// in 2020, we‘re printing polaroids from our phones

Hello people of the internet!

How are we doing today? I‘m doing alright, I guess. Still looking for a new job but also applied for Uni and i really hope Uni works out for me this time :D

Anyway, today‘s post is a review of the TOMY Smartphone Picture Printer KiiPix that I got just one day ago. I‘ve had it sitting in my amazon cart for the longest time but I think I initially found out about it for the first time when I was scrolling through my TikTok For You page. 

Yes, I‘m on TikTok. Don‘t judge me, it‘s actually fun. Or it‘s just me trying to fill the void in my heart that vine left when they took it offline. Who knows? I don‘t.

Back to the printer. 

When I opened the Amazon package, I found the printer in a small cardboard box and got pissed because once I took out the printer, I thought I didn’t get the instax film that I was supposed to get with my purchase. But since I‘m an impulsive little b I should’ve taken everything out of the amazon box as the film was under the airwrap.

So, once you take the printer out of its box, you‘re supposed to turn it around to put the film in.

That‘s what you should see if you put the film in correctly.

Now, since the printer works without batteries, you have to use the film ejection dial and turn it clockwise to eject the film cover. After that, you‘re good to go.

Once you did that, you can put up the wings and take the frame out. The small camera will follow the frame up, so no, you didn‘t break it (@ me yesterday).

On the frame, there are plastic protection strips that you have to remove so your phone won‘t slide off. After you did that, you choose your photo and put the frame on your phone. Please make sure your display is bright and auto-lock is turned off. Now put the frame + phone combo on the KiiPix wings. It should look like this:

As you can see, there‘s a small mirror near the lens. That‘s where you can check if your photo looks the way you want it to look.

Now press the shutter button and use the dial to wheel your photo out.

Leave your photos for a while to develop and you should end up with pretty polaroids.

I have no idea what I did wrong but the first 3 photos were a perfect match for the bin. One was completely black and the other two were white.

I guess that depends on how long you press the shutter button? No idea though.

To show you the quality of KiiPix polaroids, I put those next to two polaroids I took with my Instax Mini 9.

I actually can‘t complain much tbh, polaroids never have the greatest quality and Instax ones are a little less blurry but I‘m happy with my KiiPix. As I mentioned before, I always forget my Instax or don‘t want to bring it because I need to save space and this way, I can continue taking pics with my phone but get physical copies as well.

This post is not sponsored, I paid about 60€ for it on Amazon and I don‘t regret it.

Are you a Polaroid fan? Do you think you‘ll get a KiiPix or do you stick with your Instax?

Have a fab day/evening/night wherever you are.

Stay safe.

Wear your mask.

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// Best Surprise EVER?!?

Greetings Internet!

Last week has been a "I hate everything"-one.

Monday explains itself, on Tuesday I had to write an English test (had to write 180 minutes about US immigrants) and there was a rail strike.

Again.

It was like the 8th strike in 10 weeks or so?

As I'm from a small village and as I don't have a driver's license I depend on trains.

So that's why I had some kind of a three-days-holiday last week which I spent revising for my French and German tests. Ugh. Still not feeling well-prepared tbh

Anyway, on Wednesday, day 1 of my three-days-holiday I had the pleasure of receiving a small Amazon parcel and an envelope. 

I was a bit confused as I hadn't ordered anything from Amazon for a while but at the same time, I was curious about what's inside so I opened the envelope at first.

And found 2 Instax films.

I have to be honest: I almost started crying tears of joy.

You need to know that I didn't have an Instax then. I only asked my dad if we still had our old polaroid camera but he told me it was broken so then I asked him to look around and tell me how much Instax' are in shops and I'd then decide whether I should get one in a store or online.

You can probably guess what I found in the parcel.

A Fujifilm instax mini 8.

So that was the moment when I actually started crying haha

The Amazon parcel was well padded and the instax itself was put in bubble wrap just like the batteries. 

The instant films were delivered in a envelope that had bubble wrap on the inside.

None of the items arrived damaged.

But I don't know if the camera works as I haven't tried it yet.

Instax films are expensive and I'm saving them for my 5SOS concert next week haha

Anyway, I guess it'll work just fine :)

So that's my new baby along with my two Nikons and a Canon haha :)

Do you own an instax or even an old polaroid camera?

I wish our old one would still work.

I used to love taking pics with it when I was a child.

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