Glow Powder Cuttings and Tattoos

[robt]

Glowzilla is just awesome.

[Hallic]

Thanks!

[Pilgrimsmaster]

thought I should get the attention of

@LordSethos2000
@Coma
to this thread
Who like Glow-y things

and provide an awesome example

[Hallic]

Update: Had to redo the Tron ISO anyway, so also refreshed Glowzilla the other day.
Peeling off the bandage pulled out some of the glow powder on the smaller scales (blurry pic, sorry), cleaned, wetted it down with woundwash spray, repacked and spread it around (turned a lil soupy) and re-bandaged.

That stuff is hard to clean off without making a huge mess, especially with only half the use of a hand.

[aixre]

I didn’t DIY this one, so I can’t really advise. The ones I’ve done myself have turned out wider and not consistently glowy.

[Not]

@packetauditor

Any tips for getting a nice clean line like this?

This is secondhand knowledge with barely any personal experience, but here’s a few I’ve picked up being very close friends with multiple tattoo artists and living with someone with a pretty interesting slurry of medical training:

1- With a surgical pen, pre-draw the line first. If you can’t freehand that, use some form of stencil.
2- Use a proper scalpel (sharp)
3- Try to cut in as few lifts as possible. Almost every time you bring the blade back down, you’re unlikely to hit exactly where you ended, so just minimize the lifts.

[Bosukoex]

I just ordered a few bags. I can’t wait!

[Hallic]

Pretty much whatever I try is making it worse. This is the 3rd time I’ve re-bandaged and each time it’s pulling more and more powder out of the cuts. Was given some information about not doubling up on bandaging so trying it with just a soupy mess of powder and sterile lube under Saniderm this time.

Aspen is stupidly dry, been around 20% humidity for the last couple weeks out here. Pretty sure I’ll have to redo both Glowzilla and my Tron ISO tats after they heal up anyway, so it’s basically a dry-environment experiment at the moment.

[packetauditor]

After a terrible DIY attempt, I am going to have to go to a professional.

I am debating an xGlow over the powder since it is basically foolproof. Does a glow powder scar actually charge up well from the sun and glow decently when you walk into a dim room compared to the xGlow? I don’t see myself charging it on purpose too often, so it charging on its own would be a significant factor for me.

[amal]

I think it will depend on where you put the xGlow and what sort of tissue your body has in that location.

xGlow Now Available!

Sorry for filming on a potato … the autofocus fucked me once I turned on the UV light and I didn’t notice. Thankfully we don’t care about fine detail here, only lumosity over time. This is a green xGlow next to a sample of our green glow powder. To me it looks like the first 20 mins or so has a similar brightness profile… the powder might be at a slight advantage, but if I was smart I would have limited the amount of powder to the same approximate volume as the xGlow … I do think the sim…

The aim of the glow powder is to remain in the epidermis, the topmost layer of living tissue, to maximize exposure and allow maximum illumination. The xGlow is much deeper than this, so ambient light charging will probably only be possible in direct sunlight, and only if installed in an area that is “thin skinned”. Some people have very little tissue on the back of their hands - they can see a lot of vasculature and any implants placed there are very visible. My hands aren’t like this at all, they hide my implants very well. YMMV.

[Not]

Okay, I have:

-Le Powder (AW Blue)
-Wound wash
-Tegaderm
-Various Gauze pads, wraps, med-tape etc

Amazon Cart:

-Scalpels (#10)
-Surgical Pens (0.5 and 1.0 mm)
-Hydrocolloid Bandages

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Tell me what else is going in my amazon cart tonight (please).

[aixre]

Sorry if this is late, but #11 scalpels are easier to get good corners with & I think some people use #15 as well.

[Not]

Yeah, 10a would have been my preference, but oh well, too late now

[Not]

Let’s see if it takes.

I almost feel like it was bleeding too much?
I rubbed it in for like 2 minutes until the bleeding more or less stopped, adding powder whenever too much fell away.

20 hour micro update:

Goddamn I forgot how much tegaderm fucking itches after a couple hours.

I think that I’m going to very carefully leave this open air for 15 minutes after cleaning to give myself a break. Then I’ll slap on one of those hydrocolloid bandages with a couple small dots of triple antibiotic ointment on and skip the tegaderm and compression bandage until I go to bed.

[Yewspine]

@mrln That’s really nice, I love how it looks ! I have a few questions if I may ask, I discovered bodymoding and biohacking recently so I’m a completely newbie. When you’re speaking about “ a cut “ are we speaking a literal profound cut ? Or much more like tattoo cut which is more on the surface of the skin ? Also, if you asked a professional to…. glow you ? ( I don’t know if there is a technical term for that ), did you ask for a tattooer or a body piercer ? Also, does those glow powder ran out eventually ? Like, you need to actually refresh the product in order to keep it effective ?

Sorry for the questions, but anyway this looks really cool ! I can’t wait to see what other people did with this powder !

[Not]

I’m no mrln, but hopefully this answers some of your questions until he or somebody else with more knowledge responds:

@Yewspine

if you asked a professional to…. glow you ? ( I don’t know if there is a technical term for that ), did you ask for a tattooer or a body piercer ?

I’m unsure who worked on mrln or if he did it himself, but generally you’d want somebody who is either a professional scarifier or somebody who does these ‘glow scars’ regularly. Alternatively you could go my route to do it yourself.

@Yewspine

does those glow powder ran out eventually ? Like, you need to actually refresh the product in order to keep it effective ?

I’m unsure if you’re asking if it glows indefinitely or if the powder just stops working, but I’ll answer both-- The glow powder itself glows for maybe 5-20 minutes depending on conditions and is recharged with UV (like from a flashlight or the sun), and from what I’ve heard the powder will last 10+ years under normal conditions.

[Yewspine]

Thank you for the answer ! I don’t think there is professional scarifier around France, so I guess I will go for the DIY road, any advice about the sterilization or the process ? ( If you don’t feel safe about giving this kind of advice, I can wait don’t worry )

I’m unsure if you’re asking if it glows indefinitely or if the powder just stops working

I meant, does the product ran out, or stop working after a certain amount of charge/discharge ? Like most of the chemicals will stop reacting after a certain amount of time, or “ use “. So I guess after 10 years I’ll need to replace the product ?

[Not]

@Yewspine

any advice about the sterilization

I’m sure others will be able to go into much more detail, but it pretty much boils down to “clean everything you will touch during the process including yourself” then don’t touch anything unclean. Use a sterile field, use sterile tools (ie packaged or autoclaved) etc. The powder comes sterile.

@Yewspine

or the process

Tbh this was my first time so I don’t even know if this will take properly haha. Let me…~ @mrln @Satur9 ~

@Yewspine

So I guess after 10 years I’ll need to replace the product ?

I think I asked this before. Let me find the response I got…

@mrln

That depends on the amount of UV radiation and some other factors.

What I found in several resources is that it will start to get slightly dimmer after like 5 to 20 years.

@Spyfoxls had one for over 10 years and it has not really gotten any dimmer yet.

The skin does a good job with UV protection, so it should last really long.

[Aliverall]

@Yewspine

So I guess after 10 years I’ll need to replace the product ?

I saw somewhere that you can expect it to lose some glow, but it’s like 20% in 10 years. If not less. It may depend on exposure and stuff. However, I would happily go over it after a couple of year with new product if I had to. That’s good enough lifetime to me comparing to other stuff out there.

[Yewspine]

@Not

Tbh this was my first time so I don’t even know if this will take properly haha. Let me

Oh ok, I’d like to see the result you get if you’re ok with it ! And thanks too for the link to the other thread

@Aliverall

I saw somewhere that you can expect it to lose some glow, but it’s like 20% in 10 years. If not less

Indeed that’s pretty negligible, just renew it if it really loss it glow sounds like a reasonable plan, thank you !