I'm guessing you've never seen a used tampon because that is not what they look like.
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I'm going to a cabaret show tonight and I wanted to get in costume. I tried to make some fake cigarettes but now I'm worried I'll these will make me look like a perverted vampire. What's the consensus team?
Mmmm....I'm pretty sure one gently dabs the end of a tampon to soak up a drop of blood at a time. That's why women use so many, right?
Those would be ultra super lights.. about 15 minutes of use.
True. But OP hasn't seen a burning cigarette either.
Wrapped in toilet paper after use, kinda. Women always try to hide the good treats in paper, but my dog’s superior nose and teeth overcome such paltry obstacles to absolutely fucking destroy my rugs and sanity, and equally harm their own digestive tract.
lol, the reason I'm asking Lemmy isn't because I haven't seen either of these things, it's to gauge how others might interpret it.
Ehhhh they’ll pass but I’d have used orange.
Mottled with gray
Definitely should have colored an orange filter and left it at that. If you wanted the extra the other end could be dipped in gray and speckled with red
Don't be shy. Go as a perverted vampire with real tampons and fake blood. Own it.
A gold or yellow wash should salvage them.
A mottled tan “filter” at the other end will also make them more cigarette-like.
You're fine, used tampons look more like filleted slugs.
To make them more like cigarettes you could use a bit of cocoa or food grade activated charcoal for ash, or just burn the ends with a lighter. Bright yellow or orange sprinkles could be embers. Wrap brown paper around the other end for the filter.
To make them more like tampons, use them to skewer marshmallows, lightly roast over a flame until marshmallows melt together and turn yellowish with a few bubbles, then slather in cranberry sauce.
I mean if you're worried about it you can buy a ceramic one-hitter that looks close enough to a cigarette at 20 feet from any head shop for like $5.
Absolutely nothing like a used tampon.
I agree with others, much too red
No
They look like cigarettes to me.
They need a filter and some orange in the red to look like a ciggy over a tampon. Embers aren't that red.
They look like badly rolled cigarettes that someone mistook for tampons for a moment, and tried to insert them all, but just the tip
a little orange would make them more like cigarettes, just saying
I like that these candy sticks commonly used to be sold as candy cigarettes, only for people to be outraged and so the companies changed them to generic "sticks," just for you to go and dip the tip in red (they used to do the same, add more yellow to your red) reinventing candy cigarettes.
Ceci n'est pas une cigarette.
Looks like red chalk wrapped in paper. I remember having those in school around the end of the previous millenium - The paper prevents your fingers from being stained.
I am so confused.
If you had not dipped these in ... food coloring, for some reason...?
... they, on their own, look fairly close to well rolled rollies.
A rollie is when you are broke and addicted to cigs, so you buy rolling papers and loose tobacco, and just roll up your own little cig, no filter.
... I... guess they kind of look like some kinds of onehitters I've seen? Early, silly e-cigs that were made to look like actual cigs?
Either way, I have no idea how these could be confused with tampons, they're waay too small.
Also... cabaret? A vampire?
What do these intrinsically even have to do with cigarettes, or smoking?
... Are you stuffing them into like a 1920's style stem type cigarette holder thing?
Are you going as a suffragette? A debutante?
I had those when I was a kid a few decades ago and they had the tip coloured in red. They were designed to look like fake cigarette, but in candy form, for kids. However because of anti tobacco movements, they renamed them to "candy sticks" and removed the red tip.
I think OP is trying to recreate the old ones.
EDIT:
yes
Try an orange or a softer, warmer red for the lit end and an orangey/tan/yellow for the filter. They do resemble hand rolled cigs, but the red looks more like sauce than fire which kind of throws it off