I used translucent gunge but with pink colouring to it, so when it is being poured it is pink but on the body it shows up as see through, as photographed. Sometimes it has a big of a tinge, but for the post part it just looks like glazing. Would you categorise this as wet or messy?

Gunge and Slime is def messy

As long as you're having fun, does it matter?

Messy- even if you make it fully transparent it's a lot thicker and stickier than water.

I'd count it as messy, because it's a thicker substance than water, so both the way it wets someone, and how it feels as its poured over someone, will be different to just water.

Note in UMD terms it's definitely messy, anything other than water counts as messy not wetlook here, including things like oil which also produce a glistening wet effect.

Sorry to thread jack, but I have another question that is kind of in the same realm as this one; should a scene showing the rinse off after a messy session be posted in the wet or messy forum?

I'd say that should go in Messy. Generally speaking, when people look for wetlook, they either want to see someone who's clean and dry and dressed, either getting wet from clean, and/or playing around while soaking wet, but clean.

Someone who starts already messy and then gets hosed down isn't starting clean and dry, and the first part of the scene will be a mix of water and whatever they were previously covered in, rather than just water.

There may be edge cases, if someone is only a little bit messy, so mostly clean and dry, but then getting totally soaked, that might be better counted as wetlook. And purely personally I think that shampoo hairwashing, from clean and dry, counts as wetlook rather than messy because all the substances used are basicallty soap, so clean, rather than mud/food/gunge, which are messy.

If you can dry yourself straight after with a towel - wet
If you need to use soap after - messy

Oh perfect, thank you for letting me know!

This was an interesting question, thanks Jack for your WAM knowledge!

Haha very true but as someone new to the scene I want to get things right and let people indulge the same way I have in my scenes by categorising them right

Oh if only! Haha

I would say messy