Custom Cell Phone Skins
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If you want a way to make your cell phone truly yours, choosing custom cell phone skins is the way to do it. Worn on the outside, skins are the tech world's answer to dressing up your pet.
What Custom Cell Phone Skins Are
Not to be confused with the cell phone wallpapers that go on the background of your phone's screen, custom skins are the pictures on the external shells (or in some cases, just faceplates) of your phone, designed by you. If your phone's a boring gray now (and looks like everyone else's), you're only a few clicks away from designing exactly what you want. What's more personal than your cell phone anyway? It's time to make it an individual, just like you.
You can take your favorite photograph and have it turned into a skin for your phone. There won't be any need for the old-fashioned, pulling out of the wallet to show off your girlfriend, boyfriend, kids, pet, best friends, etc. Those pictures can be right there on your phone.
Why Use Them
Aside from showing off your passions, your friends, your pets, or whatever else you hold near and dear to your heart, custom cell phone skins have another purpose: They protect your phone. Just as with any other type of skin, the custom-made variety will also protect your cell phone from scratches. Daily use can create quite a bit of evidence of wear and tear. With skins, you take one off and put a new one on for a brand new look.
Another bonus is the fact that using skins does not void the warranty of your cell phone. In some cases, changing the faceplate of your cell phone will.
How to Get Your Skin
You can go online and almost effortlessly create the custom cell phone skins from your imagination. Here are a few sites to try:
Skin It
Youthful, trendy, and ready to cover up your phone, your MP3 player, your laptop and more, this site can help with your desire to find custom cell phone skins. Make all of your gadgets match if you'd like, or use each one to display a new facet of your personality.
If you're too intimidated to try to create your own, you can choose from other styles. There are collegiate themes, comic themes, military themes, and more. Got a cause you're proud to stand for? See if they have skins to match. Custom skins are roughly $20.00.
Skin It makes the following claims about its skins:
- Residue-free removal
- Bubble-free application
- Photo quality images
- Durability
1-800-Mobiles
This is another option for customizing your cell phone skins. You can use pictures of whatever you like here, as well. Just upload them through their customprintz website and order the three-pack. You won't even have to trim the skins when you get them; just apply.
The skins from 1-800 Mobiles are waterproof and made of a vinyl adhesive that is easy to apply, easy to remove, and they protect your phone while you use them.
My Tego
Like Skin It and other custom skin sites, My Tego will allow you to create your own skin for your cell phone, laptop, mp3 player, and more. They go on easily and can be removed without residue. They're already cut to fit when you get them, and they come with a 100% satisfaction guarantee. These, like most other skins, are made of protective vinyl. Prices on this site range from $10.00-$31.00.
So Do You Need One?
It wouldn’t hurt, but custom cell phone skins aren't essential. While mobile phone skins have their own benefits, like protecting your phone from nicks and scratches as the days of your contract go on and on, customizing your skins is even less necessary.
Go for it if your cell phone is an important part of who you are, or if you just like to have the newest and coolest gadgets. Couldn't afford that iPhone you wanted? No problem. You can look just as hip with a picture of your favorite people applied right to the outside of your phone for no more than $35.00.
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