesson.
I suspect the stick hand may alot be very good for glitter spills an fetching bling on the far corner of table. without the need to move from chair.
I feel the two may work well together, and strongly suggest both!

Sue
A.K.A Elantaura

by summers4seasons on Wed Oct 26, 2011 8:35 am

You ladies crack me up!!!!

I love my sticky pen from Michaels, however I have heard that a regular bday candle can be used bottom side down. Apparently the was has just enough "stick" to pick them up. Plus they are small and readily available.

I know it sounds time consuming to dot off the paint, but it really only takes a few seconds (yes, every second counts!). I use a damp qt, place the tip where I want my gem and spin. If I am using a multigem scrapbook sticker I only clean off 2-3 dots for the whole thing depending on the shape. I find they just don't stick when I apply them on top of paint, even dry paint. It would be great to find a glue that does stick on top of paint!!

by a face painting mom on Sat Nov 05, 2011 3:07 pm

The drag queens use a glue stick for brows all the time! If you watch their vids, I love to see how they do makeup! At first, I was sort of perplexed, and after I saw so many people using it, I figured that it probably is not such a big deal in the long run. I have not used any, but thought aobut it this halloween, for brows on my china doll, who needed really high brows. I let it go. Maybe next time!