Tentacles Kraken Wall Sticker-Ocean Nautical Sea Decor

Read on to find out how you need to hang any type of wall decals.Basically, all you need to look for on these products is that they are good color and, if there is an image, that it's a quality non-pixelated image. These are very nice thick stickers with a good adhesive at a great price.These are actually much better than most. They install like a screen protector. They have a protective cover on top of the decal to make sure it doesn't shift while you're positioning it, then another one on the back to cover the adhesive.So now the installation part. I have textured and painted walls. Both of those impact how well the adhesive works. The solution is to first stick these to poster board. It has many advantages. It's very smooth. It provides a rigid surface that can be removed and repositioned as many times as you feel like moving it. Just use whatever you'd use to hang a poster. The sticky putty stuff works great and that stuff doesn't care what paint or texture you have on your walls. With the rigid poster board, it's even sturdy enough to hang with a nail if you don't care about a hole in your wall. You can remove it with no residue.Since these are so huge, you need to make a cut so each can be put on two poster boards. For cutting it in half, I recommend an exacto knife or a scalpel so it can be a perfectly straight cut rather than scissors. Then, install like a screen protector from one side to the other, smoothing out any bubbles.The poster board bonus with this sticker is that you can provide a second color to the tentacles rather than whatever color wall you have. It looks great. Sticks great. Repositions easily. For an extra few bucks, it looks amazing!

Honestly Have Fun Figuring It Out, Cause The Last Thing I’ll Be Doing, Is Going Crazy From Trying To Figure This Beautiful Wall Sticker Out.

Got the biggest size and it was perfect for full length of the car (SUV)! Mate quality so it's not shiny, feels like paper to touch but I've put a piece under water and it definitely did not dissolve! Durability wise, so far it lasted a week in both rain and sun, ultimate win will be lasting whole summer without melting off.Edit:Lasted over a year in all weather conditions and car washes like a champ.

Since we have a good bit of experience applying wall decals, we decided to take a chance with these, hoping the poor reviews could be chalked up to some folks not really knowing how to apply large wall decals. They really can be tricky and frustrating if you haven't worked with them before.We prepped and cleaned our walls beforehand. Once they were thoroughly dry, we started the application, which was easy enough. We used the top hinge method to apply, as that seemed the most appropriate for large, tall decals like these with a lot of weight. They went on without much fuss, despite lots of fiddly little bits, particularly around the suckers. However, I wasn't even halfway through the second tentacle when the first one started to peel away from the wall. I immediately began running my fingers over the problem areas to re-stick them. When they started peeling again, I went to get our hair dryer to heat up the vinyl in an effort to maybe re-activate the glue.Sadly, after I left the room for a few minutes, I returned to find that the second tentacle had nearly peeled completely away from the wall. I tried the blow dryer on it, too, then ran a tennis ball over the surface to try and press as much of the vinyl to the surface as possible for more grip, but no joy. 10 minutes later, so much had peeled away, it was beyond saving.I have a good bit of experience applying wall decals, and I've never had so much (and such immediate) trouble before. These are beautiful and would have looked fantastic on our wall, but the quality is so low, I just cannot recommend them.

Alright! I waited a few months after I bought this to post this review, so I'd be able to see if they held up. And they did.First word of advice: Forget the transfer paper, it just complicates things and doubles the chance that you're going to stretch out the vinyl. Just peel the top part of a tentacle off the paper it comes on, stick it straight to the wall, and slooowly roll the rest of it out, pressing it onto the wall as you go. (DON'T i repeat DON'T unpeel the entire thing at once and try to put it on the wall, because if this sticks to anything it's not supposed to, iincluding itself, peeling it off of anything could stretch it. It's fairly delicate).Don't worry about the tiny circles inside each sucker. If you stop to worry about each little one as you're unrolling, you might accidentally stretch the tentacle. Once you're done putting the whole tentacle on the wall you can just peel those off the paper and stick them on the wall by hand.Second: Don't try to do an entire tentacle in one go, you're way more likely to stretch it and get bubbles. I cut my tentacles up into 1.5-2 ft sections and then just pieced them together and you couldn't see the seam at all. Over time they've drifted apart juuuust a smidge and there's the tiniest white crack of wall showing through where I cut them apart, so if I had to do it again I'd probably overlap the pieces just a little. (By the way though, there are already seams you have to manage. The two sets of tentacles in the picture that are touching come as four separate pieces and you have to match them up anyway).Third: If you do get a bubble, or if some part of it stretches and won't lay correctly, just get a pair of scissors and snip it right in the middle of the problem spot and let the loose ends lay over each other. You can't tell at all since it's such a matt black, and even if you could, in my opinion a few tiny little lines look way better than a bunch of bubbly parts coming off of the wall.All in all, other than the reasonably high level of difficulty of getting it on the wall and getting it to look good, this is a fantastic product for the price and I love the look. I get compliments on it all the time. And when I move out of my rental, I can just peel it off, toss it, and order another if I want.TL;DR the people complaining that this is impossible to put up just aren't resourceful enough. You can do it.