Guild Wars 2

I’m sorry if this has been asked before, but I can’t seem to find a straight answer on wiki, in LA mapchat, or via googling the forums. I have some fractal weapon skins sitting in my bank that I’ve been holding onto. I’m wondering:

If I drop these into the Mystic Forge to upgrade them into gold fractal weapon skins, will it also unlock the base version of the skin? Or, to phrase it a different way, do I need two (2) of each fractal weapon skin if I want to unlock both the basic skins and the gold skins?

Fractal Axe, for example. Do I need to acquire a [Fractal Axe] and consume that to unlock the fractal axe skin, and then acquire a second [Fractal Axe] so I can MF it into a [Gold Fractal Axe] to unlock that skin too?

You unlock fractal skins by acquiring them, You don’t need to consume them to put them into wardrobe.

Ah, thanks! I’m a fool. If I’d have just opened one of these crates I suppose I’d have figured that out by now.

Thanks again.