Ahh, icky paint! That changes so much from paint to paint. I'm sorry you got a bad one.
I particularly remember the afternoon Dad and I painted up under the eaves of the house, and had paint on our hair, faces, shoulders, etc. We stood in the yard with a jar of white spirit each, grooming each other. It wasn't quite a shower in it, but it was fairly extreme.
My skin can be a bit sensitive. It gets very, very dry. Through repeated exposure (like you get if working on an oil painting every day and having the solvent drip down the brush), it gets dry and cracks. Then you get solvent IN the cracks, which burns. Then you get blood dripping on the floor. Then you learn about the Glory of Gloves.
It's never hit me that bad while doing DIY stuff because you usually aren't exposed to solvent for hours, just at clean-up time.
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Date: 2009-02-18 03:25 pm (UTC)From:I particularly remember the afternoon Dad and I painted up under the eaves of the house, and had paint on our hair, faces, shoulders, etc. We stood in the yard with a jar of white spirit each, grooming each other. It wasn't quite a shower in it, but it was fairly extreme.
My skin can be a bit sensitive. It gets very, very dry. Through repeated exposure (like you get if working on an oil painting every day and having the solvent drip down the brush), it gets dry and cracks. Then you get solvent IN the cracks, which burns. Then you get blood dripping on the floor. Then you learn about the Glory of Gloves.
It's never hit me that bad while doing DIY stuff because you usually aren't exposed to solvent for hours, just at clean-up time.