Tutorial on how to re-twinkle/glitter symbols!

[Cron Sacchariferous]

BTW- sorry for the bold.
I like bold.
I'm also kinda blind.
Anyway.
Greetings fellow pony goers!
This is a tutorial on how to re-twinkle/glitter your faded symbols! I'm going to try and keep this as simple and straight forward as I can. :3

Twilight will be the model for this tutorial. Her virgin glitters untouched.
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You will need: Modge Podge, glitter, toothpicks, a bottle cap and a couple of Q-tips.
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Using a bottle cap provides you with a good amount of glitter to start off with. Also, the cap saves you from double-dipping your sticky, gluey toothpick into the container of glitter.
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Take your toothpick and Modge Podge. Dip a tiny, but generous, amount on the tip of the toothpick. Then, with a steady and careful hand, outline your symbol with the toothpick very lightly.
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Slowly pour a little glitter into the cap. DO NOT fill it all the way to the brim!! Because we will be using our fingers to remove some of the glitter.
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Sprinkle some glitter like so! :3
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Before using the Q-tip, be sure to clean the mountain of glitter sprinkled on the symbol. You can either turn the pony sideways and tap it out onto a piece of paper, OR- blow the glitter in a trash bin. After you have done one or both of those methods, you can moisten the end of the Q-tip with some clean water. Squeeze out any excess h20 with your finger and then clean around the symbol. With the dry opposite side of the Q-tip, you can use it to soak up the left-over water reside.
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It should look like this after the ol' dust and shine off:
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Here is just a close up example of a bigger star outlined with some Modge:
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You might come to a point to where you have... lets say a heart or clover leaf etc. and cannot make out what that symbol looked like. For example, the star closer to Twilight's tail is hard to make out; we can easily determine some points of the star, but all in all it looks like Lumpy Space Princess . Unfortunately, fading will deceive our eyes. Using good judgement and adding a little artistic touch can help us along the way! Fear not, you got this! Just like crossing the street, always, try to use your best judgement.
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The final product!
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Side view angles:
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VIOLA!
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I hope this tutorial was comprehensive and easy to understand. Please feel free to use this as a guide. If you have any questions, pm me or write in open forum down below! ^_^~
I'd also love to hear other methods used as I'm sure there are more than one!
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[brighteyes]

Very helpful!  Thank you for sharing it

[buttonso]

I will have to try this soon! Thanks!!

[Leave a Whisper]

Thank you for sharing, we have a Moonstone who's in need of glitter touch up. Your Twilight looks fantastic

[SunPony]

Thanks, this looks easy to use.  I have a custom I want to do glitter symbols on, so I'll try it out on her   

[Sweet_Stuff]

Oohh la la! Thanks for sharing!

[Einhornbaby]

thanks for sharing Now I feel the need to check my ponies for glitter loss lol!

[Cron Sacchariferous]

Glad I could help guys! This was a fun tutorial to do.. kinda makes me want to start an overall blog or youtube or something. xD

[bluerose9978]

Question: Are there certain colors of glitter you've found that are an exact match?

What a great tutorial by the way!

[Cron Sacchariferous]

Good question bluerose!

I find that the 'fine' glitters are the best to use for the symbols. Coarse and thicker textures of sparkles can alter the design of the shaped symbols. As far as colors go, I usually invite a pony with me to go glitter dust shopping. Or I use a picture on my phone of a the pony's glitter symbols to help reference the with color(s). If I can't find the exact color, I will try and find the closest shade as possible to match up with the once existing one. ^-^

[michellemybelle0530]

This was EXCELLENT!!!! love the Lumpy Space Princess reference by the way lol 

[Cron Sacchariferous]

This was EXCELLENT!!!! love the Lumpy Space Princess reference by the way lol 

 Teehee, glad you liked the reference!

[hathorcat]

Great tutorial! Thank you for sharing

[ghouldilocks]

This is great! I would never have thought to use Mod Podge on a pony. I have at least one with glitter symbols who could probably use a touch-up, lol

[Twilight Pink]

Ya....I'm gonna have to do this to Moondancer