Magician Shin Lim Shows Off His Fan Gifts Collection!

Okay Shin, this has to be the nicest, biggest dressing room I've ever seen. It is pretty big, yeah. It was made for Danny Gans. This is really the nicest dressing room I've ever seen and I'm just very glad I get to stay here. And the decorations, I have to say, are amazing and very you. So can you walk me through what's going on behind us and actually on the walls? Yeah, everything is gifted by fans or a present and then some of them we did purchase just so that we wanted to fill it up fully, especially these little toys here. But everything, everything was all given by, even that card over there, that card display was just all handmade by fans and so we just decided to keep it all here within the dressing room. It's beautiful. Walk me through like the pre-show ritual. Nothing too much crazy. I know a lot of performers like to get amped up or they like to like kind of jump up and down. I've seen people like jumping jacks sometimes. It's kind of funny to get, you know, the adrenaline running. For my stuff, I actually have to do the opposite of that. So I have to be really relaxed, almost like, almost in like a meditative state because I don't want too much adrenaline, especially into my hands. That's the main concern. When there's too much adrenaline, your hands start to shake and that is not good for, you know, very like minute, slight of hand moves. Like you have to be super relaxed when you're performing. And so, you know, every day before show I'm sitting like right here. This is actually my seat. This is where I, this is where I sit and I relax. I drink a lot of water. Usually I drink two bottles of water because I need to always be hydrated and the meal is very simple. Nothing too crazy. What's the meal? I try to eat healthy. I try to at least, but I love, I love pasta. I love soups. I love any sort of Asian, Japanese, Chinese, Vietnamese. Yeah, all the most types of Asian foods. I love, I love a lot. We're breaking down the shin hair now. We're going in. Sure. I, you want the routine? Because there is no routine. I just, I wake up, this is how I wake up. I wake up looking a different way. So my hair will look a different way every single day. This is just how it happened to look today. And that's how I came to work today. And that's how people will see it in the show is, is like this. Is there a product in the hair? Yes. Yes. Yes. I use like a dry texturizer powder. So no wax. I use no wax at all because I don't like it to be sticky. So if you feel it, it's very dry. My hair is very dry. Sure. Sure. Yeah. Yeah. It's very, it's a very dry. Yeah. It's not very dry. And so that, and so that's how it, it, it kind of works. Um, because it's so dry and Vegas actually happens to also be a good climate for this hair. So here you are bringing Singapore to the strip and not many before you have really done that. I mean, a Singaporean headlining in Vegas, you might be the only one. I never even noticed that actually until my billboard got set up. I didn't even, it didn't even phase me. Like I didn't even like recognize it until I saw my face on the strip. And I was like, wait a second. I think I'm the only, not only Singaporean, but I think I'm the only Asian on the strip, like headliner. And as generic as this question is, how does that make you feel? What, what, what does that hold in your heart to be in that position? I just feel really, really grateful and really lucky that I have this opportunity to represent and to do what I love as well. So yeah, no, I, I feel honored really. That's, that's how I feel. Uh, and in the dressing room, we have other guests. Hi boys. Hi babies. Who are these friends? This is Natsu. Say hi Natsu. Hi Natsu. Who's this? This one's Mamaru. Go Mamaru. Oh. Yeah. So this must be part of the calming portion of it. Yes. They always hang out backstage before the show, after the show. They're little magic dogs. Can you walk me through for a second, how long it takes you to actually think of a new trick? Ah, creating a new trick. Or are you taking old ones and just like revamping them? I always tell people, I never actually really create anything truly original. For me, I always take the classics, things that have already been done before. And I put my own little twist to it, you know, put like a Shin Lim twist to it or whatever you want to call it. And you know, that's what makes it original. That's what then people all of a sudden say, Oh my God, this is so new. This, I've never seen anything like this before, but I'm like, no, no, no. You have seen this before. You've seen this a long time ago. I just changed it and I put music to it. I made it emotional. I did different things that, you know, other people haven't done before. And so that is my creative process. That's, that's pretty much how I create is I, I, I get inspired from things that have, you know, from the greats and the giants that came before us. And how long does it take you to perfect an act? To perfect an act takes like about a month after it's been created. Yeah. About a month. But to create an act in general, that one has no timeline. Yeah. That one, you can't rush that. That type of creativity, like finding the one thing that makes an act unique or, or like stylized to the point where people are like, oh, that's Shin's act. You know, that one, you can never predict how long it's going to take because it just has to come to you. So this is a good support system and your wife is here, who's part of the show. So this is just, it's family. It's what you do. It's love. You can't go wrong. No, you can't. This is, it's perfect. Every day I get to do this.