[image description: two photos, taken on a red watermelon slice pillow background, of a round, silver tin containing a glitter putty. First photo shows the closed tin with a blue sticker on the lid, featuring sketch drawings of space-themed images in white, a white person’s hands pulling at a wad of glitter putty, and the text “Glitter Galaxy Putty: it bounces & stretches, use it again and again”. Second photo shows the open tin and the putty inside: a clear putty studded with green, blue and yellow glitter. The green glitter dominates, giving the putty a greenish tinge.]
Glitter Galaxy Putty - Target, $3.25 AUD for 60 grams.
Department stores are having their post-Christmas sales, which includes the “cheap Secret Santa gifts” section in stores like Target. I’ve seen slimes, putties and those squishy balloon animal balls in these, so if you’re after more affordable stim toys, it may be worth checking these out.
(For clarity: I’m talking about Target, Australia, which isn’t quite the same thing as Target in the US.)
This is a glitter-studded clear putty, reduced from $6 AUD. It’s produced by Independence Studios, which makes a lot of these sorts of cheap-gift-but-often-stimmy items here in Australia! I have to say that the packaging was great--the putty came sealed inside a plastic bag inside the tin--and the slime itself is very pretty to look at. It does look green in the above photo, but it is clear. The three-tone glitter in green, gold and blue just gives it the illusion of a green tint.
Clear putties are always more brittle than their opaque counterparts and this is no exception. It’s not as bad as the Lab Putty, but it’s more brittle than the Super Brain Putty. It snaps fairly easily and it leaves a few small shreds of putty on the skin after handling. This will likely be from the current heat, but it feels like 80% putty and 20% homemade slime: it’s stickier than most putties and has more of an oozing quality. It’s near as stretchy as homemade slime while snapping under even gentle force. This odd merging of two properties makes it hard to handle beyond squishing and gentle shaping.
(Putty softens in warmer ambient temperatures and hardens in cooler ones. My Lab Putty now feels waxy to a point where I don’t like using it--even though I loved using it in winter--and both my Ultra and Super Brain Putties have noticeably softened. Expect your putty to change consistency throughout the seasons if you live in a place with marked shifts in average temperature.)
I will say that it pops and snaps more like a homemade slime, so if this is a major stim element for you, you may prefer this putty.
The Super Cosmic Sparkle provoked my interest in glitter putties, but this one just snaps too often for my liking. Unless you love the popping bubbles or you must own a glitter putty, I’d skip this--with the proviso that, with Australia in the midst of a heatwave, it’s hard to evaluate how much I may like this putty in autumn or winter. For that reason, you may wish to take a risk on this.
