Getting Glitter out of Garb

[LadyStitch]

I typically don't like body glitter because it get's EVERYWHERE, but it looks great on faries. (One of my friends calls it the STD of the craft world, OY!)
Anyway, my director for my vampire show decided his vampires needed to "sparkle"    LSS, I now have a washing machine full of both men's and woman's clothing that are just covered in body glitter.  The body glitter got on everyone and everything!

How do you recomend that we get it out of everything?

[DonaCatalina]

eHow to the rescue
http://www.ehow.com/how_2311172_remove-body-glitter-from-clothing.html

[Adriana Rose]

Vaccume it off?

When all else fails send it to the cleaners then plot a painful death for the person who desided that vampires need to sparkle

[mehan]

Oh please - no one let Ewan know it is even POSSIBLE to try to get glitter out of garb (or the car, the cooler, the living room rug, his baseball glove, the cat......) its taken me years to get him to reconciled to having glitter everywhere in his life

[CenturiesSewing]

I recently washed a shirt with a glitter design on it in my normal load of washing (opps) and my jeans looked like a fairy had rolled everywhere on them.

I sent the load through the dryer a few more times to help shake the excess off, the lint trap helped catch a lot of it.
That most likely isn't an option with body glitter as that is much more fine a grade.

A Giant sticky lint roller and a lot of time? And then bill your director for Traumatic Glitter Stress. 

[LadyStitch]

They took lint rollars to it before we took it to the cleaners.  My cleaning bill on just the 4 vampire dresses is $25 bucks. If I have to add in the 8 long coats, 8 pairs of black paints, waist coats, and other garb to the cleaners we are pushing $150-200!!!

When we designed the show we made the rule that these were Dracula/nasferatu vampires NOT twilight vampires , they do not SPARKLE.  So no body glitter.  Well the director changed his mind due to audience pressure.  As for the director who's idea was, he is currently dealing with a mouth full of stitches from oral surgery. (No that wasn't my doing. )  I think he is currently in enough pain as it is, so hurting him over Tramatic Glitter stress doesn't seem fair.

I have to say it was funny razzing the guys about how their heavily gel'd hair has hunks of body glitter in it.  Wonder where they have been.....

[DonaCatalina]

I would say the director needs to pick up the cleaning tab.

[gypsylakat]

First of all:
Your plight could be worse....
http://www.shitmykidsruined.com/2010/09/02/glitter-the-herpes-of-craft-supplies/

What about a hair dryer? OR a leaf blower...
roll tape over it? stickier than hair rollers removers?

[arbcoind]

"Sh*t my kids ruined".  I love it!  But wait?  Who bought the glitter?  Mom?
Gina

[Capt. Morgan]

Oh please - no one let Ewan know it is even POSSIBLE to try to get glitter out of garb (or the car, the cooler, the living room rug, his baseball glove, the cat......) its taken me years to get him to reconciled to having glitter everywhere in his life

*snerk* Damn "Fairy Snot" is even in my office at work...how it got there I have NOOOOOOOOOO idea....

[dragongirl]

The best way to remove the Devil's Dust from clothing it too wash it on water as hot as it can stand.  You should only wash 3 or 4 pieces at a time with the washer on super load to get as much water a possible to float the glitter out.  You might also have to add a product called Disolvo.  Good Luck!  because I've had glitter enbedded in my kitchen table from an Easter Egg Dye Kit for about 20 years. 

[LadyStitch]

Belive it or not the cleaners got most of it out.  I managed to keep very little of it in my house, thankfully.  My actors are taking meaures to limit how much they are putting on., and spreading it. 

I did ONE dress that had glitter on it, but since then my ironing board is COVERED in glitter.  Some of it is still  getting onto outfits but not as bad as it first was.  YESH....

[Tammy]

My boyfriend calls it Dehydrated Fairy Piss...cause when you shake Tinkerbell it falls from her bottom!!

[Tink]

My boyfriend calls it Dehydrated Fairy Piss...cause when you shake Tinkerbell it falls from her bottom!!

LOL  poor Tink

[NoBill Lurker]