if you know me you know i like faux – they last forever and sometimes they can look incredibly convincing! i love fresh flowers but i’m too frugal to buy them regularly but i love to have flowers around the house so faux is win win!

if you don’t have the budget to regularly buy flowers, faux flowers are now a really good substitute. the faux flowers nowadays are not your mamas faux flowers. well i don’t really know actually. i’m just assuming, but i didn’t actually buy faux flowers when i was a baby.

anyway, we gathered up a lot of gorgeous faux flowers that look convincingly real, and i sort of want ALL OF THEM.

someday i’ll have the energy and budget to buy them all to compare for you, but for now we went off the ones i have along with others with good customer reviews

what to look for in faux flowers

color

the best faux flowers have different shades like fresh flowers do.

variation

real flowers are imperfect and your faux ones should be too. look for a mix of blooms and buds.

realistic stems

if they look super plastic-y from far away, it’s a dead giveaway that they’re fake.

materials

search for silk or “real-touch” flowers and make sure they have wired stems so you can bend them to look more realistic.

how to make faux flowers look better

when you first get them, faux flowers always look a little scary and sometimes, quite UGLY.

to make them look more natural, i always curve the stems and fluff out the petals. kind of like you’re fluffing out your hair.

you’ll also probably have to bend or cut the stems to get them to fit nicely in a vase, and sometimes i remove excess leaves just to tidy them up and fit them in the vase a little better. also i usually wrap up the stems with a rubber band to make it easier for bundling. and if you’re putting them in a clear vase, add water!

you can kind of see how i do all this in my video here

pretty vases to put your flowers in

a beautiful vase instantly upgrades a faux bouquet. here are a few that i love!

and i shared even more vases here!