How to create fire on your hand

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Steps
Method 1 of 2: Using a Gas Lighter
Method 2 of 2: Using a flammable hand sanitizer
Tips
Warnings
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Some spectacular fire tricks can be shown with the help of improvised household tools and using quite simple methods. However, it should always be remembered that extreme caution and adult supervision is always required when working with flammable liquids. You can impress your friends with tricks worthy of a real circus show, or even fool them into thinking you are a real lord of fire. For more information, skip to the first step of the article.

WARNING: Be extremely careful. Handling flammable liquids without proper protective equipment is not recommended.

Steps

Method 1 of 2: Using a Gas Lighter

1 Take precautions. If you are going to perform this trick, you should take appropriate precautions so as not to set your house on fire and cause burns. To perform this trick, go outside, find an area of free space without dense vegetation around and other combustible objects. In case you need to quickly extinguish the fire, you should have a bucket of water on hand, and you should also invite an adult to look after you during the trick.
- If you wear gloves for protection, you should use old leather gloves or coated garden gloves that will fit your hands tightly and have a sufficiently strong surface in the palm area. While bulky, heat-resistant fabric gloves provide excellent protection against burns, the trick with cloth gloves is usually not feasible and can even become more dangerous.Bulky, heat-resistant gloves often extinguish flames at the root, and regular fabric gloves can absorb liquid gas, increasing the likelihood of the gloves themselves catching fire and getting burned.
2 Make a fist, leaving a gap between your little finger and palm. Clench your fist, leaving enough space inside it so you can freely insert the end of the lighter. Your fingers should be clenched relatively tightly so that gas does not seep between them when you start filling your fist with them. The upper opening of the fist, where the index finger touches the palm, should be pinched with the thumb.
- Try to imagine holding water in your fist and trying to prevent it from spilling out. The trick, in essence, is to fill the fist with gas and set it on fire when the hand is opened.
3 Insert the end of the lighter into your fist. Insert the end of the lighter with the chair into your hand deep enough so that you can fill the cavity created by the fist with gas. It is not enough just to bring the lighter to the lower edge of your palm, you just need to insert the lighter inside.
4 Press and hold the gas button for 5 seconds. To start the trick, you must press the gas button. Don't strike a spark by turning the wheel of the seat, just press the button.
- Different performers of this trick hold the button longer or less, depending on the intensity of the gas supply from the lighter, as well as on how large the fireball needs to be created. For extra caution, it is better to stick to a time of five seconds, this is quite enough for the accumulation of the required amount of gas, giving a relatively brief flash of a fireball.
- Once you get used to using the lighter during the stunt, you can try creating a larger fireball by holding the gas button for ten seconds or a little longer if you like. However, you need to start small. This trick is dangerous, you should not try to jump above your own head.
5 Move the lighter away from your fist and light the flame. After the countdown of five seconds, you need to act quickly so that the gas does not have time to dissipate. Move the lighter about 30 centimeters from your fist, and then light it with a spark and turn the gas back on.
- Never strike a spark while the lighter is in your fist filled with gas. This is extremely dangerous.
6 Bring the flame to the hole in your fist near your little finger and open your palm. Quickly bring the lighted lighter to your fist, at the same time opening your palm and removing all fingers one by one, starting with the little finger. Act quickly. The gas will ignite and burn quickly. From the outside it will look as if you can "control" the flame, generating fireballs with your palm.
- It will take some practice to get things done together. You need to fan your fingers away from the lighter, opening the little finger first, then the ring finger, and so on. If you open all your fingers at once, the gas may not ignite, and if you don't open your fist, you can burn yourself. Under no circumstances should you leave your fist clenched.

Method 2 of 2: Using a flammable hand sanitizer

1 Be extra careful. This method describes a common party trick that is popular on YouTube, but should only be used with extreme caution and should only be performed under adult supervision. If you don't act quickly and safely, self-harm is not difficult.
2 Purchase a flammable hand sanitizer. This type of trick involves setting fire to a small amount of disinfectant and quickly interacting with the fire, followed by immediate extinguishing. To do the trick, you need to find the right alcohol-based disinfectant: look for "ethyl" or "isopropyl" alcohol.
- It is very likely that some disinfectant liquids will contain many ingredients, others one or two, however, the presence of one of the above two alcohols in the product will make it flammable, depending on the presence of other components. Nowadays, more and more alcohol-free disinfectants appear that are not suitable for the trick. Be sure to read the composition of the product on the label, otherwise the trick may not work.
3 Take proper precautions. The idea behind the trick is to spread a small amount of disinfectant in a thin layer over the surface and set it on fire, followed by very quickly run your finger over the burning surface and immediately extinguish it. It is very important to use gloves for this trick, and you also need to have a bucket of water on hand to put out the fire if necessary.
- Find a suitable heat-resistant surface to work on. To perform this trick, you should sit outside, preferably on a concrete surface, away from any flammable objects. The smoother the ground, the better. Clear the area from all combustible objects: branches, turf, paper. You need to make sure that nothing other than the disinfectant will catch fire.
4 Spread a thin layer of alcohol-based disinfectant over the concrete and ignite. Squeeze out a small amount of disinfectant and spread it evenly over the concrete with your fingers. Wipe off the disinfectant liquid from your fingers so they don't catch fire prematurely. While the alcohol has not evaporated, take a lighter and light the oiled surface. It should light up with a barely noticeable bluish flame.
- It is better to perform the trick at night to make the glow of the flame more visible. However, the lighting should be sufficient so that you can understand exactly what you are doing. You can try the trick in the evening, when there is moderate natural light and the flames are already noticeable.
- Under no circumstances do not lubricate your hands with disinfectant and ignite it on your hands. The trick works because of the speed at which you perform it, not because the disinfectant burns safely. Such actions will be extremely dangerous, you will get severe burns. Do not do that.
5 Quickly slide one finger over the burning disinfectant layer. If you do this quickly, you can pick up some of the burning disinfectant with your finger, which gives a fleeting impression of burning fingers. After completing this step, you will not have much time to admire the spectacle, as you will get burns if you let your fingers burn for more than 1-2 seconds.
- You should feel hot or a strange combination of hot and cold. Hand sanitizer usually creates a cooling sensation that can be confused with heat. Either way, you won't have enough time to really feel something. You just run your finger over the surface, look at it for a second and extinguish the flame.
6 Put out the flame by shaking it vigorously with your hand. The best way to extinguish a flame is to shake it off. Attempting to blow out a flame can dislodge the disinfectant, which is potentially hazardous. You cannot wait: you must extinguish the flame immediately after touching it, otherwise you will get burns.
- Keep water nearby and dip your hand in it if necessary. Do not wait for all the alcohol to burn out, you risk getting serious burns.

Tips

After successfully honing your fireball trick, try to learn how to throw balls.
The trick can be performed on other surfaces as well. Try using a table or the bottom of a bottle or glass. Make sure the surface is heat resistant beforehand.
Proceed quickly as the flammable material may evaporate.

Warnings

Keep your hand away from your own body and from other people. Burning scalp hair is not good.
When performing the trick for the first time, be sure to invite an observer so that they can help you if you accidentally singe yourself.
Always be careful when playing with fire. Do not practice the trick near flammable objects and children.