Squishy Makeover: PEOPLE

Hey, it's me. My face. Two things. First, if this is your first time seeing the new intro, that means you skipped last week's video. And I'm now mad at you. I'm just kidding. But, yes, I did already talk about the new intro last week. Second thing... Oh, I'm in front of the camera today. I'm just here face-to-face instead of doing the whole hand thing. Keep things fresh. Keep y'all on your toes, you know? So let's get to business. This video is a squishy makeover, but notice it's not a Fixing Your Squishies makeover. It's just a regular one. Because today, I'm not going to be using broken squishies from my viewers. I actually purchased these. The reason I wanted to do these squishies in particular is because they're human. These are people. So when I saw these, I was very interested in trying to decorate them. Oh, how little you knew. I'm not going to be doing all six in this video because that would take me two months. So I'm just going to be doing... Three. These three. Which only took me one month. But what you're seeing now is actually duplicates of the ones that I painted because I've already finished painting them. But no spoilers. Before I get into this, I just want to warn you. This video was a struggle. You are going to see some things, and this is going to be an experience. I think we should just jump into the makeovers. The makeovers. Here it is. So I'm going to do this one first. The face is a bit creepy. I think it's her eyes and how they bulge out like a fish. Also accented by some fish lips. Her outfit just seems a little bit bland. She's in like business attire. Her overall design to me is a bit monotone. Although of the three squishies that I'm working on today, I think that this one was the best looking to start with. I do love that hairstyle. So let me get started with completely destroying this. So she's going to go under the knife today or, you know, under the scissors. I'm just cleaning up the messy seams at first, and then I'm just going to smooth out all the details of her dress because I want to change the style of this. Also removing those fish lips. At this time, I was thinking that, yes, I can probably paint something better than those. So let me just cut those off. My confidence is sickening. And look at this. I can still recognize her lips among the scraps. Look at those little grubs. So now that she's been silenced, I'm going to take some sandpaper to this to rough it up a little bit and prepare it for paint. Looks like she's had a rough day. No. So now to fill in some of those cuts that I've made, I'm going to use some puppy paint to try to seal all of that in and cover up the rips a little bit better. After a few coats of that, she looks like a alien zombie creature of some sort. Now to cover up all of that mess, I'm just going to be painting a base coat with some white matte fabric paint so that it's easier for me to create my design on top. OK, so I believe all of these squishies that I'm painting today are based on LOL dolls. I had no idea what these were when I bought them. I found them on eBay just randomly, and I've had these for months. One day, I just happened to see one of the dolls, and I was like, that's what these things came from. Whoa. What was that? Not that it really matters, but I just thought I'd point out that I do know that. I'm going for the skin now, which, ugh. I'm not used to painting skin tones, so I was struggling a little bit to find the right shade. This paint is actually my chocolate ice cream color. It doesn't look quite right for skin. I know. So weird. It's just a little bit off. I think it's too gray, and she looks a little bit dead, half dead, dying. So that was my first mistake, but just wait. Now I'm going to move on to her hair, and it's such a fun hairstyle. So I went for a multicolored kind of carnival color scheme. The way I painted it actually doesn't make any sense at all, because the colors on her buns are like in completely different orders than the hair that's growing on her scalp. But I didn't really care. I was just kind of going wild with the hair. This was back when I had so many hopes and dreams for this squishy. Ah, memories. Once I created the different stripes of color, then I went in with very thin layers of paint and kind of blended them together. And you know what? Her hair now really reminds me of those multicolored alpaca squishies. Maybe subconsciously that's why I thought that this color scheme would look good on her hair. I don't know. Who knows why I do the things I do. But this took forever, maybe an hour and a half just on her hair. I was so invested in her. I swear. And that's looking just about how I wanted it. So I'm going to move on to her clothes. No more business casual. I'm going to make her outfit just as fun and colorful as her hair. So I painted the upper half pink. And then for the skirt, I painstakingly painted stripes of color. Kind of looks like a circus tent, which also took forever. Wow, I was so invested in this girl. Side note, this background color is very green. That's cool, OK. So now I decided to pay homage to her past self. And I'm adding a bunch of gold accents to her outfit since she had a lot of gold on her person before. But of course, I'm using a much brighter, more yellow gold that will pop out a little bit more. Oh, this is kind of satisfying. And her outfit is really starting to come together. I'm piling on some gold paint to give her some rocking gold boots. And at this point, I'm just so happy with it. She's looking exactly how I pictured her. And I was having a lot of fun at this point. Remember her like this. This is the best she's ever going to look. So I'm starting to try to attempt to paint the face. While I'm waiting for that first layer of paint to dry, I'm just going to go around and do some little touch-ups here and there, which isn't always the best idea. Oh, shoot. But I do it anyway. I got a little overeager and started on one of the pupils and then realized that the white wasn't dry yet. Calm down. Wait a little longer. I ended up adding some white little frills on her sleeves and then a little white collar. It's so cute. I was having way too much fun putting this outfit together and avoiding this situation. I even added some little white bows to her buttes. To her buttes. Ain't that the cutest? So my goal with the face was to make it less creepy than the original. Considering the original, I thought that that would be pretty easy. Honestly, this is fine. I should have just added some eyebrows, put on some eyelashes, a simple smiley face, and you know what? You're done. That's just leave it. That's fine. Leave it, please. But of course, I way overcomplicated the design. Yeah, I'm laughing now. So this was my first attempt at the face. She looks like a demented Muppet. So I added a bottom lip and some gold eyeshadow. Why? Oh my gosh. So now she's a demented Muppet with self-esteem issues. So I toned down the eyeshadow and while I was up there, I just fixed the edges of her hair. Just take a second to think about what I've done. Life is full of regrets. Then I thought, you know, the problem must be her lip color. So I tried red. Her lips look like a mustache. The problem must be that she doesn't have eyelashes. It's not getting better. Maybe the problem is that she doesn't have highlights in her eyes. This is one freaky looking fish. I'm starting to realize just how hard it is to make those huge, bulging eyes not look terrifying. This is real time right now. I was literally just sitting there holding this thing, staring at it, regretting so much. I was trying to create a super detailed design on a face. And using fabric paint is not very easy to get those tiny little details. It's like painting with glue. But I've worked with it enough at this point that I thought I could make this happen. My confidence was my downfall. And as I keep on trying and keep on changing things, the thick layers of paint are just building up and building up. Just just leave it like that. Seriously, you've done enough. But was I satisfied? No, I'm just going to continue to fight this. I don't even know what I'm doing anymore. So maybe it's just that her eyes are too big and too circular. So I thought that if I gave her eyelids, it might make her look a little less scary. But I had repainted this area so much it was starting to look really chunky. Hashtag no makeup. She looks like an old man now. At this point, I was starting to get fed up. So I added a few more things and then I just ended up making all the rest of the changes off camera. I don't want to show it. It's so bad. You guys are going to judge me. Oh. Here she is. Absolutely hideous. At least she can stand a little bit better. So she has that going for her. OK, 100 percent. I think the original looks better. If this is your first time watching one of these makeovers, things usually go a little bit better. But this time I just I flat out failed. But I think the biggest problem is all the weird, nasty globs on her face from every time that I changed it. And it really just emphasizes that shininess. That's not helping. It looks like she's sweating. But let's not be negative. Let's be positive. OK, silver lining. I do really like the hair and the outfit, but they're just not enough to make up for that. I mean, if you look at it from a distance, she looks kind of cute, but you get up close and it's just like, oh, snap. I'm going to stop picking on her now. It's not her fault. I know it's difficult, but let's move on. So now I'm going to try with this girl, who I think overall is a lot uglier to start out with than the first squishy. So that's a good thing. That gives me hope. I think she's supposed to be a baby or something. I believe this is supposed to be her pacifier, but it's flesh colored. So it looks like, um, it looks like a like a blowfish. Yeah, that's no. And the pattern on her dress. I mean, am I missing something here? What even is that? And I think her torso in general just has a really awkward shape to it. Let me see if I can improve this one. She flew away. She doesn't want what happened to the last girl to happen to her. Come back. First, I'm going to start by chopping off that pacifier. I'm also reshaping her torso. And I'm bringing in some memory foam because I thought it would be cute to add a little ponytail to her head. So I'm just sculpting that out of memory foam. Oh, also, I wanted to say that I did post another unboxing video where I opened a bunch of used squishies that had been sent to me for squishy makeovers. That was a couple of weeks ago. But at the time that I posted that, I had already been working on these for like a week, I think. So I'm still going to be using the comments from that video to pick out the next batch of squishies. But that'll be the next makeover video. So here's her ponytail. I'm going to do a super high off center ponytail side ponytail. There we go. I'm sticking it on with fabric fusion and then rubber banding it in place to let it dry. She's having a great time. Once that was done, I realized I hadn't sanded her yet. Usually I try to sand them before this stage because sanding can be a pretty aggressive, rough process. And we wouldn't want to. Oh, dang it. Yeah, to make that happen. So I had to trim off the dried glue and redo that whole process. Until you've sealed extra pieces on with paint, the joint is going to be a little fragile. I'm going to start painting over this with a random color of puffy paint. So I'm just covering that exposed foam entirely so I can create a more seamless look with the rest of the squishy. And once that's taken care of, I'm going to cover up the whole torso as well. And oh, look, I ran out of green. So it's time for the purple to step in. And once all of this dries, I'm going to go to a white base coat again. So I'm creating a nice, clean, fresh start. Don't screw it up. Jumping onto the skin, I'm giving her a tan complexion. And oh, shoot, I forgot to do the back. OK, hold on. Never mind. Oh, today's the day for mistakes, I guess. So let me finish up this base coat. Speeding through, speeding through. Back again, working on the skin. And this is another one of my food colors. I believe I use this color for vanilla cake. So got a cake face. But this time, I actually did go ahead and adjust that color slightly to make it look a little bit more natural. So that's a little bit better. I'm going with purple hair for this one. I was going to make her a brunette, but then I decided, you know what? I see brown hair every day. So why not choose something a little wild, you know? The ponytail looks interesting because her hair in the back is still going straight down when it should be going toward the ponytail. But that's OK. Let's just pretend that that makes sense. For the dress color, I chose a mint green. I thought that that would look nice with the lavender hair. I wanted to basically use the opposite color scheme of the one that I used for the first girl. Ow. Oh, that reminds me. I was actually pretty sick during a lot of this process. So can I blame my mistakes on being sick? Will you let me do that? No. This girl's outfit is starting to come together. Right now, I'm adding all the white areas of her outfit. And I'm making a flower pattern on the bottom of her dress. The funny thing is, I was actually not that excited about this girl's design, you know, as the first girl. I was so excited about her. OK, sorry. I'm going to stop talking about it now. So I ended up making several changes to her outfit as I went along. I also decided to add metallic silver for the details since the other girl had some little special metallic moments. It's only fair to give her some as well. We got to be fair to our squishies because that definitely matters. My favorite part of this design is probably the dark green bow. I don't know. I just, I think it really ties everything together, literally. So once I added that, I really started to like her outfit a lot more. I also gave her some little green shoes to match. And I'm cleaning up her skin areas. And finally, it's time to work on the face. You know, just with art stuff in general, it's easy to envision what you want or to just sit back and be like, oh, well, I would have done this different and done that and done that and done that. But when you actually have to sit down and make something happen and create something, it's really difficult. We're not off to a great start with this face. But after adding a few missing details, she actually came together OK. So here's the before and after. I mean, you know, I'm pretty satisfied with this one. I do think that it is an improvement on the original. But honestly, I don't know if it's that the original was just that bad or if this is actually decent. I don't know. I think I've been staring at these for way too long. I think she's cute. I do really love her outfit. You know who she really reminds me of? Remember my Thick Mermaid from forever ago? It's her sea sis. It's just weird how the color schemes are so similar. And yeah, of course, I bring in another awkward looking squishy of mine. But, you know, Thick Mermaid had a full body and face transplant. So she has an excuse. What's your excuse? So this is the last squishy I'm going to do. Contrary to the other two, this one has a flat face, which is nice. No bulging fish eyes. It's wearing a unicorn headband. Been there, done that. And wow, that's a short dress. Whoa. Are her cheeks showing? Put those cheeks away, girl. Her hair is just a mess of curls. It's like busted Shirley Temple. Wait, what are those pink circles? Oh, those are hair curlers. OK, I just now realized that. They could have made that cute. They could have put her in a robe and slippers and then it would make sense. Let me see what I can do with this. Starting by ditching the skirt. I made a discovery. I mean, it's a booty hole. OK, that's so immature. Sorry. I mean, it's right there. I'm just trimming that off and trying to smooth it out as much as I can. And while I'm at it, I'm going to just, you know, go ahead and cut all of her hair off as well. I basically am just like starting completely over with this one. So here it is looking very naked and nervous. Wow. I cut a lot off of that one. Dang. And oops, almost forgot. I'm taking away the lips also. So now we can start repairing some of this with puffy paint. And there's a lot of area to cover because I chopped off a lot. So this is going to take a minute. I want to do several layers of paint to make sure that I'm getting the surface as smooth as possible. And wow, that looks scary. Once again, I'm covering this with a base coat. So this just makes it a little bit easier. And here we go with the skin. I love how I did everything in the exact same way, in the exact same order for all three of these. It makes it wonderfully predictable. Surprise! There, you didn't predict that. And for him, oh, I just gave it away. For this one, I'm going to be doing a pinkish skin tone. And yes, I'm making this one into a boy. I decorated two girls already, so I thought, let's make one of them a boy. I ended up giving him brown hair, which my original plan was to give him red hair. But I changed my mind because I thought the brown might hide the fact that I just completely scalped the thing. I don't know if it really made a difference, but that's what I did. I decided to give him a nice little pair of overalls. And I will point out that his butt looks a little strange because of the way I had to cut it all the way down to cover up that hole. So his butt is like inverted. Once I finished up with the overalls, I added his shirt, which I should have done that first. I don't know what I was thinking in this video. I decided to give him different colored sleeves, kind of like the shirts that I like to wear for some weird reason. I don't know why I have an obsession with shirts like that. I don't know. I haven't really figured this out yet. I decided to outline the whole thing with dark blue because I felt like the overalls needed more definition, which I think it was a good idea. But I don't know. Maybe the outlines are too dark or there's just too many. So I went back through and I thinned them out a lot. And that definitely helped. I'm adding a few more details, a little patch, little snaps on his overalls, and then it's face time. And his face, I didn't have too much trouble with. It wasn't much different than the normal faces that I do because there weren't any bulging eyes that I had to work around. So I was just able to create a face from scratch, which was nice. Just a quick note. Also, if you're trying to get thin lines with this paint, the only way to do that is to draw a line as thin as you can, which is probably going to be kind of thick, and then go in with the background color to thin it out. So this face isn't horrible, I don't think. But after staring at it for a while, I decided that I didn't want that wide mouth. It looked like a hippo. So I ended up just changing it to a more normal smile. Here's the before and after. I'm kind of just like lukewarm about this. I guess I like it. I don't think that this one is like a massive improvement from what it was. He's cute. I don't I don't hate him. I'm just not as in love with this as I normally am. He's just always popping out of nowhere at the grocery store, at the movie theater, in your shower. Nope. Just kidding. Let's not make him creepy, OK? I've had enough of being scared of my own creations today. So he's the only one who can't stand. So I'm having to awkwardly hold him up. The judgment on her face. OK, so, well, I hope you were entertained by this video, at least. Let me know in the poll in the corner if you want me to try to do the other three or if you think I should retire from squishy people altogether. Either way. Thank you so much for watching and I will see you guys next Friday. Bye.