YOU Condoms
[ 13 June 2008 ]
See my disclaimer!
Want an unusual gift? Loathe the impracticality of your standard business card? Have a penchant for making balloon animals out of inflated condoms?
Oh, baby! Do I have the thing for you?!
What’s the concept? Well, you choose a picture of yourself, send it in, add a line of text (if you want), then sit back & wait for your personalised condoms to arrive in your, ahem, post box!
It’s a very odd product, to be sure. How many people do you really want to see your face just before they “get freaky”?! It might be good for a porn star, a gynaecologist or a sex writer (I can see Violet Blue rocking these) but I’m hard pressed to think of anyone else! If you used them in place of a business card, you would need to be working in a very liberal industry!
I love them, regardless — I think they’re absolutely hilarious, & have been handing them out to lucky (& unlucky) people all over the place. Who knows whether they will ever be put to good use? In fact, I think I’d prefer not to know!
So, what do you think? Would you use them? Who would you give them to?!
Super-love & cupcakes,
Gala 
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Wow…That would be a pretty fun gift for someone for maybe their 21st birthday or for a bachelorette party or something. Or just to really freak someone out. :)
Those are hysterical!
They’d make a great treat to pass out to all your barfly friends. When I lived in NOLA, every Thursday and Saturday I practically lived in one bar— as did all of my friends. I’d totally pass them out to all of them (and who knows, maybe they would get used!).
I think they’re really cute (oddly cute) and funny. I’ll go make some with Paul McCartney’s face on them just in case we ever meet. Because the moment would be totally worth it.
Holy cow! Those are awesome!
So is the picture on the actual condom or just the wrapper? I can only imagine how wierd ones face would look after it’s been ahem stretched. :O
I just moved into the old brothel-house apartment. Those would definitely make good, uhm, house warming presents! Or really handy Christmas tree decorations or…
Maybe I could just throw them at my boyfriend as a helpful “hint”. ;)
Oh the fun!
Haha! I saw these on your flickr and I think your new nickname suits you perfectly!
I’d love to have been there as you were handing them out!
I love what Jenna said about the hint too! ;P
Well, I hope you and simon have fun putting these to good effect! Do you think you’ll keep one as a souvenier? I can imagine! :D
Thnkas for the laugh…Now off to do TILT (Which is strangley Nan-themed today!).
Vixxie.
P.S I think your disclaimer is not only ass-kickingly justice filled but so so sweet!
My fiance once came up with the, uh, “brilliant” idea of a “tuxedo condom” — which would make the… uh… object in the question look as though it were wearing a little tux & bow-tie. I did not think this was a good idea, but now that I’ve shared it with the world, maybe someone will manufacture it! :) (I love the picture that accompanies this post…)
hahaha i’m getting them for my best friends birthday with my face on
YES
fantastic
Ashe Mischief — They’d make a good gift at Burning Man too, come to think of it!
Elizabeth — Oh my god, imagine meeting someone & having them hand you a condom with your own face on it! That is so very twilight zone.
Jenna — Thankfully it’s just printed on the wrapper, not on the condom itself. That would be HORRIFYING!
Vixxie — I think I’m going to send one to Simon but with a note attached saying that he’s not to put it to use until I get back. Haha! Oh & I’m glad you like my disclaimer, I think it’s an important thing to have :>
Meggy — AHAHAHAAH!! Your comment totally just made me “lol”. Oh, that is so good. Best idea ever. Not exactly an aphrodisiac but TOO funny!
I’m a lucky… Or is it unlucky… Recipient of the gala condom. Hahaha! Not sure what to do with it yet!
That’s hilarious! Though I must say I do like the idea of the condom bearing tux, just makes it that much classier!
Ahahahahahahaha, those are fantastic! I’ve been told I have a gift for awkward situations, and I’m thinking that condoms with my face on them might be amusing to have lying around…
I would fill them up with Helium and then hang them around as decoration for my best friend’s b-day party n_n.
BTW Gala, where are the iCiNG treats for June? Or are they coming out later?
Oh my!!
If I can a condom with Gala Darling on It I would pin it to my wall
This is the cutest
Personally I think they are great maybe not for a business card kind of thing but definitely something to pass out to people on the street especially those with sour faces. Speaking of sour faces it would be great to give one to my neighbor who is being a major B@#$h just to leave them mysteriously and purposefully on her door step in large quantities.
Rose — Aw, honey, I’m sorry you feel that way. But thanks for sticking around as long as you have! Big kisses :>
Juls — They are, um, delayed! In the works :> Sorry to hold you up!
Ashley — I have a whole bunch, maybe I could post you one!
wickedfairy — I think a condom package printed with Pee Wee Herman would be a sight to behold…
Honestly, I think anyone in the arts industry could get away with passing these babies out under the right circumstances. hahaha
Slap your product logo on there and hand ‘em to to promote your new gallery showing, album release, whatever!
I’d be more inclined to get my best guy friend’s face printed on them, then hand them out! I’d give him a handful as well, of course.
I think it would be awkward to have a stash of them (with my own face) in my nightstand drawer, at least with new lovers who are spending the night for the first time!
thats awsome i want one
While I was at school in NYC I won about 70 of those NYC subway themed condoms in a Bingo game (Drag bingo! and all the prizes were from Babeland!!). I sent a bunch of them to my friends back home, unannounced and unexplained, along with a mix CD filled with “sexy songs.” I can only imagine if I sent them condoms with my face! ;D
i really wouldnt use them… im really picky when it comes to condoms,because im allergic to certain lubricants in condoms (hahaha sorry… that was just too many info :P). But i have to admit that they would be great in a bachelorette party!!
lauren — Haha, with his phone number printed underneath?!
Julie — Awesome, an unexpected sex kit! That’s so cute. Did you ever get any feedback? ;>
susana — A lot of lubricant is evil & full of sugar! Instant yeast infection ahoy! Not fun! I have a friend who is allergic to latex which is a total nightmare.
These are fabulous. I think I just found my best friend (who is a little bit of a slut)‘s birthday present. He will love it too, and we can hand them out at Pride that weekend too. Hee.
I’ve been trying to get my friend’s band to put their logo and name on quirky merch items, just to spice things up a bit. Sure the ol’ 1” button never gets old, but I long ago suggested putting “I (heart) ‘insert band name’” on condoms, and now have a means to show him how cool it looks! I’m definitely passing this baby along to him.
Thanks, G ; )
I guess I’m a sort of shamless person. I would give these to all sorts of people for all sorts of reasons. Handing them out as business cards is a great idea but what about including them in job apps for “liberal” companies like pr firms, record labels, magazines, etc.? I’d give some to my friend so his band Copernicus Rex use them in their mailers to record labels. If I weren’t married, I’d probably leave one with my tip at the bar for the cute bartender as hint.
I might even set the in a little bowl at a party. (A place where people are sure to need them later…wink wink)
Very clever and funny :)
I think these would make great cheer up gifts for my boyfriend, who gets let down way too often!
Most people were way into it! I only got one “WTF.” A lot of people wanted to frame them, lol! The best part was when my crush called me to tell me how much he enjoyed it :>
haha that’s hilarious! xD
got me thinking about my med convention coming up.. they always hand out condoms.. this might me a hilarious idea~
There’s something rather awkward about pictures of actual people, but I was pondering what kind of images would be, shall we say, nonthreatening on a condom wrapper, and I’m all for something like this – z.about.com/d/womenshistory/1/...
Don’t know why exactly, but I find it hilariously appropriate. ;)
I’m definitely using these to advertise my graduate art show. Thank you gala!!
these should be icing treats!
emily’s idea is totally hilarious!
I think the idea’s really cute and fun, and it’d be a great way to shock some of those unhappy looking people on the streets.
Oh don’t worry, I just wanted to know about them n_n.
i’d have no real use for them as i’m in a long term relationship so we don’t need to use them and don’t really like to. still love them though. perhaps i wouldn’t get my own face on them. perhaps an obscure thought of some kind so i could leaver them in public places for others to find and become confused about
These would be a great way for people to remember the faces of their one-night-stands. I can imagine promiscuous people having a huge collection of condom wrappers… each one with a different person’s face on. Haha.
Kerry — Oh my god, yes! With a message under the face that said, “You were amazing. 917 554 7632”. HAHAHA!
Long time no write, too bad the bachelorettes for most of my friends are all over, (everyone but me is married now it seems hehe…) anyhow would have loved to ‘personalise’ some as a gag gift. LOL :)
Aww I thought the picture was on the condom itself, not the packet. In that case I don’t find it interesting at all. People can put any image you want on a canvas, a t shirt, a jigsaw puzzle, etc etc, so putting it on a piece of plastic doesn’t enthrawl me at all, hah sorry to be the killjoy of the commenters, I just don’t find it that hilarious/ imaginative of a concept. :P
xoxo
They should make those condoms with famous people on. Or better, condoms which make a face with you stretch them over your… cough… howsyourfather – yknow, like those balloons that say ‘Happy 60th Birthday’ when you blow them up? When the condom is unravelled, the face of the mystery famous person will be revealed! A way of injecting a bit more fun into your sex life XD
“Who did we get this time, honey?”
“Hey, it’s Winston Churchill!”
snorks Harriet that is tooo awesome!!!
Sorry to be a re-poster, Gala, but I just thought of what I would put on mine: “Wish You Were Here”.
(Maybe an image of a palm tree? I dunno. I love the Winston Churchill idea though, brilliant!)
I think you just discovered the best thing ever.
That’s just… hillarious.
I would imagine they would make wonderful birthday cards.
;)
y’know when a baby is born and you get the dad a box of pink or blue cigars… imagine a box of those with the sonogram printed on them.
Meggy – sadly, someone beat your fiance to it, look up Dick’s Formalwear