Salem the glitter cat

September 8, 2016 12:00 PM

THIS IS WHAT FUCKING HAPPENS WHEN YOU FORGET TO RINSE THE TUB OUT AFTER USING A LUSH INTERGALATIC BATHBOMB!

He’s fine. He got a bath.

Lush glitter is made of seaweed.

posted by Lexica (64 comments total)

Glitter for YEARS.
posted by roomthreeseventeen at 12:05 PM on September 8, 2016

MAGIC SPARKLE KITTY!
posted by leotrotsky at 12:10 PM on September 8, 2016 [24 favorites]

Oh, as a parent of two little girls...

FUCK Glitter.
posted by leotrotsky at 12:12 PM on September 8, 2016 [23 favorites]

I was like "but goddamnit, what about the glitter that went down the drain?" and that maybe the cat was the best place for it. Apparently its mica not harvested by child labor because Lush, natch. It all just chills out in your P trap or something.
posted by Ogre Lawless at 12:16 PM on September 8, 2016

This is what happens when you buy a bath bomb full of glitter. Talk about predictable outcomes.
posted by tclark at 12:17 PM on September 8, 2016 [2 favorites]

And really, that is a sparkly cat.
posted by Ogre Lawless at 12:17 PM on September 8, 2016 [3 favorites]

[to the tune of Beastie Boys' "Intergalatic," roughly]

intergalactic glitter kitty
glitter kitty intergalactic
posted by griphus at 12:18 PM on September 8, 2016 [99 favorites]

This never happens when I use a glitter bath bomb.

Because I don't have a cat.
posted by taterpie at 12:18 PM on September 8, 2016 [2 favorites]

Glitter kitty is awesome. Glitter kitty did NOT need a bath.
posted by cooker girl at 12:19 PM on September 8, 2016 [14 favorites]

I maintain that glitter is the herpes of craft supplies.
posted by Sophie1 at 12:19 PM on September 8, 2016 [33 favorites]

Dear god, you should add a warning for that SO BRIGHT SO PINK background; I had to watch the video through squinted painfully weeping eyes.
posted by Greg_Ace at 12:27 PM on September 8, 2016 [3 favorites]

Why do phones even record video in portrait orientation?

Screw headphone jacks, that's the feature that should have hit the trash can many models ago.
posted by gottabefunky at 12:30 PM on September 8, 2016 [10 favorites]

Magical Kitten Glitter Rave
posted by Kabanos at 12:31 PM on September 8, 2016

I just saw this on buzzfeed. She had a few videos of it on her YouTube and damn I love it. So sparky. It's sooo pretty on that black fur and watching him roll around all proud. Uhg. Too. Damn. Cute. Like a real galaxy cat.
posted by Crystalinne at 12:33 PM on September 8, 2016 [6 favorites]

MAGIC SPARKLE KITTY!

This is right where my brain went.
posted by Going To Maine at 12:34 PM on September 8, 2016 [1 favorite]

The first and only time I ever used that particular bath bomb from Lush I got out of the tub looking like a goddamn Twilight vampire. Never again.
posted by olinerd at 12:36 PM on September 8, 2016 [13 favorites]

I feel like it was just yesterday that we were discussing the glittering of chickens on here.
posted by medeine at 12:36 PM on September 8, 2016 [1 favorite]

"...and that's the story of why there's glitter on top of the bookcase."
posted by the uncomplicated soups of my childhood at 12:43 PM on September 8, 2016 [17 favorites]

the glittering of chickens

...is, incidentally, the title of my prog-rockgrass band's latest album.
posted by Greg_Ace at 12:46 PM on September 8, 2016 [9 favorites]

That cat clearly has a sidequest for me.
posted by Mr. Bad Example at 1:21 PM on September 8, 2016 [33 favorites]

Glitter kitty is awesome. Glitter kitty did NOT need a bath.

Glitter kitty agrees that he did not need a bath.
posted by Johnny Assay at 1:27 PM on September 8, 2016 [2 favorites]

Salem? That crappy puppet or an actual cat?
posted by mikelieman at 1:28 PM on September 8, 2016 [1 favorite]

Lush glitter is made of seaweed.

Apparently its mica not harvested by child labor

Huh? Those are two different th—

Lush products (sparkly or not) use food-safe colourings, synthetic mica, minerals and natural starches, and even one with a seaweed base – agar agar.

Well, I'll be.
posted by Sys Rq at 1:46 PM on September 8, 2016 [3 favorites]

Yeah my wife did one of those bombs this summer unbeknownst to me and didn't rinse it out.
When I had a bath the next day I emerged with a totally sparkly ass.
posted by chococat at 1:46 PM on September 8, 2016 [8 favorites]

If glitter is the herpes of craft supplies, then yes, I want my cat to have herpes.
posted by drlith at 1:50 PM on September 8, 2016 [9 favorites]

MetaFilter: Then yes, I want my cat to have herpes.
posted by griphus at 2:00 PM on September 8, 2016 [21 favorites]

I want to be this sparkly.
posted by bracems at 2:10 PM on September 8, 2016 [1 favorite]

A Single Piece of Glitter Caused This Woman to Lose Her Eye
posted by morganw at 2:17 PM on September 8, 2016 [5 favorites]

I was all 'cool, sparkle kittty' and then morganw re-awakened my glitter-phobia. Glitter in person- NOPE.
posted by freethefeet at 2:32 PM on September 8, 2016

This is what Ke$ha's cat looks like all the time.
posted by dr_dank at 2:32 PM on September 8, 2016 [7 favorites]

Glitter on the highway.
Glitter on the bathtub.
Glitter on the kit-TAYYY....
posted by happyroach at 2:51 PM on September 8, 2016 [25 favorites]

I'd have called him Kitty Stardust only he doesn't have heterochromatic eyes.
posted by Spatch at 3:06 PM on September 8, 2016 [2 favorites]

I used a Lush bath bomb with glitter once, naively assuming that the glitter would rinse off me. It did not. My entire apartment was covered in glitter. My black cat was covered in it. My clothing was sparkly. It was EVERYWHERE. A day or two after the fateful bath, I was walking home from work and noticed, as I approached my house, that the front walkway was faintly sparkly. Yep, glitter.
posted by sarcasticah at 3:07 PM on September 8, 2016 [11 favorites]

When I was in Vegas, I decided to play a slot machine called Kitty Glitter, because cats. I did not win any of my money back, the UI made no sense, and my friends and I decided that it had been designed by cats.
posted by matildaben at 3:07 PM on September 8, 2016 [6 favorites]

This cat is magical and sparkly and wonderful and I love it. I love this cat.

Not to cuddle with though.
posted by chainsofreedom at 3:19 PM on September 8, 2016 [2 favorites]

This kitty. It glitters?
posted by vibrotronica at 3:20 PM on September 8, 2016 [8 favorites]

I use their bath bombs periodically, although I am a bigger fan of their melts -- better for dry skin. Anyway the vast majority of their bombs have no glitter, and most that do have way less glitter. I shower after the bath though and I've never had these nightmare glitterpocalypses I am hearing you all describe!
posted by taterpie at 3:41 PM on September 8, 2016 [1 favorite]

This is the stuff my nightmares are made of. I hate glitter because of its stealth. Like, if your mother sends you a birthday card with glitter affixed to it (and even though I'm in my 40s, mine still does), and you do your best to extract that birthday card very gently from its envelope, and you hold the card over the trash can while you read it -- by its corners -- so you don't get glitter on your hands and, ultimately, your face, you will still end up with at least one stray bit of glitter on your face. And then you'll be that person in the grocery store people are looking funny at, because you turn your head one way and they see a flash of glitter, then you turn your head the other way and they don't, and they sit there and wait for you to turn your head again to confirm, yep, glitter. On the forehead. She has a speck of glitter on her forehead.

If you're an introvert like I am, and you spot that bit of glitter on your forehead in the mirror after you get home from the grocery store, you will retroactively realize that yes, people WERE staring at the glitter on your forehead while you were shopping, and you will cringe inwardly and blush furiously and you will shake your fist at your mother for still sending you birthday cards with glitter glued to them.

A cat full of glitter is basically my real-life equivalent of that dream where you show up to high school and then realize you're not wearing pants.
posted by mudpuppie at 3:44 PM on September 8, 2016 [4 favorites]

Because Team Sparkles shares a deep love for all things sparkling and cats, all the sparkle-kittens are by hereby granted honorary membership to our team.
posted by Annika Cicada at 3:56 PM on September 8, 2016 [6 favorites]

If you're an introvert like I am, and you spot that bit of glitter on your forehead in the mirror after you get home from the grocery store, you will retroactively realize that yes, people WERE staring at the glitter on your forehead

Here's a secret: they're all thinking, "Man, I wish I had glitter too!"
posted by Greg_Ace at 4:02 PM on September 8, 2016 [14 favorites]

THIS IS WHAT FUCKING HAPPENS WHEN YOU FORGET TO RINSE THE TUB OUT AFTER USING A LUSH INTERGALATIC BATHBOMB!A serious well behaved young black cat

I'm imagining this as the drunken first draft scribblings after Beatrix had a tipple too many at the local pub.
posted by romakimmy at 4:16 PM on September 8, 2016 [2 favorites]

I've seent his video a bunch of places today and it just makes me wonder how many people think glitter is made of seaweed now. And how they think glitter is made from seaweed.
posted by fshgrl at 4:28 PM on September 8, 2016 [2 favorites]

Lush products (sparkly or not) use food-safe colourings, synthetic mica, minerals and natural starches, and even one with a seaweed base – agar agar.

It's just saying that Lush makes one product which has an agar agar base. It's not saying that their glitter itself is made of seaweed; the article is about how they use synthetic mica "made up of natural minerals." I don't know where the Tumblr poster got the idea that their glitter is made of seaweed (which they seem to be suggesting somehow makes it more safe?).
posted by spelunkingplato at 4:31 PM on September 8, 2016 [3 favorites]

I mean, he's a cute cat, the glitter is amusing and everything's probably fine. But I'm pretty sure it's not because of seaweed glitter.
posted by spelunkingplato at 4:34 PM on September 8, 2016

i love how the cat's all like, "IMMA ROLL IN IT SOME MORE!"
posted by indubitable at 4:46 PM on September 8, 2016 [14 favorites]

Every year I write Hallmark and say, "Please make an ovenmitt-specific Christmas tree ornament this year" and "I very much want to buy your holiday cards, but dear God in Heaven, can't we stop with the glitter already?"

MY LETTERS CONTINUE TO FALL ON DEAF GLITTER-FILLED EARS.
posted by ovenmitt at 4:54 PM on September 8, 2016 [4 favorites]

galaxy cat

I've been singing this to the tune of "Particle Man" for about an hour now...
posted by ersatzkat at 5:13 PM on September 8, 2016 [6 favorites]

Here's a secret: they're all thinking, "Man, I wish I had glitter too!"

For reals - I will ALWAYS touch the glitter thing with my hands, then rub my hands in my hair and on the tips of my ears and on my cheeks and under my chin. Gimme all the glitters...
posted by ersatzkat at 5:19 PM on September 8, 2016 [4 favorites]

I'm playing the Wicked Witch in a ballet version of the Wizard of Oz in a few months. Because the glue in pointe shoes is water soluble, we can't use water to melt me. They were very briefly considering filling a bucket with glitter and throwing that on me, and at first that sounded like an awesome idea, but then I realized what that would do to me for a very long time, and also the theater and everyone else in the show, and everyone who ever performs in that theater...

We have decided on a bucket full of tinsel instead.
posted by ChuraChura at 6:03 PM on September 8, 2016 [12 favorites]

"He’s fine. He got a bath."

I have a cat. I would never put those two sentences together.
posted by klarck at 6:05 PM on September 8, 2016 [8 favorites]

Late after the GoT closing cast party, after the after party, Ser Pounce came down from his catnip and woke up in the bathtub, covered in glitter and full of shame.
posted by Abehammerb Lincoln at 6:06 PM on September 8, 2016 [4 favorites]

Best kitty video evah, in my glittery opinion.
posted by Lynsey at 7:47 PM on September 8, 2016 [1 favorite]

Oh, cat! He doesn't realize what he's getting into! So stupid. I love you, cat!
posted by Slarty Bartfast at 8:10 PM on September 8, 2016 [1 favorite]

Glitter cat just wanted to glitter. Adorable.

I like glitter. Yes, I know it gets everywhere but I don't care. Everything shiny and glittery and sparkly all the time. But ... this will completely contradict what I just said.

I generally find the glitter levels in Lush's products to be pretty reasonable -- they tend to rinse off skin and bath surfaces fairly easily. But there was a bath melt which they don't make any more that was covered in pink glitter. I loved the scent of it. I loved the way the glitter looked in the water.

But it was sticky. It stayed everywhere all the time. I'm pretty sure I was washing glitter out of my tub for days.

I imagine that's why they don't make it anymore.
posted by darksong at 8:34 PM on September 8, 2016

So I actually needed to laugh until I couldn't breathe, and the kitty going over to roll in the tub some more did the trick. Thanks for sharing this.
posted by seyirci at 8:38 PM on September 8, 2016

Ooose a sparkly glitter kitty? Yoooou are a sparkly glitter kitty, yes you are! 😻😻😻😻😻
posted by halcyonday at 11:49 PM on September 8, 2016 [1 favorite]

Inadvertent glitter cat, meet lemon-scented sticky bat.
posted by MsMolly at 12:15 AM on September 9, 2016 [4 favorites]

That glitter cat looks like a night full of stars!
posted by colfax at 4:36 AM on September 9, 2016 [3 favorites]

i watched the video like 5 times and then came home from work last night to find my cat's white face and neck completely bright yellow

she'd rubbed her face on some flowers that had a lot of pollen but really i think she was just trying to one-up glitter cat
posted by burgerrr at 9:58 AM on September 9, 2016 [2 favorites]

Pics or it didn’t happen.
posted by Going To Maine at 4:05 PM on September 9, 2016

i love how it looks but it can't be good for kitty to ingest glitter? they bathe themselves compulsively
posted by GospelofWesleyWillis at 5:29 PM on September 9, 2016

or maybe there will just be glitter furballs or glitter poo. both would actually be swell.
posted by GospelofWesleyWillis at 5:30 PM on September 9, 2016 [1 favorite]

It turns out glitter is scientifically proven to be useful for individually identifying cat feces! It just passes right on through. When I was having zoos collect monkey poop for me, they put different colored glitter in each monkeys' monkey chow. Then when I was analyzing them, I knew Kumasi's poop had the red glitter, Elvis's poop had the silver, and Roy's had green. Science!
posted by ChuraChura at 6:26 PM on September 9, 2016 [8 favorites]

NO ONE ALERTED ME? HOW VERY DARE YOU!
posted by Space Kitty at 7:21 PM on September 14, 2016 [4 favorites]