hi if u have seen my previous post, or seen my album you will know wot i created on my ten pegs on sunday lol!

i have embeddd some blue pretty flowers, but on a few nails they seem to have leaked - two outside of the acrylic and i can see blue on a bit of my skin (its not megga but it is there!)

and the colour of the flowers has deepend since i did it, so it doesnt look AS delicate, as there isnt as much obvious details... and generally i just wanted to know what your procedures are doing it, i.e how u stick them on, when u do your eZbond and primer? i dont know if it was a combination of me putting them on and messing about with glue - i tried not to put much on but there are some areas where it looks like the glue has touched etc...

so erm help me!

i did use the acryclic a bit wet,(been a while and i dive in head first into using my left hand for first time ever lol!) but surely it shouldnt be looking worse that it did after days gone by? should it?

anyways i think i have knackered myself out writing all this
hope someone can give me an insight into it, i love it and want to do it more but i would worry about putting this on anyone incase it happens to them!

x

Hi Kaye

I'm not an expert on dried flowers by any stretch of the imagination, but can share with you what knowledge in the production of them I have which may help explain matters...hopefully.

The majority of nail art dried flowers are in fact clear or white in their natural state, and are only "coloured" by being sprayed in a factory following harvest. I can imagine this may contribute to the "smudge" factor!

There are some exceptions to this rule however. For example with Nfu.Oh flowers, again the flowers are all naturally white or clear but rather cleverly those Koreans actually dye the soil, meaning as the flowers grow they absorb the colour from the very soil they are sown in - brilliant!

HTH's

Hi Kaye,

When putting your dried flowers onto your nail try placing a tiny bead of acrylic where you want to place the flower and then pick up your dried flower with the tweezers and place it onto the acrylic (making sure it's still slightly wet). Then apply your acrylic as normal over the whole nail. Doing this instead of using glue will hopefully stop the colour running as the glue is a lot thinner liquid. Also try not to work with the acrylic to wet as this will also cause it to run for the fact that they are dyed this colour and the chemicals in the glue/monomer will bring this out as somebody has already said.

HTH's

xxx

cool thanks ppl. i have read on here somewhere wen i was searching to find out anything about it (but was unluck, just found bits and bobs)

someone mentioned covering the flower in top coat and letting it dry, - i think if i remember rightly though that this was when someone had picked the flower and dried it themselves?

mmm

thanks all xx

some of the lower quality ones are dyed and the dye seeps out when they get wet.

the lechat ones are non drip so to speak.
its one of those occasions when you get what you pay for. usually the better quality ones will cost a bit more, though theres alwayss exceptions to the rule.

thanks. Is there anyone that has an oppinion on the top coat thing?
such a shame this happens! i just wanted to try them thats all ill experiment with some flowers from elsewhere when i can lol ! x