Glitter tongues are the new glitter boobs
You might have hoped that the beauty trend of covering every part of your body in glitter until you transform into a walking disco ball would surely soon be coming to an end.
After all, we’ve already had glitter boobs, vagina glitter bombs, booty glitter, glitter lips, glitter beards and glitter armpits, just to name a few. Surely there are not available body parts left, right?
Wrong.
Glitter tongue is the new addition to the sparkly fashion trend and it seems that this craze may have originally been the result of a beauty mishap.
Australian makeup artist Jacinta Vukovic accidentally got glitter on her tongue while trying out a new makeup look and posted a picture of it to her Instagram.
“I was doing this Lip look and got glitter on my tongue, so I thought I would embrace it and make it the main focus!!” she wrote as the caption.
Since then the glittery tongue has gained popularity, with people quick to jump on board with the bizarre beauty trend.
Recreating this look seems to be pretty self-explanatory: all you need is a tongue, some glitter and the desire to pour that glitter in your mouth.
But before you go stocking up on the sparkles you might want to consider the potential hazards that come with putting hundreds of little bits of plastic in your mouth.
While swallowing a bit of glitter probably won’t kill you it’s not likely to do your digestive system any favors either.
Another thing to consider is the clean-up. Anyone who has dealt with glitter knows that it gets everywhere and notoriously difficult to completely remove.
Do you really want to have to scrub your tongue raw and still be picking bits of glitter out of your teeth days later?
While having a shimmery tongue may look aesthetically pleasing in Instagram photos, it is probably best to give this glitter trend a miss.