glowing hair

[egypturnash]

So that glowing hair gel I mentioned arrived the other day. It finally got used tonight.

There wasn't enough in the container to get my whole head (unless it would've thinned out a lot had I mixed it more). On the bangs it didn't really work; there's not enough hair to really hold enough to see. But on the sides, it worked! The bright pink of my hair seemed to overpower the orange of the gel. I have glowing streaks in my hair! And eerie luminous cast-off gloves in the bathroom trash.

No photos, as we don't have a working camera right now. You can only see it in the dark; the light's too faint to overpower incandescent bulbs.

I suspect this could probably be done a lot cheaper, if I knew the chemicals involved and had a source for them.

Comments

[spotweld.livejournal.com]

If you're looking for something that would glow under blacklights, wouldn't regular liquid laundry detergent do that job?
I suppose it'd be a pain to wash out, but I know it usually glows.

[zeeth_kyrah]

Yeah. That's why petroleum geologists don't wash with Tide: the stuff they're looking for also fluoresces under blacklight, so during the search to place an oil well, every now and then they'll test themselves and their clothing to see if any sludge or dust on them glows.

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

My usual hair dye (Special Effects Atomic Pink) is highly UV-reactive. This is stuff that glows without the benefit of light - it's like dipping your head in a vat of the goo inside a glowstick. Probably much the same stuff, really, except suspended in hair gel.