The Art of Slime Making: A Journey of Trial and Error

As I sat down to begin my slime-making journey, I couldn't help but feel a sense of excitement and trepidation. I had heard great things about the world of slime making, but I was also aware that it could be a bit of a challenge. And boy, was I right! My first attempt at creating a slime was a disaster. I added too much activator and ended up with a gloopy, rippy mess. But I didn't let that deter me.

Instead, I decided to start fresh and try again. This time, I took a more cautious approach and added just the right amount of activator. The resulting slime was perfect - it had just the right texture and consistency. I was thrilled with how it turned out and couldn't wait to add some color and embellishments to make it even more special.

I decided to start by adding a few drops of green dye to give my slime a fun and playful vibe. As I mixed in the dye, I noticed that it had a slightly uneven color distribution. But I didn't worry too much about it - after all, it was just a small imperfection. Next, I added some sparkly beads and glitter to give my slime an extra touch of magic.

I was so happy with how my slime looked, but I knew that there was still one more thing to add. I wanted to make sure that the texture of my slime was even and consistent, so I decided to mix in some additional lotion to achieve just the right consistency. And voila! My slime was complete - it had a perfect balance of texture and color.

But wait, there's more! As I continued to experiment with different slime recipes, I discovered that sometimes a little bit of trial and error is necessary. In my next attempt at creating a new slime, I accidentally added too much activator again - this time resulting in a slime that was far too stretchy and melty. But don't worry, I didn't give up! Instead, I used this opportunity to learn and improve.

I tried adding more lotion to the slime to achieve a better texture, and I even experimented with different types of activators to see what worked best. It wasn't easy, but with each trial and error, I got closer and closer to creating a truly perfect slime. And finally, after several attempts and some careful experimentation, I hit upon just the right combination.

I decided to create a new slime by mixing together blue lotion, clay, and activator. As I worked on it, I realized that this one was going to be different from my previous slimes - it was like creating a whole new recipe. But I wasn't worried, because I knew that I had learned enough from my past experiences to create something truly special.

The result was a beautiful blue slime with a slightly chunky texture and a subtle sparkle. It was perfect just the way it was! I couldn't believe how much I had learned in just a few short hours of experimenting. Slime making wasn't always easy, but it was worth it - every trial and error, every mistake, and every success was leading me closer to creating truly amazing creations.

As I continued to work on my slime-making skills, I started to get creative with new recipes and ideas. I began adding different types of clay, pigment, and embellishments to create unique textures and colors. It was like building a whole new world of possibilities, one batch of slime at a time.

And then, there were the fan mail slimes. Oh boy, those were some exciting projects! Fans would send in their own slime creations for me to fix or remake, and it was always an adventure. I loved getting to know each slime's unique personality and learning about the people behind them.

I remember one particularly tricky slime that arrived at my doorstep - it was a beautiful shade of blue but had a weird texture that made it all gloopy and melty. But after some careful experimentation, I managed to turn it into something truly special. It was like magic!

As I wrapped up this article, I couldn't help but feel grateful for the world of slime making. It may seem simple on the surface, but beneath the layers of gooey texture and vibrant color lies a rich tapestry of creativity, experimentation, and joy. Whether you're a seasoned slime pro or just starting out, there's always something new to discover - and I'm excited to share this journey with all of you.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwhat is up guys welcome back to the laboratory today we are going fixing your guys slimes three years ago i used to open up you guys fan mail and you guys would send me your slimes and i would you know just look at them but now i fixed one and these are literally like three years old and i keep them i decided let's open them up and see what three years old stuff is in here like this is basically a three-year-old time capsule it's pretty cool honestly and i'm excited to get into this so let's get straight on into the video yo okay let's open these up i am so freaking excited to open these up i just have to tell you guys how much i appreciate your fan mailboxes they are so amazing and i love you guys so freaking much let's open these i'm just gonna go with this one first this first package is from deborah she actually lives here in arizona so hey girl i don't know if you're still watching i hope you are but hey high five for living in arizona um first of all deborah you put a bunch of it so pretty it's ears i haven't found many ears recently like i just can't find them oh we got ears ah look how cute they are some bubble gum i actually love this bubble gum it's squishy it's a little like a little purple koala this is a koala right yeah this is koala it's so cute and soft too slime and is that a scent bottle harvest spice scent bottle girl did you accidentally put this in here you literally gave me an entire scent bottle this is great because like october's already coming too soon that's like three and a half months and october's already almost here like that's insane guys six months already passed by okay so we have the slimes right here these are really cute deborah you did a great job they got like stickers on them and everything they got everything okay first we've got this cayenne candy slime right here oh this is right here scented creamy candy this is called creamy candy it's not very creamy anymore it's crispy so we're gonna call it crispy candy it's also like brown at the bottom this one is gonna take me a little longer to fix than your regular slime because of how dry it is the next one is choco cream i just realized i have a knife here i'll move that away choco cream and this is also scented let's open this bad boy up oh oh okay let me smell this it says it's scented smells like chocolate okay we got this one on fire i don't think this one is scented but uh yeah that's interesting i like it looks interesting it kind of reminds me of pasta though and then we got this one a banana cream pie the fact that these ones are still pretty like moist it's pretty interesting not scented oh look at this it's like halfway still okay oh no the clay part is okay not the slime let's get started on fishing okay so we have this chocolate cream one right here it looks like literally perfectly fine to me it just like needs activating so i'm going to pour it on my desk i'm going to activate it and then we will see how we feel about it later oh look at that gloopy gloopy gloppiness and we add my activator and we activate one eternity later i am done activating this and it's actually like it's really nice this slimes really don't need any fixing they're like perfectly fine but i'm gonna add a little razzle dazzle i'm gonna add a little bit of my touch to it just this is chocolate cream i'm gonna add a little bit of some clay to it just to give it a more creamy texture and then i'm gonna add some like chocolate pieces to it that i have so let me go and get that oh okay i brought some clay here and we're gonna add that into there make it a little bit buttery a little bit of creamy you know what now that i think about it i think i might have added too much clay into this oh boy it needs more activator oh it's really nice texture though this is a little a little more creamy to me i like it i'm liking it it's kind of good oh good makeover so far okay and now i'm gonna add the little chocolate sprinkles on top like chocolate crumb things here we go yeah we added chocolate sprinkles and duh chocolate cream choco cream this is a really nice slime i like it really nice all right we put it back in the container i think it should fit it pretty much fits except a little bit all right i'm gonna let that soak so i can grab the rest onto the next slime we're gonna fix this banana slime now which this one i'm gonna have to like scoop out with my little thingy come on mr banana then we put our activator okay here is the slab it's got kind of a weird texture i think it might have overactivated a little bit but it's nice okay so i got some clay to add into this to kind of help the texture because it's a bit rippy yeah now it's stretching okay i'm gonna add some banana fimo's to it now i'm just getting these little razzle dazzles because they really don't need any makeovering they got their own little names already so i want to keep them like this i like them as they are and it's done it's all nice and soft and stretchy again oh this is great this is like it is really nice last one from debra is this fire one this one's gonna be a little annoying to activate i just know it already this reminds me of pasta a lot so i'm going to um i'm going to reactivate this and then i'm going to make a sauce on the side that's like red and i'm going to give it to paul as a pasta slime because i think it'll look pretty cool boy guys i kind of want to give up on this one okay so the slime is kind of like activated again but like the straws do not want to stay in the slime you just cannot get them to stay i can't find my little container glitter so i'm going to have to figure out my big gallon of glue turn come on just a little bit ah there's too much glycerin now it's all melting just all melting in my hands again okay i think this is the best i could do for this slime it's still really not staying together i'm gonna keep it like this and i'm gonna throw away the rest of these straws because i think i keep adding more it's just gonna not work okay we're gonna leave it like that now i gotta go make my sauce need some red add a little bit of that then i need some black too much black i'm gonna add just a little bit of this and we add some more red okay we're gonna leave it at this and hopefully the instant snow makes it whiter i don't know why it's such a deep red we're gonna grab a piece of this and add it to this because it's just too much red going on that's the problem yeah see here now it's fixed now i add a little bit of this this black in here and make it just the color i want there we go okay now we put our instant stone our dough everybody besides i'm going to put it out by pasta and i'm done paul i made you some pasta slime no way yeah i present to you pasta slime that's the red sauce oh this is nice oh i like the cracker like luckily remember you used to do this yeah long time ago no i did that like once yeah you used to do that once a long time ago little sticky so but nice this is a this is making me hungry all right here i'll play with the plastic slime for you guys beautiful oh look it's kind they're kind of staying together now this is why the straw slime didn't go all that far because it always fell out it's nice and crunchy though that slime actually turned out kind of nice pasta slime that's the slime for the win okay we're done with the first box that took quite a while and um i think we're ready to get onto the next one this next one is from alexander and it actually says from the desk of alexander which i think is so adorable let's open this bad boy up it's already open i don't know why all right so the note just says all these slimes that are in here which i to be honest can't read entirely or understand entirely but we're gonna look at the slimes okay so this is a cherry blossom slime and don't mind my hands they got a bunch of food coloring on them no way there is no way that this can be okay still i think this might be rotten there's a good chance that this is rotten but still in phenomenal shape this is called cherry bomb very good very good now we got this one uh mermaid glitter this one is melted sometimes when slimes rot they like over activate and then that happens which is still pretty interesting okay then we got this blue moon with a butter on it this looks like an icer a glacier i mean it looks like a glacier i'm sorry whoa that's clay i think and then the last one which is purple slime oh of course we need one completely dry slime so we're gonna be fixing this mermaid glitter and this blue moon one i'm going to put these ones to the side these are for special ops fixing but we got these ones these little guys mermaid glitter that did not activate at all this is a very glittery slime okay here is the slime it's pretty nice it's a little over activated again my bad all right i brought some stuff for you i'm going to add some glycerin to this because i added too much activator it is too rippy but again this slime there's not really much to do to it because it's pretty nice as it is i mean it's literally perfect as it is so i'm just gonna add some stuff to it here it is guys that's actually the perfect texture now i fixed it okay i'm gonna add some extra clear slime to this because this thing is too small and we're gonna put in this slime these green beads and then these little mermaid glitters and then we'll add these fishbowl beads to this slime ooh this one's really pretty now we have a little slime smoothie i like it it's so pretty and i am done i think it actually looks really cool with the extra razzle dazzle with the other fishbowl beads and then these little glass green things and then the mermaid sparkles actually show up really well in there very nice slime mission accomplished we put it back in the container and now it fills it up all the way all right we're gonna do this blue moon now which there's a butter on it kind of reminds me of like cheese like blue moon cheese there's clay here and i'm just gonna leave that so that i can mix it in afterwards because i think it'd be really annoying to make sure now add some activator to there see how this activates first so this is like a jiggly slime it seems like i just need to get the lotion to absorb and for this to go back together that's all i need baby okay well it's back together and it's still very over activated so you know what i'm gonna do i'm gonna put more lotion again oh look what i did it's stretchy now i told you i fixed it that's right see like this guys was ten times easier than trying to activate that the slow and right way ten times easier trust me here is the slime it's pretty nice okay now i'm gonna add this clay part and see what that does to that here's the slime it's a little rippy i know but it's not too bad i have an idea for this okay i'm gonna add some lotion to this it's rippy again and then i'm gonna add some white pigment to half of it so it'll be kind of like a celestial moon swirl i don't really know what a celestial moon even is but we're gonna make it so i decided i'm gonna add some clay into the slime as well because i feel like it'll help out with the texture because it's really gloopy now adding some more activator it's the slime because it got really gloopy and melty and bad but i think now it is really nice okay so for half of this i'm gonna leave it by itself it's good to go okay on this side however i'm gonna add a bunch of white pigment and i don't know like adding white pigment into white slime usually but that was a lot i don't like doing that oh my god it's flying everywhere i don't know how i'm gonna get the rest of this off we're gonna get these spatulas and i'm gonna try and spatula i should really get a spoon when i get my pigment okay so i added a bunch of more pigment into it and it's not getting any whiter than the other slime so i'm going to add a little bit of blue into this one just to make it a tiny bit darker that's real good i want to add a little bit more though that works perfect for me okay on this one it's like i don't know if you guys can see in the camera but like in real life it's all sparkly and stuff i'm gonna add some holographic moons to it the best way i could do it is like make it like a cinnamon bun it's the best idea i have so we're gonna kind of try and go with that we add a little bit of pigment and i'm finished i actually really like this one i think this is going to be my favorite that was mixed this is so pretty i love it i think that was a success for fixing the slime i think this one would be would be my favorite it turned out really really pretty and it's a really nice texture too all right guys so that's it for today's video i hope you guys enjoyed it if you guys want me to do more fan mail slime videos and if you guys want me to do like newer ones where you guys can send like new slimes and i can fix them or make over them or look at them comment down below press that like button and the subscribe button and the bell button and any other button you can find on the screen except the x button because that would exit but anyways that is the research we really hope i see you next time bye youwhat is up guys welcome back to the laboratory today we are going fixing your guys slimes three years ago i used to open up you guys fan mail and you guys would send me your slimes and i would you know just look at them but now i fixed one and these are literally like three years old and i keep them i decided let's open them up and see what three years old stuff is in here like this is basically a three-year-old time capsule it's pretty cool honestly and i'm excited to get into this so let's get straight on into the video yo okay let's open these up i am so freaking excited to open these up i just have to tell you guys how much i appreciate your fan mailboxes they are so amazing and i love you guys so freaking much let's open these i'm just gonna go with this one first this first package is from deborah she actually lives here in arizona so hey girl i don't know if you're still watching i hope you are but hey high five for living in arizona um first of all deborah you put a bunch of it so pretty it's ears i haven't found many ears recently like i just can't find them oh we got ears ah look how cute they are some bubble gum i actually love this bubble gum it's squishy it's a little like a little purple koala this is a koala right yeah this is koala it's so cute and soft too slime and is that a scent bottle harvest spice scent bottle girl did you accidentally put this in here you literally gave me an entire scent bottle this is great because like october's already coming too soon that's like three and a half months and october's already almost here like that's insane guys six months already passed by okay so we have the slimes right here these are really cute deborah you did a great job they got like stickers on them and everything they got everything okay first we've got this cayenne candy slime right here oh this is right here scented creamy candy this is called creamy candy it's not very creamy anymore it's crispy so we're gonna call it crispy candy it's also like brown at the bottom this one is gonna take me a little longer to fix than your regular slime because of how dry it is the next one is choco cream i just realized i have a knife here i'll move that away choco cream and this is also scented let's open this bad boy up oh oh okay let me smell this it says it's scented smells like chocolate okay we got this one on fire i don't think this one is scented but uh yeah that's interesting i like it looks interesting it kind of reminds me of pasta though and then we got this one a banana cream pie the fact that these ones are still pretty like moist it's pretty interesting not scented oh look at this it's like halfway still okay oh no the clay part is okay not the slime let's get started on fishing okay so we have this chocolate cream one right here it looks like literally perfectly fine to me it just like needs activating so i'm going to pour it on my desk i'm going to activate it and then we will see how we feel about it later oh look at that gloopy gloopy gloppiness and we add my activator and we activate one eternity later i am done activating this and it's actually like it's really nice this slimes really don't need any fixing they're like perfectly fine but i'm gonna add a little razzle dazzle i'm gonna add a little bit of my touch to it just this is chocolate cream i'm gonna add a little bit of some clay to it just to give it a more creamy texture and then i'm gonna add some like chocolate pieces to it that i have so let me go and get that oh okay i brought some clay here and we're gonna add that into there make it a little bit buttery a little bit of creamy you know what now that i think about it i think i might have added too much clay into this oh boy it needs more activator oh it's really nice texture though this is a little a little more creamy to me i like it i'm liking it it's kind of good oh good makeover so far okay and now i'm gonna add the little chocolate sprinkles on top like chocolate crumb things here we go yeah we added chocolate sprinkles and duh chocolate cream choco cream this is a really nice slime i like it really nice all right we put it back in the container i think it should fit it pretty much fits except a little bit all right i'm gonna let that soak so i can grab the rest onto the next slime we're gonna fix this banana slime now which this one i'm gonna have to like scoop out with my little thingy come on mr banana then we put our activator okay here is the slab it's got kind of a weird texture i think it might have overactivated a little bit but it's nice okay so i got some clay to add into this to kind of help the texture because it's a bit rippy yeah now it's stretching okay i'm gonna add some banana fimo's to it now i'm just getting these little razzle dazzles because they really don't need any makeovering they got their own little names already so i want to keep them like this i like them as they are and it's done it's all nice and soft and stretchy again oh this is great this is like it is really nice last one from debra is this fire one this one's gonna be a little annoying to activate i just know it already this reminds me of pasta a lot so i'm going to um i'm going to reactivate this and then i'm going to make a sauce on the side that's like red and i'm going to give it to paul as a pasta slime because i think it'll look pretty cool boy guys i kind of want to give up on this one okay so the slime is kind of like activated again but like the straws do not want to stay in the slime you just cannot get them to stay i can't find my little container glitter so i'm going to have to figure out my big gallon of glue turn come on just a little bit ah there's too much glycerin now it's all melting just all melting in my hands again okay i think this is the best i could do for this slime it's still really not staying together i'm gonna keep it like this and i'm gonna throw away the rest of these straws because i think i keep adding more it's just gonna not work okay we're gonna leave it like that now i gotta go make my sauce need some red add a little bit of that then i need some black too much black i'm gonna add just a little bit of this and we add some more red okay we're gonna leave it at this and hopefully the instant snow makes it whiter i don't know why it's such a deep red we're gonna grab a piece of this and add it to this because it's just too much red going on that's the problem yeah see here now it's fixed now i add a little bit of this this black in here and make it just the color i want there we go okay now we put our instant stone our dough everybody besides i'm going to put it out by pasta and i'm done paul i made you some pasta slime no way yeah i present to you pasta slime that's the red sauce oh this is nice oh i like the cracker like luckily remember you used to do this yeah long time ago no i did that like once yeah you used to do that once a long time ago little sticky so but nice this is a this is making me hungry all right here i'll play with the plastic slime for you guys beautiful oh look it's kind they're kind of staying together now this is why the straw slime didn't go all that far because it always fell out it's nice and crunchy though that slime actually turned out kind of nice pasta slime that's the slime for the win okay we're done with the first box that took quite a while and um i think we're ready to get onto the next one this next one is from alexander and it actually says from the desk of alexander which i think is so adorable let's open this bad boy up it's already open i don't know why all right so the note just says all these slimes that are in here which i to be honest can't read entirely or understand entirely but we're gonna look at the slimes okay so this is a cherry blossom slime and don't mind my hands they got a bunch of food coloring on them no way there is no way that this can be okay still i think this might be rotten there's a good chance that this is rotten but still in phenomenal shape this is called cherry bomb very good very good now we got this one uh mermaid glitter this one is melted sometimes when slimes rot they like over activate and then that happens which is still pretty interesting okay then we got this blue moon with a butter on it this looks like an icer a glacier i mean it looks like a glacier i'm sorry whoa that's clay i think and then the last one which is purple slime oh of course we need one completely dry slime so we're gonna be fixing this mermaid glitter and this blue moon one i'm going to put these ones to the side these are for special ops fixing but we got these ones these little guys mermaid glitter that did not activate at all this is a very glittery slime okay here is the slime it's pretty nice it's a little over activated again my bad all right i brought some stuff for you i'm going to add some glycerin to this because i added too much activator it is too rippy but again this slime there's not really much to do to it because it's pretty nice as it is i mean it's literally perfect as it is so i'm just gonna add some stuff to it here it is guys that's actually the perfect texture now i fixed it okay i'm gonna add some extra clear slime to this because this thing is too small and we're gonna put in this slime these green beads and then these little mermaid glitters and then we'll add these fishbowl beads to this slime ooh this one's really pretty now we have a little slime smoothie i like it it's so pretty and i am done i think it actually looks really cool with the extra razzle dazzle with the other fishbowl beads and then these little glass green things and then the mermaid sparkles actually show up really well in there very nice slime mission accomplished we put it back in the container and now it fills it up all the way all right we're gonna do this blue moon now which there's a butter on it kind of reminds me of like cheese like blue moon cheese there's clay here and i'm just gonna leave that so that i can mix it in afterwards because i think it'd be really annoying to make sure now add some activator to there see how this activates first so this is like a jiggly slime it seems like i just need to get the lotion to absorb and for this to go back together that's all i need baby okay well it's back together and it's still very over activated so you know what i'm gonna do i'm gonna put more lotion again oh look what i did it's stretchy now i told you i fixed it that's right see like this guys was ten times easier than trying to activate that the slow and right way ten times easier trust me here is the slime it's pretty nice okay now i'm gonna add this clay part and see what that does to that here's the slime it's a little rippy i know but it's not too bad i have an idea for this okay i'm gonna add some lotion to this it's rippy again and then i'm gonna add some white pigment to half of it so it'll be kind of like a celestial moon swirl i don't really know what a celestial moon even is but we're gonna make it so i decided i'm gonna add some clay into the slime as well because i feel like it'll help out with the texture because it's really gloopy now adding some more activator it's the slime because it got really gloopy and melty and bad but i think now it is really nice okay so for half of this i'm gonna leave it by itself it's good to go okay on this side however i'm gonna add a bunch of white pigment and i don't know like adding white pigment into white slime usually but that was a lot i don't like doing that oh my god it's flying everywhere i don't know how i'm gonna get the rest of this off we're gonna get these spatulas and i'm gonna try and spatula i should really get a spoon when i get my pigment okay so i added a bunch of more pigment into it and it's not getting any whiter than the other slime so i'm going to add a little bit of blue into this one just to make it a tiny bit darker that's real good i want to add a little bit more though that works perfect for me okay on this one it's like i don't know if you guys can see in the camera but like in real life it's all sparkly and stuff i'm gonna add some holographic moons to it the best way i could do it is like make it like a cinnamon bun it's the best idea i have so we're gonna kind of try and go with that we add a little bit of pigment and i'm finished i actually really like this one i think this is going to be my favorite that was mixed this is so pretty i love it i think that was a success for fixing the slime i think this one would be would be my favorite it turned out really really pretty and it's a really nice texture too all right guys so that's it for today's video i hope you guys enjoyed it if you guys want me to do more fan mail slime videos and if you guys want me to do like newer ones where you guys can send like new slimes and i can fix them or make over them or look at them comment down below press that like button and the subscribe button and the bell button and any other button you can find on the screen except the x button because that would exit but anyways that is the research we really hope i see you next time bye you\n"