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[intro music plays] [zipper sound effect]

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Hi, my name is Annika and you're watching

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Make, Thrift, Buy, a show where you guys send
me clothes from the internet and I attempt to re-create them!

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Today’s Make, Thrift, Buy was suggested
by my friend Tilde who sent me a picture of

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this mermaid top, originally from a shop called
Tokyo Hardcore, though there are various iterations

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of this theme all over the internet. So, let’s
see if I can re-create it! So first I looked

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up pictures of seashells to make a kind of
stencil with. I found this shell whose shape

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looks similar to the one on the shirt, so
I copied it into Photoshop and copied it into

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two different sizes because I wasn’t sure
what size I wanted. The shirt that I’m using

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is this old crop top that I’ve had for five
years. I decided to use the larger shells

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which I then cut out properly. Then using
a pencil, I marked where I wanted the top

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and the bottom off the shell to be and I traced
the shells onto the shirt. Next up, mixing

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the paints: so red + blue + white equals…horrible
grey, apparently. So I eventually got to a

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pretty pastel purple by adding a lot more
red, a lot more white…more red, more white.

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Yeah, alright, that’ll do. Now I’m adding
one part fabric medium to two parts paint.

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Adding the medium helps the paint to stay
permanent on fabric, even when washed. Then

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I put a piece of cardboard in the shirt to
separate the front from the back and started

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painting. Wait. Wait a minute. At this point,
I remembered what a disaster combination cardboard

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and paint were. Oh well, better late than
never. At least I’ve learned from my mistakes.

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So I carefully replaced the cardboard inside
the shirt with a piece of plastic and I continued

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painting my seashells on. And I finished off
the edges with a really fine brush and after

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letting it dry overnight, and according to
the instructions on the fabric medium, I put

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a tea towel over the prints and ironed them
for a good two minutes. Then, using a purple

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permanent marker and a ruler, I drew some
dotted lines just like in the top from Tokyo

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Hardcore. And I ironed this all again because
well, why not. To style this

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[music plays]

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To style this shirt,

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I paired it with some ice cream earrings,
bright pink lipstick, some jelly shoes to give

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it a beachy feel, and a long green skirt which
I felt kind of looked like a mermaid’s tail.

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So, my conclusion? [scissor
cutting effect, zipper sound effect]

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So I’ll admit that you probably could buy this cheaper
than you could make it, although obviously

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I’m going to re-use all of these paints
and permanent markers again in new craft projects.

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While yes, one of the points of this series
is for me to show you that you can re-create

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things from the high street for a fraction
of the cost. Another motive of this series

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is to slow down the pace of fast fashion.
Every new thing you buy uses up resources,

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and most of the time a lot of the things you
buy are made in sweat shops. On that political

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note, please give my video a thumbs up if
you liked it and subscribe to my channel and

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I’ll see you all next time! [outro music
plays]