Or, at least, artistic. If you want to try one of these creations out on your own (though, we can't recommend wearing it in the water), you can buy some of Joel's gold and silver tape on his website.

Unlike masking tape, it peels off cleanly once a painting project is over. Plus, when removed, masking tape may also take some of the new paint job (or wall itself) with it.

A young 3M salesman in 1925 found the winning combination of a flexible paper backing and an adhesive with an ideal tackiness ...

Palmer, who was a member of the Australian 4x200m freestyle relay team which won gold at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, tested positive to low levels of a banned masking agent in 2013 but she was not ...

He applied it to a crepe paper backing, which gave the tape the ability to stretch and adapt to curves and contours. In 1925, 3M released Drew’s invention, the Scotch brand masking tape.