Glow in the Dark
I love Glow in the Dark things! I’ve received a lot of reader questions over the past month about blacklight reactive products. As I’m a big fan of things that glow in the dark and blinky lights, I know a bit about them. There are some cool glow-in-the-dark products as well as black-light reactive products.
Glow in the Dark LED Poi
Glow-in-the-dark LED Poi are my favorite blinky light toys. I need to get my own set because I constantly get entranced watching my friend Lea spin these. I love it so much that I’ve been learning to spin. If you’ve never seen LED poi, go check it out here.
Kryolan Body Paint
Kryolan has a line of Invisible Luminescent Makeup/Body Paint. It comes in white, blue, orange, and green. The colors go on invisible, but under black light, they glow in the dark. They also make several other types of blacklight-reactive makeup, including lipsticks. These are FDA-approved. From what I can tell, these should not be used on the eyes. Update: Here’s a disclaimer from Kryolan about their Dayglow colors line and an ingredients list.
Glow-in-the-Dark Earrings
You can also get glow-in-the-dark earrings. When I used to wear 3 earrings in each ear, I often had 3 pairs of acrylics in pink, blue and yellow.
Hair Dye
Manic Panic makes colors of dye that are blacklight reactive. Electric Lizard, Electric Banana, Pretty Flamingo, Electric Lava, Hot Hot Pink, and Wildfire. I used to dye my hair with Wildfire mixed with another shade of red, so I had glowy, bright red hair.
Hair Extensions
You can buy hair accents, braids, twists, falls, etc., from I Kick Shins in blacklight reactive colors. Platinum Blond, Mixed Blond, Light Mixed Blond, Autumn Mix, Red, Neon Magenta, Hot Pink, Baby Pink, Orange, Neon Orange, Yellow, Neon Yellow, Lime Green, Sky Blue, Lavender, Purple with White Tips, Neon Violet, Silver White, Silvery Snow, Creamy White, Snow White, and Grey are all blacklight reactive.
Eyeshadow
Aromaleigh makes some of their Rocks! line blacklight reactive. Brownsugar, Suspectdevice, Prettyvacant, Peek-a-boo, Coralfang, Deathvalley, Atomic, Bigneonglitter, Flowersofromance, Prettyinpink, Iwantcandy, Newrose, Personalitycrisis, Teenagekicks, Psycho-candy, Tempted, Heartofglass, Lookinforakiss, Obsession, Raspberryberet, Funkytown, Purplerain, Spellbound, Hitormiss, Blueorchid, Ladystardust, Bodyelectric, Bluemonday, Endlessea, Oceanrain, Justlikeheaven, Strychnine, Greenhell, Venom, Swampthing, Avalon, Poisonivy, and Lazysod are all blacklight reactive. These are all eye safe.
Nail Polish
Of course, there’s also nail polish! I found an unexpected UV-reactive polish in Color Club’s Milky White Base Coat, which glows no matter what polish I have on top of it. I love Glow in the Dark nail polish.
You can see me wearing hair from I Kick Shins in Snow White and makeup from Aromaleigh in BodyElectric and FlowersofRomance. I love to be Glow in the Dark.
Ingredients for Glow in the Dark
So, what’s not safe? Any eyeshadows that are sold with luminescent zinc sulfide. This ingredient is NOT FDA-approved for the eyes. I checked the FDA for the full information on this.
To be clear, in makeup, blacklight reactive is what you want to purchase if you want it on your eyes or your lips. In other products, like hair or blinky toys, blacklight reactive or Glow in the Dark usually is fine.
Do you have any favorite glow-in-the-dark items you love? Do share!
