When it comes to pins, there are a lot of different ways in which they can be painted, or decorated. Most of the time you see solid colored paints, and occasionally a translucent. There is a fairly new trend I’ve notice, and it involves glitter!

Glitter pins, or sparkling pins as I’ve come to call them are really cool, glitter-painted lapel pins that sparkle in the light. The only difference between a regular solid-colored pin and a glitter pins appears to be that glitter flakes are sprinkled into the paint before it dries, resulting in very neat effect.

Most of the pins I’ve seen like this are baseball and softball pins, but I’ve had the chance to collect several other academic and non-sports glitter pins as well. You could even start a mini collection of solely glitter or sparkling pins if you wanted to, separate from your reguarl, sold-colored pins.