Week Five - Illuminating candlesticks

So my boyfriend has this obsession with cleaning his ears out with Candlestick Wax removers. It's literally some kind of cloth paper wrapped into a candle stick thing that you stick in your ears and light on fire. You usually put the candle stick through a paper plate and then put the candle stick in your ear so when you cut off the burnt part of the candle stick it won't fall on your face and burn your skin.

My roommates and I didn't have any paper plates so we used a white card board box lid to poke a hole through. So in this picture, my boyfriend's head is underneath the box and the candlestick is going through the box into his ear.

ANYWAY! I took this picture while this was all happening and I thought it was so neat. I loved that there were so many different colors within the fire just because it was a different temperature. I know we see this every time we deal with fire but for some reason with this weird candlestick - wax remover thing, the fire was so unbelievably bright that it illuminated the rest of the room more than our three candles do. The intensity and color is what made the difference in this one.