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[rm]

Hey, if you ever want to do something really stupid and painful, I can't recommend enough dropping metallic green sealing wax on your hand from about an inch away. FUCK that hurt, and, in fact, is continuing to, ferociously. Blistery metallic fun. It's so totally going to scar too.

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[punzel.livejournal.com]

Keep it moist. Get a good burn cream and follow the label, or if you have it, squeeze out fresh aloe juice straight from the leaf, or tea trea oil for burns (such as the commercial product medi-burn's Melaleuca gel).

I work at a specialty coffee shop where we have a brand standard of hot, fresh coffee. My job includes dumping entire pots of scalding coffee -- not intentionally over my other hand, but it has happened. The first night it hurts so much it wakes me up every hour or so: dutifully applying aloe probably saved me some scarring. Hopefully that pain will do for you what mine did for me -- kept me attending to it properly for the first 24 hours. I've been amazed what a difference a well-treated day makes.

[delchi.livejournal.com]

Totally aside , I tried to buy sealing wax here. They looked at me like my head was on fire and I came from another planet. After a few minutes they came back and assured me that there was no such thing. The art store counter clerks all agreed that I should go to the home depot next door and ask there.

It was at this point I raised my eyes skyward to ask ' why me ' when it struck me that they were thinking 'ceiling wax'. This explained their bemused faces. When I explained what it was I was after, how one used it and what it was for they told me they had never heard of such a thing. Ever.

Time to call Kate's

[roadnotes.livejournal.com]

If you make online purchases, you might want to try http://www.ateliergargoyle.com/. Wade has some really lovely colors and the quality is quite good.