hey everybody welcome back to another episode of me trying out sketchy art supplies that make me
want to pull my hair out the art supplies that i'm reviewing today they're from a little tiny
not really well known small local i'm just kidding they're not it's actually the complete opposite
of that today i'm going to be reviewing art supplies from the absolute behemoth of fast fashion
shein.com shein is one of the biggest online clothing retailers and they're known for being
one of the cheapest places to buy clothes on the internet recently shein.com has recently
expanded past just selling clothes they sell women's clothes men's clothes they sell makeup
now stuff for pets and recently they started a section for stationery aka art supplies and it's
been about a year and a half since shein.com has started selling stationery with art supplies and
since that time i have gotten countless countless people asking me to review their art supplies
now i do have to say that before we get into this video there is an absolute huge and i repeat huge
disclaimer to this video i'm just gonna say it completely flat uh shein definitely does not have a
good reputation online at all shein unfortunately is one of the biggest websites when it comes to
fast fashion and probably one of the biggest culprits because their prices are so cheap and
fast fashion is basically this endless cycle where something will go on trend the company will make
it very cheaply very quickly we buy it wear it for like three weeks throw it away and that whole
entire cycle of just trying to keep up with the fashion trends just never never ends until we die
and besides the environment it's just not good for your wallet it's not good for your self-esteem but
one of the reasons this makes it so controversial is because on the other hand there's a lot of
people who are living paycheck to paycheck and the only clothes they can afford is really cheap
places like shein.com and maybe they live like for example in an area where i do where there's
like hardly any thrift shops available there's maybe one or two clothing stores and they're just
not able to afford like more high-end clothes that are more sustainable it is a very controversial
subject and i encourage everybody who is currently watching this after this video watch a few video
essays here on youtube just type in shein like so many people have made videos about shein
in fact i'll even link one down below that goes over like both sides of the spectrum
in the past before i knew about shein and how problematic they were i definitely did used to
shop at shein but ultimately after learning about their past controversies i decided that working
with shein and also purchasing from shein is just not for me anymore so what you're about to see is
my personal last time shopping from shein.com and the biggest thing when it comes to fashion
is that if you like something it makes you feel good you spent your hard-earned money on that
that's it that's all that matters it doesn't matter if something's outdated or if it's cheugy
or whatever as long as you like it it fits you well and you love the way it feels that's all
that should matter your individual style that you make up will never go out of fashion because you
made it okay and that's all period i know it only seemed like a minute but i actually talked for 40
minutes to my camera oh my gosh so let's go ahead and start okay let's see what we're working with
okay so the first thing i want to say is right off the bat i'm missing some items i ordered this like
scratch paper that's like a scratch pad where you scratch onto it and it shows the color underneath
and looking through all of this stuff it's not here and i haven't got any notifications
of a refund or anything like that so right off the bat they charged me for something
that just isn't here all right so the first thing that i want to try out that really caught my mind
is this 10 piece random gel eraser it's basically like a little tool that erases gel pen i only
spent $1.50 cents and out of the 208 people that have reviewed this it has four and a half stars
and that's a reoccurring theme that you'll see with shein is that everything is somehow
suspiciously five stars here is my gel pen this one is by gelly roll so let me rub on my gel pen
now supposedly these sticks are supposed to erase the gel pen here's what they look like i don't
know why they gave me 10 different pieces like this is a package of this is a package of 10.
so let's try this out oh my nails i forgot to paint my nails
oh my god sorry my plan is to erase a straight line and we'll see if this works
am i doing something wrong or
i don't know if you guys can see that it's kind of rubbing some of the glitter
off onto the stick but it's not erasing it at all maybe it's like whenever it's still wet it wipes
it off so let me try let me try really quickly if it when it's still wet okay it's still wet
maybe when they said gel pen maybe they just meant like regular ballpoint pens so let me go
get just like everyday run-of-the-mill pen and we'll see if it erases that
and this one should work so let's see
yeah no somehow i feel like this one is even worse than the other one
i'm gonna give it one more chance with just this regular black pen and maybe just maybe it'll work
yeah okay this one's not working at all either and i wanted these
to work so bad i thought it was such a cool thing but it's just like not gonna work sad
now for this next item i'm not gonna lie it's very cheap for what it is this is a six piece
pencil shaped eraser and if you've never seen it it's literally an eraser that's in the shape
of a pencil i usually buy them from faber castell and they usually run me about six dollars for one
so to have six of these for only a dollar a piece that's not that's actually not bad okay
this has 69 reviews and of course it's a perfect five stars so let's check it
out so yeah right off the bat this isn't bad so far uh the packaging appears to be pretty okay
not beat up at all the pencils are very large full size so far this doesn't seem bad at all
the top one will be my favorite castel my more
high-end one and the bottom one of course will be my shein one
that's a plot development i was not expecting
the faber castell one is not erasing at all as good as this like cheap shein one
dude and i spent so much money on this but the shein one erases completely and my favorite
castel one is leaving a lot of like muddy texture behind oh my gosh but on the other hand because
this sheen eraser is really really hard it's basically tearing up the paper underneath it but
i'm not gonna lie i like the cheap price of these so i'm gonna have to give these a 5 out of 10.
hi so it's currently the next day i ended up taking a lunch break and then after that
i just got too tired and fell asleep and i slept for like 12 hours so i should be like completely
revitalized at this point now for this next item i just want to say that it was a really good price
for this item i mean of course it was it's shein.com this is a one-piece vintage drawing
book it has 2 300 reviews and it was only $3 so the thing that made me pick
this sketchbook over other sketchbooks that they offered is the fact that this
is toned paper now if you don't know toned paper is exactly what it sounds like it's
paper that has coloring in it so that it's not a perfect white but usually either a gray or a brown
and as a result of the toned paper you're just able to get a beautiful range from all the way
to the darkest darks to the brightest highlights and now that it came in i noticed that the book
is completely white paper i'm looking at the reviews and a lot of the public reviews
all of their paper isn't like a stark white like this one is all of their paper is toned
now as far as like the actual paper itself goes i'm not gonna lie it's incredibly thin it's
basically like the equivalent of printer paper between like a cardboard backing
the only problem that i personally find when it comes to really thin paper like this is watch this
i wrote my name and the second that i turn it over it immediately bleeds through the next page
oh man so it didn't bleed through just once it went one two three four
five six pages it bled just like my handwriting alone went through six different pages let's see
how well this bad boy picks up an eraser uh so yeah just as i suspected it is having a hard time
picking up the eraser i'm kind of in disbelief right now that it's not even erasing like the
lightest touch that i did so i'm gonna perform this exact same test on a piece of printer paper
and i swear to god this one better not work better than the shein one this literal printer paper
oh my gosh okay no that's weird i performed the exact same test on the printer paper and
the actual cheap walmart printer paper is having a much easier time erasing than the shein paper
on the printer paper you can't even tell the area where i like lightly shaded it because it
was able to erase so well but that is absolutely not the case when it comes to the shein paper
oh my god i kind of feel bad for ragging on this paper i'm going to give it one compliment to
make sure its self-esteem stays up i really like the cardboard flap on top i think this is really
cool because you get to basically design your own cover and i'm sure if you were very light-handed
and maybe wanted to practice not messing up maybe this book would be for you but for me personally
the fact that it's having a hard time erasing the fact that it's so thin it's kind of transparent
just the fact that writing my name was able to indent it through six different pages
i just don't think this sketchbook is worth the three dollars honestly
if i had to rate this i would probably say a four out of ten
now i have a few things left but before i get to the absolute disaster of the last thing
i want to end this on a second to high note because there is one item that i think is just
going to absolutely knock it out of the park basically what this is is an all-in-one as you
can see it has a palette it has a place to put your brushes it has a place to clean your brushes
and of course mix your paint and i hate that i'm about to say this but this one is expensive coming
in at $12 and when i say expensive i mean that in the sense of shein because everything we've
done has been i think under five dollars okay so right off the bat this thing is pretty large
for just like a normal palette i feel like this one is pretty large already i'm pretty impressed
with it the plastic feels very very thick it's not easy to bend this is some good asmr right here
and again this is really thick just like me yeah never mind it has 18 slots you can put your
paint you can put your water in there and here is where you keep your water you clean off your
brushes on the inside it has ribs where you can rub the brush it also has a really rough area for
dry acrylic paint as you can see it has multiple brush holders and i think you could even put some
brushes on the inside in here like wet brushes on the inside whoa talk about multifunctional
it's open
oh look at the princess can i can you bring her so i could show everybody guys i got a new
puppy and she got her jacketed look how nice wow look how nice look how nice i just got her
recently her name is chia right now she's 12 weeks old
so yeah i just wanted to share that I got a new puppy but anyway let's try this thing out again
so i'm going to put a little bit of green a little bit of yellow in theory you would get
your paint like this you would put it on this section here to mix it up then you would paint
paint paint paint and here's the real test which is cleaning off the paint brush
moment of truth oh oh she's clean oh and then once you're done you can like dry it off with
this thing right here on the side and then oh and i forgot to mention it has a little carrying
case on top of that i like this one a lot i'm going to give this one a 10 out of 10.
now for this last item guys
i obviously had to open the package whenever i was like
getting all the stuff and i immediately saw this item and how it came and i was so over it from the
start so what this is this is a one sheet blackout wall sticker it has 2485 reviews again almost a
perfect five stars and i guess the price isn't bad because it was only one dollar fifty cents
you know which for a giant sticker this size i i'm pretty okay with that but because shein only ships
in bags look how this came in the mail so before i show you this just remember it's supposed to be a
sticker you're supposed to put it on your wall stick it on completely flat and unfortunately
this is how it came it came completely bent and it's not just in this one area
it's like an entire 360 bend so let me open this bad boy up and see what the situation is
oh let's see if it's so
oh it came with chalk i thought i was gonna have to run to walmart or something and go pick up some
chalk okay cool that kind of makes up for it all right so let's see how long this thing is
oh i thought it was gonna be way longer on the picture it showed
way way longer so this is how big it is compared to the picture from what it showed
oh she is wrinkly i can't stick any of this on the walls because my landlord
will get very upset with me so i'm just going to stick it to my desk
i guess because the sticker is so thin that
once it's wrinkled it's just always going to be wrinkled
and i have a wet paper towel here let's see if i can erase it okay yeah it erases very very well
this paper feels very very thin if you've ever felt true chalk paper you know that
it's much thicker than this stuff right here but i think when it comes down to shein everything
that they make it seems that it's only meant to be used for a very short amount of time
because everything that i bought so far even though they do work they're just so easy to
destroy if that makes sense i can see somebody buying this for like their kid but i feel like
if you wanted to use this on a day-by-day basis i feel like this would probably not be
the best so if i had to rate this i would say this is a 5 out of 10. now i know technically
all of these things aren't necessarily art materials they're more art supplies and tools
so i'm gonna try to make a drawing with everything included and we'll see what my final thoughts are
my final thoughts for shein.com besides the fact that they're so controversial
most of the art supplies it was just okay as far as all of these art supplies go the quality is
and i think this applies for the entirety of shein it's just not made to last
it's made to only be used a couple of times so as far as like shopping exclusively at shein for
art supplies i don't recommend it i enjoyed the eraser pencils the palette and the tortillon and by
the way i'm sorry i didn't get a chance to work on this more i wish i would have had more time
it's just that i am going to be moving this week to a new state so yeah i'm sorry the
videos have been so scarce lately i've just been sick and then like
moving if you guys want to see an empty house tour please let me know down below and yeah with that
being said i'll leave my broke artist playlist here don't forget to like subscribe all that good
stuff and with that being said i hope you have a good day and i will see you guys next video bye