I'm a very curious person by nature, especially when it comes to wam. During my discovery of various substances, long before i considered filming, I've hit a few big snags over the years. I've learned painful lessons, and I've used those lessons sometimes to help others from making the same mistakes.

One of my greatest blunders of all time, came in the form of one of my biggest alltime messes. Flour. Around 5 or 6 years ago, when looking through my pantry for something to play with (I had no other wam materials), I noticed I had a small stockpile of flour I had never used, 4 massive unopened bags. I cut one open, scooped out a cup full, and mixed it into a bow with warm water with my hand. It was SO creamy and soft, and the more I played with it, the thicker it got. I scrubbed off the goop, and proceeded to dump all 4 bags into my bathtub, and mixed it slowly with warm water until it was a nice thick paste. I used a broom handle to painstakingly mix it around, and when that failed, I got the great idea to grab my drill with my egg beater attachment and within 5 minutes had almost all the clumps out.
I dunked one foot in, and it shot sparks through my body. I was shaking, I was so excited and the anticipation was making my heart race. Popped.my other foot in and slowly lowered my butt down, feeling it squish and stick to me. I stood back up and looked at it in the mirror and marveled at the perfect coating on my butt. And back down I went, fully committed to it now. I submerged both legs, and ran my hands up and down them, finally getting to experience my first nearly full tub of any substance. I lay back and felt it creep across my back and neck, and slowly enveloping my belly and chest. It was so overwhelming, and I started playing uncontrollably until the urge to finally submerge my face was to much. I scooped as much of the stuff behind me as I could, and I leaned back and pushed my head down, letting the thick paste slowly consume my face and hair. Wow. Just had my nose poking out for air while I lay there playing and writhing around. It was really fucking hot. The mess got so heavy I struggled to pull my head out, so I had to turn over and lay on my belly with my feet in the air. I must and dunked my face a few dozen times, stretching my free hand down and playing with myself with my butt in the air.

Sadly my fun was over, and it was time for a long cleanup session. I started by wiping off as much as I could, and using a dust pan to scoop as much mess into a big plastic tote beside my tub. Exhausting, but it went okay. But my problems were just beginning. I ran my shower and started to clean myself off, noticing that the flour was extremely stuck to me. Warm water just wasn't doing it. I noticed it clumping into small balls on skin, and the more I tried to wipe them away, they would just smush into my skin and hair even more. Then it hit me.... my hair.... oh fuck... my HAIR! Panic set in as I tried rinsing out the flour from my head, and the immediate realization that I made a big mistake really scared me. I grabbed shampoo and conditioner, desperately trying to get my hair clean, but it was too late. I spent way too long in the flour, and it basically solidified in my hair. I grabbed my scrub pad from my kitchen and started scrubbing every inch of my body, with little success. The pad clogged up in a few wipes and became useless. Even my loofah was turned into a clumpy flour laden brick in seconds. I was already exhausted, defeated, and actually started crying.
I tried to calm down and think, what can I use to clean this stuff off my skin first, then I'll focus on my hair. I grabbed a small putty knife in my drawer and started painfully scraping my body until ingot most of the biggest chunks off. Every time I moved, the hair all over my body still pulled and pinched. There was still very very small micro pieces all over my body. But my hair was my biggest concern. I grabbed every comb, pick, and used every drop of conditioner and oil and syrum to try ro loosen it out, but it just didn't work. I picked at it and picked at it, but with 43 inch long thick hair, I knew it was a battle I would lose. I made one of the hardest decisions right there, and got my scissors. I parted my hair as best I could, and started chopping. One ruined section after another, until I was left with hair just above my jawline. After many tears, and many hours of cutting, combing, snipping, point cutting, scrubbing, and shaving every last inch of my naked body, I finally felt a twinge of bittersweet relief. I looked at the tub of flour and cursed it, cursed myself, and made myself a promise to never use it again. And I haven't. It wasn't worth it. Not for a second.

It was one of two of my most traumatic wam experiences ever, and it taught me an incredibly valuable lesson. That is why I appreciate this community, because we can share things like this and possibly keeping the next person safe. As much as I absolutely love getting messy, I am always reminded that things can go drastically wrong, even with something seemingly as harmless as flour. I now take extra precautions when it comes to my own, and others safety. When I respond to messages or give advice, I try to do so with others well being in mind before pleasure.

All that being said, a few tips for those trying something new;

1. Ask a friend. It never hurts to get advice, and using this community is an invaluable resource when it comes to being a safe wammer.
2. Test small amounts first. Many things can happen trying something new. Allergies, improper use, disregard for cleanup and disposal etc. If you want to play, please clean up properly, and dispose of things properly. Don't leave messes in public, don't flush or drain substances that may clog or destroy plumbing.
3. Plan for the worst. Have lots of cleanup supplies, proper disposal materials, and set up an area you can just wrap up and toss if possible. When I use stuff like paint, all my clothing, and any excess paint I remove is put back into the can and disposed of properly. I can't squeeze it all out and showing much of it off is inevitable, but I do the best I can to minimize my impact on the things around me.

So let me hear about some times of your stories of substances you regret using. Doesn't have to be as brutal as this, could just be something you didn't like the taste of, or hated the smell. Which substance had you second guessing?

1. Cans of "whipped cream". Barf. Weak coverage, smells terrible for days. Rookie mistake.

2. Cheap shaving cream (Dollar-Store store variety). Our skin was dry, red and painful for days afterwards.

3. A "slapstick" recipe of blending cool whip, cream cheese, and marshmallow fluff. It was too dense, didn't stick well, and was a disappointment overall. BUT, the same ingredients in some other measures might work out, haven't tried this since.

4. Lemon cream pies. The lemon filling burned our eyes. Oops!

5. These old-style buttercream pies that Ralph's in L.A. used to sell. Fun but insanely greasy, and our skin felt greasy and sticky (not in a fun way) for days afterwards.

Straight chocolate syrup. Pudding is fine, cake batter is fine, but chocolate syrup is eye-burn city.

Also, just never top a pie with spray whipped cream. It's best suited for direct spray on your victim or for clothes filling, but topping a pie and leaving it out is just going to result in a pool of white liquid slop within two minutes.

Pesto.

That house probably still smells of it. The boots have rotted away by now but still smell of it.

To be fair to pesto, which is made from ingredients I love, this was cheap stuff and probably well past its "no longer even reasonable by" date.

The wrong shaving cream for sure. I believe with ethanol. Not sure. But damn did it burn and burn and burn and burn!

Oh man! Ketchup for sure. It was cold and smelled and felt so gross. I regretted it the moment I started squeezing the bottle!

I used flour once. I mixed it with oil along with water as per a recipe I found on the UMD wiki. It came off much easier than what you describe, but apparently some got stuck under the bathtub without my knowledge.

It was also mixed with syrup.

I spent the next few days bleaching and trying to flush out this absolute nasty fermented goop.

Make sure you get rid of all the mess y'all.

When I used the metallic, I did not get all of it out of my hair and the next day, every time I ran my hands through it my palms came back gold, got sparkles everywhere, couldn't get it 100% out from under my toenails, and smelled a little but not as bad as a penny.

Otherwise I did a good job getting it out of tiny places with a soapy q-tip and warm water.
It was also a pain to wash off because it's oil, but I used too much babyoil alone was not making any headway.

I ended up using shampoo as a body wash, but it took a few showers and then scrubbing the shower down the next day lol.

Cake! OMFG CAKE. Decided to splurge one birthday and got store bought pies and a couple of cakes and some cans of whip cream. The pies worked well the cans of whip cream went well not used on the cake or the pies. But the cake. The clumps that never went away. I spent hours in the shower washing the cake down the drain. Then there was the frosting and trying to get it off. In my infinite wisdom I got a cake that was a ladybug thing because it was smaller. Red and Black frosting did not clean up well from the cake. It is a toss up for what I smelled longer the cake or the whip cream. I did the session in a hotel room so there was that bonus, but man I smelled cake and whip cream for the next few days after I got home. I went through a whole bottle of body wash trying to get the smell off me. I definitely have a new appreciation for people who do cake sittings and things. I am not sure if my mistake was a double layer cake or not getting the sheet cake. Lesson learned.

I think the person with the shaving cream mistake meant "menthol" and not ethanol. Mentholated anything is a mistake. It burns. It is an irritant. My doctor said it was dumb to put menthol in throat lozenges because while it initially leaves a cool feeling it irritates the throat.

Okay, regrets. Garden soil mud. It has little rocks, bits of mulch, and does not stick well.
Vaseline feels great but understand that if you get it in your hair you will have to buy out all the Dawn supplies in the store. A woman friend and I spontaneously used it once when it was supposed to help other parts glide, but we got it in our hair. We compounded this error by trying to use talcum powder to soak up the oily mess. But we laughed a lot while we did it. I was fine the next day, a Monday, but she said her hair was greasy for a couple of work days.

A friend told me that Cool Whip stung her eyes. She also used chocolate pudding on her black PVC bustier and said she never got the chocolate smell out.

We were not found of methyl cellulose. It dried out while we were making love, then got slippery again in the shower - on our feet. Be careful out there.

Never put instant mashed potato in your plumbing. It will expand and you may end up with an expensive plumbing problem.

The hand sanitizer incident

Local mud spot I found (A week of taking broad spectrum antibiotics and anti parasitics)

Custard (I'm lactose intolorent and I swallowed some as I poured it over my face)

Dairy products and chocolate syrups (same reason above)

I do regret using two cheese cakes, a black forrest cake and custard during a WAM session. (pics in my profile). I ruined a pair of high heel boots. The boots were, still are pricy and it was a severe hit to my wallet. Since then I've benn avoiding wearing any for that reason.

Liquid latex on a model's skin with a slight sunburn caused skin irritation and a red tone for two days...
Fingerpaint for kids that has additives in in to taste very bitter, so kids do not attempt to eat it - if you get some in your mouth, it is a horrible taste for at least half an hour, no matter how much water you rinse your mouth with

A long time ago I painted my body with poster paints which left colorful stains on my skin after washing them off. This was my biggest mistake.

*Content Warning - Blood*

As I love to end up being stained from messy play, I'm making a list of anything that stained people's skin!

My biggest regret was bellyflopping into a mudpit, going too close to the edge, and cutting open my head on a rock that was in the edge of the pit. Had to go in and get stitches.

I had checked the bottom first, so knew that was fine, but misjudged my jump.

Had a similar problem in the tidal mud in Germany. I wasn't planning on getting messy, and it was 60 degrees, but I found myself at some great looking tidal mud. Went down to my underwear and got in, and didn't realize there were Very Sharp Rocks at the bottom, and sliced my foot badly.

I had a long limping walk back to the cruise port with a bad foot on the way back.

Now I always keep shoes on until I know the mudpit well.

Flour, canned whipped cream, shaving gel (burned!)

While yeah, menthol style would be a huge mistake, I was talking about cheap low-quality "regular" shaving cream; it has lots of alcohols and other things that dry and irritate the skin.

Ranch Dressing. It wasn't for me as the smell was very strong!! It almost put me off the session.... almost.

In my earlier days I tried pancake mix that I probably didn't mix well enoughand it clumped in my eyelashes (the clumping in the rest of my hair paled in comparison to the panic of thinking I'd blinded myself and having to turn my bathtub faucet into a laboratory eyewash station)

Toothpaste was also a bad idea, didn't use more than a tube of it, and didn't take long to burn like hell. Tried that long before I learned about this place.

Another of mine, one of my first experiences with paint ever. Bought a bunch of oil based paints from the thrift store, big old tubes, some half full, some unopened. I never intended to use them for that purpose, but one day.... I was just browsing some random sites for wam, and wanted to do something a bit naughty. Remembered I had them, and brought a few tubes into the bathroom. Took all my clothes off and started smearing it all over my chest. Felt amazing. Then a bit on my face, my lips, down my neck and didn't really last long before I was ... relieved.

It wouldn't wash off. I was very new to wam, had almost no knowledge of what I was using, and water wasn't working. Bar of soap didn't work, shampoo didn't work. I freaked out. Ended up using a spoon, and all my toilet paper to get the majority of it off. Had to eventually sacrifice my towel to painfully scrub my skin to get the rest off. Thankfully I didn't cover my entire body, mostly just my chest, face neck and a bit down below (which hurt for days after). Ended up getting a bad rash, and slight chemical burns because the stuff I used was probably highly toxic and had harmful chemicals in it. The irritation eventually went away and no lingering effects. Scariest part was the fact i was running out of time before my roommate came home from work. Told them I had gotten sun burnt at work cuz my skin was red all over lol.

yogurt...left my swimsuit very starchy...will never use again

I was advised against tins but couldn't resist getting some. There was a really cheap tin with a ring pull lid that ended up cutting my hand. Also, cheese and broccoli soup
Smell was even worse than I could have imagined, made me gag, absolutely foul. Though if anyone's into really gross stuff, that could be perfect

Ketchup. Vinegary.

Nutella. Greasy.

Oobleck. Dry.

Flour + water ripped a bunch of my hair out Damn gluten!

Flour + oil isn't bad in a pinch

I did the old flour and water thing way back in the day. Mistake for the reasons already mentioned. Also it can dry into cement, so if any is on the edge of the tub or the floor, and hardens, you'll almost need a hammer and chisel to remove it.

Eventually, still experimenting on my own and with no UMD to refer to, I found I could either add a lot of oil to the mix, or a lot of detergent. My choice was baby shampoo, but it took a lot to keep those hair-seeking lumps from forming. But it worked and rinsed off easily but only after some horrible results through trial and error.

I had ben having a great session with some creamy pudding and cake mixes that had great textures and were fantastic pies. Then I came to the last one...which turned out to be much grainier than the others, like semolina, and was basically like pouring wet sand everywhere with tiny particles that were laborous to remove and itchy. Luckily the shower got it all off but it spoiled the session.

Using corn oil instead of canola during my first or second session with metallic Mehron oil. I smelled like popcorn for a couple days afterward.

Flex-seal spray. I was curious what the result would look like because being sprayed in liquid latex is a longtime fantasy of mine. Thankfully, I only covered one foot, and I sprayed it while outside on my back porch. Those fumes were *bad*.

This is something I've wanted to try for a while, but having used the product for non wam related stuff before like coating parts of my motorcycle, the fumes were Def a hazard. If anyone knows of any "safe" or low odor/non toxic rubber spray, please share!!

Flour paste is ok if mixed thick enough and kept away from real hair. I have long naturally curly blonde hair, so always wear a wig

I hated using brown sauce, but need another head full of it soon!

The adult-store brands can be sprayed with an HVLP sprayer. Lots of overspray, though. I've got some stills from a video in my gallery where it's being applied in a car spray booth.