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There are many different ways to get those slutty, sexy, funny, and otherwise asskicking graphics on your T-shirts and tank tops. Naughtygirlx uses: Flock, Flex, and Digital printing techniques, and brings it all to you via our partnership with Spreadshirt.com. Spreadshirt handles the actual businessy part of the thing (payment processing, production, and delivery), leaving us Naughtygirlx gals free reign to design the asskicking gear you all love.
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What the hell are flock and flex?
Flock and Flex care instructions
What the hell is digital?
Digital care instructions
What the hell are flock and flex?
Both Flock and Flex refer to plot printing options. With Flock printing and Flex printing, each element of the design is individually cut out, arranged on the item, and then heat pressed at a ridiculously high temperature. The result? Your beloved design is permanently adhered to the fibers of your Naughtygirlx gear. Doing it this way means that the spaces in between and surrounding the design is actually the fabric of the apparel, pretty sweet huh?
How do I know which one is on my shirt?
It's easy. Put on your Naughtygirlx wear and ask a friend to fondle your chest. Or ask a friendly looking stranger or one of your perverted uncles. We don't judge but we do recommend that you do not inlist the help of any family pets. Not only will they get hair all over your new shirt, but it is unlikely that they will be able to communicate to you what they feel under their paws.
No friends nearby? Stepbrother not around? The damn dog just keeps barking? Alright then, just touch the design on your NGX gear yourself.
If the design is slightly raised, and feels soft and velvety - it's Flock.
If the design feels slick, smooth, and shiny - it's Flex.
What's better? Flock or Flex?:
Both plot printing styles are absolutely high quality. They may crack a tiny bit if the shirt is stretched far, but don't freak out if this happens. It doesn't interfere with the design at all, in fact Girl X thinks it looks cooler that way and has purposely stretched all her stuff to induce mild cracking. Of course, Girl X has done a lot of drugs and binge drinking. If you want to avoid crackage as much as possible, be sure not to lend your stuff to friends with larger boobs than yours. Make them buy their own naughtygirlx gear!
Neither Flock nor Flex prints fade with normal usage. Maybe they will after a few years of constant wear and wash, but assuming you don't wear one shirt every single day for the rest of your life, the graphic should be fine and vibrant and gorgeous and all that wonderful stuff.
What do Naughty and Girl X prefer?:
Though both print options kick ass, we Naughtygirlx gals generally prefer Flock. Why? Because we love having our chests fondled, and the soft velvety flock prints encourage people to do so. And frankly, have you seen Girl X's little boobs? She needs all the help she can get.
However, sexual gratification aside, Flex does offer more variety: more colours, glitter, metallics, even glow-in-the-dark. So when we do use Flex it's generally because we want to take advantage of the additional options it provides.
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Flex/Flock Care Instructions:
Washing:
Handwashing is always best, but who the fuck wants to do that? Not you. So we suggest this quick and easy alternative to make your Naughtygirlx clothes last forever and ever.
1) Turn your Naughtygirl X wear inside out.
2) Throw it in the washing machine and choose cold water
3) Set your machine to the gentle/delicate cycle and wash. (If you hope to actually come out with a clean shirt, be sure to include detergent in the mix.)
If that's too much work, then simply turn your item inside out and wash it the same way you wash the rest of your stuff. Avoid using bleach if you can. Flex shouldn't be affected, but Flock might.
Drying:
Your Naughtygirlx stuff should be fine in a regular dryer cycle (though low heat is preferred), but if you absolutely want to be completely sure that absolutely nothing goes wrong and it doesn't shrink, then lay it flat to dry.
Ironing:
If you're so incredibly obsessive compulsive that you actually iron tank tops and tees, turn your item inside out and iron using low heat and no steam. But you're really better off just smoking a jay and leaving the ironing to dumber people.
Dry cleaning:
What, are you fucked up? Who the hell dry cleans a T-shirt? In case this wasn't clear DON'T DRY CLEAN YOUR NGX GEAR!
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So what about digital?
Right about now, Digital feels like the awkward middle sister that no one's really interested in. Not as clever as the oldest sister, not as pretty as the youngest, but she makes up for it by being really easy. Yes, digital print is the cheap slut of T-shirt design, who will go down for a pat on the head.
Basically a digital print is like a big sticker, heat pressed to your shirt. This works best on white fabric and in fact when Naughtygirlx uses Digital Prints, we do so pretty much only on whites (er, fabric, not people).
Designing for plot printing can be a bit tricky, and going from idea to shirt is a slightly lengthy process. Digital on the other hand is easy like a Catholic school girl. This is why most of the customisable graphics use digital printing. Your customised graphic can be ready lickety split.
Digital prints allow for as many colours and as much detail as you'd like, which is great, also digital allows us to print on non t-shirty things, like mugs and buttons and such. The down side is that all your shirts are white, the print fades, and the spacing in between images and letters is stiff white digital printy stuff, and not the fabric of the shirt as would be with plot printing techniques.
Naughtygirlx tends to offer both digital and plot printing options for our more graphicy graphics, for example: Pretty Pussy, and Coed Naked Quidditch.
* The digital print on mugs etc is good for life.
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Digital Care Instructions:
Washing:
As with Flex/Flock, handwashing is always safest, but a cold, gentle/delicate machine cycle is good enough and should keep your digital graphic looking new for a while. Warm and regular wash cycles will lead to fading over time. We're not sure what bleach will do to a digital design, so just avoid that.
Drying:
Machine drying will fade the design on your shirt. Maybe not the first time, maybe not the second, but it will fade. Everybody hates a fader. Except those people who like looking all 'I bought it second hand' retro and shit. Anyway, lay your item flat to dry.
Ironing:
So you've begun to fade, eh? Iron your item inside out on low heat with no steam. This will help refresh the colours in the design. Sort of like an upper for your gear. Only without the hard crash the next day.
Dry cleaning:
Don't bother. It's just a t-shirt. You need to learn to relax.
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