Using some of the hot color fire hole stone tung beads on some of the lighter colors of that material ( if it gets translucent enough when wet ) would make awesome weighted blood dots using the 2nd tying method.
I’ve had a similar experience as you. I hate tying glo bugs so started using beads which I also don’t enjoy although it’s super effective. I’ve presently been tying sucker spawn type flies and caught a decent jack steelhead yesterday on one and I got that feel good feeling of using a hand tied fly. I’ve tied Devon’s tungsten taco and those work good too.
So I have this material and I'm considering making these with a blood dot. Gonna try to tie in the blood red with some of the other colors and see if I can get it to look like a blood dot egg