- To celebrate four million TikTok followers, a candle-maker dipped her hand into 100 layers of wax.
- Watching the wax layers dry in a bulbous mound over her hand is mesmerising but also a little icky.
- In the end, she slips out of the thick, bulky mass by dipping her hand into water.
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To celebrate hitting four million TikTok followers, Charlotte Martel decided to dip her perfectly manicured hand into 100 layers of brightly coloured wax, and boy is it something.
The video has been viewed more than 53.9 million times and is both terrifyingly visceral and mildly claustrophobic. It’s also undeniably rewatchable.
Martel, a 20-something candle-maker who brought international fame to her family candle business, Guernsey Candles, typically posts the sort of bright, relaxingly methodical content that’s standard for ‘oddly satisfying’ social media cottage-industries such as slime.
In Martel’s videos, she might scrape off thick layers of fuschia and electric yellow candle buildup and plop it into hot liquid wax or chop up a blue-green wax cylinder to show a differently shaped, multicoloured interior. The clips are a comforting, entertaining escape in which nothing much happens besides quiet and sensory titillation: here come the bright colours, the satisfying chomp of wax being cut, the low splash of clear, fresh water as it consumes a wax creation.
In her celebratory June 21 TikTok, Martel shows viewers her hand, pre-wax layers, with its long, nicely manicured nails — then begins to dip it into 100 layers of wax — dunking the hand into vivid hues of yellow, pink, blue, and white.
Martel showed viewers her clean, well-manicured hand before dipping it into the first few layers of bright wax. TikTok; @charlotte__martel
It quickly grows monstrous. As Martel continues to add new layers, the waxen mass grows thicker and more misshapen, until it looks like “a boxing glove,” “human heart,” or a “cosplay as Mr Krabs,” according to commenters.
In the end, Martel sinks her wax-encased hand into a tub of water and the 100-layer mold slips off with a splash.
Martel dropped the waxy mass into a container of what appeared to be water, eliciting a satisfying splash. TikTok; @charlotte__martel
In part two, posted on June 24, Martel cuts the wax mass open with surgical proficiency to show viewers the different coloured layers — slicing into the fine layers and tearing off sections with satisfying snaps.
Martel showed viewers the thickness of the waxy 100-layer mold, using her hand for scale. TikTok; @charlotte__martel
Alongside comments about how delicious the “forbidden Fruit by the Foot” looked came specific requests for Martel’s content in the future: “Can you do a 200 layer candle next @chartel please xx.”
TikTok creator Charlotte Martel did not immediately respond to Insider’s request for comment.
