Gravity defying lip gloss explained
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You might have seen this lip gloss phenomenon on social media. I figured it must me static electricity. So had a go a reproducing the effect using electrostatics.
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No it's not upside down! Hopefully after watching this video you wouldn't think that was the explanation anyway, but a lot of the comments on the original videos were saying it was filmed upside down. I wish that were the true explanation! Sadly, lip gloss is too viscous to drip in that way. It needs to be pushed... by electricity. The sponsor of this video is Blinkist. Get full access for free for 7 days, no strings, and 25% off after that: blinkist.com/stevemould
The reason why it was working on the videos but not for you might be that the lip gloss becomes charged whilst being jostled against fabric in a pocket?
"Thanks pedants" made me laugh very hard, thanks Steve
Try a different brand. They probably use different materials in the wand.
I think I know where the static charge comes from. My wife used to sit with her feet resting on top of her desktop computer (tower model) while using her computer. Whenever I touched her skin I could feel a slight tingle. We investigated this and the tingle was present iff she was touching the computer, so we figured that her computer must not have been properly grounded.
I think that in all the videos demonstrating the effect the person demonstrating it are touching their computer at the same time. (Not nessecarily conciously!)
I got this same behaviour out of hydraulic fluid and measuring stick. The hydraulic fluid would spike out like that as a tiny spike on the side of the measuring stick. I didn't take video out of it but maybe I should have. I thought it was caused by a tiny cavity in the stick and it somehow getting pressurized and when I pulled the stick out of the tank, it would cause that effect when the air bubbles out of that tiny cavity.
“A clock app” 😂😂 never change steve, never change
L M A O
Tik tok is pop song from Ke$ha, not an app. Must have appeared in the music video or something.
I wish it were actually a clock app
@@CookieCraftMedia you can use it to count down your sanity
It's a clock app that takes up your time instead of giving it...
2:48 new distracted boyfriend meme confirmed
Simon the Viking 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Hands down to you for noticing that hahah 😂
I am the 400 like
Life imitates art
In the end the girl he kept looking at married his girlfriend, ouch.
Statically charged egirls with gravity defying lipgloss. Sounds legit
Fr lol
@@nevaeh1362 Melanie Martinez fan?
@@spatulish Yes!! Love her
@@nevaeh1362 yeeee.. SAME HERE!!!
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I noticed that the lipgloss in the videos had glitter which can change the dielectric (conductive) properties in the lipgloss and I tried it at home and it was very easy to reproduce the flying strands.
"Tiktok, which is a clock app I think"
Steve you just earned yourself a subscriber
He earned my subscriptiob
*subscription*
I subbed on 3 accounts
on MY LIFE he deserves all the subscriptions for not knowing what tik tok is
Niles Black that was so funny😂
Anyone notice that the women in the videos had beautifully brushed hair? That is an excellent way to build up a huge static charge!
And is also something you'd do before applying lipgloss presumably
this is a very likely explanation, hairs also have a lot of surface area to hold on to the charge
also if thier body hydration levels are low.. it would allow them to build up even more static charge? I think he is also right.. he should warm up the lip gloss.. bring it up to 90 something degrees, which would allow the seperation from static charge to take effect.. I think also some lip glosses now put little metal flakes in it .. and this too would allow for seperations to occur under high static charge conditions?
@@manp1039 90 something degrees? That is unbearably hot
metal flakes makes it more conductive, less likely to hold static charge
"90 degrees" is probably in freedom units
I had a really sticky gloss from elf a few years back that did this EVERY time I opened it.
Same💀💀
What's elf? A store?
@@Spherey a makeup brand
I was about to say this happened to me when I was little and playing in my mom's makeup lol
Which one?
I used to have a lip gloss years ago that would do this whenever I used no matter the circumstances. When I would then open another gloss right after nothing would happen it was just that one gloss. Maybe it has something to do with the formula of the specific gloss or with the container itself.
Same. It might be that some glosses are charged.
Good point could be some contain more of the electrostatic material than others making it easier to witness.
Was one glass and the other plastic?
chara dremur Im pretty sure they were all plastic but it’s been awhile.
its the formula... some have more chemicals that turn into vapor when oxygenated upon doing so the weakest structure (molecularly) rides on the vapor, in this case i assume that structure to be the dye chemicals.
"My wife suggested that maybe it's to do with bringing the lip gloss into contact with your skin; specifically your lips."
"That didn't work either..."
I got a good laugh out of that bit.
His wife probably got a good laugh out of that bit as well.
"Oh what's that, your little lip gloss experiment isn't working? Have you tried putting it on?"
It was so unexpected. I love it. Witty humor
don't underestimate wife advice, it might work!
Steve shivers with anticipation
I was eating my lunch and nearly choked.
I imagine it's also a matter of the brand of lip gloss. They all have different formulations and there is likely a fairly specific chemical/element within that is more susceptible to this 'phenomena'.
I am thinking also some contain metalic flakes which may amplify the static charge seperation effect?
The ones with metal components
@@vlc-cosplayer datum means day/m/y in german
They're all using the same brand of lip gloss.
Wait but when the lip gloss defies gravity... where does it go?
Does it like fall anywhere and ruin the furniture🤔🤔
No, it's slowly gliding upwards, through the sky and far beyond the clouds. For so long it attempts escape from it's brethren and now it can finally fly higher than any other particle has very flown. It was under estimated, it's talent, but now after moments of space isolation it now takes it's rightful plates on the plump, supple lips of the astroid pulling it back to earth.
@@olander715 modern poetry
@Ordinary Oddity lol
Sometimes it goes on your outift it depends what position you are in
2Cheesy 2Talk I was thinking of: great all those make up stains on wall/ceiling, will be hell to clean that! So yeah, furniture will be even more hell, get that in a carpet, good luck cleaning that :p
DUUUDE I discovered this back in high school, math class 2005. I always wondered!!!!! But it only ever worked with a specific gloss.
Did you isolate the variables and create repeatable procedures? PLEASE TELL US MORE!!
Tajr spoken like a true scientist
Was your gloss from Elf?
@@sreeja6282 No it was a random convince store gloss
Saaaame!
when the science, makeup, and tiktok community come together. i'm so here for it!
Science with fun sticks, you cant go wrong 😂
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lneibbles pay attention to to his books on the sponsor
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I have that book, love it, have it displayed😂
“I just copy the behaviour I saw in the videos and pull out quickly”
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fuuuuuck nice one
of course, you don't want your boyfriend getting pregnant
2:32 That is YOUR color. It makes your eyes POP! Good on your wife!
YESSSSSSS
Thank you, this is the comment I was looking for
Who said that his wife chose it? 🤔
nope His wife suggested he put it on.
His eyes looks pop because he widened them XD
Steve, you're in Britain, the air is damp. I bet if you did this in the desert (or any dry climate) whilst wearing wool socks it would work. 😄
Actually, I think the damper the better
@@pursueexcellence7737 no because the air is a conductor when its damp
You don't need wool socks, here in Las Vegas you get shocked all the time. It's fun seeing tourists get shocked😂😂
@@eddyram4932 because of how dry it is
i’m in ireland and it worked on me too tho, check my video
No one:
Lip Gloss: "It's time to try defying gravity"🎵
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Love how his wife managed to convince him to try the lip gloss hahahaha
Who said the wife wanted to do it?
"Tik-tok is a clock app."
- Steve Mould, 2020
My entire life was a lie
Wife: WTF are you doing with lip gloss?
Steve: science babe, science...
while watching this i jus suddenly thought that soon theres gunna be a REALLY HUGE CHUNK of lip gloss covering the whole sky.. dont ask me why i thought of that..
// • l a v e n d e r • // I was thinking of: great all those make up stains on wall/ceiling, will be hell to clean that!
Time for the ozone layer to get a makeover.
koga soldier oh my god LMFAOO 😂😂
but why?
This is how we patched the ozone hole
I remember my friend had a Victoria Secret lipgloss that would react the same way with everyone who held it
Psyluxx bro huh I’m confusion
Maybe it kept the charge from the first person
Steve: * says phenomenon *
me: "do doo do do do"
+Mycel It’s a Muppets reference: ruclips.net/video/8N_tupPBtWQ/видео.html
@Mycel soundcloud.com/elybeatmaker/phenomenon
that's the worst twilight zone impression ever
Same
I got it instantly so it wasn't that bad....
I still have hope in humanity when scientist get motivated by Tik toxks
My hope in humanity will return when TikTok ceases to be
there is science content on tiktok. just like youtube, your recommendations are based off of which vids you like and comment on. there are a lot of younger people on the app, but it's not inherently bad. you might just have to sift through some garbage first before the for you page starts recommending things that interest you
@@BothHands1 tbh I have never downloaded tik tom but thanks for the insight.
It was supposed to be a "joke" or "meme" sort of comment please don't take it seriously/source of solid information cause I'm just dumb
@@yogitshankar6348 I think it was an insightful comment and I believe (strongly) that you are not dumb.
No one:
Lip gloss: aight ima head out
Loved the format of this video, with the hypothesis and you testing it and showing us the thought process
Puts on lip gloss.
"That didn't work either" - Steve Mould
0:15 "They first appeared on TikTok, which is a clock app I think.." 😃
close but tic-Tiktok is an app were (mostly) kids/teens and dance to music and it’s technology like a youtube but the vids are only 15-60 sec long 😂 :)
@@clichemoth381 ever heard of sarcasm 😐
tsuchigcmori sorry if i “upset” you but i was trying to help him cuz his page looked like he whould prolly not no but alr
not know*
Hey Potato, you are not as creative as you might intend to be
It might be the tube of lip gloss that gets statically charged on its own, perhaps by friction in someone’s pocket while they walk. Also, maybe certain lip gloss containers/wands transit the static charge better than the assortment you bought. Great investigation.
I recently watched a video about making ice crystals and specifically why snowflakes have long dendritic growth patterns. Its not super related to this in what's actually happening, but it reminded me of it when you were mentioning the positive feedback loop on the bit thats sticking out. How the charge builds up there, and makes it grow in sort of a dendrite shape. its similar in snowflakes that once a little bit of ice is able to stick out past the rest, it starts basically a positive feedback loop allowing more ice and more smaller dendrites to form off of it. Not directly related of course, and i've probably got it all wrong anyway haha. But cool video!
could the buildup of static electricity be from hairdryer or other hair blowy thing?
ooooh, that's a really amazing theory
Or just by brushing.
or hairdryer followed by brushing
@@JohnDCrafton I'll buy that.
I’ll be your blowy thing
"Well that didn't work either...."
Do you have any idea how unconfortable it is to spit beer out your nose?
Yes
1:06
They always told us in school "It is because of the static elect." but as you added "like charges repel", I finally understand it!
"It first started from tiktok, which i think is a clock app..”
8:36 let's just all ignore those things he saved
what was it
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"Get your shit together"
OceanMan OMG I SEE IT 😂😂😂
@@VileCarnival this is a fantastic book though! Highly recommend
0:25, until now, I never realised Steve's eyes are so comically big, in a possitive way.
thank you for making a video about this! ive been wondering this for awhile now
This happened to my lip gloss too. I talked to my chem teacher and we suspected the small glitters created a friction that were causing a static charge within the tube :) maybe thats what was missing !
Pedant here. Let's be clear that phenomena is perfectly correct, it's just plural. So if you want to say "phenomenons" just say phenomena. Otherwise, say phenomenon.
#DontHateThePedantHateTheGame
I'm guessing that your results differ from the viral videos because it has to do with the humidity in the air. If you're in a dry area the charges build much more easy. Where I am it's very cold out, (-30) in a non humidified building with warmed air that has some exchange with the outside, the relative humidity can be in the single digits. The static discharges can be intense! Even in the cold getting gas you have to be sure to ground yourself to the car before grabbing a gas pump handle when getting gas or risk igniting the escaping gas vapor. Maybe try in a dehumidified room?
also the type of clothing these ladies were wearing might have caused them to get charged up better
I think you are on to something here. I get this effect often when doing my laundry in a basement with two drying rooms.
When I fill softener into the tray on top of the machine and the bottle is almost empty, you hold it upside down to get the last of it out and when the strands get very thin, they start to fly away all over the top of the machine, making a mess.
Thank you for the work you do. I really do enjoy your videos!
Man you are great! You explain so well, and also you are funny as hell! How I haven't met your channel before?????
Just subbed!
Wonderful experiment! Validates the one thing everyone always forgets - gravity is significantly weaker than electro magnetic charge. The latter will always win
for an organic in the wild phenomenon my guess is that the lip gloss container is glass and it is kept in a silk bag. Glass and silk being a common static charge demonstration and common materials for those two objects. A high static charge could build up on the container and lip gloss itself rather than being transferred from the person holding it
So it wasn’t until after I saw your video that this happened to me, and I was really excited. I couldn’t re-create it the first time, but today I did it again and I was able to catch it on camera. I’m finding that the best way to do it is to kind of drag the applicator tip against the edge of the hole as you’re bringing it out, and bring it out relatively quickly. I think it also helps if you haven’t done it in a while, because it seems like the charge kind of “stabilizes” (for lack of a better word) after a few minutes and stops working as well. 🤷🏻♀️
I get all kinds of shocks and static effects in the dry winter air, so it could have also been your British humidity 🤷♂️
This is the same-ish effect as with electrospinning, where you use electrostatic forces to extrude nanofibers out of polymer solution or melt.
Nerd 🍻
Looks I'm going to spend the night reading about the stuff you mentioned
Thank you
i lost brain cells reading this
5:50 I thought you had branded crocodile clips, thats what you call luxury goods
Your voice is so calm that I almost falling asleep while watching
Oh my gosh i love your humor. You don't push it and its brilliant. Never change your subtle hilarity
"Tik tok is a clock app"
-Steve Mould
Low key I wish it was😂😂
Calling all lawyers, we've got a misquote here! (0:17)
@@zeikjt thanks for your service
As opposed to high key?
@@zeikjt There was no collusion; complete exoneration..😂
@@afunnyman yeah..
As not a native English speaker I thought he said "peasants" 🤣🤣🤣
As a native English speaker at first I thought he did too
@@rayneb2595 LOL
Didn't he?
He said “pedants”. A pedant is a person who is pedantic.
Im so glad someone made a video on this. I saw a video on youtube like 10 years ago or something and ive seen it myself with my own lipglosses.
Never turned on the notification feature before, but your videos are great. Looking forward to seeing the next one :)
Could it be because those girls had just used a hairdryer, before using the lipstick. A combination of heat and electrostatic effects ( long hair = electrostatic charges?)
I wonder if humidity has an impact as it changes the amount of charge you can build up.
Maybe Steve needs to go to the US or somewhere with a case full of lip gloss.
That's what I was also thinking. Maybe it's because of a hairdryer, curling iron, straighteners or something else
@@andymcl92 yes.. he should go to California during the Santa Ana Winds and go to the static electricity hot spots. (ref: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Ana_winds )
I just tried it using a “lip oil” lipgloss and it worked. I did not use a hairdryer or anything just opened it like I normally do
you need to try it in Australia
the oil should burn well
Fun Fact: We don't need ground harnesses because the static is so strong here that it perfectly counteracts gravity, making it as if we're right-side up. Unfortunately it also means this trick won't work.
Yes Australia is upside down so the lip gloss will just fall of the tip.
I have the Revlon Kiss Glow Lip Oil
It does this every time
I bought it and other makeup enthusiasts have talked about it (including Beauty News)
What makes it even funnier is that it was released here in Australia first!
I’m in Australia and I just tried to no avail, but it is probably because I have a lot of plants so my room is a quite humid :))
“Tiktok which is a clock app I think” IM- 😭😭
as a side note, i love the "what is it doing!?" at the start. such pure joy and curiosity
My favorite official science term is and always will be, "sticky outie bit"
2:34 YOU HAD ME SPILL A MOUTHFUL OF COFFEE DYING IN LAUGHTER!! It's so freaking subtlely unexpected and hilarious.. Now that my laughter had subsided.. I have a huge mess to clean up 😩 fml..
Good
joker
@@missingno2401 💀😫
I been shuffling around for hrs. Great channel
Phainomenon: (φαινόμενον) *SINGULAR*
Phainomena: (φαινόμενα) *PLURAL*
Disambiguating the drama over this marvellous greek word.❤
Steve: Explains why it happens only with non conductive substances
Also Steve: shows conductive objects flying off in the last clip
isn't aluminum a pretty bad conductor
Don't they have a plastic coating?
Aluminum naturally has a layer of aluminum oxide.
Steve was wrong about that. Both conductors and insulators can be charged if they are not grounded. Grounded conductors cannot be charged.
I think his point was you wouldn't get such a strong charge build-up on the pointy bits of the lip gloss vs the smoother rounded bits, if lip gloss was a good conductor.
With the aluminium dishes, they are just repelling each other & the VdG gen, it has little-to-nothing to do with any extra charge building up on their edges.
"that didn't work either"
Good effort though, Steve!
The tarte lipgloss does that. I have one and I got freaked out haha thought I was the only one haha.
Great video Steve - a really good explanation of that cool and bizarre makeup behavior. :D
This is interesting, I've seen a similar effect with protein powder, specifically pea protein powder. It doesn't form the spike of course but little bits of it do shoot off of the spoon quite violently. I guessed it was due to static electricity as well and this video seems to support that.
That was cool! Please do more makeup stuff!
definitely would love that!
You genuinely look super good with lip gloss!
That pedantry line was golden. Well said!
"clock app" oh my God I'm dying😂😂
Could it be that the tube gets statically charged? If it's been rolling around in a makeup bag for a while that might build up charge on the plastic
Great lighting in this video
When I finished watching ur video i was lemme check how many sub u have and damn I was shook.
Keep uploading awesome science things loved ur videos💖
Boyohboy, Steve! This started out so lame I wasn't sure I could finish it - and I'm LOYAL! But - You Did It! Congrats.
I found this out in like elementary school. Its cool to watch
Eh Cady HOW YALL DOING THIS REEE IM DUMB
Luci Kay Randomness do what?
"I've got a bunch of lip gloss" *As I sit here with 50 things of lip gloss just in my grandma's house* really?
Aha
@@alexandra9063 ahahahahah
I’m sitting here with my lip product hoarding problem and 15 lip tints of the same color but of different brands...i
@@peachcampanella I felt that
I am very glad to have found this video! I saw one of the viral ones and was extremely intrigued. Thanks for that cool information. Now, people on Tik Tok often spend lots of time on their phones. Maybe their phones emit some static and they absorb it? Or perhaps laying on a sofa for a long time in the right conditions is the source? Very interesting! Thanks again :)
Tik Tok is not a clock app, He's the robot from Return to Oz.
Yasss! One of the creepiest movies ever made for children, and therefore one of my favorite.
Clock app lol
The same thing happened to me with an H&M lipgloss 💄
Just bought a new lipgloss that does this and needed to know why. Great video!
3:30 I still remember that one time I apparently was so charged that my finger made a noise similar to cracking ones knuckles, and I felt pain in the joint from what I assume is a very quick-n-temporary displacement of it. And that other time that got close, where me and a friend had apparently managed to get polar-opposite static charges when shuffling (so we kept on doing it), and when we touched fingers one time a loud and visible spark appeared even centimeters apart that again, actually managed to get painful (though I dont think it got to the same level as that one I mentioned prior, as the joints didnt make that noise, werent in as much pain, and I felt less displacement.)
I am wondering if body, including internal levels of hydration.. like in hands and around bone joints can create greater levels of static charge causing internal seperations of joints or other fibers/elements in the hands, etc?
"clock app" hahahahah I love you
It doesn’t take a genius to figure it’s probably static but feels good to have someone go through the effort to provide it
Explained. Well done
No one:
Lip gloss: It's time to try
Defying gravity
I think I'll try
Defying gravity
*And you can't pull me down*
No one:
This meme format:
2:48 I love how that one nosy guy turns around like, "WTF is that dude doing," but you give zero f*cks and keep on going... I like that.
...you keep being you, Steve. 😎
1:11 "a doll trying to go super saiyan but fails"
I think you are spot on!
Maybe try rubbing the whole vial against a fluffy surface, while you pull the brush out it should charge the liquid and hopefully make it produce the Taylor cone!
Thank you for all the great content , keep inspiring !
I bought a whole pack ages ago and it did this. I was so scared to use it that I threw them all out, they were cheapish and I thought they had like chunks of metal in them or something
lol, the irony is that they didn't have enough metal
I used to have an NYX lip gloss that did this! It was so weird the first time I saw it, I used up most of the the gloss showing other people what was happening. Lol
I'm glad you showed us what those pie tins were for. :)
A clock app. I needed that thanks
2:33 i lost it 😂!
1st Clip for Best of 2020🤣
same omg 😂!!!
Laughed out loud twice: "a clock app I think" and "that didn't work either" -- nice job Steve!
That static at 4:27 was a really nice touch. I immediately started checking my devices.
lol the tin bonus was great 👍