sparkle paint and the headache

so you wanna spend too much money on glitter spray paint?  do it.  its frikkin awesome.  be sure to heed the "use in a well ventilated area" warning.  and if you already have a migraine...  wait until tomorrow.

i bought a ridiculous number of animal "toob" sets including, aquatic life, wild/safari, horses aka stallions, and dinosaurs.  i already had the silver paint from a previous project, and had bought the little tubes of acrylic paint for future projects with freezer paper.  those may still happen but dont hold your breath.  but sparkle spray paint.  oh my god people.  it is "intense shimmer finish" all right.  it also is so aerosolized, it blows glitter fucking everywhere.  i cleaned glitter off the wall, all my dishes, the stove, the side of the cabinets, and the floor.  but i digress.
so how to use these painty bits of goodness?

step 1: choose victim preferred animal
step 2: using hot glue gun add either a magnet or a thumbtack [the flat kind not the one with the little plastic handle]
step 3: realize hot glue gun is on "ultra blistering friggin hot" instead of "normal" after burning self multiple times
step 4 [optional]: swear profusely
step 5: blob some paint on it
step 6: smush it around - top side only - with a $.49 sponge paint brush.  no need for the $8 martha stippling brush
step 7: let dry

see below for steps 2-7 again in a much larger scale

all 3 colors of paint [2 different types] needed 2 coats for complete opacity, so that took a little longer than i bargained for.  i then sprayed the crap out of them with the silver glitter paint, got a little woozy even though half the windows in my apartment are open, and let dry.  the next day i flipped every little bugger over and painted one thick [rather sloppy] coat on the back side and called it done

finished product.  and some little wood letters that started the sparkle-paint-learning-curve.  spray too close and the aerosol blows the glitter back off the wood.  spray too far and glitter is eeeveeerrywhere.