# Glitter Butts **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 27, 2017, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glitter-butts/783156 "2017-03-27T17:45:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2017, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glitter-butts/783156/1 "2017-03-27T17:45:30Z")
> **[We Need To Stop This 'Butt Glitter' Trend In Its Tracks](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/we-need-to-stop-this-butt-glitter-trend-in-its-tracks_n_58d920b3e4b02a2eaab5fe49?zggwvzie3glrqkt9=)** > > Why are these people covering their derrieres in glitter? Let's discuss. > [@](#): > > Inspired by that sand-stuck-on-your-butt feeling you get at the beach, Mia Kennington gave birth to the concept of “glitter butts” with her U.K.-based team, The Gypsy Shrine. > The Gypsy Shrine team is comprised of professional face painters, body painters and hair stylists who create looks for various events, festivals, pop-up shops and bachelorette parties. Their aesthetic is eclectic, over-the-top and very shiny, i.e. perfect Instagram fodder. Not that I don’t mind shots of callipygian buttocks encrusted with colorful substances, but this seems more like coating the underbutt. And it looks scratchy and uncomfortable. Just go back to painting them. > **[body painting - Bing](https://www.bing.com/images/search?view=detailV2&ccid=KVbhpz8b&id=A8E627CBC48FA7D1705560A914F1B04A47226273&q=body%2Bpainting&simid=608027573631254921&selectedIndex=162&ajaxhist=0)** > > Intelligent search from Bing makes it easier to quickly find what you’re looking for and rewards you. ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2017, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glitter-butts/783156/2 "2017-03-27T18:10:27Z")
They look as though they sat on an unfortunately painted glitter bench. ---
**Author:** ![Don\_t\_Panic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/don_t_panic/32/398_2.png) [@Don\_t\_Panic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_Panic)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2017, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glitter-butts/783156/3 "2017-03-27T18:24:51Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > callipygian buttocks “Callipygian” already includes the word for buttocks. A “callipygian buttock” would be a pretty-buttocked buttock. ---
**Author:** ![G0sp3l](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c68b51/32.png) [@G0sp3l](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G0sp3l)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2017, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glitter-butts/783156/4 "2017-03-27T18:33:24Z")
> [@Martian Bigfoot](#): > > “Callipygian” already includes the word for buttocks. A “callipygian buttock” would be a pretty-buttocked buttock. “A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man.” ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2017, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glitter-butts/783156/5 "2017-03-27T19:03:26Z")
> [@Martian Bigfoot](#): > > “Callipygian” already includes the word for buttocks. A “callipygian buttock” would be a pretty-buttocked buttock. Go tell it to your ATM machine. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2017, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glitter-butts/783156/6 "2017-03-27T19:05:57Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > Go tell it to your ATM machine. I can’t; I forgot my PIN number. ---
**Author:** ![steatopygia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steatopygia/32/3132_2.png) [@steatopygia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/steatopygia)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2017, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glitter-butts/783156/7 "2017-03-27T19:24:13Z")
\ I thought I heard my name. ---
**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2017, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glitter-butts/783156/8 "2017-03-27T19:30:43Z")
I love that story “We must stop the dreadful scourge of glitter-butt. To explain why glitter-butt is so bad, here are a dozen pictures of the glitter-encrusted buttocks of nubile women, so you can understand just how bad this is. When I saw number 6 I burst into tears!” ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2017, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glitter-butts/783156/9 "2017-03-27T19:34:22Z")
They’re not fucking sitting in my car. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2017, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glitter-butts/783156/10 "2017-03-27T19:43:33Z")
When I was twelve, my Sheltie ate an entire tube of glitter. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2017, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glitter-butts/783156/11 "2017-03-27T19:45:30Z")
Her turds were extras in Twilight. ---
**Author:** ![Lightray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightray/32/391_2.png) [@Lightray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightray)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2017, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glitter-butts/783156/12 "2017-03-27T19:58:20Z")
> [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#): > > Her turds were extras in Twilight. I sat through part of that movie. I’m pretty sure those turds were the leads. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2017, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glitter-butts/783156/13 "2017-03-27T21:41:15Z")
> [@](#): > > “…Mia Kennington gave birth to the concept of “glitter butts” …” Hah, I’m sure I saw glitter butts as early as 1982 in the anatomical magazines I used to study in my youth… ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2017, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glitter-butts/783156/14 "2017-03-27T21:59:50Z")
I don’t get it… “Inspired by the feeling of sand stuck on your butt”? Isn’t that, um, a bad feeling? I mean, I can see that some might consider it to _look_ good, and some might even consider it to look good enough to be worth the discomfort, but how is the discomfort itself inspiring? ---
**Author:** ![Don\_t\_Panic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/don_t_panic/32/398_2.png) [@Don\_t\_Panic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_Panic)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2017, 7:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glitter-butts/783156/15 "2017-03-28T07:21:53Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > Go tell it to your ATM machine. Well, I’m not complaining about the word, just about you. 😉 Um, sorry, I didn’t mean it like that. Nothing personal. As my girlfriends keep telling me in a completely different context, it’s not redundant if you do it right. “Callipygian” refers to the lady, not to the buttocks. You say: “Oh my, that lovely young damsel is quite callipygian.” Although, I suppose that’s not how young people talk these days. What do they say? I guess it’s more like: “Check out that booty! Them bitches sure be callipygian, yo!” ---
**Author:** ![JoseB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/joseb/32/1530_2.png) [@JoseB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JoseB)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2017, 7:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glitter-butts/783156/16 "2017-03-28T07:24:46Z")
> [@QuickSilver](#): > > They’re not fucking sitting in my car. But if they were fucking while crouching in your car, would that be acceptable? 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Battle\_Pope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@Battle\_Pope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Battle_Pope)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2017, 8:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glitter-butts/783156/17 "2017-03-28T08:23:29Z")
A few of those women look like they’ve got the taco shits after chowing down on a unicorn. ---
**Author:** ![Don\_t\_Panic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/don_t_panic/32/398_2.png) [@Don\_t\_Panic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_Panic)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2017, 8:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glitter-butts/783156/18 "2017-03-28T08:46:22Z")
From the link in the OP: > [@](#): > > We need to stop this ‘butt glitter’ trend in its tracks I keep reading that as “cracks”. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2017, 9:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glitter-butts/783156/19 "2017-03-28T09:07:30Z")
It’s a bit try-hard. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2017, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glitter-butts/783156/20 "2017-03-28T14:21:03Z")
> [@Battle\_Pope](#): > > A few of those women look like they’ve got the taco shits after chowing down on a unicorn. My thoughts as well. The American obsession with giant asses on women is embarrassing. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glitter-butts/783156.md?page=2)