You know what this is? This is a shot of a box in which you will find many of the Swarovski crystals in the blue family which have not yet been filed elsewhere. In this you can see capri blue, capri blue ab and aquamarine.
You can also see the very first braces tie my daughter ever had in her mouth. Not very well, I grant you. But there it is. It is also blue. Navy blue, to be precise. They took it off her braces today when they tightened the wires.
She replaced that color with sky blue, eschewing the cool neon green one she wanted because, informed by classmates who have also had braces, it will look as though she has fungus on her teeth. These are the colors she will have to choose from for the next two years: aqua, black, bubblegum pink, clear, fluorescent green, fluorescent orange, fluorescent pink, fluorescent yellow, fuchsia, glow green, gray, green, lavender, maroon, metallic blue, metallic purple, navy blue, orange, pearl, red, royal blue, silver, sky blue, white and yellow. They're used to hold the archwires onto the braces. I think this means they bring the teeth closer to each other through a kind of elastic-y, stretchy kind of thing.
Who knows? In any case, there is a picture of what they look like before you put them on the teeth. I didn't know if you might find yourself itching all night long to know, so I included the info.
Kid is horrified at the idea of saving the thing. Oh well. I have her umbilical cord saved in her baby box, and that horrifies her too. Imagine the horror she would feel if she knew that 'saved' invokes a more reverent kind of thing than the actual umbilical cord dust it crumbled to some years ago, now covering most of the rest of what's in that box.
