hey guys i went to the dollar store over the weekend i spent 14
getting princess cadence from target which killed my budget
so a lot of you guys recommended getting my little ponies from the dollar store instead
i didn't even know you could do that so since i trust your guys valued advice i took a trip to
the dollar store i found a bunch of cool stuff one of those airplane sleep masks a disturbing
looking baby doll and a little glass jar pretty nice haul but sadly i didn't find any mlps
since i already made the trip though i figured i'd make the best of it and do a dollar store makeover
which i saw mariah elizabeth do recently and a few of you guys have wanted me to do one for a while
now so today's the day my very own evil dollar store makeover so i'm gonna start off with the
blindfold first i've never actually seen anyone wear one of these before so i'm not sure how
useful this makeover would be to anyone but that's fine in tv shows and movies they make it seem like
you'd be wearing one of these a whole lot more than you actually do in real life surprisingly
though there's a lot of fancy sleep masks out there that cost a whole lot more money so i
figured i'd just buy this cheap one and customize it and sell it on ebay i'm sure some sucker will
buy it the mask comes with these earplugs which are actually pretty convenient since my neighbor
is a screaming toddler with space buns and that's not a joke that's the reality of my situation
you guys just haven't heard her before because she takes short like five minute breaks between each
screaming session so i just recorded those intervals but anyways enough about my life
i started off by painting a white base coat on the mask i needed to put a lot of white on it
because the material was really soaking up all the paint this part definitely took the longest i did
try to speed things up with a hair dryer which i think did help it helped move things along a bit
eventually i got pretty good coverage after doing several layers of white i had a few little specks
of paint that got on the edge especially because i didn't tape it up but i was fine with it i just
went in with a black posca and touched it up and it all disappeared i wanted to turn my mask into
a character so i drew some eyeballs and a little derpy mouth i like giving my characters eyelids it
just makes them look deranged and silly so i added an eyelid to one of his eyes there's also a little
drool coming out of the mouth that's in honor of my girlfriend who drools a lot in her sleep
this mask looks nothing like her she just drooled a lot last night so i added that in i decided to
give him a little puff of hair because he's not meant to look bald and intimidating just plain all
crazy i colored in the drool in one of his eyes with a blue posca for whatever reason i really
like the asymmetrical look so only one of his eyes is going to be blue sometimes i'm very indecisive
i hadn't made up my mind if he's gonna be a blonde or a redhead so i just did a little bit of both
best of both worlds he also has some big chubby cheeks that are kind of cut off at the end you
can't really see much of his face you only get to see a very little bit of him but i think that much
is enough to let you know he's got some issues no judgment here i've got 99 issues of my own
so then i decided to massacre the baby
walking down the dollar store aisle he really stood out to me just felt like
he was staring through my soul the second i looked into those eyes i felt disturbed
so that's your name poopy poopy so in retaliation i ripped off his arms
they just kind of popped right out i had a feeling he's been through this before in a past life
poopy and then i decided he's had a hard time so he could use a pedicure
let's do it
just some gentle sanding and chopping he was a very good sport about it he didn't even flinch
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thing so you don't lose me on the internet i post new videos every friday and because
i've gained some experience with giving haircuts i figured i'd give him one too
i just didn't want him to feel left out there was quite a bit of
smoke i'm not sure if that's normal with haircuts i actually had to turn away at
times because i didn't want to breathe in the fumes he was releasing this goes
without saying but don't try this at home you should only give haircuts if you're experienced
like me i didn't really know what to do with him at this point he does look beautiful as is
but i wanted to give him a complete transformation so i'll be using him as a base to sculpt on top of
in order to help the epoxy stick better i first went through and sanded him down
since he's too disturbingly cute for the dark side i decided to cover up his whole face
no one wants to see that anymore then i started working my way
around the whole body using epoxy i even added epoxy to the inside of his skull
my plan for this doll is to turn it into a planter like a pot that i could stick a plant into
i wanted it to match my evil aesthetic though so i decided to make it look like a mandrake root
for those of you who are not potterheads mandrake roots look kinda like people they're
often associated with dark arts and witchcraft there's a ton of magic rituals they're used in
poopy they're quite the pantry essential right up there with basil and thyme
so yeah i'm turning this dollar store baby into a mandrake root planter i want it to be one of
those planters that sits on the edge of the table so i'm using the edge of my makeshift desk to
help hold the shape while the epoxy hardens i wanted the planter to have the creepy bulging
eyes that i love so i started sculpting those as i went along i used water to smooth out the edges
and blend the epoxy together i also gave him a happy little mouth he's a happy little mandrake
since he's a root he's pretty wrinkly all over and has a lot of little root things sticking
off of him and then i was finally ready to paint him i started off with a very light
peachy color i kind of just painted the whole thing in that at first and then i painted his
bulging eyes and mouth black at this point he started to look like an alien to me
but that's fine i'll take that to make him look like he's fresh out of the ground i went back
in with a very watered down brown and just painted all over him i even added a little bit of greenery
here and there to make him really look like a root to make him look more lifelike i also put in some
highlights in the eyes and added some details to him a lot of you guys mentioned going over
eyeballs with a glossy varnish to make them pop a whole lot more and appear more realistic i really
appreciate you guys giving me advice a lot of your guys advice has helped me a lot so thank you i do
think the eyeballs look a lot cooler now to make it look a little mossy in some spots i sponged
on some paint after he was completely dry i found a little plant that was just perfect for his head
i actually don't know how long this plant will survive so if you see a new haircut on him at
some point you'll know why and last but not least i have this glass jar i found at the dollar store
dollar store makeovers are actually a bit of a challenge since there's not a whole lot of good
options on stuff to customize i found paper plates and party supplies and off-brand soda bottles
but obviously i wasn't gonna paint on those this jar just looked cool so i ended up picking it up
it does have an indent i think a label is supposed to go there but yeah that did make it a little
more difficult on deciding what to paint on it it took me a while just to brainstorm but i ended up
drawing some sketches just to get a rough idea the jar came with a little sticker on the bottom
i won't be needing that anymore so i ripped it off it wasn't very satisfying so i just used
some acetone to rub the rest of the residue off and then it was finally ready to paint except not
quite because as i learned from my last painting on jars video that was a long time ago you don't
need to watch that those were dark times but yeah i learned that paint does not like to stick
to glass i've gained a couple brain cells since then so i started off by mod podging the whole jar
i did three layers of mod podge just to make sure i got an even coat and didn't miss any spots
once that was all dry i went in with the base color it's like a light beigey gray kind of color
my idea for this jar is to turn it into like a sloth character i figured sloths are pretty
evil because it's one of the seven deadly sins thou shall not sloth after painting the base coat
i felt like there was still some light shining through the jar and kind of breaking up the paint
a little bit so i decided to paint the inside of the jar black and also went ahead and painted the
cap black as well the cap was giving me a hard time the paint didn't want to stick to it so
i had to cover that in mod podge too i started sketching the little sloth's face onto the jar
i made the face mostly inside the indented label area trying to work with the shape that i have
some of the paint was still giving me a little bit of trouble i just kept messing with it and doing
touch-ups as i went i didn't want to add too many layers of mod podge because i didn't want it to
get too goopy and textured i also gave the sloth a little fuzzy belly i had originally planned
to give him some arms on the side but i think they would end up being too high up on the jar
they would just look weird if i added arms right next to his eyeballs so i just left them off
i actually like how the cap looks it almost looks like a beanie i even added my little loon
signature to it to make the jar look more finished i added some glossy varnish to the glass part i
left the cap though i liked the contrast between the glossy jar with the matte cap on top so that
was my dollar store makeover i was able to make quite a few evil characters to add to the army
thou shall not sloth click on the top right or bottom left you lazy bum
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