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I bought the Dinkydoodle airbrush from Cake Stuff and their “airbrush colours set” which is 14 bottles of Sugarflair droplet colours. The bottles don’t mention them being suitable for airbrushing and although they work in the airbrush even when the icing has dried if I touch it all the colour comes off onto my skin. Is this normal for airbrush colours or should they ‘set’ when dry? I’m thinking these colours aren’t really suitable!

Hi doodlecake

I bought dinkydoodle airbrush at the cake show which came with dinkydoodle colour set. As with your colours mine too comes off, smudges and generally make a mess! As far as I know once the colour is on and dry it isn’t supposed to come off. Just wondering whether we should be using some sort of sealing agent although as far as I can see, there is no mention in the airbrush manual. Never having owned an airbrush until now this is all new to me. I will be contacting dinky to get some advice, needless to say the airbrushing has been suspended until I know how to get better results.

Thanks MIWL. It’s so annoying as the cake looked fantastic (jungle cake with snake, tree frogs, spiders etc!) but I sprayed the board blue with a water effect and every time I moved the thing, even after two days, my hands were bright blue. Goodness knows what state the kids who were eating it ended up in! I had a few decorations extra and they now seem to be dry to the touch but that’s a week later!