This page was created to provide further information about glamour bombs in support of the Glamourbombing community on Livejournal. The views expressed here are entirely those of the creators of this page.

How did glamour bombing originate?

From 1995 to 1998, I created and maintained a mailing list called "DarkFae". It became a nexus for people interested in faerie, magic, alchemy, and many related esoteric subjects. Around 1997, from a dialogue among members of the forum, there arose the concept of glamour bombing. Immediately this concept met with wide approval and enthusiasm among the members of the DarkFae forum, and collectively they set out to perform simultaneous glamour bombings on the Summer Solstice.

Initial glamour bombs were intended to take place at significant times, such as solstices and equinoces (at such moments when the veil is thinnest), but in time the concept came to be more loosely an everyday activity. Any opportunity to bring wonder and magic into the world is a good one.

Before the end of the decade, I closed the DarkFae-L list, and glamour bombing was preserved in the individual activities of the former members. The original vision of glamour bombing has found a new home at the Glamour Bombing Livejournal community. There are other communities carrying different interpretations of GBing on LJ, most of which focus on the "glitter" bombing practice.