For all the TikTok lovers out there, you may have heard of something called “TikTok lights” to create the infamous TikTok effect. Instagram has filters, YouTube has the “ring light” and now TikTok users are using long strips of multicoloured LED lights to get the magic TikTok glow. Read on for our selection of the best options, to help you achieve this super effect for your videos.
TikTok offers users various light-based effects and backgrounds to achieve this look within the app itself, but many users are choosing to opt for the real thing and re-decorating their homes with LED strip lights. A quick search on Amazon will offer up many different options, proving just how popular this trend really is. There are obviously a multitude of ways to install these lights and integrate them into your videos and there are just as many video tutorials with advice on how best to do that. Here’s our selection:
Here we’ve rounded up some of the most popular lighting options to get your TikTok lighting set up just right. A top tip when installing LED strip lights, if you want a coloured glow without being able to see the exposed strip of lights, place them behind furniture or along wall/ceiling mouldings so that only the soft-coloured light is visible.
Hugely popular amongst TikTok users and a best-seller on Amazon, these light strips offer several important features to help create the desired lighting effects necessary for TikTok challenges and videos and a nice ambiance in general.
This is for those of you who want LED lighting effects but maybe without turning your whole room into a neon box. Add a warm lighting vibe by placing these underneath shelving or around window or door frames.
This little selfie ring with its mini price-tag, is a great tool to have to illuminate your videos and photos on social platforms. It is dimmable and can be clipped onto practically any device including phones, laptops etc. Reasons why this selfie ring might be for you:
This lamp is for those amongst you who feel adding LED light strips around your home just isn’t for you, but who would still like some ambiance (and perhaps colourful) lighting. Fill your room with a warm shade of sunset orange, or a cool relaxing blue. Find out what this lamp has to offer: