Calling all my geek friends I need recs for companies that make quality/reliable iPhone cases!

'Sail in particular that might be a thing you know

My nephew wants a new case for his iPhone 11 for Christmas because the one he has right now is letting a lot of dust in and he constantly has to remove the phone out of the case to wipe it clean

~~He also asked for white faux croc leather but that might not be possible to achieve~~

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ah, Discord vs Plurk.....

yup

sadly, I may not actually be the right guru for this one; my favorite cases by far are merely thin little soft TPU ones. they add very little thickness to the phones, and are mostly just to ward off scuffs and scrapes, while being able to slip art, including stickers, between it and the phone's back, without removing the stickers' backing.

also lbr I don't think a white phone case is a good idea for a 15 yo teen

I see I see

but primarily, they serve to give me a different texture/material for said backs, so the phones aren't as slippery for me. I just don't want them to slide around off the desk/book/etc, or out of my hand.

yeah

I'm an Android person and also my main concern with my phone cases is "I want this phone to resist my dropping it like a dunce"

which is why I'm an Otterbox slut

not so much the aesthetic

that said there may be something to be said for making your own. apparently, mixing corn starch into liquid silicone (like with the caulks from the plumbing section of a store) to turn it into a sort of putty/clay-like consistency, and shaping it around the phone in question, cutting out areas for the cameras/etc, and letting it harden.

....that's A Thing, and it intrigues me greatly, tbh

I think I'd like to figure out how to make it putty-ish and workable, and black, and then make a super thin one around one of my droids in particular... and then paint onto it with like. micro-glitter or flakes or something, like as if I were working with resin (or fancy nails-painting) and then add another super-thin layer outside that, to laminate it.

I'd love to make it look like the phone got into a fight with a giant butterfly and lost, tbqh. or give it the DDS honeycomb pattern or something....

...I MEAN, that the butterfly lost that fight, lmfao, not- welp.

casetify?