Moving on from the often fake Bearded Lady, here we have a fake moustache, though I am not sure this would deceive anyone for very long.
However if we presume this card would have been originally picked out of the packet by someone in their early teens, they may have already had some thin facial hair, because it can start to appear from the age of ten, starting with the skin at the corners of the upper lip. And I imagine that the ones who had found that were the most anxious to give this sticker a whirl and see what they may look like if it kept on growing. And their hair would indeed keep on growing, getting thicker, but not necessarily darker, because that depends very much on your hair colour, and it would become the beginnings of a moustache, right across the top lip, by roughly about the time they were fourteen. From there it starts to spread, forming sideburns and perhaps a tuft beneath the middle of the lower lip. And as you near the second half of your teenage years these start to join together, forming a full beard which comes down past your ears and encompasses your chin and lips. At which point I have to say that some young men take longer to complete this process, because of all kinds of factors, including genetics, nutrition, and health - and some men remain without facial hair for all their lives.
To really identify these stickers you need to find them in the packet, for that is the only place they are titled as "Disgusting Disguises". However if you get them in a mixed lot you will be luckier, as the cards do have that title on the reverse. The packet also tells us that they came "with 1 stick bubble gum", so they are true trade cards, but more than that it says "Plus skin stickers in every pack" - and today we show you one of those skin stickers. As to whether they were considered to be titled "Disgusting Disguises" or "Skin Stickers", that is entirely up to the collector and their whims. And if I am being honest, not all of the cards or the stickers could even be called disgusting, most are just a little bit of fun.
I knew we featured the cards a while ago but I took ages to find them (though I even knew it was the skull earrings). Now I have found them I know why I could not, for what I used were A & B.C. Gum`s British version, licensed through Topps, and renamed to "Crazy Disguises", and we featured them in the newsletter of the 31st of August, 2024, as the diary date for Monday, the 2nd of September.
I have to say that the cards are fairly easy to acquire, but these stickers are not - possibly because they were used for their intended purpose until they fell off during play, never to be seen again, or they were removed forcibly when it was time for bed or school and thrown away.
I have also been unable to find a checklist for the stickers anywhere else to link to, most places that I usually use only mentioning the cards. However there are only twenty-seven stickers, which are easy enough to list - and they are ;
- Monster Fingernails
- Creepy Crawlers
- Accidents
- Scalp Wound
- Dragonfly & Caterpillar (same as card 25)
- Safety Pin & Razor Blade
- Anchor and Mermaid
- Flies and Bees
- Hearts
- Arrow Target & Nail
- Butterflies
- Scar Face (same as card 22)
- Beetles and Flying Ant
- Devil`s Disguise
- Traffic Signs #1
- Beard and Moustache
- Spiders and Ants
- Loser`s Kit (same as card 26)
- Eyes
- Flowers
- Good Luck
- Scar-Face (same as card 12)
- Big Eyes
- Traffic Signs #2
- Dragonfly & Caterpillar (same as card 5)
- Loser`s Kit (same as card 18)
- Moth and Butterfly
I am not sure why there are several repeats, unless it was presumed these would be the most used of all. And as they are identical, save the number, that is another burden on the collector, who needs to check the numbers even more carefully than usual.