Safiya NygaardHELLO FRIENDS!! So, I found something... a few months ago, while we were trying to film a video where I let TikTok ads pick my outfits, I stumbled upon... this dress. It goes by a few names but it's most commonly some version of the "floral midriff shaper corset sundress" - and after buying one for the video, my for you page started getting flooded with TONS of ads for what looked like the same dress - but all from different companies, and with wildly different price points. So, I decided - let's buy a few of these bad boys and see what actually ends up at our doorstep - and find out, what the heck IS up. Where are all these dresses coming from? Are they all the same dress? Clearly someone is lying here - but who? I guess we'll find out...
Executive Producers: Safiya Nygaard & Tyler Williams Head of Production: Carey Fiock Production Manager / Producer: Melissa Douglas Junior Associate Producer: Ishara Mathews Production Assistant: Aayanah McCreary Content Promotions & Video Packaging Manager: Alaina Simmons Short Form Producer: Myia Lambe Editor: Andrew Lainhart Editor: Mandy Padgett Assistant Editor: Hailey Cox Graphic Designer: Dayana Espinoza
CHAPTERS: 0:00 Intro 2:06 The Dress That Started It All: LarRobe 4:51 Scam Websites?? Buying From Infec And Viola & Lewis 7:07 Things Are Looking Fishy 9:49 Our Receipts 12:47 Stolen Influencer Videos 15:14 Ordering The “Control Dresses” For Our Experiment 17:04 The Arrival (Or Not) Of The Dresses: Infec 17:57 Try On Begins! First Up: House Of CB Dress 19:23 Testing The LarRobe Dress 21:47 Viola & Lewis Try On 23:22 Trying Our “Bad” Control Dress: AliExpress 26:37 The Dress Is Gone…But The Scamming Issue Isn’t 28:42 Outro
I Bought The Same Dress For $4, $30, $60, and $200Safiya Nygaard2023-11-26 | HELLO FRIENDS!! So, I found something... a few months ago, while we were trying to film a video where I let TikTok ads pick my outfits, I stumbled upon... this dress. It goes by a few names but it's most commonly some version of the "floral midriff shaper corset sundress" - and after buying one for the video, my for you page started getting flooded with TONS of ads for what looked like the same dress - but all from different companies, and with wildly different price points. So, I decided - let's buy a few of these bad boys and see what actually ends up at our doorstep - and find out, what the heck IS up. Where are all these dresses coming from? Are they all the same dress? Clearly someone is lying here - but who? I guess we'll find out...
Executive Producers: Safiya Nygaard & Tyler Williams Head of Production: Carey Fiock Production Manager / Producer: Melissa Douglas Junior Associate Producer: Ishara Mathews Production Assistant: Aayanah McCreary Content Promotions & Video Packaging Manager: Alaina Simmons Short Form Producer: Myia Lambe Editor: Andrew Lainhart Editor: Mandy Padgett Assistant Editor: Hailey Cox Graphic Designer: Dayana Espinoza
CHAPTERS: 0:00 Intro 2:06 The Dress That Started It All: LarRobe 4:51 Scam Websites?? Buying From Infec And Viola & Lewis 7:07 Things Are Looking Fishy 9:49 Our Receipts 12:47 Stolen Influencer Videos 15:14 Ordering The “Control Dresses” For Our Experiment 17:04 The Arrival (Or Not) Of The Dresses: Infec 17:57 Try On Begins! First Up: House Of CB Dress 19:23 Testing The LarRobe Dress 21:47 Viola & Lewis Try On 23:22 Trying Our “Bad” Control Dress: AliExpress 26:37 The Dress Is Gone…But The Scamming Issue Isn’t 28:42 Outro
#fashion #dress #vlogWe Went On 7 Dates In 7 DecadesSafiya Nygaard2024-09-26 | Thanks to Olay for sponsoring us & helping make this video come to life! You can check out Olay’s new cleansing melts here: https://www.Olay.com/CleansingMelts #ad
So as some of you guys might know, I am a bit of a historical fashion nerd - over the years, we’ve done a number of decade fashion videos about the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, *and* 00s, we’ve tried on vintage wedding dresses, and we have even gotten a full 18th century Colonial Williamsburg makeover.
And whenever we go on these little journeys to the past, it’s always really fun when we’re able to have Tyler dress up as well to explore the decades with me (his 1980s Flock of Eagles haircut still comes to me in the sweetest of dreams).
So we decided to go full couples historical makeover - and do a whole video of them! So while we were in Los Angeles a few weeks ago, we got 7 head-to-toe historical makeovers (with hair, makeup, and outfits, oh my) and went on 7 historically accurate dates!
Which decade was your favorite? Did Tyler and I pull off the looks? What era should we travel to next?
Special thanks to everyone who helped work on this video:
AP - Meredith Petran AP - Cal Etcheverry DP - Ross Conklin AC / Sound - Carlos Varas Costume Designer - Chloee O'Hayon Crosby HMU Artist - Ching Tseng PA - Quinn Biddle DIT - Brett Houston EP - Emily Bell
As well as our team:
Executive Producers: Safiya Nygaard & Tyler Williams Managing Producer: Lona Smith Junior Associate Producer: Ishara Mathews Editor: Andrew Lainhart Editor: Mandy Padgett Editor: Leslie Alcantar Graphic Designer: Dayana Espinoza
#makeover #history #fashion #dateideasI Ate At Every Gordon Ramsay Restaurant On The Vegas StripSafiya Nygaard2024-08-14 | Start your own business today with our Shopify FREE trial ➡️ shopify.com/safiya 🕺🏻 Thanks to Shopify for sponsoring this video!!
HELLO FRIENDS!! We promised an entire video of Gordon Ramsay restaurants, and we are here to deliver!! During our last Vegas trip, we decided to visit all 6 Gordon Ramsay restaurants on the Strip - Hell's Kitchen at Caesars Palace, Gordon Ramsay Fish & Chips at the Linq Promenade, Gordon Ramsay Burger at Planet Hollywood, Ramsay's Kitchen at Harrah's, Gordon Ramsay Pub & Grill at Caesars, and Gordon Ramsay Steak at the Paris! As Gordon enthusiasts, we thoroughly enjoyed ourselves... though it might be a while before we can eat another wellington! What did you guys think? Which restaurant was your favorite?
Executive Producers: Safiya Nygaard & Tyler Williams Production Manager / Producer: Melissa Douglas Junior Associate Producer: Ishara Mathews Content Promotions & Video Packaging Manager: Alaina Simmons Editor: Andrew Lainhart Editor: Mandy Padgett Editor: Hailey Cox Graphic Designer: Dayana Espinoza
CHAPTERS: 0:00 Intro 2:32 Who is Gordon Ramsay? A brief history 5:26 Hell’s Kitchen 12:57 Gordon Ramsay Fish & Chips 17:26 Gordon Ramsay Burger 21:38 Ramsay’s Kitchen 26:04 Gordon Ramsay Pub & Grill 30:03 Gordon Ramsay Steak 34:28 Gordon Ramsay Final Rankings!! 36:38 Outro
#food #travel #vlog #vegasI Ate At Every Celebrity Chefs Restaurant On The Vegas Strip (Again)Safiya Nygaard2024-06-27 | Check out Part 1 of our celebrity chef restaurant speedrun here! youtube.com/watch?v=BPGgyputhpA
This video is not sponsored, but Resorts World did provide us accommodations for the week we were in Vegas - and we did really enjoy staying there! Make sure to check them out here! 🕺🏻 rwlasvegas.com
HELLO FRIENDS!! You asked and we're here to deliver - a second installment of us attempting to eat at every celebrity chef's restaurant on the Vegas strip!! As big Food Network and Vegas fans we were happy to oblige... and we stuffed our faces with everything from Martha Stewart’s comforting pierogies, to Roy Choi & Jon Favreau’s Chef Movie cubanos, to Wolfgang Puck’s fluffy Kaiserschmarrn pancakes. Which restaurant was your favorite? And what other famous restaurants should we visit next? Part 3 just for Wahlburgers??
Executive Producers: Safiya Nygaard & Tyler Williams Production Manager / Producer: Melissa Douglas Junior Associate Producer: Ishara Mathews Content Promotions & Video Packaging Manager: Alaina Simmons Editor: Andrew Lainhart Editor: Mandy Padgett Editor: Hailey Cox Graphic Designer: Dayana Espinoza
CHAPTERS: 0:00 Intro 2:24 What Is A Celebrity Chef Restaurant? 5:15 Martha Stewart - The Bedford 9:49 The Jonas Brothers - Nellie's Southern Kitchen 14:38 Bobby Flay - Amalfi 19:43 Roy Choi & Jon Favreau - The Chef Truck 24:09 Lorena Garcia - Chica 28:19 Ayesha Curry & Michael Mina - International Smoke 32:47 Wolfgang Puck - Spago 38:18 Ranking Our Favorites 39:54 Outro
#food #travel #vlogI Tested Viral TikTok Cleaning ProductsSafiya Nygaard2024-06-01 | Download Opera Browser for free at https://opr.as/05-Opera-Browser-SafiyaNygaard! Thanks again to Opera for sponsoring this video 🕺🏻
A couple of quick notes!!
We do think that our results with the ULV light sprayer with only water could have been coincidental - as it ~was~ a pretty small sample size. Probably the answer there is that it definitely works... if you put disinfectant in it!
Most of these products (or at least some version of them) are also sold on Amazon and AliExpress - however, we wanted to purchase the products from the websites linked to from the tiktok accounts just to "take them at face value" and try out the products that they were selling specifically!
Also, I said "RIP Tyler" because he is a sixers fan and they lost this year - other than that, Tyler is fine!!
HELLO FRIENDS!! So... has anyone else stumbled upon this side of tiktok... you know the one... the semi-surreal, thousands-of-tiny-packages, smart-home-gadget, ASMR-cleaning-tok? And no I'm not just trying to optimize this description with keywords - that's actually how I would describe it. Well, I've been over there for a couple of *years*, in the land of blue light sprayers, weird bluetooth speakers thrown into buckets of water with live crabs, and shoe dryers everywhere. So I finally gave in and tracked down 4 different smart home gadgets from various somewhat-suspicious looking websites.
So we tested out the smart window roomba, the ULV blue light sprayer, the fruit and vegetable cleaner, and the collapsible mini washing machine - and tried to figure out, to the best of our ability, what the heck is going on here. What did you guys think of these viral TikTok cleaning products? And what should we investigate next??
Executive Producers: Safiya Nygaard & Tyler Williams Production Manager / Producer: Melissa Douglas Junior Associate Producer: Ishara Mathews Content Promotions & Video Packaging Manager: Alaina Simmons Editor: Andrew Lainhart Editor: Mandy Padgett Editor: Hailey Cox Graphic Designer: Dayana Espinoza
CHAPTERS: 0:00 Intro 3:48 A Deep Dive into the ~Genre~ 5:45 How do I buy any of these things? 7:45 Buying Our ULV Light Sprayer 9:13 Getting Our Produce Cleaning Device 10:23 Ordering Our Mini Washing Machine 11:58 Final Item To Get: Smart Window Cleaner 13:18 The Goods Have Arrived! 14:46 Trying Out Our Hobot Robot 18:24 Trying out our ULV sprayer 23:18 Testing the mysterious Fruit & Vegetable Cleaner 28:13 Last Item: The Collapsible Washing Machine 32:36 Some of our findings & ~receipts~
#cleaning #viral #vlogI Tried Rug Tufting For The First TimeSafiya Nygaard2024-05-07 | HELLO FRIENDS!! As a chronic craft content consumer, I've always wanted to try tufting my own custom rug - so we headed to Freestyle Ceramics & Tufting in Chicago to attempt to conquer the art of rug tufting!! I wept, I cried, my arm died - but at the end, I think I finally got the hang of it - and ended up with a cute midnight sky blob design. What do you guys think of our rug tufting creation? And what craft should we try out next??
Big thank you to Erni and the rest of the crew over at Freestyle Ceramics & Tufting in Chicago! You can check them out on Instagram here: instagram.com/freestyle_ceramics_tufting
Executive Producers: Safiya Nygaard & Tyler Williams Production Manager / Producer: Melissa Douglas Junior Associate Producer: Ishara Mathews Content Promotions & Video Packaging Manager: Alaina Simmons Editor: Andrew Lainhart Editor: Mandy Padgett Editor: Hailey Cox Graphic Designer: Dayana Espinoza
CHAPTERS: 0:00 Intro 2:05 Off To The Tufting Studio 3:19 A Rug Tufting Tutorial 7:19 Our Rug Design & Choosing Our Yarn 9:37 Time To Tuft 12:03 Adding Shadow Details 13:26 Some Clouds & Some Stars 15:54 Conquering ~The Bat~ 17:03 The Hardest Part 18:41 Outlining Everything 19:54 Filling In The Sky 21:19 Cutting, Gluing, and Shaving 23:25 Our Finished Rug!
#rugtufting #rugmaking #vlog #chicagoI Ran A Custom Croissant Bakery For A DaySafiya Nygaard2024-04-12 | Try Headspace today for free: https://headspace-web.app.link/e/SF Use my code: SAFIYA60 - for a 60-day free trial of the app! Crunchy Quaso sleepcast when??
HELLO FRIENDS!! So, the internet loves croissants. And, coincidentally, so do I. So after falling down a cronut hole of croissant content - I decided, I needed to make some frickin croissants. And surprisingly, Black Box Bakery in Denver agreed to take me on as a pastry apprentice! Not only did I get a high-altitude pastry bootcamp - learning how to laminate my own dough, and roll my own classic croissants - but I also got to create my own custom, semi-goth, cream-filled croissant CUBE - that you can actually try at Black Box Bakery if you go there in person!! What do you think? Beetlejuice or beetleJUICY?
If you’re interested in trying our custom croissant cube for yourself, they will be available Friday, Saturday, & Sunday for the next month! You can either pre-order the Safiya x Black Box Croissant online for pickup here order.toasttab.com/online/black-box-bakery-5505-w-20th-ave-unit-182 or visit Black Box Bakery in person while supplies last!
(this video is NOT sponsored by Black Box Bakery and we are not receiving any portion of their sales - they are just a cool small business we love!)
Executive Producers: Safiya Nygaard & Tyler Williams Production Manager / Producer: Melissa Douglas Junior Associate Producer: Ishara Mathews Content Promotions & Video Packaging Manager: Alaina Simmons Editor: Andrew Lainhart Editor: Mandy Padgett Editor: Hailey Cox Graphic Designer: Dayana Espinoza
CHAPTERS: 0:00 Intro 3:52 Off to Denver! 5:16 Mise En Place 7:29 Mixing & Forming Our Dough 10:05 Laminating Our Dough 12:53 Classic Butter Croissant Tutorial 15:47 Making The Viral Mulled Wine Croissant Cube 17:56 Making & Rolling Our Custom Cube 20:47 Making The Fillings For Our Quaso 24:10 Day 2: Baking Day 27:25 Decorating The Mulled Wine Cubes 29:24 Our Custom Cube Croissant Deco 31:40 Taste Test 35:18 Outro
#croissant #bakery #vlogI Melted Every Yankee Candle Together Into A Giant CandleSafiya Nygaard2024-01-31 | Check out my Youtooz here: youtooz.com/products/safiya-nygaard She’s very cute and not threatening at all, I swear!!
The franken candle giveaway is now closed! Thanks to all who entered - the giveaway winners will be contacted in the coming weeks!!
HELLO FRIENDS!! Yes, that’s right. We’ve reached the ultimate candle destination. Today we’re melting together every Yankee Candle and combining them into one GIANT franken-candle! With 223 candles and over 1,700 scent notes - this thing ended up quite the odorous beast. What did you guys think of the final franken? And what should we franken next?? I can’t promise it’ll be giant.
Executive Producers: Safiya Nygaard & Tyler Williams Head of Production: Carey Fiock Production Manager / Producer: Melissa Douglas Junior Associate Producer: Ishara Mathews Production Assistant: Aayanah McCreary Content Promotions & Video Packaging Manager: Alaina Simmons Short Form Producer: Myia Lambe Editor: Andrew Lainhart Editor: Mandy Padgett Assistant Editor: Hailey Cox Graphic Designer: Dayana Espinoza
CHAPTERS: 0:00 Intro 3:20 Shopping Time 6:27 How are we going to do this? 8:07 Time To Melt! 9:51 The Foods Category 12:09 The Drinks & Sweet Treats Categories 14:58 Aromatherapy, In The Garden, and Beach Candles 18:12 Scenes, Settings, & Destinations + Abstract Categories 20:24 Autumnal Candles 22:10 Winter & Christmas Candles 24:50 Day 2: Re-Melting All The Wax 27:21 Melting Complications = Chaos 28:20 Wick Hunting 30:35 Emergency Walmart Run 32:31 A Fascinating Discovery 33:23 Enter: Giant Candle Vessel 35:26 Letting The Candle Cool 36:34 Day 3: Beautifying The Giant Candle 37:50 The Scent Breakdown & Analysis 40:31 Yankee Candle’s Smell Test 42:03 Outro & Giveaway Info
#candle #melting #vlogI Took A 52-Hour Sleeper Train From San Francisco To ChicagoSafiya Nygaard2023-12-18 | HELLO FRIENDS!! This week we’re taking a 52-hour Amtrak sleeper train across the country! So, I've fallen over to the "overnight sleeper train" side of youtube - and I am HOOKED, people. And after watching hours and hours of train content, I decided - it was time to try my own hand at it. So we took the California Zephyr train, which travels from San Francisco to Chicago (and also the other direction as well) - across 7 states and over 2,400 miles!! We experienced everything from delays to endless sauce packets to MANY rock sightings. Would you try traveling across the US by train? And where do you think we should we go next? Or better yet, how should we get there?
Executive Producers: Safiya Nygaard & Tyler Williams Head of Production: Carey Fiock Production Manager / Producer: Melissa Douglas Junior Associate Producer: Ishara Mathews Production Assistant: Aayanah McCreary Content Promotions & Video Packaging Manager: Alaina Simmons Short Form Producer: Myia Lambe Editor: Andrew Lainhart Editor: Mandy Padgett Assistant Editor: Hailey Cox Graphic Designer: Dayana Espinoza
CHAPTERS: 0:00 Intro 1:50 All Aboard The California Zephyr! 3:41 Our Room Tour 5:27 A Tour Of The Entire Train! 8:06 Day 1: Sacramento & Lunch 10:56 Nevada & Dinner 12:56 Setting Up Our Room for Sleeping 14:39 Day 2: Mooning (?!) & Colorado 17:07 Conquering The Shower 18:53 The Good, The Bad, & The…Cows? 21:11 The Moffat Tunnel (& The History of the Zephyr) 23:15 Denver & Drinks 25:28 Day 3: Omaha & Breakfast 27:09 Our Final Destination: Chicago! 29:28 Outro
#train #travel #vlogFollowing A 1930s Magazine Makeup Tutorial 💄Safiya Nygaard2023-12-01 | so i heard about this vintage makeup magazine from the 1930s, and knew we had to try it out!! the magazine is full of tips and tutorials on how to do your makeup in a way that best suits your face, hair color, & complexion (though for a pretty limited range of skin tones). according to the magazine, i’m a ✨ spanish brunette ✨, which apparently means i need lots of rouge and purple eyeshadow (even on my double chin)! let me know what you guys think - are there any other decade looks you guys would want to see?? 🤔
also shout out to @erinparsonsmakeup for the video inspo!!
#vintage #makeup #vintagemakeup #history #beautyMaking A Custom Caramel Apple Chocolate Bar 🍫Safiya Nygaard2023-10-31 | our caramel apple chocolate bar giveaway is now closed, thanks so much to everyone who entered!! 💜
today we met back up with our friends at escazú (a local chocolate factory) to make a new custom chocolate bar to celebrate the fall season! our vision was to basically take the flavors of a caramel apple, and turn it into a chocolate bar. and after making some caramel, pouring it over some dried apples, smashing it to bits, and decorating and filling our mold, we ended up with a pretty cute and very tasty chocolate bar! thanks again to escazú for making my chocolatier dreams become a reality (again) 🍫 🕺🏻 #chocolate #custom #diy #fall #seasonal #halloweenI Melted Every Halloween Candy TogetherSafiya Nygaard2023-10-30 | HELLO FRIENDS!! Yes, we did something bad. Now, as you guys may know... I love halloween. From the spooky decorations to the costumes, to the candy, oh yes, THE CANDY. From Snickers to Skittles to every Reese's shape imaginable, I am a halloween candy fiend.
So I had a horrible idea that I decided to act upon: what if we tried to melt every halloween candy together into a single franken-candy... the one candy to rule them all, and in the darkness, satiate my desire for an entire bucket of halloween candy in just one bite?
Well, I guess we're gonna find out. Because that's what this video is about.
Big thank you to Mat & StephPat from the Theorists, as well as Danielle & Karla from Escazù for being the guest tasters of our franken-candy bar!! You can find them here: youtube.com/@FoodTheory (and their many other channels) escazuchocolates.com
Unfortunately, we are not doing a giveaway for this video because of how delicate the bar is, but we are currently doing a giveaway for a new custom chocolate bar on this short!! youtube.com/shorts/Ag39otQXaI8?feature=shared and here is the link to the Google Form! https://forms.gle/LwDxJrBhsogEPVpw6
Executive Producers: Safiya Nygaard & Tyler Williams Head of Production: Carey Fiock Production Manager / Producer: Melissa Douglas Junior Associate Producer: Ishara Mathews Production Assistant: Aayanah McCreary Content Promotions & Video Packaging Manager: Alaina Simmons Short Form Producer: Myia Lambe Editor: Andrew Lainhart Editor: Mandy Padgett Assistant Editor: Hailey Cox Graphic Designer: Dayana Espinoza
CHAPTERS: 0:00 Intro 1:59 Buying Every Halloween Candy 6:13 Sorting All Our Candies 7:58 First Layer: Hard Candy 12:28 Second Layer: Chewy Candies 17:04 Third Layer: Our "Chocolate" Candies 21:10 Enrobing Our Bars 23:21 Time To Drizzle (Tootsie Time?) 25:00 Our Final Bar & Taste Test 27:13 What Do The People Think? (feat. MatPat & StephPat, and Escazú!)
#candy #chocolate #vlogI Tried Convertible High Heels 👠Safiya Nygaard2023-10-04 | EDIT: reviewing the instructions, we did use the shoe correctly - for the d'orsay shoe and the bootie, the base plates (the thing that fell off in the beginning) were removed before making them flats, and the instructions didn't include anything about a second other base plate! everything that came in the box was used in the video - there may be other parts available separately or potentially there's a different convertible shoe company that includes a flat base plate? although, apparently the shoes may flatten over time!!
today we tried convertible heels from Pashion Footwear! there was a bit of a learning curve when it came to taking the heels on and off but i ended up getting the hang of it. the shoes with heels on felt like a pretty normal pair of shoes, but the shoes in their flat form were a little more… elf chic. overall though these were super fun and i can see the use if you need flats fast - kind of like high heels with an emergency exit.
#shoes #convertibleheels #heels #fashionI Let Robots Give Me A MakeoverSafiya Nygaard2023-09-28 | Thanks to Google Maps for sponsoring a portion of this video!! You can download Google Maps here: maps.app.goo.gl/LbjTy. @googlemaps
HELLO FRIENDS!! As you guys may know, I'm always down to try some new beauty tech - so when I stumbled upon two robot beauty treatments in San Francisco (and Oakland) - LUUM robot lash extensions & Clockwork robot manicures - I knew we had to go and try them out!!
So we decided to take a trip to Silicon Valley a few months ago to try these two machines!! And though they were kind of scary-looking... I quickly warmed up to them and ended up getting some pretty good results, if I do say so myself 💅 What do you guys think of my eyelash extensions & nails? Would you try a robot beauty treatment??
If you want to learn more about LUUM Precision Lash & Clockwork, you can find them here!! luumlash.com likeclockwork.com
Executive Producers: Safiya Nygaard & Tyler Williams Head of Production: Carey Fiock Production Manager / Producer: Melissa Douglas Junior Associate Producer: Ishara Mathews Production Assistant: Aayanah McCreary Content Promotions & Video Packaging Manager: Alaina Simmons Short Form Producer: Myia Lambe Short Form Editor: Hailey Cox Editor: Andrew Lainhart Editor: Mandy Padgett Graphic Designer: Dayana Espinoza
CHAPTERS: 0:00 Intro 2:33 Let's Bring On The Robots 3:38 The LUUM Eyelash Robot 5:21 Eyelash Prep 6:31 Robotic Lash Treatment Starts 8:36 Why Does This Robot Exist? 11:22 Touch-Ups & Lash Extension Results! 13:48 The Clockwork Nail Polish Robot 15:43 Nail Prep 17:03 Nail Polish Treatment Begins 19:25 Is This Thing Gonna Work? 21:22 Secret Holo Taco Robot 23:22 How Long Do The Treatments Last?
#beauty #robot #vlogI Mixed All My Holo Taco Polishes Together 💅🏼Safiya Nygaard2023-09-15 | since we announced this collection, a lot of you guys have been suggesting that we mix all of our shades together - so we finally relented and mixed up a franken-collection-shade!! we ended up with a deep eggplant-y purple color with lots of rainbow holo 💿.
if you guys are interested, some of the colors are still available on holo taco’s website: holotaco.com/pages/holo-taco-x-safiya !! thank you all for your continued support on this collection, it means the world to us 💜
#holotaco #nailpolish #franken #nailartWe Built A Custom Nail Polish TruckSafiya Nygaard2023-09-09 | If you want to snag the safiya x holo taco collection (or any of the individual colors) - you can check out all the products here!! 🦇💿 holota.co/safiyaxholotaco
HOLO FRIENDS!! Buckle up & get your fingernails ready, cause this one is a wild ride! a few years ago, I had the crazy idea to make a custom food truck of some sort - I just needed the perfect opportunity to do it. So when Cristine and I decided to create a Holo Taco collection together, I thought why not now - let's make a (holo) taco truck!!
So we took a super old FedEx truck and renovated it into a batty, vampy, ~holographic~ nail polish truck! Once it was finished, we loaded an army of nail polish into the truck and drove it around to several different meet ups around Raleigh. At each location, we gave away some free nail polish, saw lots of great nail art (a decent amount of which is featured in this video), & gave out some other fiendish goodies for you guys to enjoy (think chocolate & boba)!!
Thank you to everyone who could make the event!! What do you guys think of our nail polish truck? What should we turn the truck into next??
And now, we’ve finally reached the release date of the safiya x Holo Taco collection!! I hope you guys love it as much as we do! You can shop the limited edition collection now here: holota.co/safiyaxholotaco
Huge thank you to the people over at Jack of All Trades by George for the crazy transformation of our nail polish truck - you can find them here!! jackofalltradesbygeorge.com
Also a shout out to my entire production team, along with a huge thank you to the Holo Taco team for their help designing the truck and assisting during the event.
You can find a downloadable & printable mini cutout of our truck here!! holotaco.com/pages/truck
Executive Producers: Safiya Nygaard & Tyler Williams Head of Production: Carey Fiock Production Manager / Producer: Melissa Douglas Junior Associate Producer: Ishara Mathews Production Assistant: Aayanah McCreary Content Promotions & Video Packaging Manager: Alaina Simmons Short Form Producer: Myia Lambe Short Form Editor: Hailey Cox Editor: Andrew Lainhart Editor: Mandy Padgett Graphic Designer: Dayana Espinoza
#nails #renovation #vlogMelting Every Soap From Whole Foods TogetherSafiya Nygaard2023-08-30 | For 50% off your HelloFresh order PLUS free shipping, use code 50SAFIYA at bit.ly/3K8jjUJ!
The franken-soap giveaway is now closed! Thanks to all who entered - the giveaway winners will be contacted in the coming weeks!!
HELLO FRIENDS!! Today I let the intrusive thoughts win and melted together every bar of soap sold at Whole Foods…yes, that’s right - not even Whole Foods is safe from some ~mad franken-science~.
So we bought 109 bars from 23 different brands - and shredded them all down to tiny little cheese shreds, and then used a "rebatching" technique to create one singular & striped franken-bar. The process was long and grueling, but it was definitely worth it in the end since our final franken-bars ended up so cute!! What do you guys think of our final product? And since we've tackled both Lush and Whole Foods soaps now, whose soaps do you want to see us demolish next???
Big thank you to both Katie at Royalty Soaps & Anne-Marie at Bramble Berry for their expert opinions on our franken-soap!! You can check out their channels here: Royalty Soaps: youtube.com/@RoyaltySoaps Bramble Berry: youtube.com/@bramble-berry
And here’s the link to the video by Elly’s Everyday Soap Making that we used for our rebatching procedure! youtu.be/STQ-C4L363o
Executive Producers: Safiya Nygaard & Tyler Williams Head of Production: Carey Fiock Production Manager / Producer: Melissa Douglas Junior Associate Producer: Ishara Mathews Production Assistant: Aayanah McCreary Content Promotions & Video Packaging Manager: Alaina Simmons Short Form Producer: Myia Lambe Short Form Editor: Hailey Cox Editor: Andrew Lainhart Editor: Bree von Bradsky Editor Nez Covington Editor: Mandy Padgett Graphic Designer: Dayana Espinoza
CHAPTERS: 0:00 Intro 3:44 Shopping Time! 6:45 Our Plan Of Attack 7:41 Let The Shredding Begin! 9:24 Black & Adjacent Soaps 10:59 Brown Soaps 12:57 Medium Beige, Off-White, & White Soaps 16:12 Red & Pink Soaps 17:38 Yellow & Orange Soaps 19:04 Green Soaps 20:23 Blue & Purple Soaps 21:56 Mixing Our Soap Shreds 25:32 Crockpotting Commences 26:50 Pouring Our Soaps 28:28 De-Molding Time! 31:27 Smell Test & Expert Opinions 33:59 Hand Washing Test & Final Thoughts 35:02 Subscriber Giveaway 35:15 Outro
#beauty #soap #vlogI Melted Every Clear Lipstick Together 💄Safiya Nygaard2023-07-13 | yes there are still more lipsticks to be mixed together, and we got them! in today's video i got every clear lipstick i could get my mitts on and made one franken clear lipstick, WITH flower inclusions. we got 8 from winky lux, including 3 of their famous flower balms, 4 amazon knockoffs, 1 essence glimmer glow lipstick, and 2 very bougie tom ford clear lip blushes. (Un)surprisingly the clear lipsticks mixed together… were still clear. BUT, it’s pretty ✨
#lipstick #clearlipstick #franken #makeup #beauty #diyI Made Custom Chocolate Bars At A Chocolate FactorySafiya Nygaard2023-06-24 | HELLO FRIENDS!! I’ve always dreamed of having an opportunity to enter my Willy Wonka era, and now it’s finally here. I was ~somehow~ entrusted to take over the Escazu Chocolate factory in Raleigh, NC for a day, and you can definitely say I made the most of it. We followed the entire chocolate-making process - from bean to bar - and made two different custom chocolate creations together - a beautiful ombre bar & a marbled galaxy chocolate confection! What do you guys think of our final products? Do I have a future as a chocolate maker?
If you would like to enter the chocolate bar giveaway to win one of these cute lil guys, the Google Form is right here: https://forms.gle/FFrzputGQZ1LRyeL8
(Please note that we are unable to send chocolate internationally or to P.O. boxes for this giveaway. Also, due to the ~temperamental~ nature of the chocolate, we will be sending the chocolate out in the early Fall to avoid any melting catastrophes!)
And a big thank you goes out to the amazing team at Escazu for helping us out with this video; make sure to check out our creations on their website here - available for purchase!: escazuchocolates.com/shop-now/-c151145256
You can also find the chocolate in person at their store in Raleigh here: 936 N Blount St, Raleigh, NC 27604
(this video is NOT sponsored and we are not receiving any portion of Escazu’s sales - they are just a cool small business we love!)
PRODUCED & EDITED by Safiya Nygaard Tyler Williams Carey Fiock Melissa Douglas Andrew Lainhart Phil Kinney Bree von Bradsky Ishara Mathews Myia Lambe Hailey Cox Alaina Simmons
#chocolate #candy #vlogRating Everything I Ate At Swedish McDonald’s 🇸🇪Safiya Nygaard2023-05-28 | We did actually eventually get to the Ice Hotel - you can check out our video here!! youtube.com/watch?v=KfQOsKmyCNY 🧊☃️
So a couple of months ago on our way to the Ice Hotel, we got stranded for a day in Iceland, which then in turn got us stranded for a day in Stockholm - and while we were there, we decided to taste test all of the international menu items at Swedish McDonald's! Including their McVegan, the Chili Cheese Tops, and the Black Garlic Burger - we were hoping for a Swedish McFlurry, but sadly... their ice cream machine wasn't working either. I guess some things are the same all over the world.
#travel #mcdonalds #sweden #foodI Stayed In A Glass Igloo In The Arctic CircleSafiya Nygaard2023-05-27 | HELLO FRIENDS!! Welcome to the final installment of our Nordic/Scandinavian trip - the Glass Igloos in Finland! So far on our trip, we have taken a communal hot bath at the Blue Lagoon in Iceland, nearly cryogenically frozen ourselves at the ICEHOTEL in Sweden, and now we're on to Arctic Finland to stay in a glass igloo under the northern lights!
For years, I've been seeing the glass igloos in Finland on my instagram, tiktok - **and YouTube shorts** feeds - and I've always wanted to try them out. I've never seen the northern lights before, and I've also never stayed in a human-sized terrarium before, but I've always been intrigued by those see-through bubble tents - so we decided to go and try one out and see if we freeze our butts off! And while at Kakslauttanen Arctic Resort, home of the glass igloos, we also tried a bunch of arctic activities - like snowmobiling, reindeer sleigh rides, dog sledding, and traditional Finnish sauna-ing and ice bathing!!
What do you think?? Would you stay in a glass igloo?
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CHAPTERS: 0:00 Intro 01:57 Traveling to Finland 3:08 Arriving at Kakslauttanen Arctic Resort 4:49 Getting to our Glass Tent 5:45 Glass Tent Tours! 8:50 Every building is made of glass 10:21 Arctic Activity Time! 11:05 Santa's Village 12:00 Reindeer Sleigh 13:59 Traditional Finnish Sauna and Ice Pool 17:27 Snowmobiling 18:25 Husky Farm 19:01 Northern Lights 20:51 Dog Sledding 23:36 Outro
#travel #igloo #finland #vlogOur Swedish Ice Hotel Room TourSafiya Nygaard2023-05-14 | A couple of months ago when we were on our Nordic/Scandinavia trip, our second stop of our trip after the Blue Lagoon in Iceland was the IceHotel Resort in Sweden, found in the far north town of Jukkasjärvi, located in the Arctic Circle.
Besides the building being completely made of ice and snow (and yes it melts every spring and then is re-built every winter), there are a ton of *cool* rooms filled with amazing, intricate ice sculptures. Our room, the Mush-Room, might have been our favorite we saw overall, so we were lucky to get to spend the night there.
There was a lot to do at the resort (make sure to check out our full Swedish Ice Hotel video here: youtube.com/watch?v=KfQOsKmyCNY 🧊☃️), but we decided to devote a short just to a tour of our frozen crib so you could see it in all of its cottage core glory 🐌🍄
#travel #tour #hotel #swedenI Spent 24 Hours In A Swedish Ice HotelSafiya Nygaard2023-05-07 | HELLO FRIENDS!! Welcome to our next installment of our nordic/Scandinavian travel trip! After taking a warm bath in the Blue Lagoon in Iceland - I thought - let’s chill out a bit - literally - and head to the original Ice Hotel in Northern Sweden! Yes, this hotel is made completely out of ice and snow, and it melts and gets rebuilt every year - and yes, people actually sleep in here!! I'm very interested by **strange hotels** and after our trip to the Underwater Hotel last year, when I heard of the ICEHOTEL - I figured, we better check it out. So, after a brief moment being stuck in Iceland, we headed to the ICEHOTEL to investigate & spend the night - and hopefully not get cryogenically frozen like Walt Disney's head. What do you guys think?? Would you stay here? Where should we go next?
Also - to add on to our disclaimer in the video - "Lapland" is not a technically a shared region, it's a general region that spans across a few different countries! scandification.com/where-is-lapland
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CHAPTERS: 0:00 Intro 1:56 Stuck In Iceland 5:20 A Day in Stockholm 6:55 Traveling to the Ice Hotel 7:52 Other (Not Icy) Buildings at the Ice Hotel 9:33 Finally, The Ice Hotel Itself 10:39 Ice Hotel Room Tours 14:02 Why does this thing exist? 16:48 Ice Hotel 365 18:46 Other Stuff to do at the Ice Hotel 20:03 Eating the Ice Menu 21:11 Our (ice) room 22:49 How to sleep in an ice room 24:37 Goodnight 26:13 Good Morning 27:47 Carve that Ice! 28:41 Outro
#travel #vlog #hotelWhat I Got At Icelandic TargetSafiya Nygaard2023-05-04 | Make sure to check out our Icelandic main channel video, where we travel to the famous Blue Lagoon, here! youtu.be/3hyBe3b1sS8 🌋🇮🇸🧖🏻♀️
When we were in Iceland a couple months ago, we went to Hagkaup, aka "Icelandic Target", to explore, shop, and acquire a very random but great haul! We got tiny nail polishes, chocolate soap, beer shampoo, a bougie face mask, egg gummies, and bat chocolate 🦇 Apologies to any Icelandic viewers about my pronunciation — we did love your target though!!
#travel #target #haul #shoppingI Went To A Volcanic Spa In IcelandSafiya Nygaard2023-04-23 | HELLO FRIENDS!! It's time for my annual bath - and for such an occasion, we decided to travel to most famous geothermal spa in Iceland - the Blue Lagoon. I've been wanting to unleash an international spa travel series for a long time - so here is my formal declaration: it's spa time, baby!
So this past January, as the first installment of a 3-part Nordic/Scandinavian travel trip, we journeyed to the beautiful, mineral-rich light blue waters of the Blue Lagoon - to soak, smoothie, and face mask, oh my. Will this magical lagoon keep my skin plump and youthful forever? Or will the lava rock exfoliate my face right off? Who knows!
Quick note - we mentioned that the Reykjanes lava field was 800 years old - I think it's actually much, much older than that - but the earliest recorded eruption was about 800 years ago (which is where our fact came from)!
Also, because I've seen a few comments about it - no, the cups at the lagoon bar are not glass! They are plastic.
PRODUCED & EDITED by Safiya Nygaard Tyler Williams Dave Szamet Melissa Douglas Phil Kinney Bree von Bradsky Elizabeth Pinotti Ishara Mathews
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CHAPTERS: 0:00 Intro 1:58 Flying to Iceland 3:27 A Jet-lagged Day in Reykjavík 5:46 The Blue Lagoon Retreat Hotel 7:46 Prepping for the Blue Lagoon 9:30 Dipping into the Blue Lagoon 10:51 What is The Blue Lagoon, anyway? 13:25 The Waterfall 14:46 The Smoothie Bar 16:12 The Face Mask Bar 18:44 Underwater Massages 19:58 Other Crevices of the Blue Lagoon 20:39 Steam Room and Dry Sauna 21:35 The Silica Hotel 22:26 The Silica Lagoon 25:52 Outro
#travel #spa #iceland #vlogI Bought A Target Returns BoxSafiya Nygaard2023-04-16 | hello friends!! we ordered a mystery target returns box and got a bit more than we bargained for. it’s almost so random it's… ominous. especially the gummy teeth 🙊
#target #amazon #returns #mysterybox #haul #shopping #onlineshoppingI Got A Personal Color AnalysisSafiya Nygaard2023-03-19 | Download Flip and get 30% off your first order with code "Safiya" at https://www.flip.shop/safiya - thanks again to Flip for sponsoring this video!! And make sure to follow me @safiyany on flip :)
And thanks so much to Julia from Agile Styling for her consult! You can find her website and find out more about her color matching and styling services here: agilestyling.com
And follow her on TikTok & Instagram at: @agile_styling !
HELLO FRIENDS!! Today it’s all about color - and as someone who is known for wearing almost only black, I decided to dip my toes into the personal color analysis trend I've been hearing about for years and seeing all over TikTok. Because I've always been curious... am I a winter? Autumn? Summer? Or even Spring? Pastels have never been my forte, but I was open to at least *hearing* about them. So, we took a little detour to Toronto and visited Julia Dobkine from Agile Styling, an expert in color analysis who I’d been following on Tiktok, to find out my colors, my season, my tones, and everything underneath those tones. What do you guys think? Would you try this?
Also, thanks to the virtual color analysts, the color key, for their help in fact-checking the video and collaborating on celebrities for the 12 seasons for our graphics! To learn your season virtually, check out @thecolorkey_ on Instagram! **celebrities shown here are examples based on the color key's best classification done in good faith but without participation in the color key analysis process. Accurate results can only be achieved through their color analysis process!!
PRODUCED & EDITED by Safiya Nygaard Tyler Williams Dave Szamet Melissa Douglas Phil Kinney Elizabeth Pinotti Clare Gelber Bree von Bradsky Nez Covington Ishara Mathews Hailey Cox
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0:00 Intro 3:20 Flying to Canada 5:08 The Color Analyzing Process 7:15 Finding Out My Undertones 12:49 Finding Out My Colors' Brightness & Depth 14:55 My Palette vs Other Palettes 16:40 Shopping My Color Palette 21:46 Doing Makeup in My Color Palette 23:00 The Final Look 24:31 Outro
#analysis #colortheory #vlogTrying The Most Popular Lipstick of the 1920’sSafiya Nygaard2023-03-05 | hello friends!! today we are trying the most popular lipstick of the 1920s/30s era - which also happens to be color changing! 🧡💄
HELLO FRIENDS! After many weeks... here is the video that almost defeated me, the grand finale of our Vegas trip - where we ate at every celebrity chef restaurant on the Vegas strip! Now as some of you all may know, Tyler and I are big Food Network fans - and while we were in Vegas, we decided to visit one of every celebrity chef's restaurant on the Strip! We stuffed our faces with numerous dishes, from the trash can-iest nachos at Guy Fieri's, to the elegant Italian pasta of Giada de Laurentiis, to the famed Beef Wellington at Gordon Ramsay's. Which restaurant would you try? Should we do a part 2 and go to the Jonas Brothers' restaurant?
PRODUCED & EDITED by Safiya Nygaard Tyler Williams Dave Szamet Carrie Roper Melissa Douglas Phil Kinney Clare Gelber Elizabeth Pinotti Nez Covington Ishara Mathews Alaina Simmons Mike Pearson III Steven Yonce German Torres Corey Glynn
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CHAPTERS: 0:00 Intro 2:02 What is a Celebrity Chef? 3:53 David Chang - Momofuku 8:05 Gordon Ramsay - Hell’s Kitchen 12:29 Tom Colicchio - Heritage Steak 15:43 José Andrés - Bazaar Meat 19:54 Bobby Flay - Bobby’s Burgers 23:21 Buddy Valastro - Pizza Cake 26:30 Guy Fieri - Guy Fieri’s Vegas Kitchen and Bar 30:13 Giada De Laurentiis - Giada 34:00 Lisa Vanderpump - Vanderpump À Paris 38:12 Masaharu Morimoto - Morimoto 41:19 Emeril Lagasse - New Orleans Fish House 44:15 Robert Irvine - Public House 48:04 Michael Mina - Stripsteak 48:52 Roy Choi - Best Friend 50:18 Celeb Chef Restaurants We Missed 50:30 Martha Stewart - The Bedford 50:41 Wolfgang Puck - Spago 50:55 Michael Mina & Ayesha Curry - International Smoke 51:11 Nobu Matsuhisa - Nobu 51:15 Lorena Garcia - Chica 51:25 Mark Wahlberg - Wahlburgers 51:34 Outro
#travel #food #vlogI Made An Eyeshadow Palette From ScratchSafiya Nygaard2023-02-03 | hello friends!! today we tried creating our own custom eyeshadow palette - from scratch. hope you enjoy all the ~smooshing~!
#makeup #eyeshadow #diyI Stayed At Every Hotel On The Vegas Strip (Part 2)Safiya Nygaard2023-01-15 | Check out part 1 here! youtu.be/0e8woEkKmG8
HELLO FRIENDS!! In this installment, we continue our exploration of every hotel on the Vegas strip, taking on the 14 hotels on the East side of the Strip. Still big fans, and still providing our thoughts on the room, vibes, and activities at each hotel - again, just in case you need it. We took on everything the strip had to throw at us - heat, celebrity restaurant pasta dishes, serenading gondoliers - until we finally made it to the end. We came, we saw, we stayed - here are the final 14! What do you guys think? Which hotel would you choose?
Also, when we say "Operated Independently" - we mostly mean, not operated by MGM or Caesars!
Also - our prices listed for the rooms include all taxes and resort fees that we paid!
PRODUCED & EDITED by Safiya Nygaard Tyler Williams Dave Szamet Carrie Roper Melissa Douglas Clare Gelber Jack Scott Phil Kinney Elizabeth Pinotti Mike Pearson III German Torres Steven Yonce Corey Glynn
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RESEARCH by Rachel Faulkner White Sabrina Ford
0:00 Intro 1:20 The Sahara 4:56 The Wynn / Encore 11:42 The Venetian / Palazzo 17:23 Harrah’s 20:44 The LINQ 26:17 Flamingo 29:25 The Cromwell 32:16 Bally’s (now Horseshoe) 35:50 Paris 40:07 Planet Hollywood 43:25 The MGM Grand 47:19 The Tropicana 50:50 Outro & Our Recommendations
#vegas #hotel #travelI Stayed At Every Hotel On The Vegas StripSafiya Nygaard2023-01-15 | Get PayPal Honey for FREE today ▸ joinhoney.com/safiya Honey finds coupons with one click. Thanks to Honey for sponsoring our adventure!!
HELLO FRIENDS!! This is the video I threatened to film at some point last year - and finally, it's here!! We’re big fans of Las Vegas and, in a moment of delirium, decided to stay in every hotel on the strip and provide the internet with a full report of our thoughts - just in case you need it. So, we booked a hotel room at every single one of the 33 casino mega resorts on the Strip - to review the rooms, vibes, and activities at each one. What happens in Vegas, gets uploaded to youtube, as the saying goes. What did you guys think? Which hotels were your favorite?
A quick note - it looks like the Strat price title is missing, we paid $80 there on a Sunday!
Also, when we say "Operated Independently" - we mostly mean, not operated by MGM or Caesars!
Also also - we did receive some comped experiences at Treasure Island, Resorts World, and Circus Circus - but that did not influence our review and we did not promise them positive coverage.
PRODUCED & EDITED by Safiya Nygaard Tyler Williams Dave Szamet Carrie Roper Melissa Douglas Clare Gelber Jack Scott Phil Kinney Elizabeth Pinotti Mike Pearson III Steven Yonce German Torres Corey Glynn
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0:00 Intro 2:56 Vegas Game Plan 4:48 The Four Seasons 8:04 The Delano 10:01 Mandalay Bay 12:57 The Luxor 17:14 The Excalibur 20:57 New York New York 23:42 Park MGM 25:23 The NoMad 28:13 The Waldorf Astoria 30:12 The Aria 32:18 Bonus Hotel: Vdara 32:47 The Cosmopolitan 36:18 The Bellagio 39:35 Caesars Palace 41:06 The Nobu Hotel 44:01 The Mirage 46:27 Treasure Island 48:58 Resorts World 52:53 Circus Circus 56:13 The Stratosphere
#vegas #hotel #travelWe Adopted A Stray KittenSafiya Nygaard2022-11-26 | hello friends!! here is an introduction to our new kitten, cosmo!! he was a stray kitten found by himself - the shelter called him "feral to fabulous" - and he looked like a baby version of our old grandpa cat crusty, so we figured we had to adopt him. he's been with us for a few months and he is a crazy little cat but we love him!
#adoptdontshop #kitten #catI Tried To Make A Viral TikTok FilterSafiya Nygaard2022-11-01 | Get PayPal Honey for FREE today ▸ joinhoney.com/safiya Honey finds coupons with one click. Thanks to Honey for sponsoring this video!
HELLO FRIENDS! We’ve been thinking about making our own filter for a while now, and we finally got the chance to make the halloween makeup filter of our batty dreams! We partnered with Sofi Chernyak & Maquillar Studios to help bring our vision to life - 5 spooky makeup looks in one filter. Make sure to check out the ”halloween by saf” filter which is LIVE now on TikTok and Instagram!
And thank you so much to Maquillar Studios for all their help producing this video! You can find their website at: https://www.maquillar.studio and you can find them on instagram and tiktok at @sofi_nyc and @maquillar.studio!!
PRODUCED & EDITED by Safiya Nygaard Tyler Williams Melissa Douglas Dave Szamet Clare Gelber Jack Scott Phil Kinney Elizabeth Pinotti
GFX by Dayana EspinozaI Got A $450 Celebrity Contouring FacialSafiya Nygaard2022-10-16 | HELLO FRIENDS!! Hope you guys are interested in a quick video we filmed a few months ago as we prepare for some bigger projects later this fall... This spring, we went to LA in search of luxury skincare treatments - and found Biba’s Meta-Facial. Going in with "Spongebob at Sandy’s house"-level dry skin, I knew I was in for something special, and Biba gave me the gauntlet - cleansing, lymphatic drainage, gua sha treatments, fascia massage, and the big kahuna: the microcurrent machine!
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#spa #facial #skincareMixing Every Lip Gloss From Sephora TogetherSafiya Nygaard2022-09-29 | CASETiFY’s iPhone 14 Impact Case Series is now available at casetify.com! Go to http://casetify.com/safiya today to save 15% off your order!
The Franken-gloss giveaway is now closed!! Thanks to all who entered - the giveaway winners will be contacted in the coming weeks!
HELLO FRIENDS! So we were itching to whip up another batch of franken makeup, and we realized lip glosses had escaped our grasp up until this point – but not anymore! So yet again, we raided Sephora, buying one of each lip gloss they had in stock and then mixing them all together into one franken-batch to rule them all. What did you think of our final color?
On top of all of that, if you’d like to buy yourself some of our Fiendish Behavior merchandise, you can check out our shop here: fiendishbehavior.com
PS - in case you want some more from us, we did just post ANOTHER franken video today over on Tyler’s channel. It features us testing out our own separate approaches towards frankening together one of every oreo flavor we could find. We’re calling it the Frank-Off! So be sure to check it out as well. It is also very un-hinged.
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#ShowYourColors #CASETiFYPartner #CASETiFYI Spent 24 Hours In An Underwater HotelSafiya Nygaard2022-08-17 | Thanks to NordVPN for sponsoring this video! 🌎 Get my exclusive NordVPN deal here: nordvpn.com/safiya - it's risk-free with Nord's 30-day money-back guarantee 🕺🏻 Just use coupon code "safiya" at checkout!
HELLO FRIENDS! We're diving back into travel content with a trip to Jules' Undersea Lodge in Key Largo, FL - a completely underwater hotel 20 feet below the surface! We saw this thing online, and decided we had to go - so we headed over to Florida and scuba'd (for the first time ever) our way down to the lodge, and then stayed there overnight. What do you think of this thing? Would you spend the night under the sea?
PRODUCED & EDITED by Safiya Nygaard Tyler Williams Dave Szamet Jarvis Rooker Lona Smith Bryce Jennings Joe & Ozlem Berg
GFX by Dayana EspinozaI Made Custom Hard Candy From ScratchSafiya Nygaard2022-07-27 | HELLO FRIENDS!! Thank you so much to all who entered the hard candy giveaway - the entry form is now closed & we will be contacting the winners in the coming weeks!
A big thank you to Greg & the team at Lofty Pursuits for helping us out with this video; make sure to check out their YouTube channel here! youtube.com/c/LoftyPursuits
Over the past few (years, honestly), I've watched other people make custom hard candy from scratch - oddly satisfying pulling, stretching, rolling, and chopping - with adorably tiny results. So, after a lot of watching from the sidelines, I decided that I needed to try this out for myself - how hard could it actually be? So I ventured to Lofty Pursuits candy store in Tallahassee, FL where Greg & the team taught me how to sling candy - old school style. We made custom flavored drop candy in a press, and two different batches of image candy - one watermelon, and one tiny disgruntled alien. What do you guys think of our final candies?
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GFX by Dayana EspinozaHow Retail Stores Manipulate YouSafiya Nygaard2022-07-09 | HELLO FRIENDS!! a bit of an experimental video here, but i hope you guys like it...
Have you ever wondered why you always get lost in IKEA? Or why you can't leave Sephora without a hand full of lipstick swatches? Or why you just love hanging out at Target? I was curious... so I decided to do some research on how different retail stores manipulate you into spending more time at their stores, interacting with their products more, and therefore, spending more of you hard earned cash at their shops. We explored different tactics that Ikea, Target, Sephora, and Ulta use to lure customers in & keep them there until they make a purchase! This is the first of a 3-part series we're gonna be working on throughout the year!
A big thank you to Jen Clinehens for helping us out with this video; make sure to check out her YouTube channel here: youtube.com/c/GrowLiketheGreatest
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CHAPTERS: 00:00 Intro 02:05 History Of Retail 4:55 Manipulated by Ikea 11:33 The Target Effect 16:58 Sephora & Ulta Get Their Revenge 22:30 Outro 23:32 Child Melts Down At IkeaI Went To A Lost Luggage StoreSafiya Nygaard2022-06-26 | Hello friends & welcome to another video!! This week, I traveled to a Lost Luggage store with HopeScope to buy and try some lost luggage items...
Over the past few years, we have tried a number of interesting ~secondhand purchasing experiences~, like buying an abandoned storage unit, buying a box of Amazon customer returns, and visiting an Amazon returns store - and something that I have been very interested in trying for quite a while now, is buying lost airline luggage. Because apparently if you lose a piece of luggage while traveling, and never come back for it, the airline will eventually sell it. And if you're in the US, chances are that they will sell it to the Unclaimed Baggage store in Scottsboro, AL - who sorts through and resells the items from that lost luggage. So we flew down there with our friend HopeScope to check out the store and buy a lost luggage haul of our own: a head-to-toe outfit each!! What did you guys think of our lost looks? Would you shop at this store?
PS - Unclaimed Baggage does sell some of their inventory online here! unclaimedbaggage.com
PRODUCED & EDITED by Safiya Nygaard Tyler Williams Lona Smith Bryce Jennings Dave Szamet Nez Covington Jarvis Rooker
GFX by Dayana EspinozaI Got My Scalp Professionally CleanedSafiya Nygaard2022-05-16 | Hello friends & welcome to my scalp! In this episode, I try something I've been wanting to try for literal months - a professional scalp exfoliation!! As some of you may know, I do like to delve into different algorithmic rabbit holes on good ole' YouTube, and recently, YouTube has been showing me a lot of ASMR Head Spa videos, where ASMRtists get their scalps professionally cleaned to unclog their hair follicles and promote healthy hair & regrowth. And so, I decided to venture to the Blow Me Away Salon in LA to get a Japanese Head Spa treatment, and finally give my head the spa day it deserves. What do you guys think? Would you try something like this?
Apologies if my scalp is too disturbing, lol.
Also - just a heads up, there *are* other contributing factors to dandruff besides just dirty scalp - I think in my case, I just have a lot of buildup, and Arisa zeroed in on that in relation to my particular head. Also also - in terms of maintaining your scalp care at home, Arisa just mentioned using specific scalp cleansing products & serums about once a week!
Also also - I noticed that some of you guys are skeptical about some of the ingredients of the products & the treatment as a whole - totally fair for you guys to have criticisms about it, I wasn't trying to vouch for every individual ingredient, or for how effective this would be for everybody - I personally enjoyed it, and I just thought it would be interesting to know what they say are the active ingredients. I'll be sure to keep your thoughts in mind for next time we make a video in this arena.
PRODUCED & EDITED by Safiya Nygaard Tyler Williams Kelly Yu Dayana Espinoza Carly Dawson
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#spa #exfoliation #microscope
Chapters (for people who hate microscopes): 00:00 - Intro 01:54 - What is a professional scalp cleaning? 04:34 - Microscope Part 1 07:03 - The Treatment 15:58 - Microscope Part 2 16:48 - My Final Result 18:42 - Tyler Mini-VlogI Got An 18th Century MakeoverSafiya Nygaard2022-04-24 | Finally, the video we've all been waiting for... the one where I get to return to Colonial Williamsburg after ~20 years!! As some of you guys might know, I bring up Colonial Williamsburg *a lot*, as it left a big impression on me as a child - so we decided to make the trip to the historical town of Williamsburg, VA to get an 18th century makeover (hair, makeup, and outfit!) and explore their living history museum, in costume. A big thank you to Abby Cox & Nicole Rudolph for helping out with our final look, and thank you to Colonial Williamsburg for inviting us!
PRODUCED & EDITED by Safiya Nygaard Tyler Williams Nez Covington Hannah Bruce Carly Dawson
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#18thcentury #fashion #historyOur Ancient Street Cat Passed AwaySafiya Nygaard2022-04-02 | Hello friends! Unfortunately, we come bearing some sad news - our ancient ex-street-cat Crusty passed away a little while ago at the ripe old age of 21. So we decided to make a little memorial video for him here, as a celebration of his long, dusty life and how much he impacted ours. We met him back in 2015 on the streets, he was there when we started our channel - he judged my ugly clothing and lounged in a giant beanbag - and when we moved across the country, he came too. Tyler & I loved him like crazy, and we're gonna miss him like crazy - and we know that a lot of you guys will too.
A huge thanks to Shelby & Sandy for the really sick art piece - you can check them out here! instagram.com/shelbyandsandy
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PRODUCED & EDITED by Safiya Nygaard Tyler Williams Hannah Bruce
GFX by Dayana EspinozaI Tried A Custom Lipstick PrinterSafiya Nygaard2022-02-13 | HELLO FRIENDS!! So, a couple of years ago I saw this custom lipstick printer in a video about the Consumer Electronics Show in Vegas, and ever since, I have been desperate to get my hand so it! And now, after a few years, a few waiting lists, and a couple restocks, I have it. So today, we're going to be testing out the YSL Rouge Sur Mesure custom lipstick printer, which lets you choose custom lipstick colors to print, will recommend your lipstick colors based on your outfit, and will also let you take photos of things in the world and then print matching color lipsticks to them. So we're going to take this thing for a spin! Which color did you like the most? Do you want to see Urn Burgundy??
The YSL Lipstick Printer giveaway is now closed!! Thanks to all who entered, the winner will be contacted in the next few days!!
PRODUCED & EDITED by Safiya Nygaard Tyler Williams Nez Covington Hannah Bruce
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#beauty #gadget #lipstickMelting Thrift Store Jewelry Into New JewelrySafiya Nygaard2022-01-23 | HELLO FRIENDS!! So, this week we're taking on something a bit different -- jewelry casting! As something of a melting fiend, YouTube has recommended me a few different videos about metal casting over the past few months -- and I found myself with a big NEED for FLAME. So, we picked up a bunch of jewelry from the thrift store, and then melted it down into molten metal, cast it into organic shapes with water & frozen peas, and then fashioned our castings into wearable jewelry pieces. What do you guys think of my ~collection~?
A big thank you to Sarah Tector, Suijin Li, and the NC State Crafts Center for all of their help!
PRODUCED & EDITED by Safiya Nygaard Tyler Williams Madi Price Hannah Bruce Jordan Schneier
GFX by Dayana EspinozaI Ran A Boba Tea Shop For A DaySafiya Nygaard2021-12-26 | HELLO FRIENDS!! A portion of this video was premiered during the Streamys, so thank you so much to the Streamys for featuring us! You can check out the show here: youtube.com/watch?v=zI64cM3sogg
Here is a bit of a different kind of video, the start of a new series (I hope) - where we trained as boba-ristas and then ran a boba shop for a day! We collaborated with Kung Fu Tea in Charlottesville, VA to learn how their shop operates behind the scenes, then designed a custom drink menu, and made and served people some of our curated boba selections! I’ve been a boba fan for many years, but this was my first time taking a stab at making bubble tea on my own — and though I’m not sure I have a future in the bubble tea-making profession, it was a lot of fun! What did you guys think of our drinks??
Also, this video was filmed in early October, before the spread of Omicron & I believe UVA has a vaccine requirement for their students. We made sure to comply with all mask requirements and there was a *lot* of hand washing throughout the day! Stay safe everyone!!
This video is NOT sponsored, but thanks to Kung Fu Tea & Megan for letting us film at your store!
PRODUCED & EDITED by Safiya Nygaard Tyler Williams Nez Covington
GFX by Dayana EspinozaI Bought The First 5 Things TikTok Ads Recommended To MeSafiya Nygaard2021-12-08 | Check out our new merch here!! fiendishbehavior.com
HELLO FRIENDS!! Today, I return to the land of internet hauls and social media targeted recommendations - with a deep dive into the sponsored posts that appear on your TikTok "For You Page"! Previously, I have bought things recommended to me via targeted ads on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and Snapchat - so when I finally relented and downloaded TikTok a few months ago -- I figured, we probably had to do a TikTok ad haul as well. So I spent a day scrolling on TikTok until I found 5 different targeted ads, purchased what they were advertising, and then put them to the test to try and figure out why TikTok might think I would like them, and whether or not they were any good. Which item was your favorite?? What ads do you get on TikTok?
Thanks to Kayley Melissa for helping me curl my hair! You can check out her channel here: youtube.com/c/kayleymelissa
The Franken-soap giveaway is now closed & the winners will be contacted in the next few days! Thanks to all who entered!
HELLO FRIENDS!! Here is a weird video we made where I melted every soap from Lush together into a few different batches of franken-soap!! This type of franken-experiment has worked well in the past across a wide array of products like lipsticks, foundations, candles, and bath bombs (also from Lush!) - and as some of you may know, over the years I have developed a bit of a soap fixation, having recreated a couple different soap art tutorials, as well as several bizarre soap art hacks from the internet. So I was excited to combine these two interests together by mixing every single soap from a single store to see what kind of soap bar we could whip up. What did you think of our final product??
Just a heads up - any footage of me w/o a mask in Lush is either from our old video (pre-quarantine), or from when we filmed in Lush this past summer with special permission before the store opened!
This video is NOT sponsored, but thanks to Lush for letting us film at your store!
PRODUCED & EDITED by Safiya Nygaard Tyler Williams Nez Covington Madi Price
GFX by Dayana EspinozaI Went To An Amazon Returns StoreSafiya Nygaard2021-10-15 | HELLO FRIENDS!! This week, I ventured to an Amazon Liquidation Store in Raleigh, NC called Treasure Hunt Liquidators to get me a haul of Amazon customer returns! A few years ago, we bought an Amazon Return Box from a liquidation website -- and it was kind of crazy, but we *were* able to get a lot of stuff for a pretty big discount. So when I heard about an Amazon Returns Store... I figured we had to go! I got a drone, a spice blender, a go pro lens, a massage chair, and a microdermabrasion tool (and a lava lamp & succulent growth light) -- all for $10 each!
Quick note -- the in-store shopping segments were filmed in late July/early August, when the mask mandate in NC was lifted -- which is why you see a mix of mask & no-mask! We decided to wear a mask while shopping just because it was kind of close quarters in the store, but it was optional at that time.
PRODUCED & EDITED by Safiya Nygaard Tyler Williams Madi Price
GFX by Dayana EspinozaI Wore Digital Clothes For A WeekSafiya Nygaard2021-09-24 | HELLO FRIENDS!! So, a couple of months ago I got this ad on facebook for "digital fashion" - which, as a weird fashion lover, piqued my interest. So, I decided to use the DressX digital fashion service and "wear" digital clothes every day for a week to see how it turned out -- and then I posted those pictures to instagram to see what you all thought of my virtual digs! Which outfit from this week was your favorite?
You can check out DressX's website here! dressx.com
Quick note -- these looks that we bought are *not* NFTs, and most of DressX's looks are not NFTs -- (the ones in the app are also not NFTs) -- they seem to dipping their toes into that space, but for now it's mainly just photoshopping individual images!
Also, the shots in the art museum were taken in the middle of the summer, when mask mandates were lifted!