Squishy Makeover Season 1 Episode 1

The official title of this video is “5 Squishy Makeovers | Re-Decorating Cheap Squishies”
This is the first Squishy Makeovers episode. It was released on April 27, 2018. In this series, Moriah Elizabeth tries to make squishies better by “painting them, cutting them up, doing whatever I feel like needs to be done to improve them.”
In this video, Moriah used fabric paint on the squishies. This paint worked to seal up holes and tears in the squishies.

## Video description

The main part of the YouTube video description says, “Hey everyone! Today I am going to be doing FIVE "Squishy Makeovers." I used very cheap squishes from Banggood.com which is an Asian website that is great for getting affordable squishies. Of course, these very cheap squishies have a lot of imperfections (which is expected), so I decided to try to fix them! have had this idea for the longest time, I am so excited to finally be doing this. I had a blast making this video, I hope you enjoy it! \*Let me know if you liked the squishies better BEFORE or AFTER\*”
In this video, Moriah redecorates 5 different squishies she got online.

### Squishy number 1

**Squishy roasting**
The first squishy was a little cookie that Moriah thought had a really cute shape. It was square-ish, but shaped as if a bite had been taken out of it, and it had a light pink cookie top and bottom, and the filling was bright green. It said “EAT ME” on it (no longer visible after the makeover). Moriah described the filling of it as looking rancid. There was at least one little hole in it. The coloring was also really sloppy and uneven.

**Makeover process**
Moriah started this makeover by painting it chocolate brown, covering the top and edges. After that layer dried, she added another layer of paint on the top and added some pastel rainbow sprinkles pre-made of polymer clay. Then she used white paint for the filling of the cookie.

**Moriah’s opinion**
Moriah stated that she “quite like[d] the changes [she] made to this cookie,” and it looked “a lot more appetizing now.”

### Squishy number 2

**Squishy roasting**
The second squishy was an ice cream cone that Moriah loved the shape of. She stated that it felt like a nice quality foam, but the color was gross. The “ice cream” part of the squishy was a bright yellow with a tinge of green, and the cone part was brown. The colors were described by Moriah as “turd brown” for the cone, and “mucus yellow” for the ice cream. There was also a lot of paint missing and little holes in the squishy.

**Makeover process**
Moriah started out by mixing a color that looked “a little more food-like, and a little less like doo doo.” She then used that color to paint the cone. The color was a lot lighter, closer to tan. After that layer dried, she added a second coat of the same paint color. Moriah claimed that she had some trouble deciding what color to paint the ice cream, but eventually settled on light purple because she felt like she had a shortage of purple squishies in her collection. After the first coat of paint dried, she added a second layer of paint and sprinkle-i-fied it (added sprinkles).

**Moriah’s opinion**
Moriah thought the new colors looked much more friendly and happier, and the old colors were depressing and kind of sick-looking. She was also glad that all the holes got covered up.

### Squishy number 3

**Squishy roasting**
The third squishy was a bright banana-yellow popsicle that came with cheap-looking sprinkles that were falling off. It had a lot of little defects and uneven coloring. It also had a shape like a bite mark taken out of it. Moriah said that the worst part of it was the stick, with big gouges taken out of it, and just looked kind of sad. Moriah said that “this guy needs a lot of work.”

**Makeover process**
Moriah started the makeover by taking the sprinkles off. Some of them were already falling off, but others were “cemented on”, and Moriah had to use tweezers to remove them. After she removed the sprinkles, she smoothed out the squishy with scissors, making sure not to go too far and make it worse. Then she chopped off the stick and replaced it with part of a real popsicle stick by cutting a slit in the squishy, putting fabric glue on the popsicle stick, and putting it in the slit. After all of this, Moriah started painting. She decided to make the squishy watermelon themed, so she started by painting a white stripe near the bottom of the popsicle. She then mixed some red and green paint with some white paint so she had lighter, more pastel colors. She added the green and red paint while the white was still wet, so she had to be careful to not mix the paint colors. She painted the bottom of the squishy, below the white line, green; and the top part she painted red. She left the bite mark for later, after the other paint dried. She had to do a second coat of paint because the poor texture was still there. On the second coat of paint, she added black sprinkles to represent the watermelon seeds.

**Moriah’s opinion**
Moriah really liked how this one turned out. She said that it was quite a process to fix it up. She also said that it was a big improvement, and that the new one is a lot more interesting and unique.

### Squishy number 4

**Squishy roasting**
The fourth squishy was a coffee/latte drink that had a greenish-yellow cup (similar to the color of the ice cream and the popsicle), a pink straw, brown coffee, and white whipped cream with brown streaks, presumably representing chocolate or chocolate sauce. It had a lot of rips, tears, and holes in it. Moriah said that the foam felt pretty nice and soft, though. The straw was starting to tear off, and looked a little awkward, too small and a bit out of place.

**Makeover process**
Moriah started by painting the cup light pink. She tried to get the paint as smooth as possible, because it was a cup, and not the food part. After the first layer dried, she added a second layer of paint. Then she cut the straw off, and painted the whipped cream white. She painted the actual drink part rainbow , but she messed up a little bit and had to scrape off some of the paint and start over because she didn’t initially space the colors correctly. Because of this, the colors started to mix and get a bit messy. Then, after that dried, she gave the whipped cream a second coat and added a second coat of paint, as well as some drips, to the rainbow drink. To finish, she added rainbow  dots to the whipped cream, and cleaned up the bottom edge of the whipped cream.

**Moriah’s opinion**
Moriah said that she thinks it looks cuter than the before, and she was really happy with the colors. She said that it was the most time-consuming paint job of the five squishies, but it was worth it.

### Squishy number 5

**Squishy roasting**
The last squishy was a soft and slow squishy pink cream puff that was featured in Moriah’s previous two videos. She had decorated it previously with markers, but the color was rubbing off. It was mainly pink, and the filling was white with purple, blue, green, and pink sprinkles.

**Makeover process**
Moriah decided to go with a blue and pink cotton candy theme. She was worried that the fabric paint would not stay on the squishy, as it was a different kind of squishy. Luckily, that wasn’t much of a problem because the cream puff had a lot of texture on it. She colored it light blue, with a white filling, and added pink and blue sprinkles to it. Then she used a toothpick to dot some white paint on the top as powdered sugar.

**Moriah’s opinion**
Moriah liked how this one turned out, but it was her least favorite out of the five squishies.