hi everybody welcome back to another episode of ridiculous art supplies
that no one on earth would buy today i'm going to be testing out
$2000 paint today i'm gonna be unboxing this bad boy putting it through a series of tests
to see how the colors are what the packaging is like and most importantly how good or bad
this $2000 paint actually works so this should be fun this should be quite the experience hopefully
it doesn't let me down because again this was two thousand dollars but before we get into that i do
have an announcement for the first time on my channel i finally launched prints right now i
only have two available i'm still waiting for the samples of the other ones to come in but
the ones that are available right now they look just like the paintings that i did and to make
it even cooler each one of these prints is from a video that i did this one is from testing out
celebrity art supplies and this one is from trying tic toc challenges they're 8x10 they're on actual
canvas if you're interested i will leave a link down in the description box down below and with
that being said you guys know i don't like long intros so let's just go ahead and jump right into
this ridiculous paint alright so before we get to the unboxing first we need to talk
about the backstory behind this like where did this 2 thousand dollar paint even come from and
the answer to that is gonna be a surprise to absolutely nobody this paint came from none
other than the high fashion brand louis vuitton now if you guys have been watching me for a while
you guys know that louis vuitton is not a stranger to this channel and this is not the first time
that they've dipped their toe into the art supply game in the past i have tested out the gold-plated
louis vuitton pen that had hardly any ink to it i tested out the not one but two different coloring
pencil sets that they came out with which turned out to be and i'm not joking some of the worst
quality art supplies that i have ever tried out on the history of this channel and i even said
on twitter that i wasn't gonna buy this art supply but ultimately there was three things that changed
my mind the first thing is that i could always sell this later the second thing is that unlike
colored pencils watercolor is a lot harder to mess up in fact last video i ended up making a good
watercolor out of literally eggs and food coloring oh this is horrendous so unless louis vuitton
majorly majorly majorly screwed this up somehow it should in theory be a decent art supply compared
to the other ones that i've tried out and then the last reason that i decided to make this video
is because i will never pass up an opportunity to share to you guys that just because an art supply
is really expensive doesn't necessarily mean that it's gonna be good quality now the official name
of this isn't technically watercolor no no no louis vuitton is way too fancy for that the
official name of this is an aquarelle box as you guys can see it comes with 10 different watercolor
tubes and the total price of this box turned out to be 1905 dollars obviously i'm buying this for
a video but every time i like read the price of that it like blows my mind because honestly
who is spending that much money on art supplies who who out there i think that the people who
would be buying this art supplies you have to be either like incredibly rich or just really really
love louis vuitton because i feel like nobody on earth would be buying this for the fact that
it's an art supply you know what i'm saying so yeah let's go ahead and test this bad boy out
wow okay wow where do i even begin oh my gosh you know that gordon ramsay mean where he's like
finally it's a good [ __ ] thing that's kind of how i am with this like finally
some good [ __ ] packaging this packaging is absolutely beautiful uh the packaging is made
it's like my dog hair on it the packaging is an acrylic case and as you guys can see it has
the iconic traditional louis vuitton monogram all over it it doesn't look as traditional as
other watercolor sets like all the other ones i felt like they weren't giving designer but this
one i feel like is truly giving designer it's giving fancy it's giving expensive it's giving
all things i can't afford the packaging it almost looks futuristic in a way
like if the jetsons if they had a watercolor set this is what i imagine it would look like
and as far as like the louis vuitton monogram it seems that it's not engraved into the plastic
it seems like it's you know cricut you know how they have like those little those vinyl stickers
that's kind of what these stickers remind me of let's open this bad boy up
that is so cool oh my gosh i was not expecting that i thought it was just gonna pop open but this
is like some advanced level stuff as i mentioned earlier it does come with 10 different colors
and these tubes are very very very detailed we got like the little louis vuitton logo plastered all
over the packaging if you look at the back it says that the tubes are manufactured in france each one
of these watercolor tubes contains .33 fluid ounces which is a pretty typical size when it
comes to watercolor i love the attention to detail if i was to imagine what louis vuitton watercolor
individual packets would look like this is exactly what i would think of and like all other
louis vuitton art supply products each of these colors don't seem to have like an individual name
associated with each colors the set also comes with a paintbrush and maybe i'm just an
uncultured swine but the brush comes with a really interesting like wire wrapped around connecting
the brushes to the wooden brush and i personally usually just buy my brushes at the craft store so
i've never seen this kind of like brush ever made before but i'm assuming hopefully that it means
that it was like artisanally made usually when it comes to brushes they can either be made two ways
synthetically or naturally and natural brush hairs are of course made out of something natural
usually like boar hair is a big one that you see all the time and i'm gonna assume that's what this
brush is made out of is something natural because if you look really closely a lot of the hairs are
really like scraggly uh but i don't know it didn't say so far i can really tell that louis vuitton
has definitely stepped up their packaging game i mean if you look at that gold pen that i had tried
out that first time it was literally just a gold pen with like their logo on it and with this one
i feel like this one is the next level i feel like they're definitely stepping up their game each
time they release a product as they should and the only thing that i would have to complain about it
is this little demon tab right here that almost caused me to break open this case oh yeah they
did not think this through i'm gonna be so sad to like have to open this up i'm gonna be so sad
okay so as far as like the actual color selection goes i gotta say that this
is pretty nice am i going crazy or does the pink look the exact same as the red
but as i was saying the color selection in general is pretty good i will however have
to mention that this actually isn't the first swatch that i did if you go back and watch some
of the video from earlier this is actually the second attempt because the first attempt
looks like this you can see how drastically lighter the first attempt was but as i was
swatching with them i realized like how crazy pale they look i mean look at that brown that doesn't
even look like a brown that looks like a taupe and so to remedy that what i ended up having to do in
order to get these very pigmented looking swatches is that i ended up having to almost mix like a 75%
paint ratio with water which is absolutely in my experience completely unheard of when it comes
to watercolor and the reason it's so unheard of is because normally watercolor is very very very
very very very very pigmented compared to other paints normally i would switch that ratio around
where instead of 75% paint like i used with this one and 25% water i would use 75% water and 25% paint
and to further demonstrate my point i ended up testing out one of the higher end ones that i have
i did the exact same amount of paint and did the exact same amount of water and as you can see the
difference in swatches is absolutely astonishing two thousand dollar paint ten dollar paint
two thousand dollar paint ten dollar paint i mean where are the logistics in this you know so for
the comparisons i decided that right off the bat i'm not going to be able to compare this $2000
louis vuitton paint i'm not going to be able to compare it with higher end professional watercolor
so instead what i'm ultimately going to compare it to is this $10 masters touch
watercolor and if you don't know masters touch even though i try not to shop at hobby lobby
anymore it's like their knockoff brand and not only are the paint tubes bigger than
the louis vuitton ones but there's more inside per tube and again these were only ten dollars
now for the comparisons for the masters touch versus the louis vuitton ones i feel like they look
and work pretty much the exact same my first initial instincts is that even though the
packaging is really nice and even though these are much better already than the louis vuitton
coloring pencils that i tried out it seems to me that the quality of these two thousand
dollar watercolors so far it seems very very mid oh and something i forgot to mention earlier
when you look at the masters touch one not only does it tell you the light fastness
it shows what the pigment is mixed with which is in this case dextrin and on top of that it
shows the pigment inside of this paint so you know exactly what color this is
and on the louis vuitton one literally the only information is that 0.33 ounces and it's made
in france that's it so we know they're not that great compared to professional quality watercolors
let me try to do a drawing and we'll see if there's anything dramatic that i find
so i just got done with the art piece and it actually took me an entire day from 10 o'clock all
the way to 4 p.m to make this art piece and the reason that it took so long is because the colors
were so transparent and had so little pigment that i had to like just constantly layer layer layer
layer and all those layers took a really long time to dry because obviously it's water but i
think the art piece came out pretty well for what it did these were a lot easier to use than the
colored pencils from louis vuitton and so actually working with the paint itself it's very mid which
isn't a surprise because as all of other louis vuitton's expensive ridiculous items they're just
bad i think they should be embarrassed that they're putting such low quality items with
at such an expensive price point obviously i'm buying this for the video but if i was a very huge
fan of louis vuitton and i authentically wanted an item and when i finally bought this item it turned
out to be like absolute trash quality i would be devastated and this is just my opinion and this
might sound a little harsh but i personally don't think that this paint deserves the title of being
the most expensive paint in the world so yeah final thoughts is louis vuitton even though this
is better quality than the other products that you put out it's still just absolute mid-tier
louis vuitton the world's most expensive paint i'm giving you the official rating of a 3 out of 10.