🌸 Drying flowers for my upcoming nail art

in #hive-1244523 years ago

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Hi ladies,

soon I want to manicure my nails myself 💅
I already have lots of stuff, but I had to order a starter set because only with glitters and flitters, it doesn't work 🤣

As I have to wait for the delivery I get more and more ideas about what I could do. And today I had a new one. I've seen dried flowers to use for nail design, but they aren't very cheap ...

During our morning walkie with my dog, I found some flowers I always see in dried flower sets. I know that you can dry them by yourself, and that's why I picked them up and took them home to dry them.

When they are finally dry, I will try to use them for my nail designs.




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💡 Tipp: If you also want to dry flowers, but do not know how to do it, here follows a brief tutorial.



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🌸 What you need to dry flowers:


An old book,   paper towels,   scissors,   tweezers,   something heavy,   and of course flowers 😉

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Step 1

Clean the flowers, and check if there are any flies or lice on them.

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Step 2

Cut them to the desired size and place them on a paper towel.

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Step 3

Fold the paper towel and place it between the book pages. The paper towel will absorb the moisture out of the flowers.

💡 You can put several paper towels between different pages of the book.

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Step 4

Close the book. To get more pressure you should put something heavy on the book, like other books or stones, and and set it aside.

⏱️ It will need up to two weeks until the flowers are dry and ready to use.

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Hopefully, it will work as I imagine it and I can use them for my nails 😍

I'll keep you posted 😎

And of course, I'll post everything about my nail stuff and later about my nail designs as soon as I can. (But first my equipment has to arrive 🐌)

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Have you ever dried flowers? What kind of flowers? How did it work?

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Omg. The flowers you picked are so beautiful!!!! Thank you so much for sharing this post. I'm definitely going to try this 😍. I love to use dry nature on the designs I do but I've always bought them. Thanks to you that's about to change❣

I collected much more flowers in the last few days. I also dipped them in watercolor to ink them. I'll show them in a new post when I show all my nail stuff (when it has arrived). I'm soo excited to use them 😊

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