Life hacks. Whether you love them,
or you hate them, They're certainly fun to judge. And that's what
we're gonna do today. As resin experts, we thought it'd be fun to check
out some resin life hacks, and then test to see
if they actually work. This video is brought
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for all your website needs. (screen whooshing) (screen whooshing) Okay. So we have some wire. We, is she gonna make a fff- a flower? Is it a spoon? Oh God, no! Resin's not food safe! Wait. It's not a spoon. Oh, It's a leaf! (laughing) (crosstalk) They make a lot of spoons. (both talking) You never know what
they're gonna try to pass off as a spoon. (laughing) Okay, it's a leaf. I feel better. Okay, wrapping it around a comb. Oh wow, this is, that's
kind of elaborate. It looks kind of cool. Actually. I know, right. Also, the technique of using, like creating a bubble
out of UV resin. I wonder if that will work. Will it work? I have doubts. Got all the supplies. (clapping) Yeah, but I do. I do enjoy this. Cool. I think the hardest
part of this whole craft is gonna be bending the leaf. Yeah. I'm trying to understand exactly what's going on here. I have to admit, I tried when I was prepping it, I made some and they're.. Those are so sad. They're so bad. They're so bad.
That's my best one. Why do you do them so tiny? I don't know. Okay. Well I'm gonna try
doing a little bit bigger. Yeah. Hopefully you can do a
little bit better than I did cause I wasn't doing well. Yeah. And I'm gonna make it
more like a small spoon. You like your flowers
to be massive and... It's not massive. It's just bigger than this. Okay. No, it'll work. It'll work. All right. Look at that. Beautiful. She definitely had thinner wire. Oh no, no, no. Why are you saying, Oh no? I feel like it's going okay. And then you're saying, oh no. Oh, I just feel bad that
I got the wrong wire. Oh. I was in charge of
preparing for today's video. You know, you did
the best you could with the visuals at hand (groans) Oh, sorry. I think yours is very artistic. Thank you. Okay. It's beautiful. It looks like a light bulb. It's like light bulb filament. The curly Q's? (laughs) (static sound) (audio) Resin time. Resin time. Do, do, do, do, do. Resin time. (music) Don't wanna spatter that. That's the magic stuff. Ah, (both) Ooh, Yay.. MALE: That is fun. This is gonna be a very
thin amount of resin. You know? We need it
heavily pigmented. Yeah. That's the pearliness we want. Okay. This is gonna be a
delicate operation cuz we need to cure this without curing the
whole pot there. Yeah. All right. Ready? Moment of truth. Fully in there. Fully. Okay. Go. Oh. Oh, it popped. It popped. Okay. Well I'll keep. Get, get what you can get. I it's too bad. I can't
do this any other way. Two. Two of 'em. Two of 'em are partially there. Oh man. Look, do you see
that bubble pop open? Oh my gosh! As it cured. That didn't work as advertised. Not at all. We'll try again. We might have a better chance. I feel like they were
using bubble material. Bubble material. What do you call it? Soap? (scream) Oh you see a pop! It popped again. It literally pops. Is it maybe because
like, it's too big? Would my small
ones be super good? I could try one of
your small ones. Yeah. And there I was making
fun of your tiny leaves. Do one. (screams) It's holding. It's holding. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah It's way better though. We might be able to
get this in two dips. Yeah. Wow. Yeah. There's a lot of
progress on that one. So, tiny leaves. I'm sorry. You made fun of my tiny leaves. You know, I wasn't making fun of them
because they were tiny, I was making fun of them
because they looked bad. Fair. Fair. Okay. Let's do one more dip. Let's see if we can complete it. Okay. Ready? Yeah. I got a lot on that one. Yeah, I used it like a spoon. Wow. This might be a
successful leaf right here. It looks not as pretty as the. (laughs) Yeah. Although, having a bit of
a hard time curing it all. You know, we have one. Wow. Looks veiny. It does kinda look
like veins in there. Kinda fleshy. The great thing about life hacks is they're supposed to
be nice, quick, and easy. That took 10 minutes. Yeah. How many of these
do we need to make? 13! Let's do the quick
hand wave that they do. (magic chimes) And then they'll be ready? Yeah. Why isn't it working? Why isn't it working? Wait, wait wait. You gotta go like this. Oh. (magic chimes) Wow!. It's almost like it
didn't take two hours. (laughing) Well, look at these. I mean you can tell, as we kept on making them, we got a lot better. I mean, going from this to that. Well, Hey, this was following their design. With these, We just did a
central vein in the leaf because that's how leaves look. That's how Leafs work!. Hopefully it should be
pretty easy to add these in and hopefully we made enough. You just gotta go. Whoop. And kind of layer 'em. We did some different
lengths of stems. There you go. And do the next, the other transition. Oh, we're gonna do another one. Okay. Okay. Gimme one second. Wait, wait, wait,
wait, wait, wait. Oh, wait. I wanna be extra. Let's just do. Let's just. No. (magic chimes) Wow. Wow. I mean, honestly though. Wow? I know, like, Are you impressed? I am. I also, I'm like
questioning everything I thought I knew about
life hack videos? (laughs) Cause this actually
like, this looks legit. It looks legit. This is why I chose
this one in particular. Like if it worked, it said it'd be really cool. And it looks really cool! I'm so surprised. There you go. Let me, lemme do a little. That actually looks. Does it look cool? That looks cool. It's honestly like, it looks
like something you would buy. Yeah. You can customize it with
any color that you want. It takes a while. Y'all. It does. Yeah. It just was several hours. But it's a cool thing Yeah. (bell chime) (music) (swishing between images) So you know how you
were disappointed that a spoon wasn't
involved in the last craft. Oh, (laughs) okay. We have a spoon. What do you think it's
gonna be used for? Not as a spoon. (laughs) Okay. She's bending the spoon. Pouring resin in the spoon. Why would you use
the spoon to mix it? Why don't just use cups. So you're making art
in the- spoon art? Spoon galaxy. I still don't understand
why it's in a spoon. Why not just use
like a resin mold? I mean the gold and the glitter. It's pretty. One thing that I
had to point out, look at the gold
between the cut. The gold flake gets
like a big gold flake right in the center. Yeah. Right? Hello! Was that like the most macro
lens ever used on that? Why is the gold so tiny now? I don't know. Okay, now what do you
guess this is used for? It's gonna be a necklace. What? (laughs) It's a bookmark. That's a stupid bookmark. How heavy is it gonna be? It's gonna be so heavy! Are you gonna be able
to close the book on it? No! It's gonna leave like
a big open chunk. Am I off to bend a spoon? I don't wanna bend
one of our nice spoons I went to HEB and I got the cheapest spoon
I could find for 50 cents. Oh. Thank you. Okay. I even have books. Yes. Okay. I'm ready to. Be disappointed. Exhibit my strength. All right. You have to bend it
pretty close to the head. I've been training for
this my entire life. You actually have. Like, you've been training your
entire life for everything. Everything you do has led up
to any moment that you do. Technically. Yeah. We can say that about
all the weird stuff we do on this channel. (laughs) Velvet toilet seat? Training my whole life for this You ready? Yeah. Do it with just your mind. Do it with your hands again. My hands are slightly
more effective. (laughs) Okay. And this is the cheapest
one I could get. Is this is this hard? Here's. Okay, sir. (laughs) Sorry. I was only using. 10% Of my strength. Ready for some resin. I am. You know, one thing I realized while we were
getting this ready, in the video, she's just
holding it with her hands. Bare hands, no gloves. Fingers, millimeters
away from resin. Is that crazy? So crazy. Like UV resin isn't
guaranteed to cure unless you put it in UV. Anyways. Okay. I'm ready. Now, it's a little
hard to tell exactly which layers they cure between. Do you think the two
blues they mixed together and then cured? Yeah, I think so. That's what I was thinking too. That's a lot. I think it's mostly
these, right? Maybe. I don't know. It's not like they,
they, they show much. Wow. It is pretty. I mean, that's
some pretty resin. Pretty. Push it up to the
sides like they do. Oh yeah. That's one thing they do. Oh yeah. That's part of what
made me so nervous. Cause her hands are like right
under the edge, like this. Maybe they have higher resin
handling skills than we do, but I doubt it. Go. (Evan making zoom sounds) Hopefully I'm protecting these. This is getting so hot. Yeah. Cause like when resin
cures, it gets hot. UV resin gets really hot. All right. That's probably good enough. Yeah. And then we'll do A little swirl of
white in the glitter. And then the gold. Yep. I mean, honestly, it is pretty like I just how pretty it is. Yeah. Because I wanna hate
every aspect of it. The prettiness is the
only part kind of maybe saving it here. Okay. Gonna get the tiniest
pieces of gold. Sorry. This is
really quite small. I'm really trying to match
their final look here. Maybe they put a
massive one on there and then they chop it in place. They grind it. Maybe Let's see if I can break
this one up into multiple. Nope. It just got sucked up
into my Popsicle stick and we lost one. So basically, what you're saying is you just undid all
the work I just did. Wait, that's a large one. Let me try to break that one up. Didn't we just establish. (video game sound) It's subtle. It's too subtle. It's hidden. Where'd it go. But I would just
like to remind you, that I would be done now if you hadn't buried
all of my gold. I love you, baby. I love you. I also celebrate you in all of your chaos and
occasional impatience, which balances out my
crippling perfectionism. Should I be worried? This don't no, please. No, This is just it's gonna look more like how it looked when
they placed theirs originally. Yeah. Now we'll just cure it and then test it on some books. Again. I'm slightly upset
that it looks very pretty. It does look very pretty. But this is supposed
to be a bookmark. Yeah. Let's just say I got the page
71, in this fabulous book and I wanna mark my spot. (spoon fell) Well. It's a great a toe smasher. It's like, it's a
great toe smasher. Like, like how thick
would it need to be? You need to put the
whole book in there. I mean, it still sucks. It still sucks. Is it too tight now? Like. You know, the thing is no matter what
tightness the fold is, it's not a good bookmark. It's not a good bookmark. I wouldn't recommend it. I'll say this was. (fart sound) Would've been a better necklace. Would've been a better necklace! Honestly, we can just
drill a hole, and... It's still a bad necklace. I was making a joke. Okay, so this one is a
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of a website or domain. (music) Okay. Paper. Oh no. Parchment paper. They're- no- For silicon? Into
parchment paper? No. Wait. Lavender? Wait. They just poured the resin
in the parchment of paper. That's worse than just silicone. Oh god. One, how does it
seal at the bottom? Two,... It does not! That's way too deep for UV cure. It's way too deep. That would be smoking. I don't think that
UV cure can like... Go through parchment paper. Go through parchment paper. No. Oh, this is gonna be a mess. This is gonna be a huge mess And supposedly it looks
like it just pops right out. It looks great. Yep. And then you can just put rings. On it. Oh god. Okay. Things didn't even bother to
say on the bottom of those look at 'em they're all
crackly and crooked. And the top has like
bubbles in it and it's.. Like a weapon. It's like, (mumbles) Well look, when they roll
up the parchment paper, they don't even like
properly seal the bottom. There's a giant hole. (crosstalk) There's a giant
hole at the bottom. We'll give it a shot. But at this point... Let's just prepare for a mess. I'm very doubtful. I just take it. I roll it like this. This doesn't compute. This doesn't make sense. Oh geez. This is
a horrible mold. This also I fear, is not
gonna be a glossy finish, like they show. I feel like it's gonna be matte cuz resin picks up the texture of whatever mold it's in. All right. So the store
was out a real lavender, so I just got some fake stuff. Honestly, this will
probably be better. That looks, that looks perfect. Yeah. They also aren't
holding it at all. All right. Do we wanna hold it? No. I'm just gonna do what they do. Okay. Oh my gosh. This is
gonna be so disastrous. Pour a whole bunch
of resin in here. Are you curing it a
little bit in there? Yeah. Let's turn on this one too. Just in case. I have no idea how
long this might take. (music) Okay. That's enough for
that first layer. Let's finish it up. Oh my god! What a waste of resin. I know, it like it
kind of pains me. These dumb crafts. (laughs) I know That's enough. Yeah. We'll cut off the
bottom of the frond. Let's at least give it
the recommended time, based on the bottle. It says cure time,
two to 10 minutes? Let's give it five. Oh, should we give it 10? Let's give it 10. Okay. We'll give it 10. It's been like 20 minutes. And this is still
so extremely hot. It's 154 Fahrenheit. Is it curing? I don't know if it's this hot, is it still curing? Should we poke it? I'm gonna poke it. Okay. Let's just see if
this is squishy. Okay. Maybe, the thermal runaway
helped it cure faster. Yeah, but that's not how
UV resin cures, does it? I don't know. I don't know. Well, why don't you
just turn it upside down and see if it just pops
out ,just like theirs. Okay. One second It's... (laughs) Okay, obviously
it's not coming out When they like, (gasps) What's that? I think it seeped
between layers. I think the parchment
paper's part of the resin now Oh no. I'm gonna try to untape it. Because they just like
slide it right out. Like it's nothing. Well, it's cause they
had already demolded it. Then they stuck it back
in and they pulled it out. That's what I think so too. Yeah. I think so too. Do
you need a knife? Not yet. Oh, oh, oh huh. It's unwrapping like a Shawarma. Okay. It's only, only the edge. Okay. Okay. Only the edge is
embedded in there. Wow. One, it's not at all
clear like theirs. No. Cuz like we said, it takes on the surface of
whatever the mold is made of and parchment paper
is matte. So... Yeah. So you got this. I'll say this, one
thing I am surprised on, is like, you know what, it cured better than I thought. It cured better than I thought. I thought it was
gonna be a big mess. Okay. Wow. Wow. We didn't hold it up straight. Wow. It's a statement piece, Katelyn. Okay. I mean it technically works. You know, I'll say this, it worked better than I thought, like it went.. Yeah. It kind of did work. I'm being salty but... It went to a really nice point. Ours, actually looks
better than theirs if it wasn't for the frostiness. I don't even really
mind the frostiness. Honestly, if we cleaned
it up a little bit and we had poured it straight, it would be kind of cool. Gosh, darn it. I know. I wanna be saltier. Okay. Like, if that was level, man. Okay. I give it a Okay. It's okay. (curious music) Do you know how we made
a case for my phone? Is it real beans. That is so wrong. Yeah. And then I made another
case cuz it was fun. Yeah. I think it was about time, we make a high quality case custom made just for you. So first, you start with a case. Whoa. Thanks. Cut it. Cut it? I don't understand
what they cut. They like, cut out
the plastic part and then they put packing tape. Oh. On. Now, they're filling
with resin instead. I don't really know why they
can't just pour resin on top, I guess. Okay. Mix. Of course the gold
leaf to make it fancy. (laughs) There you go It looks so bad! It looks so bad. You don't like the
portable gold flakes? Or the clearly
packing tape texture? Like, I think the packing
tape still on there. That's how bad it looks. This is the best they could do with all the cooking
show magic they do? I'm scared. I have better tape. This is a polypropylene
stucco tape. Smooth surface. It removes not stickily, so this is a better tape. Do you have more than
one of these cases? Yes, I do. Okay good. I have one more. Okay. Just in case, you know? Okay. Just in case because the case, it's not really that clever. (clapping) Thank you. Thank you. (cheering) Okay. I'll try to mimic their design. Yeah. It's gonna be beautiful, baby. You want scissors? I mean, it's cutting, but there's so much flex, I don't want it to slip. Yeah. That's why I think
it'd be better upside down. Yeah. That way, you know? Yeah. Ooh. I'll trace
one of these lines. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
yeah, yeah, yeah! You're so smart. Thank you. All they had to do was
push it down on the table and it just pop was done. Yeah. It's like, you
know how these mats are designed to absorb
cuts and then reseal? Yeah This is doing that. This material. Like feel it, feel it. Well, you can feel
the ridge, but.. Can I see? It's funny, the third try. Well, your cuts aren't
on my line at all. Your cuts are not on my line. At all. (laughs) I was waiting for you to notice. I'm sorry. (laughs) So much for my very
careful straight line! (laughing) You doing it. Am I doing it? No, not at all. The only part that's cut, is the part you just
like stabbed through. I guess I could try your method and be more careful. Slow and steady. Slow and steady. Following the line. Yes. Yes. Oh no. I literally had a
straight line until it.. Oh no I didn't. (laughing) I just have tinier waves. Look, look, No, maybe It's just getting worse. It's just like chewing it. (chewing sounds) Are you okay? Oh, I tried to laugh and pretend to eat
at the same time. Oh my god. I thought you choked. This is probably gonna
take like 20 minutes. All right. Have fun. I had a good nap. That looks. It's done question mark? It's honestly, it's as good as it's gonna get. Once, it's filled with resin, it's gonna be an amazing case. Yeah. (music) You know, unlike the spoon, the color choices on this one were not the prettiest. It's not my first choice. Yeah. It's need to be thicker
than that, right? I would like to do
more teal than gold. I just don't wanna
overwhelm it with gold and then not be able to
have as much teal as I want. You know? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. There'll be some hints
of gold in there. I just wanna make sure that
I could use all the teal. Yeah. Okay. Then, you know
what's hilarious? What? You are kind of designing
it for this side, but guess what color
you put down first? Oh no. It's gonna be the yellow
on the other side. How much money in gold
are we wasting on this? Less than a dollar. We wasted less than
a dollar on gold and all we got was this
mediocre looking phone case That might be generous. It might be a bad
looking phone case. I'm trying to be neutral. All right. Okay. Ready to fire the laser? Fire the laser! (explosion) So you know, how this red
tape, is good for resin? Yeah. That info is about normal resin. One thing I didn't
think about is how hot this UV resin can get. Look at how bent it is. I did notice it as bent. Yes. And look at half the, Geez. Look, look. I'm sorry. Yeah, it doesn't look great. All right. All right. All right. It is detaching. It's just textured. It's just textured. Just like the crap we were
giving them for their texture. No, it feels, feels cured. Feels good. Hey, well
you know, it's a case. Well, I gotta put it on. Yeah. How long has your phone
been in that case. Enough for it to be destroyed? It's about time. You've got an upgrade. Wow. Look at that beautiful design. Look at that beautiful texture. Custom textured. Wow. Wow. Lets hope it actually fits, despite the warping. It fits (laughs) How's the aesthetic. You know, compared to my old, it's kind of an
upgrade, actually. (laughter) But would I choose it? No, no, I would not. Is it worth the effort? Also, no. It would've just looked
better as a clear case. Thank you. Wow. Let's review all of our crafts and see how they
all come together. You know, both times we've
done resin life hacks, I have actually found
that it's pushed our knowledge of resin, further. Wow. I don't think that
I would've guessed that this would've worked or this would've worked, but these, are dumb. (laughter) But you know what's not dumb? Supporting us on Patreon
or as a YouTube member, because we have things like, Aftershows,
Aftershows, Aftershows, where we talk about
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group of people and maybe we'll see you there. And bye. (laughter) I just go with that. You know, it is an ending. It is an ending. Isn't that fun? That's great. These videos are so fun. They're like some
of the most fun. (beep) This could be a while. I feel like there
should be better design. Why not just like a sharp
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