hey everyone it's me Alex and DIF
favorite bird I try something creative
today because I bought these sneakers a
little while ago and I ended up sort of
doubling up so what happened was I saw
these chunky windsor-smith sneakers they
were I think 120 dollars these are
inspired by the classic buffalo chunky
sneakers you know the the buffalo
sneakers that the Spice Girls wore these
were $300 and the windsor-smith for the
knockoff they're a hundred and twenty I
wasn't sure which ones I'd like more so
I bought the winter Smith's and I also
bought the Buffalo sneakers from ASOS
and I wanted them both to arrive and
then I decide which ones that I liked
more and then I would return one or the
other because you know it's a
significant difference between 120 and
$300 I tend to procrastinate a lot and
in the time that took me to make up my
mind a month had passed and I ran out of
the returns period so I could no longer
return the Buffaloes so I got stuck with
two chunky white sneakers what am I
gonna do with the second pair I like
wearing the wings of Smith's mall
because they're a lot lighter like
significantly lighter than these these
are so heavy maybe I can DIY them maybe
that's what we're doing today so I did a
little bit of googling to see how you
can color your sneakers and I came
across this video here where this guy
hydro dipped a pair of Air Force Ones so
this is the first site of a herd of
hydro dipping his video had no voiceover
no instructions nothing it was just him
doing it but there's a couple of things
that you need to do this so I went out
to Bunnings bindings is just a hardware
store I spent a hundred and sixteen
dollars buying all this spray paint
which was ridiculous a huge amount of
money so I'm not only gonna dip the
Buffaloes I'm gonna dip a couple of
other things to to you know spread the
money out and make it a bit more
worthwhile so basically what my one
hundred and sixteen dollars got me was a
big bucket to do the dipping in a primer
I believe that you need to oh I'm an
idiot okay so all the articles that I
saw online said that you need to buy two
times flat white primer
now I bought two times I got two of them
but only now am i realizing that 2x flat
white primer that the 2x is the name of
it it's not telling me that I need to
buy two of them I also got an assortment
of colors so of course I got pastel pink
a minty blue and this is the lightest
purple that I forget they didn't have
like a really nice pastel purple I also
got white spray paint in case I want to
incorporate the white and among the blue
and the pink and then you need a topcoat
so I've got this is crystal-clear
acrylic topcoat a pair of gloves cause
you don't want to get this stuff all
over your hands a Stanley knife and some
washi tape because you basically have to
tape up any areas that you want to leave
white I'm very nervous because these
were three hundred dollars and that's a
lot of money to stuff up I'm gonna test
it out on some really cheap shoes that I
have now I was lucky enough to be given
these for free by a brand called coy
foot wet so actually in front of me I
literally have it's kind of like
BuzzFeed's were thick you know I've got
the super cheap I think these are only
like $50 or maybe even less then I've
got the wings of Smith's which are 120
you're right and I've got the buffalos
which are 300 so I'm not gonna die the
windsor-smith so I'm happy with them
being white but we're gonna die the coy
Footwear screws as the very first pair
that we touch because I've never done
this before and I don't know if it's
actually gonna work on us and if these
look any good then we're gonna move on
to the buffalos and I'm sorry little boy
but you can't come with me because no
I'm sorry
wait spray paint is bad for little birdy
lungs so you're going to have to stay
inside and I'm gonna head outside so I
will catch you out there
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okay we're all taped up and I'm going to
do the primer now I'm gonna put it on
the buffalos but not on the cheap
sneakers
mostly because I just got involved with
that's one too many steps for me I have
never used spray paint in any form
whatsoever because I'm not a hooligan
how do I open this
this is childproof he goes cool all
right so I'll leave those to dry and now
let's get on to the dipping and and pray
that this works okay so the guy in the
video he was dual wielding he had the
two colors in each hair and he was
spraying them at the same time oh no oh
no where's the where's the bold sound no
you don't do this to me it says on the
back of the can if you can't hear the
ball rattling you've got to replace it
you're gonna take it back
what thank goodness there it is okay
wait fine please don't mean that
alright test oh yes bugger it here goes
nothing that looks terrible it might
look really pretty okay so I just dunk
it right
oh my god you I'm not doing that to my
Buffalo oh god what am I supposed to do
with this now
hi it's pretty fast oh please don't
forget to subscribe okay back to the
drawing board so we had a quick look at
the article that we found and it
basically said spray in the center for
like ten full seconds spray it then
switch the color spray that for ten
seconds
then go back to the first color ten
seconds and then the second color ten
seconds and then dip
so maybe the vomit look it has something
to do with the fact that I just crazily
just went all over the place with the
spray ten full seconds okay okay ready
okay considerably less vomit like yeah
that's pretty cool okay so that
technique definitely works better than
uh that technique this is why you test
it first with something that you don't
really care that much of us I really
like this side do you yeah that looks
amazing
it's sad less I'm gonna grab some other
things and just test with some other
stuff before we do the buffalos because
I feel like it's a lot of trial and
error with the spraying Harry where
should I do it maybe over here or over
here yeah like this ah too lumpy
what am I doing wrong okay so we've done
a little bit of trial and error we've
ruined a couple of coffee cups but I
think we've figured out that the
technique is all in how you spray it and
dipping it really really slowly okay so
I've got one more little sacrificial
thing that I'm gonna try so it looks
like if you go really really slowly
yeah bugga okay see that looks way
better
okay that's super cool so what do you
reckon should I should I do the
Buffaloes do you I need to practice more
do you think up good enough the Buffalo
is at 300 - $300 shoes and I don't want
them to look like that yeah
but I don't think they will Ryan as
simply dialogical says you do have to be
a witch to work out this water marbling
thing say a pretty personal prayer
quickly
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okay I'm good really slowly okay all
right he goes
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that's a great sound okay okay wow that
was so stressful you know what I'm
really really chuffed about that side
but it's such a shame that that's the
inside of the shoe instead of the
outside of the shirt the cry wash okay
round two eyelets ready okay he goes
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oh my god no I hope this is as nice as
the first hot moment of truth kind of
they look alright it's getting dark now
so I guess I'll leave it and then
tomorrow maybe I'll put the top coat on
leave it to dry and then we'll peel off
the tape and we'll see how she looks
God that was so nerve-wracking this is
not fun don't do this for fun guys
hello so it's the next morning it's like
9 a.m. and I thought I would quickly
spray the shoes and then I can get on
with my day let's do it it's too early
in the morning for me to even think
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childproof
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okay so who I have waited for them to
dry they feel quite sticky basically
what I want to do is peel these off
first because if this doesn't work like
let's say I start to peel and maybe it
ruins the paint job or something it
means I've got to be a bit more careful
with the Buffaloes so let's peel these
and see so I've got Stanley knife and
I'm just gonna run it across all the
edges where the tape is so that way it
sort of severs where any of the paint
was hello Archie you want to come watch
what am i doing look at this look what
happened to the shoot it's the same shoe
are we ready
a little bit messy here on the edges but
uh it's just the way I live my life
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let's give you a close-up are satisfying
ok these are starting to look so much
better so that's it that's how the first
shoe looks I think as soon as I put
shoelaces in it it's gonna look a lot
better so I will peel off everything
from the second one I don't think that
they are gonna look as bad as I thought
ok so here they are they look really
really really bad up close so just just
don't look looking at it like that not
bad not bad at all
so for the experimental piece I think it
turned out pretty well let us head
outside put the top coat on the
Buffaloes I'm gonna have to spray it
twice and I think I'll do all the
peeling and everything myself and then
give you a grand reveal one hour later
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okay guys that's everything I am really
really happy with how they turned out as
long as you don't look too close so from
a distance they look super cute the
colors are amazing they kind of look
like they're meant to be like that but
when you get up close you can see
there's some little spots where it
didn't quite stick in terms of just
cool-looking shoes that I'm not gonna
wear that often that it can like sit on
a shelf in the background of my videos
they do look a stick so I don't think I
would recommend that you do this with a
particularly expensive pair of shoes
maybe if you have some old crappy white
sneakers that don't look so great and
they do new ways of life then give it a
try but just remember the difficulty
that I had when I was spraying the paint
and it was going a little splotchy and
disgusting you have to be so careful
about spraying it from a distance and
dipping it really really slowly and
pushing away the excess before you pull
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