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I can't find any tutorial links but I can try to explain it to you : )

Kandi shirts are basically a really big x-base. You start it off by putting on 4 primary color beads and 1 secondary color bead and keep doing that until it's as big around as you want it to be. Then you put on 2 primary color 1 secondary color 2 primary color and basically start building it up like you would an x-base cuff. For the bottom part that goes downwards kinda, I think you connect it with 1 primary color 1 secondary color 2 primary color on the part that you want to stop building off of. Then to continue it, you just put your string through those three beads you added and just skip that row and keep going like you would normally. Then just tie it off like a normal cuff.

Now for the sleeves!
There are 2 ways I've seen people do the sleeves, an x-base or peyote. For the peyote stitch sleeves, you make a peyote stitch cuff that's as long as you want it to be and instead of connecting it like a cuff, you somewhat sew the end onto the shirt. It would probably be better to do an even peyote stitch so you would have an end of string on either side of the sleeve to connect it to the shirt with.
For the x-base sleeves you make a normal x-base but instead of tying it like a bracelet you would tie the two ends of strings onto the shirt (on one of the secondary color beads) and only put one row of 1 primary color 1 secondary color 1 primary color on so it just make a little triangle. Then do the same thing on the secondary color bead directly next to it and once you're done with the very first row put your string through a secondary color bead and string on 1 primary color and put it through the secondary color bead on the other side of the x-base. Then string on another primary color bead and put it through the secondary color bead on the side of the x-base your string is connected to right now. And just continue that until you reach the end and tie it off!

I really hope this was helpful for you and let me know if you have any questions! I made up this tutorial by looking at 2 photos and the timestamp 19:06 on this youtube video. I'll link the pictures below and all 3 of the links are safe /gen
https://kandipatterns.com/photo-page/kandi-shirt/8...
https://kandipatterns.com/photo-page/kandi-outfit/...