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How does one make glitter lamps.  The fluid cant just be water and surfactant can it ?  Just curious 

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Believe it or not, glitter lamps are harder to make formula wise that lava lamps. I have bought some glitter stuff from kirk and also buy 5 below glitter lamps and just pour that into lamps as well.

ive tried many times to get a home made glitter mix and just doesnt work, i bought several refills from marcel - goolamp and very happy with em :-) just placed another order

  1. If i had to buy refills id rather just go to spencers and spend 24$ and buy a 52oz lamp and swap it over..  its cheaper then that kit by ALOT  Was just seeing if anyone knew how to make it yourself.  Why do people buy these expensive kits when the liquid and wax and a free lamp and base and bulb are cheaper at spencers in the mall..  I dont get that...  A 52oz glitter lamp is 25$ and that 1500ml.. Your 1500ml kit is 39 euros which is like 46$...  Sorry for calling out in this but yea.   

Because its crappy fluid that stops flowing and gets cloudy within a few months

Jon said:

  1. If i had to buy refills id rather just go to spencers and spend 24$ and buy a 52oz lamp and swap it over..  its cheaper then that kit by ALOT  Was just seeing if anyone knew how to make it yourself.  Why do people buy these expensive kits when the liquid and wax and a free lamp and base and bulb are cheaper at spencers in the mall..  I dont get that...  A 52oz glitter lamp is 25$ and that 1500ml.. Your 1500ml kit is 39 euros which is like 46$...  Sorry for calling out in this but yea.   

Maybe Lavalite's glitter quality is better now, but a few years ago the glitters were hit or miss just like the lava.  These kits definitely fill a need, especially with custom colors and/or custom glitter.  Stuff you just can't get.  Some of these custom glitters are made to replicate old style glitter from decades ago to keep the original look.

Jon said:

  1. If i had to buy refills id rather just go to spencers and spend 24$ and buy a 52oz lamp and swap it over..  its cheaper then that kit by ALOT  Was just seeing if anyone knew how to make it yourself.  Why do people buy these expensive kits when the liquid and wax and a free lamp and base and bulb are cheaper at spencers in the mall..  I dont get that...  A 52oz glitter lamp is 25$ and that 1500ml.. Your 1500ml kit is 39 euros which is like 46$...  Sorry for calling out in this but yea.   


AGREED!
Keith said:

Maybe Lavalite's glitter quality is better now, but a few years ago the glitters were hit or miss just like the lava.  These kits definitely fill a need, especially with custom colors and/or custom glitter.  Stuff you just can't get.  Some of these custom glitters are made to replicate old style glitter from decades ago to keep the original look.

Jon said:

  1. If i had to buy refills id rather just go to spencers and spend 24$ and buy a 52oz lamp and swap it over..  its cheaper then that kit by ALOT  Was just seeing if anyone knew how to make it yourself.  Why do people buy these expensive kits when the liquid and wax and a free lamp and base and bulb are cheaper at spencers in the mall..  I dont get that...  A 52oz glitter lamp is 25$ and that 1500ml.. Your 1500ml kit is 39 euros which is like 46$...  Sorry for calling out in this but yea.   

hmm well i guess ill see if my glitter grande clouds or stops flowing in months.  

Did you get it yet? photos please, videos please?


Grandes might be the exception to the rule
Jon said:

hmm well i guess ill see if my glitter grande clouds or stops flowing in months.  


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Marcel said:

I think you mean the original lavalite?
Anyway, here is a Grande with my kit:



kero48 said:

Did you get it yet? photos please, videos please?

No i havent got the glitter lamp, the weekend was a 3 day weekend so that made shipping 3 days longer.  I get it tomorrow according to UPS.  Ill post a picture and video of my tricolor glitter lamp tomorrow.  Ill take pics with and without flash.

Flash makes lava lamps and glitter lamps look shinier then they actually are..  I noticed flash also shows color better too.  With flash you can see greens and blues and purples and so forth where as the normal eye you dont see..   For example my grande i did in Turqouise it looked great in my pics i posted didnt it ?  But in person when the lamp was on in a dark room the turquoise looked like the lamp was clear.. if i made it a darker turquoise the lamp just got blacker and blacker.. 

Same goes with the blue and yellow grande.. The blue makes the wax green, and thus the wax reflects that green into the lamp and the blue water you honestly cannot see.    Same with the purple/yellow grandes..  When its on and flowing, the yellow looks like a dark orange or a normal red color.  And so does the liquid.   It might show a little violet color if you stand overtop of the lamp but sitting eye level it looks red.

But in a picture with flash it will show the blues, and purple and so forth.     Same with pink..  I redid my turquoise/pink lamp that i made and i added a Neon Blue food coloring this time the blue looks blue, but the pink looks redish purple.  But if i take a picture with my phone the pink looks hot pink.

And if you take the pic in a dark room with no flash the camera will seek out the light of the lightbulb and the wax will look like a neon OPEN sign

Am i making sense here ?  I know you guys have noticed this as well you had to have.   Thats why IMO pics and videos you should not trust 100%. 

I just hope my tricolor grande the paint job is good.  I have 3 32oz lamps from spencers where the tricoloring is bad.. You can see the splotchs of the spray paint they use and it makes the lamps look cloudy.   The only good tricolor 32oz i have is the yellow/orange/red.  It looks super clear...  if the grandes paint is junk i might return it, or i might take some paint thinner/acetone and get the paint off and dye the liquid with the food colorings in the egg droppers i use.

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