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I have a friend who teaches arts and crafts to women in a local jail....they have banned glitter, because it gets every where and the women like to hoard it. The sad thing is there are programs all over the country for Prisoners to make art..and still women even in the prison system art world are under represented. The men's prisons get oil paints and canvas and all sorts of supplies and the women get zilch...magazines and glue sticks....they even have to make their own envelopes...it's terrible.
And they ban glitter...what a freaking joke.
As the comedian Demetri Martin said, glitter is the herpes of craft supplies.
But still, I love it. ;) I'm a 30 year old stay-home mom with a 5 year old daughter, and we use glitter all the time. I don't care that it's permanently stuck in the cracks between the linoleum tiles. I don't care that I've found it in my lunch before. I don't care that every square inch of my house shines like Tinkerbell sneezed all over it. Glitter is fun and pretty!
i personally love glitter.
i currently have half a can of spray glitter in my hair, a ton on my clothes and skin and who knows whereelse.
yes, its messy. yes, it gets everywhere but i find it sort of amusing to randomly find glitter on the floor.
what would fairy costumes be without the glitter?
Ellen,
I remember watching one of your shows and you were talking about banning gliiter, I have to agree with that 1,000% and more. My daugher was playing with glitter sticker that her Grandmother bought her after Valentines Day. A few days later her Eye started bothering her and I took her to the Dr. last Thursday at 10:40am. Well their was something definently in her eye so they sent us to an Eye Dr. at Carnial Glennon. Finally around 2:30pm we saw the Dr. he said that it looked like a piece of plastic floating around her eye and they gave us a few options. Ok first of all my daughter is only 4 yrs old. Anyway the first option was to wrap her in a blanket and have 4 people hold her down while they take this thing out of her eye, or sedate her...Well of course I said I'd rather her be sedated rather than being tramatized. "She'll never want to go to the Dr. again" The Dr. was actually a really nice Dr. he walked us down to the ER and we waited for a room to open up. Around 5:00pm we were able to get a room and I stayed with my daughter till they sedated her and then I had to wait in the waiting room untill they were done The procedure only lasted 5 minutes ...if that, and they called me back into the room to wait till she woke up. The Dr. said it looked like a small piece of glitter that he took out of her eye. We finally left the hospital around 7:00pm that night. I'll tell you what GLITTER SUCKS!!!!! I hate it so much. That was the longest 9 hours of my life. I am so glad that my mom was there to help me out. She was very patient and I also had my 2yr old son with me too that whole day. After my daughter woke up she said that her eye felt much better. It hurts when you have an eyelash in your eye, can you imagine a pice of glitter. I am so proud of how brave my daughter was. My mom thought that it was her fault because she was the one that bought these gliiter sticker, but it could of came from anywhere, My daughter has a few shirts with glitter on them "which I'm going to throw away" and her Princess Barbie dresses have it on there too so those dresses are going in the trash also and plus she play with glitter at school, so it could of came from anywhere. I'm so glad it is done and over with. Hopefully this never happens again. I totally support the banning of glitter all the way!!!!!!!!
I just have to comment on Dan K's post.
ARE YOU SERIOUS!?!?!? Calling people that wear glitter maggots? Talking about teenage girls like that? I agree with someone else who posted about you needing help. Yes, seek therapy! You have some serious issues and I do believe that your bitterness lies deeper than a tiny sparkly thing.
Yes, I agree, it's annoying.....but you have got to be kidding me with that novel you just wrote and the content in it.
Seek help, my friend. Seek help.
oh, if you only knew how bad the glitter bothers me. i become angry if it gets on me. GLITTER IS THE DEVIL! my wife watches you all the time, and she said you wanted it banned. i am SO with you on that. just thinking about glitter gets my blood boiling. i love you, Ellen. you're a wonderful person, who does so much for people. keep it up.
sincerely,
Andrew, of Colusa, CA.
have you seen the video someone made on you tube to ellen about glitter? it's really cute and funny! just type in "a plea to ellen about glitter" or something like that...SAVE GLITTER!
wooo {{maygan3}} hahaha calm down its just glitter
theres no need to put down people over glitter!!
yea some are obsessed and some are not...
whats the big deal people are different i myself
like glitter but im not going to argue about it
to someone who does not like glitter....just
respect other people dislikes and likes...
kelly
Tucson,Az
wow lets not get too overheated about glitter. Whats really sad is that you people actually are arguing over glitter when it was just a simple question to begin with, and people have their own opinions... i personally like glitter and embelishments that sparkle... I guess Im one of the many who enjoy the look of it under the light. You honestly meghan(or w/e ur name is) have no life if you actually can feud over something as little as glue... everyones different... accept it... we all do, maybe you should start too...put downs is whats ruining our country...
i really can not believe some of you!! i never thought of glitter as anything but glitter! some of you people are seemingly OBSESSED with it-- i mean with the hatred of it-- to "dan k" who commented. i am so serious when i say , you need a doc. i can not believe the way you go on and on and i was astonished when i read your passionate comments of glitter! its hysterical but you are unreal! it doesnt hurt anything you nut case! i can imagine what you are like if you run into an ACTUAL problem in life!! good luck "dan k"
Some people think our bags are the perfect way to carry and share their hand made cards- others think that they would be better with glitter and all sorts of embellishments on the outside of the bags. For me, glitter is more about the fun-then the result. However, you might get a chance to see one of our bags with a "great" result-tomorrow at the taping. Glitter may be our best look. I love what you do-your great comedy and smiling face has to be empowering to everyone! paula Krieger/president/dailywindow products, inc.
Maybe we should have a "design your own bag demonstration" with some of the HDTV design team on your show and do a give away.
....anyone on here that said that glitter should be banned is a freaking moron and should educate themselves further. There are over 100 things that cause serious injury in this country and more than half of them can kill, and you're arguing that about glitter and how it doesn't come off anything; go spend your time doing something worth wild. Yes, I understand that it can be a pain in the butt, but seriously, out of all the things you could be doing you're arguing about glitter; obviously you don't know how used glitter is. Go do research, find out, and you'll know that glitter will never be banned in America unless our president, congress, and everybody else hates glitter.
Dear Ellen,
I love glitter! I love the way it sparkles and makes everything look pretty...makes a spray painted gold macaroni jewerly box go from a toxic boxed treat to something magical!
What would Christmas be without glitter? How about New Years Eve? And Marti Gras?!!
Besides, I think that glitter is a gay food group (I should know : )...that's like, 1/5th of a drag queen's make up...1/3rd of a pride float...oh no!!!
I love glitter and I love me some Ellen too...PLEASE DON'T MAKE ME CHOOSE!!!
I can see that the corporations have gotten completely out of control! Who needs glitter in your toothpaste or especially deoderant...and yes they did completely over saturate the market with glitter in things...that is so sad...
But glitter is beautiful...makes things sparkle!
I could not live without it!
I have noticed also that for people that do not like it...it stays with them...heheheee.....
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Your_thoughts_glitter.. Bang-up :)
Posted by ellen.warnerbros.com | April 20, 2011 4:10 AM