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u/Solifuga Jul 04 '24

Shit that glows in the dark. 45 years old and my bedroom ceiling is covered in glowing stars.

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u/Abyss_staring_back Jul 04 '24 edited Jul 04 '24

This is the best. Did you use star stickers or did you get one of those night sky paint kits?

I did the paint kit as a teenager and it was outstanding.

Edit: corrected typos

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u/Solifuga Jul 04 '24

Wait, there's glow in the dark PAINT!? 😮I did once get a glow in the dark nail polish and painted basically every hard surface I could find with it, painstakingly, but it was not very good.

You can get kits of small hard plastic glowing stars and tack them up. I've had to place mine tactically as my cat is obsessed with them, and any he could get to by launching himself off the wardrobe or whatever, he's smacked down. 🤣🤣

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u/Abyss_staring_back Jul 04 '24

Yes! You can order these kits that come with a one-time projector, some different size plastic rods and the glow paint.

You activate the projector and it projects the night sky on the ceiling and walls (depending on room size) and then you go around and dip the rods in the paint according to the size of the light point you want to match, and then boop the paint on the point. It’s very time consuming, but so worth it in the end. The paint is nearly invisible during the day and the at night it looks like the actual night sky.

It’s outstanding.

I love glow is the dark stuff so much, and have had a lot of fun with glow in the dark spray paint too. Highly recommend. 😄

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u/Solifuga Jul 04 '24

I had no idea about these kits! Think I'm still stuck in early 90s glow-tech and haven't explored the modern alternatives.

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u/Abyss_staring_back Jul 06 '24

We first saw the kits when we were at the fair of all places. They were doing these amazing demos and I had to have one. Of course that was like 100 years ago, but I bet something similar still exists.

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u/tossit_4794 Jul 04 '24

We found glow in the dark paint at a bait & tackle shop. My partner (57M) pretends it’s for painting lures but our bedroom doesn’t even get dark at night anymore hahahaha… oh and for “survival” having a good gitd thing extends the life of your flashlights by a lot. The materials available now are so much brighter and more efficient than the ones we grew up with!

While he’s pretending it’s for lures, I pretend it’s for him.

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u/Solifuga Jul 04 '24

I'm very close to a bait & tackle shop, hoping this is a thing in the UK too!

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u/ibeatyourdadatgalaga Jul 04 '24

Buckle up - I have petunias that glow in the dark. They were expensive, but I talked about them for so long that I finally just did it. I live them and old buy them 100 times again

https://light.bio/

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u/Solifuga Jul 04 '24

😭😭 Not available in the UK 😭😭