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My first trade was in the artist alley at Katsucon 2010, back in February. This girl spotted my kandi and got excited and asked to trade. I can't quite remember which piece I gave her, but she said something like, "You know what? You're not wearing enough pink, here." And she gave me this adorable little single that's different shades of pink glow-in-the-dark beads. =3 I was very excited!

EDiT:: Also, speaking of "first trades," it wasn't -my- first, at this past Otakon, I gave one new raver his very first kandi. I took his hand and attempted to untangle one of my singles from my arm and slide it onto his... but it didn't quite work. So for a few minutes we danced hand-in-hand with the kandi connecting us. Then I finally got it unstuck and gave it to him. xDD He didn't have any kandi to trade back, so he gave me one of those little string friendship bracelets, which I have not taken off since the con.

D'awwww. I love giving kandi to new ravers or people who don't
have any kandi. I gave this girl a kirby cuff as her first kandi and
her eyes lit up and she was so happy. I also gave this raver named
snoopy a kandi necklace that had a big snoopy stuffed animal on
it. He nearly cried when I traded it.


ALso a question to everyone. Do you guys do the Peace, love,
and then the trade?
This one girl does this handshake but most I know do the whole
kandi trading ritual. Arizona is big on kandi.

They are.

Now onto the dark side.... This ******** came up to me tonight asking
for kandi and I say "I'm sorry. I don't have anymore to give out."
And he says "Yeah you do. look at all of those on your arm." And I
say these are all from other people. And he says "Pft. Mine is more
awesome." He had only singles and he shows me a single with a '
gorilla. And I say "Did you make that?" and he says "I don't make
kandi. I just get them. And I give out the sucky kinds." That really
pisses me off. Like you have no clue.

Oh and a cute story. Tonight I bumped into this guy I haven't seen
or heard from in forever. And After we talk and re-exchange numbers
we part ways. And I look at my arm and I still have a kandi I made
that says "DANCE" And how we first met was at a rave and he was
just standing there and I was like "Dance!" And after awhile he
starts dancing. So it's really cute. and I gasped when I saw it
on my arm and remembered.

I've gotten lots of kandi from people (one at every rave I've gone to) but my first actual trade, for a piece I had made, just happened!

This past saturday I went to a Rave called "Soundwave" and I met the most hardcore kandi kid I've met to date. I don't remember his name but he had the kandi all over his arms like the rest of us, THEN he had singles, cuffs, 3Ds you name it, COVERING his belt. Just hanging off it. I was amazed. He asked if I had any tradeables and I noticed him eyeballing my Bendy flower (you know the big ones with the little happy faces, usually made out of felt or some other soft material) 3D. I said maybe and that was before I even saw his massive amounts of Kandi. He ended up offering a Spyro cuff (pics in my raver blog of all this) with a little spyro figurine on it. It was f'ing adorable, so needless to say we traded. Both cuffs were much to small to slip over 'Respect' so we did our PLUR then just handed them to each other. I'm still wearing it, I love it so much.

My first kandii trade was like...6 years ago, back when Friend Trains were running rampant on MySpace bulletins, and was a total coincidence.

One girl just stood out to me, her hair was this pure black color in the back and purple and pink in the front, in a crazy all-over-the-place style. We started talking and had so much in common, in interests and physical appearance [[face/body]], that we started calling ourselves twins. After a couple of months, we exchanged addresses to be penpals.

I decided to make her a custom piece of kandii that had her rave name on it and mail it off to her as a surprise, and when I got a similar looking package in the mail I thought "Wow that was quick" and saw she had mailed me a custom piece of kandii with my name on it. It was pretty awesome that neither of us had agreed to a kandii trade, and neither of us knew what the other was doing.

We still talk about it today, and every year on our anniversary of meeting, we do a kandii trade. This year she's getting 2 pieces though, since she's getting married and all smile

My first one was at my first real rave event, was dancin and this girl walks up and starts talkin to me and she's like... wanna trade, said yuss of course XD, went up to see showtek in seattle this summer and got a few pieces from kandi kids there, it was amazing, the lineup was sick and showtek didn't disappoint, lookin foward to goin to a ton more this year =D