Originally Posted by FriendlyFacez

EDIT: Ah, okay. So I'd want to bloom Ardisia Bride into her bloomed form and max her levels, but not use any skillblooms or dressblooms on her until after rarity growing her.

At first this was my thinking too; "why wouldn't the blooms stick; it just devalues all < 6* blooms". But, after reading the article after my second cup of coffee, I realized that any blooms applied reduce the number of rainbow stones needed to grow a given girl (by over 100 in the case of 5* girls). Considering you only get 22 stones per 11 draw, that's a considerable amount of stones saved. You probably would actually want to use the 5* blooms before rarity growth.

3-4* blooms aren't worth considering really; who in the world actually buys 3* and 4* blooms?