Like a virgin white heart pasties - pasties discontinued by Bristols 6 - review by Jul!a

Overview/Use: Pasties are good for any time you want to cover up your nipples without wearing a bra, for whatever reason you choose to be going braless. These particular pasties are great for long term coverage that's comfortable, but they aren't reusable.

Packaging: These (and most of the other Bristols 6 pasties) come in a nice envelope with a total of 4 pasties, two smaller patches, and 4 nipple pads. Mine came with 5 little nipple pads. The top flap of the envelope has directions for how to use them. The envelope is nice because it doesn't take up much room at all, but also acts as storage. You can fit more than one card inside of it, so if you wanted one place to keep all of your Bristols 6 pasties, you can do that.

What you get inside: Ok, I already mentioned what came in the packaging, but I wanted to talk a little bit more about the pasties themselves before moving on. Our of the 4 larger heart shaped pasties, two are solid and two have a lace like pattern on them. The lace one is going to be a bit more see through in use than the solid one. The solid one feels a lot like satin, where the lace one is still soft but a bit more noticeable to the fingers. Each of the larger hearts measures about 2 3/4" across at the widest, and 2 1/2" from the tallest part of the top of the heart to the point at the bottom, and 2" from the point where the curves meet to the point at the bottom. The protective nipple pads measure just about 1 1/8" across. The smaller hearts are just over 1" at their widest, and are meant to be sort of a patch test for the adhesive before actually wearing the larger ones out, however you can use them as decoration leading up to the real pasties, or if your nipples are small enough you can wear them as pasties.

How to use them/How they work: You'll want to make sure beforehand that you're putting these onto clean, dry skin. Them being wet or having lotion or oil will keep the adhesive from sticking. If you like your nipples, you'll want to make sure to keep those smaller pads around. If you have large nipples, I suggest getting them hard before putting the pasty on, because if it doesn't fit under the tiny nipple pad, it'll end up under the adhesive, and I can't see that feeling pleasant to remove. After you peel off one half of the heart's adhesive, you'll stick one of those pads on so that it's about centered with the whole design, then attach the exposed half to your breast, smooth it out, then remove the other half of the backing and smooth that out You'll want to smooth everything from the center out to avoid trapping any air bubbles. That pad goes over your nipple so that it's protected from the adhesive on the back of the pasties. The heart design does make it hard to make them feel completely balanced, since they are a bit top heavy design wise, but it shouldn't bother most people. If you have pierced nipples, unless you've got a large hoop in you shouldn't have much of a problem either. I have barbells in my nipples and you can barely see an indentation through the pasty. They're almost impossible to notice under clothing (unless you're wearing something that's see through), and are comfortable to wear for extended periods of time. They recommend no more than 8 hours, but I've had different pasties from the same brand on for closer to 18 hours before with no problems. When taking them off, I'd recommend doing it like a bandaid; as fast as you can. The adhesive does stick really well and while they're not the most painful things ever to remove, they're not exactly painless either.

What do you do with them afterwards? Well, there's not much you can really do with these after you use them. I mostly just throw them out, but you can tape them to your mirror or somewhere else as a small decoration.

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In working on a rather large tattoo piece, I've got a few sessions behind me and a few sessions ahead of me that require that I don't wear a bra. I like to wear these while I'm actually getting tattooed because if one of my boobs manages to escape while I'm under the needle (like it did this last time) then I don't have to worry about accidentally flashing the whole parlor. For the healing process where I can't wear a bra, I opt more for loose shirts and sweatshirts rather than these since they're a bit pricey for just day to day wear. But for occasion after occasion, I've gotten my money's worth out of these, and I wouldn't hesitate to recommend them to anybody who needs a good pasty that will hold and stay put and be comfortable for hours on end.