[Image Description: a plastic bag of beauty blender sponges in various shapes and colors (pink, yellow, green, blue, purple) hanging from a peg board]
The CVS on Hope Street in Providence, RI (United States) has quite a few sets of sponges. I assume they are also in the beauty sections of other CVSes as well. These ones are lots of different shapes, which I thought was cool, and are $6.29 USD for 15 sponges. There was also a bag that just had wedges, which was $4.99 USD for 20 sponges. I didn’t get either of these, so I don’t know how these ones specifically are to stim with, but I got a much smaller pack of cool egg-shaped ones (I don’t have pictures of that set because I opened it as soon as I got home and forgot to take any) from the same brand and they are great.
Thank you so much, @night-dark-woods! Oh, these are so pretty!
I’ve had a few different bags of makeup sponges for stimming, and I’ve found that thickness is as important for me as good texture. I’ve a few thin ones that are nice to touch, but they’re so thin I can’t really poke at them (and they’re too small for rolling). These ones, aside from being super fabulous in terms of colour, look chunky and thick, ideal for poking at and squishing. I love the look of the wedge-shaped pink ones!
A reminder, too, that makeup sponges make a good base for DIY crackling squishies. Just take two sponges of the same size and glue a snap-style hairclip inside with glue. (I tape the ends of the clip shut before gluing the sponge pieces together around the clip. Then put something heavy, like a book, on top of the sponges until the glue dries.) You can then paint the outside of sponges, if desired, in fabric paint. I made a squishy this way from two silky-soft giant teardrop sponges, and it is super nice to crack.
