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we talked about a few different ways you can customize your switch for instance shell exchanges which are cheap and can look really good if done properly but that's also kind of the main issue with them if they're done properly I might even be stripping the screws a little bit you have to buy a whole lot your toolkit take apart joint columns put them back together and there's always the chance that in doing so you might accidentally ruin the joint con someway messing up one of the sensors messing up the HT rumble or just breaking the joy con entirely and if you ever want to change the shell well you have to do it all over again compounding the risk so it can be a little scary if you're not used to doing DIY type of stuff and then there's paint jobs but you can also look phenomenal if you get the right person to do it but that's the thing you need to contact a specialist have someone actually take a lot more time and effort and put into it which can cost way more than a shell exchange and once again it's a permanent process so if you ever want to change that again you either you need to spend all that money all over again and getting a new set of joy cons or you need to do a shell exchange which we've already kind of covered the worries of that freaking plug back in now a third option that we haven't really talked a whole lot about yet is skins and the reason for that is since the switch has come out the only real options that have existed all right they're skins that only cover like the front part of a droidcon which I've just never found to look really good it's not a full body wrap or in the case of higher quality skins like from D brand they ran into an issue where their adhesives were actually causing physical damage to switches where yeah it would look good while trapped in the skin but if you ever want to change it or take it off and like that you're gonna see permanent physical damage to the switch that just does not look good thankfully when they discovered this back when the switch first came out they immediately took care of the situation they canceled all their pre-orders they were funded everyone their money and they took a step back and recently they reached out to me that they finally fixed it over the last year they've been working alongside with 3m devise new adhesives to use for the wraps that are not gonna cause any damage to their switches which they now guarantee and to actually kind of show you guys they sent me a bunch ones to showcase which look really cool so let's take a look at these guys now before we break down do all these different colors that we have everywhere all over this table let's just talk about what the different skin options are so first off there are two different skins you can grab for the dock of your system there's a faceplate one which just changes this front faceplate and leaves gaps for the switch logo and the word switch and then there's an accent skin you can get which is going to cover those up as well and do the sides of your dock now for the switch main body there's a single skin you can get which is gonna cover the entire back the kickstand and also wrap around to the front which I love so much that's something that you can't do with shell exchanges because that requires you to actually mess with like the screen and such it's a lot harder to do and not really feasible so this is gonna give you an option that's gonna not only change the back of your switch which is cool for showing other people but with the front covered as well you can have that confidence of knowing oh yeah I have this custom color switch that I designed with the colors I like and then of course there are the joy cons themselves now kind of like with a shell replacement this is doing not only the front but also the back there is a gap right here because it would be too difficult to make you know no bubbles or cause problems with all these tiny areas here but it covers all the important bits of the joique on giving you that awesome different visual color that you want aside from the standards that Nintendo offers and that's one of the really cool things too is that if you already own a set of like greyjoy cons and you decide you really want something in red but you want to throw down a bunch of money for just brand new Mario color joy cons you can get a skin for just five bucks each one and it looks great now as far as actual color options go for these guys there are currently ten different skin color options for the switch there are seven different got a glossy glossy there are seven glossy colors like the red we have right here they also do it in blue yellow green orange purple and pink they have a single matte option right now which is a white which I think looks really good and then they have two different kind of special options which are both in black which are a camo and a carbon fiber now we're cool about these guys is that they're not only just kind of a pattern design but they actually different texture to them as well compared to all the solid color ones the camo has a little bit of a roughness to it which I kind of like and the carbon fiber is really smooth and of course an important part about picking colors for your switch is not just what your favorite colors are but something a lot of people in doing is thematic choices which these open up a lot more options you normally have I mean there's some easy ones you can do like double red for Mario double yellow for Pikachu double green for link or you can mix and match some colors for slightly different ideas like doing a red and white for more general Pokemon aesthetic or green and white for Yoshi now of course we can't have all ten of these guys laying out and not have me actually talk about which ones are my favorite so to start with the normal one for me is the matte white which actually surprises myself a little bit too I'm not normally a huge fan of just straight white for systems but I really like the way this one looks especially the fact that there is no official version of this just yet I mean we did a shell exchange for one but that took a lot of work this is a much more straightforward way which still looks really great and it's something that you can't get through Nintendo they've been focusing on colorful options and the only kind of grayscale one right now is plain gray and I think the white just looks a lot better after that I'd have to say being a little more cliche for myself I love the Reds and blues I like they're actually deeper colors and the ones you get on the switch I'm not a huge fan of the neon effect they have on those ones I like the Mario red ones but these glossy red look really good too and I love the blue so I'm gonna put a link down below for you guys to check out for yourselves if you're not a fan of the idea of doing a bunch of hard work for the shell exchange and you don't want to spend a bunch of money on a paint job or buying a new set of joy icons this is an awesome affordable way to customize your switch just the way you want