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Hey guys, what's up? It's me Cristine!
And today I've got the brightest, sparkliest, coolest nail design done with highlighters.
Because why use nail polish on your nails when you can use school supplies?
But look, don't they look so juicy like candy and so delicious?
I licked them and they didn't taste good so...
Don't try that.
Now before I actually put this stuff on my nails,
I did a few experiments. And I'd like to show you those experiments.
Because we believe in science on this channel.
If you don't care about my experiments, then you can skip ahead to this time code.
But you should want to watch them,
because it's basically like your science class in school...
But way more fun.
So I'll leave it up to you: Watch all my video,
or do your science homework.
So what you've been seeing is the brand new 'Simply Neat MIRACLE MAT',
and it's what I'm going to use to perform my experiments on.
For those of you who saw my other video on a similar mat...
Yes, the Uber Mat is exactly the same as the Simply Neat mat when it comes to the silicone material.
Bundle Monster also has one too,
I'd say that the only real difference between them
is that this mat has these raised circle things.
It becomes like a little swimming pool for acetone,
or acrylic paint, or glitter,
and all sorts of things so they don't go all over the place.
For this tutorial, I won't need this part of the mat,
but it may be something useful for you.
So if you want a mat like this, honestly, any of these three will do,
I put the links for all three down below,
and you can check 'em out and decide what's best for you.
Ooh!
Now look at that sparkly silver holo...
In effort to make the highlighters sparkle,
I wanted to paint them over top of a holo glitter.
But first, which holo glitter do I use?
And I think it's pretty obvious that the one on the left is way more jam-packed with silver holo glitters.
Even though I'm trying to pump up the brush on the one on the right,
it's just not quite as satisfying.
I put the link down below to my favorite.
And now I'm applying a peel-off base coat,
because anytime you wear glitter,
you're gonna wanna peel it off.
First because it's annoying to take off otherwise,
and second, because it's really satisfying to peel it off.
Speaking of satistfying peeling things,
I'm applying some Simply Peel around my nail so I can easily sponge on the holo glitter,
and not have to worry about making a mess all over my finger.
Why am I sponging on the glitter?
because that's the best way to put glitter polish on your nail
and get maximum glitter coverage
the makeup sponge acts as a sponge, go figure
to absorb the jelly in the polish
leaving more glitters behind
OOH!
so much spongey goodness!
and then i simply peeled it off
like no big deal
oh yeah back to experiments, we should probably actually start those
I"m using the less concentrated silver holo glitter for my experiments
because I don't wanna waste my favorite one!
and I'm just filling in a bunch of boxes on the mat
with the silver holo glitter
cause we're gonna do a bunch of different experiments with the highlighters
on one of the boxes i added a quick dry top coat
because I'm curious to know if the highlighters actually go better over top coat than just the glitter
let's label this so I dont forget
I am drawing upside down.
now check out my shit load of highlighters
who knew there were so many kinds
let's just call this regular highlighters
liquid highlighters
and gel highlighters? weird.
let's start off with regular highlighters
cause i know you've all seen these before
you know highlighting your textbook that you don't actually read
they're applying okay
but I think I'm getting a little bit of pooling
is that the word I'm looking for
as in its not really infultrating all through the holo glitters
it's kind of sticking in some sections
but the colors are blending together quite nicely
oh look now it's like a sparkly rainbow gradient
I love it
let's mark it with a R for regular
and now let's try liquid highlighters
liquid highlighters were always my favorite kind of highlighter in school
because they are so much more satisfying with their juicy, inky, flow.
oooooh,
look at all those juicy colors
can someone please also confirm
that this is their favorite kind of highlighter for the same reason
so I don't feel like such a crazy person
either way, look at how awesome this result is
yeah these highlighters are clearly way more saturated
in color, they are brighter and more vivid
and they blend together better than the regular highlighters
you! you are so basic!
I label it L for liquid
and I don't even know if highlighter comes off this mat
I hope it does!
and on to the last highlighter
gel highlighter
it kinda looks like a thawing popsicle
or maybe a shaved carrot
k this colors weirder than a highlighter should color
it reminds me of a wax crayon
CRAYon i know
i say crayon like crown
whatever, blame it on the Canada
well this looks like shit
either that or a delisious snow cone
that i kinda want to lick
this highlighter doesn't even draw properly!
i wrote a G i swear, there's a G there
look see I told you you'd actually learn something useful for school
Don't get gel highlighters
alright now let's take our favorite highlighter type
the liquid one, and try it over a top coat
because an experiment isn't finished until you've covered all the possibilities
and I'm getting a weird pooling effect
pressumably because the top coat acts as a resistant barrier
let's try the gel one again just for shits and giggles
it's still ugly
ok both of these experiments failed, let's go back to our winner
so now I'm taking the winning highlighter set, and color by color I'm gonna draw on a rainbow
it's really that simply
when you put on the next color if you overlap it a bit
on the previous color, then you get a bit of a blending effect so it's like a real gradient
ooh! girl that pink is so pretty and look at that purple blend
it's magic
and then we do the orange
and then the yellow
don't forget the tip!
I decided I want the colors to be a little bit brighter so I just went over some of the colors a second time
just make sure when you're doing this that you apply light pressure with your highlighter tip
and don't like stab it into your nail
I did that on my other finger and this is what happened
when you're satisfied with your colors add a glossy top coat
and now everyone at school gonna be jelly of you
wow, so beautiful, and holo, and rainbow, and sparkly, and all the things that are good in this world
how easy was that and it took like, zero time
to do it on my nails once we got past all the experiments
in fact, it's so easy and takes so little time
that you could probably do this in class
just thought I'd plant that idea in your head
don't tell your mother that part.
Oh yeah, i should proabaly clean off this mat
so it's really easy to clean up these mats, you just peel up the dry polish
oh no! we forgot to look at what is on my other hand today
how could you forget christine
i can't for the life of me find who suggested this, but one of you on youtube
said I should do a 'What's on my other hand?' thing
and today it's this gorgeous black holo
it's got holo glitter and a black holo base with gorgeous flakes throughout
and you can see all the colors of the rainbow
I put the link down below for this polish
and that's it for today's What's On My Other Hand
as it seems lots of you are curious to know
stop procrastinating, start cleaning
i just took a cotton pad soaked in acetone and rubbed it all around the mat
and it took off the highlighter no problem
thank god
cause i would be pissed if i ruined this
scrub a little harder to get the glitters off and BAM! your mat is clean so you can start all over
just when you thought i couldn't make this video any longer, I'm going to make it even longer
with some peel porn
cause it's just oh, so satisfing
to see me peel it off
mmh
you my favorite peel off base coat I love you
alright, thanks so much for watching and see y'all next time, bye!