- Hi, it's Matt and I'm gonna try
and make some glitter shoes.
(fanfare)
You can't buy them in my size,
so I'm gonna have to make 'em.
So I've got these really cheap shoes
for like three pounds fifty,
so if I ruin them, then I don't mind.
I've seen a few tutorials online.
I'm just gonna wing it based on having read a few of them,
but it basically involves getting
a ton of glitter, some Mod Podge?
It's glue, and then brushing it on.
So I'm gonna start by getting rid of the laces
'cause I don't want glittery laces.
One of the tutorials said to use some masking tape
to cover up the sole, otherwise it looks crap all glittery.
I suppose I'll end up glittering everywhere I walk.
Tell you what, I've watched a lot of videos
of Adam Savage carefully masking taping up things,
and he makes it look a lot easier.
I'm not normally the most crafty person.
I kind of want things to be done now, I have no patience.
(laughing)
This tape doesn't really seem sticky enough.
So that's the outside done.
I'm doing it quicker the second time.
But is that 'cause I'm doing a worse job?
I'm doing a worse job, definitely doing a worse job.
There we go.
It's the thought that counts, right?
So the sides of the soles,
I've kind of terribly taped them up
and then the base of them...
(tape ripping)
I should have done this in advance.
It's not exactly the most exciting thing to watch, is it?
You underestimate how much preparation goes into
people who do DIY and crafting videos.
Or how much of the bits they chop out,
the really tedious bits.
One, got a takeaway box, I suppose I should
start mixing some glue
and some glitter.
Every tutorial I saw was American
and referred to an American branded glitter.
So I'm gonna make it up as I go along,
'cause I don't have that glitter.
Everything said to use Mod Podge
rather than any other kind of glue,
it seems to be able to stick it
to the shoe and also work like a lacquer.
It's got plastic lid, hasn't it?
Ooh, I have no idea how much.
I'm just gonna tip some in.
Oh wow, from what I can tell, there are two key things
to this project, number one, get very messy.
Number two, clean up afterwards
so you don't annoy your housemates.
Should I have shaken this?
"Store at room temperature, apply with brush or sponge,
"close container, dry 15 to 20 minutes between coats."
That's useful information.
Right, the thinner I make this, the less glitter there is
in every coat, so the more glitter,
the more coats I need to do.
I'm lazy, I want to do as few coats as possible,
so, let's put a splodge in.
Now it's white, but everything I say,
everything I've seen says it dries clear.
Wow.
It's kind of like gone gray and silvery.
I have no idea if you can see this on that camera,
so I'm gonna get my phone out.
It's so sparkly.
Right, so I suppose I better get this on a shoe.
Just slap it on?
Oh, that doesn't seem anywhere near sticky enough.
Should I have done a coat of just glue?
And I need a smaller brush.
Learning!
Oh no, that's going on...
Okay, it's flicking everywhere though.
Now the problem with buying the world's cheapest
paint brushes is that I'm getting hairs all over the place.
Aw, and it's already on my jeans.
I should have worn clothes I don't care about.
Oh well.
I'm on the home stretch.
Holy shit, that's glittery!
(laughing)
Like it's a bit obvious really, but...
I'm gonna tape the back of these eyelets
so I don't get too glittery on the inside.
Maybe I should've taped up these seams as well.
Just trying to smooth it down.
There's lots of clumpy bits.
Can't work out if that's 'cause I've used
too much glue or too little.
Well that's kind of a glittery shoe, isn't it?
Now what I'm meant to do is
multiple layers, so let that dry
and then go over the top of that.
And then let that dry, and then go over the top of that.
And on and on and on.
Let's make some more and start with this shoe.
Ooh,
glob,
here we go, shoe two.
Now as it dries, this should get sparklier, I think.
'Cause at the moment, we're seeing the white of the glue.
And when the glue dries, it goes clear.
So the only thing you should be seeing is,
well nothing, 'cause it's clear, and glitter.
I'm still not the most confident
about how well this is gonna turn out.
If I wanted to be more confident,
then the obvious thing to do would be to get a tutorial
and follow it, but where's the fun in that?
Wait, is this stuff how you get the Coachella vibes?
You just glue some glitter to my face.
I wouldn't advise that.
That's two shoes done.
Just gonna try and spread it more evenly,
so then it looks less clumpy.
That's what they look like now.
You can already see the glue started to dry on this one,
'cause it looks a lot less white than the other one.
I allowed 15 minutes for it to dry,
and it wasn't in any way, shape or form,
it was still very wet.
But now it's been an hour and a half
and it feels pretty dry, so I think I'm good
to start putting the next coat on.
It looks mostly covered, but there are just a few bits
where you can see right through to the shoe.
And if anything, it needs to be more even than this
'cause it's currently a bit lumpy.
I'm wondering whether to rub some of the lumps off now.
Yeah, I might do that.
None of the tutorials I looked at said anything about lumps
because they're all perfect and got it right the first time.
Actually, it looks a lot better
really quickly after lump rubbing.
'Cause if I paint over these lumps,
it's only gonna accentuate them, surely.
So ideally I would do this with a wetter, thinner layer,
I think, so it could dry quicker,
but I don't know if can make one of them.
Will putting more glue in here make it less lumpy?
Surely it's the glitter that's lumpy,
so more glue means less lump.
Round two, let's hope I don't make this worse.
No, it seems to be going on the top.
The color difference is amazing.
I might time-lapse the next drying stage.
That's reasonably well-coated now, I think.
I'd say most of what I watch on YouTube
is probably people making things.
It's either that or music.
Or the combination of the two.
Like Wintergatan.
But I've never actually done a making something video
myself, so this is my first foray
into the area of YouTube that I actually watch.
So that's the second coat done.
It's a bit wet, it's very wet.
Still gotta leave it to dry, hopefully it won't take
an hour and a half to dry this time, but...
I suppose I'd be a madman to expect different results.
It's gonna take an hour and a half to dry.
(upbeat music)
I can barely see any shoe through this, it's all glitter.
So I'm gonna assume this is enough coats,
and I'm gonna put another layer of glue over the top
to seal it in, 'cause at the moment,
there's glitter sticking out and it'll scratch off, I think.
I wonder if this will dry quicker
'cause it hasn't have glitter in it.
(chuckling)
Gonna try and make sure I do the edges on this layer
because I figured that's where it's most likely to peel off.
I've tried to avoid the edges with the glitter
for the same reason, but if I need to seal anywhere,
it's there, isn't it?
Okay, that's one, let's do the other.
I would have happily bought some glittery shoes,
but I haven't found any in my size
because I'm a 13 and a half, 14 UK,
that's 49 European,
or 15 U.S.
So I can get shoes on the internet, but not much variety.
I've made my own light-up shoes for EMF,
Electromagnetic Field Festival last year.
If I can find a picture...
So these are my light-up shoes.
They don't work anymore, they're falling apart.
The LED tape is all fallen off.
I couldn't find the right glue to stick this silicon sheath
onto the sides of the rubber sole of the shoe
and for it to actually stick.
It's got a GEMMA microprocessor sewn to the side of it,
with all the cables sewn down the edge into the LED strip.
And then there's a little motion sensor here,
that every time I take a step, triggers the light sequence.
Now this one's been stamped apart and ripped apart
by my feet, so I'm not gonna try plugging that in,
but this one might still work.
With every step I took, I got this blinking.
Now it's not gonna take much to fix this,
apart from the fact I have no idea how to fix
this LED tape onto the side of the shoe.
So if you've got any ideas,
I would absolutely appreciate them.
I've worn these once and then they broke,
but they look amazing.
Day two, I've let these dry overnight
and the next thing I need to do is peel off this tape.
And I'm hoping that the tape, because I've got some glue
on it, won't peel off the glue on the shoe as well.
I'm gonna start the back 'cause
fewer people are gonna see that.
So that's tearing the glue, so I'm gonna go around
the edge of this with a knife,
and see if I can help it separate a little bit more cleanly.
Getting there.
Hopefully, with straight lines around the edge
rather than a load of tape, it's gonna look
a lot less shonky, 'cause right now,
it does look like I've made these and I don't want
it to look like I've made them.
Ooh, I've got a bit of paint underneath
where the tape is on some of these edges.
But I was worrying before that it wasn't sticking properly.
Maybe then would have been a good time
to do something about it, maybe put another layer
of tape down or something.
It has turned out very thick.
Maybe I did too much.
Let's clean this up.
Well maybe I should tape it back up while I tidy the edges
just so I don't get any more glitter.
So by this point, I've done one and a half shoes
and I haven't cut myself yet.
Ahh, brush, if you've got stray glitter
you want to get rid off your sole, use a brush, that worked.
Just a finer bit of scraping off of some glue down here.
Two almost finished glittery shoes.
The one extra step that I thought of last night
that I could have prevented, is that I now have
to dig out some holes for the laces.
I should probably have stuck something in those holes,
or tape them up from the top because currently,
there aren't any.
I'm gonna try hand-drilling a hole.
(laughing)
You know what, that seems to have worked.
Next time I do some woodwork, I'm gonna be wondering
why my drill bit's all glittery.
(laughing)
If I was gonna do this again, I would probably stuff
something inside these holes so I could paint 'round them
and then maybe take it out while the glue's drying
so I don't tear it out later.
If you did this to a pair of slip-ons,
then you wouldn't have to do this step at all.
Now for the finishing touch, put the laces in.
Ta da, I've made my own glitter shoes!
It kind of looks like I've made my own glitter shoes
rather than bought them, but with the laces in,
they look a lot better.
Let's go try them on.
(upbeat music)
Thanks for watching.
If you'd like to make your own,
then follow anyone else's tutorial.
I am not an expert, I have made this up as I went along
and it's looking a little dodgy around the edges,
but I had fun.
(mumbling)