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**Watermelon Glow Glass Skull — LARGE — Green & Pink in Daylight, Glows Strong Orange Under 365nm UV!**
**$16 each — listing is for ONE skull**
A skull with two personalities. In daylight these big glass skulls wear their "watermelon" colors — swirls of green and pink with an iridescent, oil-slick sheen that shifts as you turn them in the light. Then hit one with a 365nm UV light and the whole skull lights up from the inside with a strong, even orange glow — eye sockets, teeth, and all. At 3.2 ounces each, the large size has real heft in the hand and makes a serious display piece for a UV shelf, a Halloween setup, or any skull collection that's missing one that glows.
**What it is:** This is a man-made glass skull — molded and finished glass with a watermelon-colored iridescent ("aura"-style) surface treatment, disclosed right up front. It is not a natural crystal or mineral, and the green-and-pink color play and the glow both come from how the glass is made and finished, not from a stone. The UV reaction is the real deal, though: under 365nm longwave the glass fluoresces a strong orange, brightest through the thinner areas, so the carved details — eyes, nose, teeth — stand out in relief, just like the photos.
**A little background:** Glass skulls ride on a long tradition. Skulls have been carved from stone and crystal for centuries (the famous "crystal skulls" of the 1800s turned out to be carved quartz, cut with modern tools of their day), and glass versions carry the same look into a material glassmakers have worked for over 3,000 years — glass itself dates to ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt. Iridescent finishes are old glass craft too: 19th-century carnival glass got its rainbow sheen from metallic salts, and modern "aura" finishes use a vapor-deposited metal-oxide layer to get the same shifting color play. Fluorescent glass has its own collector world — uranium glass and cadmium glass glow under UV — and these skulls bring that same light-it-up fun in a watermelon-colored skull.
**Please note:** This is a decorative man-made glass piece — NOT a natural mineral, and NOT a Yooperlite. The orange glow is a property of the glass under 365nm UV, not of a fluorescent stone.
**Details:**
- Man-made glass skull with watermelon (green & pink) iridescent finish — fully disclosed
- LARGE size — 3.2 ounces each
- Fluoresces a strong orange under 365nm longwave UV (see photos)
- You'll receive ONE skull from this batch; the green/pink balance varies from skull to skull — some run greener, some pinker
- Photos show the actual batch, in white light and under 365nm UV
- Decorative use only — not a toy, not food-safe
**Care:** It's glass — it will chip or break if dropped on a hard surface, so set it somewhere stable. The iridescent finish is a surface treatment: dust with a soft dry or slightly damp cloth, don't scrub it, use abrasive cleaners, or put it in an ultrasonic cleaner.
