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May. 4th, 2007 03:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
slemslempikePreviously on slemslempike, I made a post about tampons with skirts.
I initially locked it because of paranoia about Tampax hunting me down for breaking the rather loose security thing I ticked and leaving me in a pool of (blue) blood). Now they are advertising it, according to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
notmarcie, so I needn't have, but since there are comments I will leave it locked, in case people didn't want to share.
Anyway, further to that post, in which I signed up for a trial, I have received my box of clothed tampons. I am to use them as I normally would, not allow my friends and family to use them, and send back any unused ones. They came with a sheaf of informative leaflets, the first of which told me brightly that these tampons were definitely not harmful! At all! The rest of the leaflets were mostly warning me about the dangers of Toxic Shock Syndrome.
Anyway, my lady time is not yet upon me, and so until I can report properly on the actual experience of using a tampon with a skirt, I bring you the experiments of slemslempike and the frilly tampon.
So here we have a filly tampon. It's less of a skirt, if you ask me, and more of a kind of useless bunch of material at the base. So there's the main bulk of cotton (or whatever it is) that is the tampon, and then over that there's another covering, which goes right over it and then has excess material at the string. It's sort of on one side of the string, if you can see that.
For my first experiment I got a glass of water, coloured it with red food colouring for verisimilitude, and dipped the tampon into it until the top half was quite heavily saturated, and then turned it upside down.
This wasn't a very good way of doing it, it turns out. The skirt thing held off bravely for a while, but then was entirely red. So I tried a different thing. I got a small toiletries bottle, filled that with blood-substitute, wedged the tampon in the mouth, and turned it upside down.
This worked better! Although I got a bit bored of holding it upside down, and wished I were a proper scientist with clamps and things. This time, the skirt thing did hold off for a bit longer, though I'm not sure how much time that would buy you, but then succumbed gradually.
So. Not that much of an advance, you might think. But I beg you to note that in both experiments the string remained spotless. At last an end to tampon-string-staining misery!
Now, bring on the bleeding, and I can try it out for realz.
I initially locked it because of paranoia about Tampax hunting me down for breaking the rather loose security thing I ticked and leaving me in a pool of (blue) blood). Now they are advertising it, according to
notmarcie, so I needn't have, but since there are comments I will leave it locked, in case people didn't want to share. Anyway, further to that post, in which I signed up for a trial, I have received my box of clothed tampons. I am to use them as I normally would, not allow my friends and family to use them, and send back any unused ones. They came with a sheaf of informative leaflets, the first of which told me brightly that these tampons were definitely not harmful! At all! The rest of the leaflets were mostly warning me about the dangers of Toxic Shock Syndrome.
Anyway, my lady time is not yet upon me, and so until I can report properly on the actual experience of using a tampon with a skirt, I bring you the experiments of slemslempike and the frilly tampon.
So here we have a filly tampon. It's less of a skirt, if you ask me, and more of a kind of useless bunch of material at the base. So there's the main bulk of cotton (or whatever it is) that is the tampon, and then over that there's another covering, which goes right over it and then has excess material at the string. It's sort of on one side of the string, if you can see that.
For my first experiment I got a glass of water, coloured it with red food colouring for verisimilitude, and dipped the tampon into it until the top half was quite heavily saturated, and then turned it upside down.
This wasn't a very good way of doing it, it turns out. The skirt thing held off bravely for a while, but then was entirely red. So I tried a different thing. I got a small toiletries bottle, filled that with blood-substitute, wedged the tampon in the mouth, and turned it upside down.
This worked better! Although I got a bit bored of holding it upside down, and wished I were a proper scientist with clamps and things. This time, the skirt thing did hold off for a bit longer, though I'm not sure how much time that would buy you, but then succumbed gradually.
So. Not that much of an advance, you might think. But I beg you to note that in both experiments the string remained spotless. At last an end to tampon-string-staining misery!
Now, bring on the bleeding, and I can try it out for realz.
