today i'm gonna be showing you guys how to customize your own nike air force one and
make it special to you through nike id on their website we're gonna break down every aspect of
the customization process i'm gonna actually end up customizing a pair and ordering them for myself
and i'll show you exactly how long it takes for the process to happen and for you to actually
get the shoe to your door and at the end of the video i'll show you guys the final result for
the sneaker that i decided to custom for myself as well so if you guys didn't know by now my name is
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us there so first things first what is nike id and how does it work i still like to call it nike id
but nike calls it nike by you which is essentially the same thing basically an opportunity for you
to be able to customize a sneaker through their website and create a product that is a special
colorway based off of the models that they provide and then you can customize it and add your name
and different things like that depending on the materials that they provide throughout the year
now what does that mean different times throughout the year they like to integrate
different options when it comes to materials so that way say for example
you wanted to buy a pair of shoes right now and then six months later from now they might have a
whole different set of materials or color options for you to customize the shoe so that way you have
kind of a time sensitive thing as well saying hey i wanted to do this and i have a potential chance
to get it i want to make sure i don't miss out on it i should definitely order it now because
later down the line they might have a whole new set of materials and options to come we've seen
snake skins and patent leathers and corduroys and suedes and all different types of colors
and prints and patterns on the website throughout the years and that's one thing that's kind of cool
about it is now you have the opportunity for people that want to design the shoe
to not let somebody else design that same exact model three years from now or something like that
and everybody has their own different custom models over the years so for me typically i
always find different reasons to do customizations and tell stories through my sneakers and i have a
bunch of different nike id shoes that i've done over the years and maybe one day i'll make a
video showing you guys all the nike id custom sneakers that i have made for myself over the
years but with all that being said let's go ahead and hop into the website so i can show
you guys all the options that they have right now in current time and how the whole process works
with the creation process and then we'll put the order in and get the shoe and i'll show you guys
what i get at the end of the video so i just got on the website and it's actually crazy because
they no longer have the materials available uh that i just ordered my pair for and i shot the
intro after but it's okay i'm still going to show you guys the whole process and the shoe
that i ordered but this is a prime example of if you want to get a shoe with the materials
you might want to consider ordering it sooner than later because they definitely go away and
they switch up materials all the time so basically right here you have nike air force one low by you
customize men's pairs or women's pairs you select your size then you hit on the customize so right
here on the inspiration these are going to just be kind of sections that's giving you inspiration on
starting your color blocking schemes and getting going but honestly it's all up to you and what
you decide to do so what you're going to want to do is hit customize right here and now you
can see if you click right here it says vamp and then it has 1 through 13. so basically these are
all different categories different areas of the shoe and you'll see it kind of highlight on the
screen as i click the arrow the different area will highlight in between each and every time
that i do that so you can see the indicators of like okay this is the area that i'm customizing
right now in this moment so we're going to do is go back to the first part and we're gonna
start from the top and just show you guys you got premium leather and then you got a premium suede
basically your suede options are gonna be a little bit more limited because they have a different
special material so you got that lilac right here you got the cool gray and then you got the black
and then on the premium leather you're going to have a lot of different options when it comes
to the vamp with the different yellows and the blues giving you more of these summertime colors
it's always cool because there's like different seasonal stuff so i'm definitely not a orange fan
so we're definitely going to switch that up asap and uh just design the shoe a little bit different
i'm going to do something a little bit basic for you guys uh in this design before i show you my
final product uh so right here we got the royal on the top of the toe so that means i'm gonna
probably gonna make like a royal toe type you know air jordan one colorway vibe to it so you got the
different suede actually you probably could do a whole suede up right here too that's kind of
cool to know so i kind of just messing around with the different colors to see what i like
and again i'm going to do something a little bit basic on here for the color blocking
um we could make it a royal air jordan one style or we could do it like i don't know i'm trying
to think we could do it like a royal toe so let's do it like that so we'll do the white right here
same three suede options for that in the swoosh do a royal swoosh and then onto the tongue
you got different branding right here so you can see you got the black patch get the gray patch
a white patch i think on here we're probably gonna go with maybe the white patch right here
with the black and then on the back end this is royal tow vibe so we're gonna hit him with that
and then let's see we'll go over here we'll do some more royal just kind of keep it smooth and
cohesive with that tongue this is this is a tongue blend liner okay so the sock liner and everything
this is where you could change these colors up and you can also you know switch it around um
or you can drag on the screen like this if you click down you can always change uh the
shoe angle and direction however you want to if you're ever messing with something so for here
we're going to go with the white it might look clean with the black i don't know see
now we might have to tweak it out a little bit so i'm going to click on the section you can
also click on the sections if you click on here or here you'll see it kind of highlight as you go
um instead of going you know step by step doing what you want to on there so
we might have to just make it more like this i'm going to just make it classic clean i know i know
it's very basic but i'm just kind of giving you guys a tutorial of how the whole process works
so this is a sale colored midsole it's going to give you more of that off-white vibe this is that
pure white a lot of people like doing the sale i personally like adding the cell too giving it
that a little bit a little bit more of a i don't know vintage age look to the shoe and then you
can switch it up too with the different gums and sometimes they have translucent uh midsoles and
outsoles and stuff so let's check out the outsoles right here um got solid color so got the browns
and then these are gonna be the speckled mixture material stuff so i'm gonna go with the solid on
here um we'll probably just do the black make it simple make it clean um and then on the back end
this is one thing that i really love about it so you can change the color of the text
and you can also change the text so i'm gonna do black um and you can put right here so dna
uh show i don't know how many letters you can put on there yeah you can only put three on each
side so dna show or i'll do like uh we'll do air we'll do air dna something like that i don't know
subscribe to the dna show basically so if i air dna on the back end of the shoe um and that's kind
of gonna kind of complete everything you got the sock liner you got the tongue you got the vamp you
got the mud guard you got all the different areas the midsoles the outsoles the swooshes the back
panels everything's gonna be completed now this is gonna be a very simple and clean color blocking
style again it's gonna be up to you to really freak it out and get it super icy and customized
to how you want it to be i'm just doing something to kind of give you guys a step-by-step tutorial
process of it and again this is honestly something i might even consider ordering for myself
because recreating all the classic og air jordan 1 colorways in the air force one is also a dope
idea as well i've done it with the chicago color blocking before i might have to show you guys that
in the future as well but yeah this is basically the whole process so after you've done that now
you can kind of see right here on the website and navigate throughout the product and kind of you
know see all the different angles and stuff like that then obviously you know i'm a size 13 so i'm
going to click side 13 add to bag and then from there you go through the whole checkout process
and i'll tell you guys how long it took for me to get my pair in the mail after i ordered mine
all right you guys we are back and i finally got the shoe in the mail now what do i mean by finally
got the shoe and how long did it take first so basically i put this order in on june 9th and i
got the notification saying hey your order has been placed and then i got another notification
on june 15th saying that the order was completed and then on june 20th the day that i got my shoes
which is today now i have the shoes here in hand so basically from the 9th through the 20th was
how long it took so basically loki a couple weeks which wasn't really that bad it used to take like
six to eight weeks so i think just overall for that turnaround process to be able to get the
shoe in under three weeks to me i think that's a pretty solid timeline now looking at the box right
here it says nike by you and then it has the nike swoosh it's the all-over white box with the shroud
that pulls out with the sleeve and then it has my size and then it has an image of the shoe right
here on the front end of the box i can't show you guys an image because i want to show you guys the
shoe before you see that so let's go ahead and crack the box open real quick so on the inside
right here it has a piece of paper and this is the paper that standard comes with the nike id
sneakers or should i say nike by you sneakers and it says nike and the swoosh are trademarks and
your guarantee of quality one of one and then it has a size chart and colors and different options
like that kind of everything with the details of designing a sneaker now we got the air force one
i love doing air force ones on here this shoe right here to me extremely fire it's almost
i've heard some people say it's kind of like that strange love vibe but i don't know for some reason
i was really digging these i don't have any air force ones that are kind of in that pink and red
colorway giving you those valentine's vibes so i think for me i really love this sneaker let's
go over the details the materials and everything that i've decided to do when it comes to the color
blocking on this shoe real quick so starting with the outsole you have your all red nike air force
one outsole on the midsole i decided to go with more of the sail color instead of the pure white
i did the pink with the arrow branding on the back end of the heel and then on the upper we
got kind of a mixture of materials you got more of a tumbled leather and then you have more of
a glossy satin type of leather with the pink on the front and the back in and around the eyelids
and then on the tongue as well with the leather tab with the nike air force one right here these
come with a pair of pink laces that i decided to do at first i was thinking about doing like white
or red or something like that but i was like i already have those colors so i feel like it was
better to do something that matches with it and if i ever wanted to switch it i could just take
something out of my other shoes that i already have in my collection now when it comes to the
swoosh you got a tumbled red leather swoosh tumble white panels on the side and a toe cap and on here
you got a little accessory that's locked onto the laces and it's like a little sneaker brush and it
has a nike swoosh on it and it's in gold right here it's like a little metal type material on
these ones in particular they didn't let you do the option with the custom letters on the back end
usually i put the custom letters on the backhand when it comes to the heels but it's okay i still
like the colorway and i feel like these are going to look dope and i'm going to be able
to rock these and not many people are going to obviously have them because i created the colorway
but at the same time i know these are going to stand out when i do decide to rock this shoe so
let me know what you guys think about these down below and if you're ever interested in doing
something like this what would be some color ways or you know color blocking patterns or specific
colors that you would use in your design process i would love to hear and if you do actually end
up designing something let me know down below in the comment section or tag me on ig and let
me see your design or your shoe when you get it in person so i can see what you came up with as well
i always love seeing people's color blockings and schemes and patterns and storytelling behind
the shoes these one in particular i didn't have a real story behind it typically when i do a nike id
i have like some type of story and it matches the shoe and it has the colors that go along with it
i was just kind of messing around on the website i designed these and i was like
these are low-key fire and i i low-key just need these so that's kind of how i got to these ones
but all my other ones got more meaning and more storytelling behind them but you know it is what
it is sometimes when you make a fire shoe you just gotta copy it so i hope you guys enjoyed
this and i hope this video was helpful i know for a lot of people you can get on the website
and just design and design and design and it's so hard to pick and pull that trigger on that
one pair and you've never actually done it before and actually made your own pair of sneakers before
so what i'm telling you guys is if you got the funds to do it and you've always wanted to do it
just go out on a whim do it try it and then if you like it or if you want to do something else do it
again it's always cool to have those custom you know items in those sneakers in your collection
made for you by you type thing so i think it's super dope and it's another way to make a really
really dope christmas or birthday or some type of celebration gift through storytelling through
sneakers and creating a custom pair of shoes for somebody and giving those to somebody as a gift
trust me when i tell you people love it it's a great gift especially for sneakerheads and a lot
of people sleep on it and not even thinking about that as a gift i know christmas time is coming up
soon well not soon but we got about six months but i know during that time it's always like
what should i get somebody trust me this is a great christmas gift or you know whatever
holiday you may have and people love it so i hope you guys enjoyed it if you guys want to
see any other videos like this or me customizing other models and going through different tutorials
let me know down below in the comment section i'll see you guys another one all right
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yo if you made it to the end of this video this is another nike id that i have
from way back in the day and as you can see right here crazy materials
nice different accents with the swoosh you got the velvet on the inside of the
sock liner that's what i'm saying when they mix up the materials it's super dope but you
miss out on opportunities and next thing you know you're like bruh i should have copped it like i
was saying before sometimes you just gotta pull the trigger and make that design that you want
you