How To Make SLIME For Beginners! EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW!

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It's Courtney .

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Anyways today , I'm doing a beginner slime video .

It's been a while since I've done one of these , but I thought I would take it back to the basics for all my newer slime viewers .

So today I'm gonna be taking you through some of the basic steps in making and also some tips to getting the perfect slime and mistakes you might make in this and how to avoid that .

So this is going to be kind of like an all inclusive video on how to make some awesome slime .

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Alrighty .

So first up is the starting point for all our slimes .

There's two types of slime bases you can make .

The first one is a white glue base .

So that's what we're going to start with .

I'm just adding some white glue into a bowl and then I'm also going to add in some food coloring before I do anything else .

So here you could add food coloring , you could add acrylic paint .

Um You could also add like um shaving foam if you want to make it a fluffy slime .

I have a lot of different like basic slime recipes and like other beginner tutorials So I'm just showing you how to make a classic slime right now .

So now we need to activate our slime and to do a white glue slime .

My favorite activator is a half a teaspoon of borax mixed into a cup of warm water and then slowly add it in and start to mix it .

And then when it starts to pull away from the sides of the bowl , you can go ahead and need it with your hands until it's no longer sticky .

The more slime you make , the more you're able to tell kind of when it's ready .

So then just keep needing it until it all forms together and add a little bit of activator if you need it .

Now , I know some people a long time ago like it was going around that to not use borax .

I have used this for over a year .

No problems .

You really just have to be careful and do it the right way and properly dilute it .

Uh Some people were like forming acids with it and that's what caused like burns and stuff .

So do your own research and come to your own conclusions .

But that's what I do personally .

So now onto my clear glue recipe , so clear glue is very , very finicky .

So again , we're gonna go ahead and color it .

You could add in any glitters or fun sequence .

But this time our activator is going to be again a half a teaspoon of borax but mixed into two cups of warm water .

So it's a much more subtle dilution .

And so you really only need to add in a little bit at a time and then start to need it because as you need clear glue , it comes together a lot , lot faster than white glue .

Uh So just start needing it with your hands till it's no longer sticky and then you're good to go and of course , clear glue does cloud up a bit as you can see .

Um But just let it sit for a little while and it will go back to completely clear .

So next , I'm going to show you how to make a self inflating slime , which is basically a slime that gets bigger and fluffier as you play with it .

So for this , we're gonna use some white glue , some food coloring , some foaming face wash .

The one I'm using is clean and clear .

I'm going to list all the products that I use to make slime in the description box if you want to check them out .

But I'm also using some shaving foam and some foaming hand soap .

So all these foaming products are gonna make it really fluffy the more you play with it .

So as you can see , even as I'm like stirring everything together , it is getting fluffier and larger .

Um So once it's all stirred together , I'm gonna go ahead and use my activator for white glue slime , which again , is a half a teaspoon of Borax and one cup of warm water .

And for this one , you only need a little bit of activator .

All the extra products really make it activate a lot faster .

So keep that in mind when you're adding it in .

So I'm gonna go ahead and start kneading this with my hands until it all comes together .

As you could see , it was like pulling away from the sides of the bowl .

So that's when I know it's kind of safe to stick my hand in .

And then I'm just gonna need it until it forms .

But then the more you play with it , the fluffier it becomes .

So this , this slime is super fun to play with very , very fluffy .

Um And yeah , it just has a really cool light airy texture .

So another cool recipe that's handy to have is a non deflating slime .

And what this means is basically your fluffy slime isn't going to shrink the longer you keep it because this happen if you just use shaving foam .

So I'm taking the slime that I used from the very beginning .

It was just a plain slime .

And then I'm mixing in a really small amount of shaving foam .

The more shaving foam you use to make your slime fluffy , it will shrink over time .

So keep that in mind if you have it full to the brim in a container after you have this fluffy slime in there for a while , it is going to shrink some and turn into more of a regular slime .

Now , you could always add in more shaving foam , but a way to prevent this is kind of turn it into a bit of a butter slime consistency .

So for this , I'm adding in some white de so clay and then I'm just needing it in and combining it and the clay is really going to make the slime fluffy , but it's also going to hold its shape and stay fluffy a lot longer than it would with just shaving foam alone .

So I'm just needing this together .

And so it is super fluffy , really fun to play with .

Great for like slime swirls and stuff like that .

Um So that is what I like to do to keep my slimes fluffy longer , just add in a little bit of clay .

And as you can see , it's still kind of spread like butter slime , but it's not totally a butter slime .

And then the last thing I'm gonna show you guys is how to get that perfect slime swirl .

Now , there's certain types of slimes that are just not good for slime swirls .

So for example , this is a very glossy clicky thin slime to give slimes like this , you add some water to the glue before you activate it .

So it has more water than normal slime .

As you can see , it has a very thin texture .

It's really fun to play with and it's very poppy and clicky .

Um But when you try to make a slime swirl by folding the slime in half and then it will hold its shape for about a second and then it's just going to fall .

You don't have enough time to take a pretty picture and it just kind of looks like a blob when you're done .

Now , we're gonna use that non deflating slime that we just made and it's gonna make a perfect slime swirl .

So to do a slime swirl , you basically stretch your slime , fold it in half and just keep repeating it and that's going to form the lines that go down it .

Uh This is how you could also do multiple colors as well .

Just kind of lay them flat next to each other and then fold them in half .

So then you just swirl it around and as you can see this one , it's going to hold its shape a lot better and for a lot longer than the last one .

So having some clay , having a fluffy slime is definitely going to help you out here and then you can take a really cool fluffy slime swirl picture .

That's all I have for you guys today .

I hope you found this useful and helpful .

And please let me know in the comment down below if you have any more questions that I can maybe do in like a part two to this .

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