the aj blog

Yep, you heard that right. I really only tried it to make sure I wasn’t allergic to the latex I was going to use. Fortunately, I’m not, and I took a creepy photo of what the arm looked like. It’s not quite a zombie, but more of just a shredded, bashed up arm.

Liquid Latex + Toilet Paper + Red Makeup = Zombie Arm

Stained shirt, post-testing.

Synopsis:

• It’s worth carrying around for $4. Although it’s not a washing machine in your pocket, it could just save your dignity after squirting mustard on your collar the day your photo’s being taken. 

Quick Details (of the testing):

• I broke out an old shirt, perfect for such testing, and dug around my fridge for some nice staining liquids. What I decided to use for these tests were tea, mustard, barbecue sauce, and soy sauce. Not in my fridge, however, I also cracked open an ink pen to test the Tide pen against ink despite what the package said.

The picturesque details:

• Really, the testing wasn’t that complicated. It was getting around to writing this that took forever… Sorry about the delay! Anyways, I would put a stain on, wipe as much away as I could, then stab the stain in the heart, releasing the pen’s cleaning agent. Using it like a marker and hoping the results of an eraser, I’d rub it in for around 10-45 seconds. I thought that would be a reasonable amount of time for someone to be stabbing their shirt with a mysterious marker before people started to look at them strangely. The center of the stain in the pictures was treated and the outside left untreated. Hope I was helpful!

                        

My employees for the job...

Tea. Pretty good.

Mustard. Ewww. But ok.

Barbecue sauce. Not great.

Soy sauce. Pretty decent.

Ink. Who knew it'd get worse?