Putting on Body Glitter for a Night of Clubbing

Just fill your tub with glitter, get nude and do a bit of rolling around … chuck on your clubwear and you're ready to go, right? Nuh uh! Not unless you want to look like Mrs Jetson. There are very specific ways to put both face and body glitter on if you’re heading off to a hot night club in London this weekend. We look at some of the essential tips.

1. Choose the right product: Your glitter will be for your face or body. The different formulations are created to account for the likelihood that you'll be wearing makeup on your face, and the different sweat patterns. Face glitter is usually less sticky, because layering sticky glitter on top of makeup is a recipe to look like a pancake.
2. Color selection: Choose the shade of your glitter carefully. Silver and gold glitter are the easiest to match and the least garish. If you come to a night club in London covered in red glitter with a devil's pitchfork in hand, you are more likely to actually look like Satan than just a naughty girl! Use silver with cool-colored outfits and gold with warm.
3. Glitter last: You should actually get everything else on before you apply your glitter. This includes both your makeup and clothes. Almost all body glitters are washable -- check first, and then don’t stress about getting any on your clothes.
4. Pick a theme for placement: A great placement technique for body glitter that is really effective in London nightclubs is to only apply body glitter to the top of your body. Pretend that it has fallen from the sky -- apply the glitter only where it would fall naturally if you were looking slightly upwards, with your arms outstretched. This helps the London nightclub lights highlight it, and stops you from overdoing it.
5. Don’t mix your own: Yes, there are plenty of blogs and advice articles saying that you can mix your own body glitter using Vaseline and craft supply glitter. I say no! You'll be bumping up against a lot of other people at your nightclub in London, and petroleum jelly is not the nicest thing to have smeared all over you by a stranger. Commercial preparations are kind to your skin and considerate of others around you. They often set somewhat, meaning that the glitter isn’t as likely to rub off. Finally, the effect of a commercial preparation is much more subtle, as the grain is much finer than craft glitter.

Déjà vu: What you can expect to hear at 90s soul nights

If you just can't bump to another electro track, need a relaxing night out and would love to be taken back to a time 15 years ago, when the cheeks were full and the world was rosy, 90s soul nights at night clubs in London will have you screaming "Oh WOW! I haven't heard this in AGES!" So whatcha going to listen to at 90s soul nights around London this weekend?

Jodeci

With hits like "Stay" and "Cry For You," Jodeci was one of those 90s soul artists that we all danced to, all bopped as soon as we heard the opening bars of the beat … but surprisingly, never knew the name! You just remember this one for Saturday night at your fave nightclub in London.

Tony! Toni! Tone!

Some thought the name was a bit pretentious, but the music was cool anyway (yes, that was me that thought that!), but nobody who grew up through the 90s can say that don’t know the chorus to their hit "It Never Rains (In Southern California)." Lounge with a rum and coke or something else super soulful for this tune.

Montell Jordan

"This Is How We Do It" is instantly recognizable for almost all of us twenty to thirty-somethings ... not least because the title of the song is the opening line, before one beat has been beated! 'Let's Ride' was another of his biggies that you are likely to hear at a soul night in London's nightclubs.

Boyz II Men

They'll make love to you, like you want them to, and they'll hold you tight baby, all through the night ... and then when you come to the end of the road, you'll be crying into your fruitylicious cocktail! Better hope they don’t play this one at the end of the night and ruin all your carefully done eye makeup.

Barry White

This sub-sonic crooner has been a favorite through the 80s, 90s and naughties, and night clubs in London know that just as well as you. His solo hit "Practice What You Preach" is likely to feature, as is one of his better known collaborations with James Ingram and Quincy Jones, "The Secret Garden."

SWV

These Sisters with Voices struck a chord with lots of high school chickadees through the 90s, including me. Yes, I know, it's all very sad ... and I love it! Because "I know love will be right here," beside me on the dance floor.

Fugees

Still as popular in their various incarnations as they were in the 90s as the Fugees, Lauryn Hill, Wyclef Jean and Pras had their best known song with a cover of Roberta Flack's "Killing Me Softly." Get out your soulful eyes for dat one, and dance your little heart out at the hottest night club in London.