To answer the question of the day, you should totally do a layer of black on top and then splatter that in the neons. That way it’ll look like a skating rink carpet on top.
I think this would go a bit better with the black stamp, as well. But if you keep the top the same, I think a white stamp would look really good but still stand out against the bright colors
I have a plan to make a whole vaporwave bathroom interior design. It's perfect, 90s nostalgia with adult swim influence, neon lights but in the hues of purple for me, like twilight hour, so something to really relax and have fun with.
Speaking as a fan of vaporwave... yes, you nailed it. This looks like walking in a dead mall you used to hang out at as a teenager and seeing it fall into disrepair the way it has, but you think back to the good old days that are beginning to become a blur as you wander along the corridor... and then you find yourself at a Bath & Body Works for some reason because those always tend to be the last stores to go in a dying mall. And I do, in fact, say this as a compliment. Because that, to me, is basically Vaporwave.
As someone who has worked for Bath and Body Works for 6 years now- yes. 100%. We just closed our old store in a mall to open a new one and it was the only store drawing customers in to the old mall I grew up in🫠
Not about this soap (which I love the *aesthetic* of) but wondering if you've ever considered a "museum/Smithsonian" collection? With soaps themed around dinos/fossils, butterflies, the deep ocean, air and space, etc? Don't ask me where the idea came from, but was thinking about how cool this month's theme is!
Katie: I'm an ancient 28. Me in my 50s: **crumbles to dust** Seriously, though, have an absolutely wonderful birthday! Age is just a number. What matters is that you're doing the things that make you happiest with the people you love the most. 🥰
My partner LOVES vaporwave and his birthday is this Friday! He literally ran out of the kitchen when he heard you say “vaporwave” and was just delighted with your music choices and the end result of the soap. Spot on for all creative choices according to him! Great colors, great music, and perfect stamp 😊 Happy birthday Katie! I hope it is full of love, laughter, and fond memories ❤️
At this point, why do you even need to explain your reason for a particular design, sis!? Everything you do, we love! Your tastes are glorious and your soaps are gorgeous. Calories don’t count on birthdays, so enjoy your cake! Hoppy burpday!!
Happy birthday!! I’m 23 and I gotta say I am perpetually impressed by the fact that you seem to like, have your act together and know what you’re doing and you’re still technically in your twenties. But I also get the frustration of not being taken seriously, the older people I work with are always just quizzing me on random stuff bc they think I’m too young to know the answers 🙃🙃🙃
Happy birthday!! I too am 28 and ready to be in my 30’s, the late 20s make you feel ancient without the number to back it up! Also, big fan of textured tops on soaps. Though as a soap maker (taught by you!) I truly never know when to stop smooshing!
900k subscribers, that’s crazy! congratulations Katie and the whole royalty soaps fam! I have no idea how many subscribers you had when I started watching you but I know it’s been years and years and years and the growth doesn’t surprise me one bit! you deserve every bit of success and opportunity and I wish you & your family and friends a happy, successful career and life!
Happy Birthday Katie! I'm also looking forward to getting closer to 30. I love your nails BTW. This was a fun design and the stamp was perfect. Have a great day!
Happy Birthday sweet Katie! I liked your comment about being a young wippersnapper. I just turned 50 in December, and I remember feeling upset as I was nearing 30 and feeling old. Cherish your youth. I love watching your videos. You are always so upbeat, and you make me smile. I have no idea what vaporwave is, so this is all new to me. These colors are amazing, and I'll definitely try to get one of these bars when they come out. ❤
Love this month's theme. This soap turned out funky and retro in its own right but imo if you wanted something "Vaporwave", it'd have been better to limit the palette to a few fewer shades at once, and do something geometric with the design, like diagonal stripes. An insert that looks like a triangle or something like that also could've been cool.
Happy birthday Duchess! I've been a fan of James Herriot since I was a kid, and I've read the books many times. It's so nice to come across another fan
Happy birthday!!! I hope you had a blast! Thank you for taking a portion of your day to film for us! I’m also surprised to realize we are the same age!! I could’ve sworn we were a couple years apart but I’m honestly really excited that we are the same age!
Happy Birthday Katie! I'm only 18 so I get the label of being a legal adult, but I don't feel very adult yet. The idea of becoming an adult is very scary because it feels like all I hear is adults say how much it sucks and how so many of them fear becoming thirty. They always talk about how much it sucks, but hearing you talk about how you're excited to become thirty makes me severely less afraid to be an adult. Like life doesn't just get terrible because you grow up. So thanks for being such an awesome influence and person. I really hope you have a great birthday!!
Hey! Someone in their 30s here! : ) I still don't feel like an adult myself either, despite the label and age. It's perfectly okay to not feel like an adult, as many of us don't! Personally, I just feel like a really big kid LOL! Many of us don't know what we want to do with the rest of our lives, or all of the things we thought we would when we were kids. Some things may sound pretty scary, but you're definitely not alone! You just kind of live and learn as you go : ) Everything will be okay!
Growing up can be scary but it's also when you get to take control of your life. Make choices, take adventures, explore new ideas. As weird as it is to grow old, I wouldn't go back to 18 if you paid me
Being an adult is taking responsibility for your actions and thinking of others before yourself. I have seen 70yr old children and 13yr old adults. Life is what you make it regardless of your age. 👍
Happy birthday Katie! My room is inspired by this sort of aesthetic with the neon lights and sunflowers. My room was a sunflower theme but I added more lights and fun things like this. It's made a comeback. I love the textured top. I think it looks amazing the way it is but add more glitter! It wasn't enough! Always add more glitter Katie!
Many happies, Duchess! I would definitely go with a bit more swirl - the first bar you stamped is about the level I'd suggest. It's the big blobs of darker blue that kind of overwhelm the vibe you're trying to achieve. :) (Also: cake is NEVER a bad idea.)
Happy birthday!!!! 🎉🎊🎂🎈🎁 I remember 28…. i had a husband, 5 kids, a career as a wedding designer and going back to college to get my phD in anthropology. I’m 43 now, all my kids are grown, divorced, and now completely disabled. You don’t know how you’re life is going to turn out, Katie. Just live each day like it’s your last and it’ll be so much sweeter in the end and enjoy each day you have with your family especially your kids because they grow up so fast
Happy birthday! Blessings to the moon and back through the stars for you!! Keep enjoying the rollercoaster ride til 30 haha don't forget to give back to yourself:)
Hey! Very very happy bday to you, sweetie!!! I just turned 34 (oh, G!) last Saturday and I couldn't agree more with your motto "the older I get, the less I care"... That's absolutely brilliant!!! Also, splendid soap, as always!!! Lots of love from Brazil!
First off, happy birthday Mrs. Carson. I hope the hubs and the youngins treated you like the absolute QUEEN you are. Wishing you many more years of love, laughter and soap!! Secondly, I am positively in LOVE with this soap. The colors are totally 80s and I am completely having flashbacks of my neon jellies and rubber bracelets Ala Madonna. Total 1985 flashback!!
Happy birthday Duchess! We are nearly birthday twins, except that I'm looking into my 70s, not my 30s. Still 18 in my head though. Just like you. Haha.
I am excited about each and every birthday I've ever had, or will have, and I just turned 61! :) Live life to the fullest. Enjoy every minute!! You're only as old as you allow yourself to feel. So feel young! Happy birthday!!
You should mix the mica with abit of rubbing alcohol and get like a stamp sponge so you don't waste as much mica and you can just store it and use it again just re moisten with more alcohol
Happy bday Duchess! I think a swirl, but only a littlw one would be cool, but what if you tried to do it with mutiple sticks at once, like, wolverine style holding it so you get rhythmic lines in the swirls and it may add to the computer feel. Love this soap!
Happy belated birthday, Katie!! I’m so happy I came across your videos a couple months ago. Your content is super bingeable and always brightens my day 💕✨
Happy Birthday! I totally feel ya about 30, I felt the same way back then! I was the in-betweenie in my family, watched by older cousins then I was the babysitter to their kids so I was stuck at that dang kiddie table FOREVER! 🤣 As for your soap making skills ~ you kill it girl! Such beautiful designs! I have learned a lot from watching your videos ~ thank you and bless you! 🥰
I recently found your channel and have been obsessed (which I really mean because I've been spending most all of my downtime watching your channel)!!!!!! Not kidding when I say that seeing your designs, hearing your thought processes, watching you stay optimistic when your batches fail- it's been very inspiring and has helped (to an extent) pull me out of creative shutdown and depression. And, from what I see in your videos, I feel like we would be good friends irl, but would likely get in trouble for acting like 8 year olds all day haha. Happy birthday, and thank you for sharing this lovely part of your life with us 😊
Can't wait to order this 😍 I think keep the top textured! It's so pretty and I think since there's already so many swirls inside, it gives it the cool diagonal/geometric shape vibe that is also in a lot of these vaporware graphics!
Happy birthday, Katie! I LOVE this soap!! The textured top looks awesome, and I think it really adds to the design. Also, I just wanted to thank you for being such a positive part of my life. You helped me find my passion in soap making, and you make me smile while I'm going through some tough times 💜
To answer the question of the day, you should totally do a layer of black on top and then splatter that in the neons. That way it’ll look like a skating rink carpet on top.
OMG that would be so cute!!!!
I complete second this suggestion.
Absolutely this
I think this would go a bit better with the black stamp, as well.
But if you keep the top the same, I think a white stamp would look really good but still stand out against the bright colors
Yesss a thin layer of black would have been perfect
I have a plan to make a whole vaporwave bathroom interior design. It's perfect, 90s nostalgia with adult swim influence, neon lights but in the hues of purple for me, like twilight hour, so something to really relax and have fun with.
That sounds SO cool!!!
I always wanted wallpaper made out of those Magic Eye posters
I also have been slowly vaporwave-ing one of my bathrooms for a couple years!
Speaking as a fan of vaporwave... yes, you nailed it. This looks like walking in a dead mall you used to hang out at as a teenager and seeing it fall into disrepair the way it has, but you think back to the good old days that are beginning to become a blur as you wander along the corridor... and then you find yourself at a Bath & Body Works for some reason because those always tend to be the last stores to go in a dying mall.
And I do, in fact, say this as a compliment. Because that, to me, is basically Vaporwave.
Omg yes the arcades
Edit: THE CARPETS
As someone who has worked for Bath and Body Works for 6 years now- yes. 100%. We just closed our old store in a mall to open a new one and it was the only store drawing customers in to the old mall I grew up in🫠
Not about this soap (which I love the *aesthetic* of) but wondering if you've ever considered a "museum/Smithsonian" collection? With soaps themed around dinos/fossils, butterflies, the deep ocean, air and space, etc? Don't ask me where the idea came from, but was thinking about how cool this month's theme is!
That would be so cute!
Katie: I'm an ancient 28.
Me in my 50s: **crumbles to dust**
Seriously, though, have an absolutely wonderful birthday! Age is just a number. What matters is that you're doing the things that make you happiest with the people you love the most. 🥰
Same here 😂
Same here, I feel ancient.
“Crumbles to dust” 😂 literally laughed out loud at that!
My partner LOVES vaporwave and his birthday is this Friday! He literally ran out of the kitchen when he heard you say “vaporwave” and was just delighted with your music choices and the end result of the soap. Spot on for all creative choices according to him! Great colors, great music, and perfect stamp 😊 Happy birthday Katie! I hope it is full of love, laughter, and fond memories ❤️
Happy birthday, Katie!! I’m 43 and I LOVE sitting at the kids table. Kids are so much fun!
As a lover of synth and vaporware, this soap will be a serious necessity for my bathroom. Oh, and I love a swirled glittery top.
“The older I get, the less I care.”
At this point, why do you even need to explain your reason for a particular design, sis!? Everything you do, we love! Your tastes are glorious and your soaps are gorgeous. Calories don’t count on birthdays, so enjoy your cake! Hoppy burpday!!
Happy birthday!! I’m 23 and I gotta say I am perpetually impressed by the fact that you seem to like, have your act together and know what you’re doing and you’re still technically in your twenties. But I also get the frustration of not being taken seriously, the older people I work with are always just quizzing me on random stuff bc they think I’m too young to know the answers 🙃🙃🙃
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, KATIE!!! Have a wonderful day! This soap remind me a bit of the Gkitterati soap. Just without pastels. Hugs from Norway.
Stamping these with "aesthetic" is amazing. It's seriously making me giggle. Also, happy birthday 🎂 👑!
Happy birthday!!
I too am 28 and ready to be in my 30’s, the late 20s make you feel ancient without the number to back it up! Also, big fan of textured tops on soaps. Though as a soap maker (taught by you!) I truly never know when to stop smooshing!
Love it! I do think the splatter top would be most true to the ~aesthetic~, but the texturing looks really good too!
It's an honor to share birthdays with you Katie, love your channel!! Thanks for all the positivity, honesty, and incredible art! Happy Birthday!!
Love it! It gives me some strong Lisa Frank vibes, which I’m here for!
Happy Birthday Katie! Thanks for sharing your birthday and life with us!!!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY DUCHESS OF SUDS! I haven't seen the soap yet but I am so excited for the theme!
900k subscribers, that’s crazy! congratulations Katie and the whole royalty soaps fam! I have no idea how many subscribers you had when I started watching you but I know it’s been years and years and years and the growth doesn’t surprise me one bit! you deserve every bit of success and opportunity and I wish you & your family and friends a happy, successful career and life!
I actually ADORE the way you textured it in this video!! A lot of the areas look like a color changing toy or something!!! I love it!!!
Absolutely, 30 was a hard one for me! I felt like my life wasn’t where I had imagined it would be. Happy Birthday!
Happy Birthday Katie! I'm also looking forward to getting closer to 30. I love your nails BTW. This was a fun design and the stamp was perfect. Have a great day!
As I’m personally staring 31 in the face, my thirties are the best decade so far! My twenties SUCKED.
Turing 33 in less than a month... and ill say my 30s Are way better than 20s...
I am 30 and other than the addition of a third baby it feels the same as 28 😂
Happy Birthday Katie!!!
🥳🎂🎉🎂🥳🎂🎉🎂🥳
Love you and your family and wish you the best day ever! ❤️❤️❤️
Happy Birthday sweet Katie! I liked your comment about being a young wippersnapper. I just turned 50 in December, and I remember feeling upset as I was nearing 30 and feeling old. Cherish your youth. I love watching your videos. You are always so upbeat, and you make me smile. I have no idea what vaporwave is, so this is all new to me. These colors are amazing, and I'll definitely try to get one of these bars when they come out. ❤
Love this month's theme. This soap turned out funky and retro in its own right but imo if you wanted something "Vaporwave", it'd have been better to limit the palette to a few fewer shades at once, and do something geometric with the design, like diagonal stripes. An insert that looks like a triangle or something like that also could've been cool.
Happy birthday Duchess! I've been a fan of James Herriot since I was a kid, and I've read the books many times. It's so nice to come across another fan
Happy birthday!!! I hope you had a blast! Thank you for taking a portion of your day to film for us! I’m also surprised to realize we are the same age!! I could’ve sworn we were a couple years apart but I’m honestly really excited that we are the same age!
Happy birthday Katie, Enjoy to the max and keep doing you, full of joy.
As a VERY late 80's ('89)/early 90's, I loved this!! Also reminded me of Saved By The Bell! haha Happy Birthday Katie!
the soap looks PERFECT as it is, no swirl needed!!
Happy Birthday Katie! And I agree - I was so excited to finally turn 30 and embrace the new era! Soon you shall be - ONE OF US! ONE OF US!
Happy Birthday Katie! I'm only 18 so I get the label of being a legal adult, but I don't feel very adult yet. The idea of becoming an adult is very scary because it feels like all I hear is adults say how much it sucks and how so many of them fear becoming thirty. They always talk about how much it sucks, but hearing you talk about how you're excited to become thirty makes me severely less afraid to be an adult. Like life doesn't just get terrible because you grow up. So thanks for being such an awesome influence and person. I really hope you have a great birthday!!
Enjoy being 18 don't grow up it's a trap
Hey! Someone in their 30s here! : ) I still don't feel like an adult myself either, despite the label and age. It's perfectly okay to not feel like an adult, as many of us don't! Personally, I just feel like a really big kid LOL! Many of us don't know what we want to do with the rest of our lives, or all of the things we thought we would when we were kids. Some things may sound pretty scary, but you're definitely not alone! You just kind of live and learn as you go : ) Everything will be okay!
Growing up can be scary but it's also when you get to take control of your life. Make choices, take adventures, explore new ideas. As weird as it is to grow old, I wouldn't go back to 18 if you paid me
Being an adult is taking responsibility for your actions and thinking of others before yourself. I have seen 70yr old children and 13yr old adults. Life is what you make it regardless of your age. 👍
Happy happy birthday darling!! You are so loved and I’m so happy to be here with you!
Happy birthday Katie! My room is inspired by this sort of aesthetic with the neon lights and sunflowers. My room was a sunflower theme but I added more lights and fun things like this. It's made a comeback. I love the textured top. I think it looks amazing the way it is but add more glitter! It wasn't enough! Always add more glitter Katie!
Happy birthday! Katie, you are such a positive light in the world and you deserve the best! 💕 I hope you have a wonderful day!
I really like the way the soup turned out with the texturing and glitter. Also thought the splatter technique would be perfect for this soap
Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday dear Katie, Happy Birthday to you , and many many more!!!!!!!!!
Happy Birthday, Katie! Hope you’re having a great day! Love this soap, all of the ones for this month have been great!
Happy birthday to the beautiful Duchess of suds hope you have had a beautiful day and just loving the soap
Happy Birthday Kathie!
Thank you for inspiring us every day and for the love and care you give to all of us.
My favorite night time indulgence is soap cutting vidoes because it sounds like rain sticks when it cascades onto the table below.
Many happies, Duchess! I would definitely go with a bit more swirl - the first bar you stamped is about the level I'd suggest. It's the big blobs of darker blue that kind of overwhelm the vibe you're trying to achieve. :) (Also: cake is NEVER a bad idea.)
Happy birthday!!!! 🎉🎊🎂🎈🎁 I remember 28…. i had a husband, 5 kids, a career as a wedding designer and going back to college to get my phD in anthropology. I’m 43 now, all my kids are grown, divorced, and now completely disabled.
You don’t know how you’re life is going to turn out, Katie. Just live each day like it’s your last and it’ll be so much sweeter in the end and enjoy each day you have with your family especially your kids because they grow up so fast
Happy birthday! Blessings to the moon and back through the stars for you!! Keep enjoying the rollercoaster ride til 30 haha don't forget to give back to yourself:)
Black light FABULOUS!!!!❤❤❤❤
So far, my favorite soap! Gorgeous!
Wish you a very happy birthday Sweets.... Keep shining as always and keep that energy high always... God bless 🤗🤗
Happy Birthday.....Have a beautiful soapy day. May you have a great day with God, Family and friends.
The colors, the smell, ima need me this soap!!!!!!
Hey! Very very happy bday to you, sweetie!!!
I just turned 34 (oh, G!) last Saturday and I couldn't agree more with your motto "the older I get, the less I care"... That's absolutely brilliant!!!
Also, splendid soap, as always!!!
Lots of love from Brazil!
First off, happy birthday Mrs. Carson. I hope the hubs and the youngins treated you like the absolute QUEEN you are. Wishing you many more years of love, laughter and soap!! Secondly, I am positively in LOVE with this soap. The colors are totally 80s and I am completely having flashbacks of my neon jellies and rubber bracelets Ala Madonna. Total 1985 flashback!!
The top of this soap with the glitter reminds me of Jellies shoes and I looooooveee itttt!!! ❤️
I like the "wave" on top of the vaperwave aesthetic soap as is.
Loving this. Giving Rugrat vibes leaning towards Angelina's doll Cynthia.
The textured top is perfect, don't change it! Also I like the orange the way it is :)
Happy birthday Duchess! We are nearly birthday twins, except that I'm looking into my 70s, not my 30s. Still 18 in my head though. Just like you. Haha.
Similar here - going on 60, but I’m 24 inside!
I am excited about each and every birthday I've ever had, or will have, and I just turned 61! :) Live life to the fullest. Enjoy every minute!! You're only as old as you allow yourself to feel. So feel young! Happy birthday!!
You should mix the mica with abit of rubbing alcohol and get like a stamp sponge so you don't waste as much mica and you can just store it and use it again just re moisten with more alcohol
My daughter Deb, and I, think the soap is perfect as is. We love all your videos!
Yayyyy!!! Happiest of birthdays Katie!!!
I absolutely love all the soaps in series!
Happy birthday, Katie! I like the textured pushy smushy look, it gives the top some contrast.
A decades series would be so cool and something like this soap is screaming 80’s.
Happy bday Duchess!
I think a swirl, but only a littlw one would be cool, but what if you tried to do it with mutiple sticks at once, like, wolverine style holding it so you get rhythmic lines in the swirls and it may add to the computer feel. Love this soap!
Happy Birthday
Love love love this soap! Takes me back to my skating days!!
For the question of the day,.I love it as is!!
Happy Birthday Kiddo!! And that soap is TOTALLY AWESOME!!!!
HBD Katie! As a November baby I was always jealous of summertime birthdays. Hope yours is a summery blast!
Oh my goodness, yes! I share all the feelings on being close to 30! I'm turning 29 this year, and I'm READY. 🙌🏼
Yayyy! Happy Birthday, Katie ❤️❤️❤️! That soap? Iconic. I adore it!
I always like the swirl!!! It would go with the swirls in the soap.
Happy belated birthday, Katie!! I’m so happy I came across your videos a couple months ago. Your content is super bingeable and always brightens my day 💕✨
I love these bowls I have used them for years. These are the best for soap batter.
Happy birthday, birthday twin! Blessed to see 28 also!
same birthday!!! happy birthday duchess, i'm completely in love with this collection so far!!
Happy Birthday! The soap has a real retro, kind of groovy for me. It’s gorgeous.
Happy Birthday Katie! Almost 30 club!!! I’m also excited to be 30 soon!
Can't wait for the next release date! I finally get to buy another bar of your soap!
Happy birthday Katie. God bless you and your family. Your soaps are amazing. ❤😍
I love it just the way it is!!!!! Chef kiss perfection 😻😻😻
Happy Birthday! I totally feel ya about 30, I felt the same way back then! I was the in-betweenie in my family, watched by older cousins then I was the babysitter to their kids so I was stuck at that dang kiddie table FOREVER! 🤣
As for your soap making skills ~ you kill it girl! Such beautiful designs! I have learned a lot from watching your videos ~ thank you and bless you! 🥰
Also, that stamp is effing perfect 🥰
Happy Birthday! And birth month! Do all the things! You'll be 30 before you know it; enjoy not hurting all the time.
I'm 53 wild and free! Life doesn't slow down at a certain age, it gets more exciting! Happy Birthday sweetie!
Happy birthday! Don't change anything about this design. It's awesome!
Happy birthday! Hope the year ahead is full of love and happiness!
That's very retrowave to me, and I loved it!
I recently found your channel and have been obsessed (which I really mean because I've been spending most all of my downtime watching your channel)!!!!!! Not kidding when I say that seeing your designs, hearing your thought processes, watching you stay optimistic when your batches fail- it's been very inspiring and has helped (to an extent) pull me out of creative shutdown and depression. And, from what I see in your videos, I feel like we would be good friends irl, but would likely get in trouble for acting like 8 year olds all day haha.
Happy birthday, and thank you for sharing this lovely part of your life with us 😊
Ohhhh my favorite of the series!!!!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY KATIE!!!! 😘 I'll also be 28 in a few months and can't wait for my 30's! How exciting!
Hope you have a great day xxx
Ooh this is probably one of my favorite swirls ever! Sometimes i don't think drop swirls mix enough, but this is perfect!
You are hysterical! Happy Birthday! Good luck at making the adult table!!
I believe the colors and texture you went with look the best. The stamp would look great in silver.
Happy Birthday Katie!!!!! 🎂 🎂 🎂 🎉 🎉 🎉
Can't wait to order this 😍 I think keep the top textured! It's so pretty and I think since there's already so many swirls inside, it gives it the cool diagonal/geometric shape vibe that is also in a lot of these vaporware graphics!
Happy Birthday my friend and I love these colors
Happy birthday! The soap is fantastic as is. Don't change a thing!
aaaaah i love vaporwave aesthetic so this just made my day
Happy birthday, Katie! I LOVE this soap!! The textured top looks awesome, and I think it really adds to the design.
Also, I just wanted to thank you for being such a positive part of my life. You helped me find my passion in soap making, and you make me smile while I'm going through some tough times 💜