by matt | Dec 1, 2015 | Customer Custom Paint Pictures and Testimonials
How to custom paint over existing paint. Prepping your existing paint job. The “Scuff and Shoot” custom paint job: This article tells you basically what you need to do if your paint is already in good condition, but you want to add a special effect pigment...
by matt | Nov 30, 2015 | Customer Custom Paint Pictures and Testimonials
Top 5 Reasons to Use Pigments Instead of Paints With so many years of experience in the world of paint with pearl pigments and many other pigments, this is something you should know. One may ask, “How do I use Pigments instead of Paints? Can I make my own custom...
by matt | Oct 3, 2015 | Customer Custom Paint Pictures and Testimonials
Theatrical Makeup, Costume Design, and Monster Makeup. Make your own cosmetics, finally! Did you know that our ghost pearls, candy pearls, chameleon pearls, and Metallic Paint Flake are non-toxic and can be used in theatrical makeup and even costume design? DIY...
by matt | May 27, 2015 | Articles
Glow in The Dark Paint Pigment – Luminescent Paint pigments We have may glow in the dark pigments. The most expensive by far, is the white to white glow. This one glows white for hours and is the perfect custom paint job for a white vehicle, or white graphics....
by matt | May 24, 2015 | Articles
Short Video on How Simple it is to Mix your Own Custom Paint DIY Custom Paint video We are very proud of our line of products, and we decided to give more of an in-depth description of how to mix them into your paints, as many people have expressed a little bit of...
by Lyndi Donley | May 6, 2015 | Customer Custom Paint Pictures and Testimonials
Pearls and Pigment – The First to sell Thermochromic Pigments to the public. It’s the paint that changes color with the temperature! The first videos on Youtube of thermochromic came from Pearls and Pigment. Since then we have accumulated some copy cat...
by matt | May 4, 2015 | Articles
A video posted by K_o Brand by Kickasso (@k_o.brand_kickasso) on May 2, 2015 at 2:01pm PDT Pearl Leather Paint Many people are discovering the amazing diversity of our pearls. A new fad that seems to be taking hold is the use of pearls in leather paint on shoes and...
by matt | Apr 27, 2015 | Articles
Custom Paint Jobs with our products. When Custom Paint jobs look their best, is when people understand more about what makes them professional, and what makes a custom paint job look amateur. A good thing to remember is using warm tones with cool tones can often turn...
by matt | Apr 27, 2015 | Articles
As we have discovered through our customers, our ghost pearls , metal Flake and candies work incredibly well as a way to make special effects concrete and tile flooring or countertops. We have also discovered that the main company selling pearl additives for concrete...
by matt | Apr 27, 2015 | Articles
Candy and Phantom Pearl powders are great for creating incredible interior decorating FAUX FINISH effects in your home or business. TIP#1: Faux finish glaze with Phantom Pearl or Candy powdered pearl pigments is super-hot right now. It is achieved by mixing pigment...
by matt | Apr 27, 2015 | Articles
We love using yall’s stuff, and are doing some Japanese dragon artwork using the new lime green pearl and bright yellow metallic candy pearl to highlight the brushwork. Well check this out :) This car has electric blue candy pearl in the blue side of the car...
by matt | Apr 26, 2015 | Articles
Although many people use our products for a wide variety of things, from painting fishing lures, carnival rides, custom concrete sealers, and even hotel lobbies and home interiors-our main concentration is automotive paint. Our love of cars and quality automotive...
by matt | Apr 26, 2015 | Articles
Thermochromic paints are paints that change color at a given temperature. Although there are color change paints for a wide array of temperatures, we have decided to start our inventory off with those that change at 30 Degrees C, or at 86 Degrees F. They are very...
by matt | Apr 26, 2015 | Articles
Custom Paint made easy | How do we define Custom Paint Custom paint can be defined in many ways. In the simplest, most easily definable way, it is one-of-a-kind paint that is different than anyone else’s paint. That can be the same for cars, buildings,...
by matt | Apr 16, 2015 | Articles
Metal Flake – Metallic Flake Classically, metal flake paint is a staple in the custom painting world. The problem has always been the tons of extra work involved when painting with standard sized Flake. In most of the older flake jobs, the amount of extra...
by Lyndi Donley | Apr 14, 2015 | Customer Custom Paint Pictures and Testimonials
Many magicians use Thermochromic in Magic Tricks! Yes, it is true! You have seen magicians rub cards to make them change suit, you have seen them blow fire on walls to make writing on walls change! There are countless uses for Thermochromic in Magic tricks, and most...
by matt | Apr 6, 2015 | Articles
Our Colorshift Pearls ® Colorshift paint has been gaining quite a bit of popularity, due to the great pricing and the cool colors that we have available. The Colorshift Pearls ® are a color shifting paint with angle and light, with usually several different colors...
by matt | Apr 6, 2015 | Articles
Our definition of Candy Color Pearls ® Paint as compared to our other custom paints…At Pearls and Pigment, we pride ourselves on the quality of our Candy Color Pearls ® pigments. These are quality metallic Iron Mica colored pigments known as Candy Color Pearls ®...
by matt | Apr 6, 2015 | Articles
Phantom Pearls are made from transparent Mica Particles (like glass) that reflect one color, while letting you see the color underneath. In shade, they have no reflectivity, but in sun, they can have a wide array of different reflective properties. Creating Phantom...
by Lyndi Donley | Mar 30, 2015 | Customer Custom Paint Pictures and Testimonials
https://youtu.be/xOWwKtU0SI0 We sometimes get questions about Thermochromic in vehicle dip and does it work? Here is a video of a test dome by Royal Dip. Their Facebook can be found at https://www.facebook.com/pages/Royal-Dip/167421640078755 . We at Pearls and Pigment...
by Lyndi Donley | Mar 19, 2015 | Articles
First in vehicle dip Pearls Yes, it is true that we introduced pearls and pigments to the dip community. It has been a pleasure to see what people have done with our amazing products in the last couple of years. But make no mistake, when it comes to vehicle dip...
by matt | Feb 20, 2015 | Customer Custom Paint Pictures and Testimonials
Pearl Pigments and how we discovered the stuff that just works in everything. In the past 10 years, we at Pearls and Pigment have learned quite a lot about pearl pigments and metallic pigments, which we call Candy Color Pearls ®, along with pioneering the whole DIY...
by matt | Jun 2, 2014 | Customer Custom Paint Pictures and Testimonials
Our Products have been used in vehicle dip since the beginning of vehicle dip. To be completely honest with any readers out there, the first car ever to be vehicle dipped with pearls was with our products. Secondly, the first chameleon vehicle dip was done with...
by matt | Jun 1, 2013 | Articles
Use Pearls and Pigment along with your favorite brands of car paint, and save a lot of money. No one is limited to using strictly our Paint with Pearl brand when mixing custom car paint. We love the quality of many paint brands out there, from PPG, House of Kolor,...
by matt | May 26, 2013 | Articles
Powder Coater’s Corner You don’t have to be the world’s best powder coater to understand how to effectively use our products… You can effectively use our products best in powder coat clears, because they are effect pigment powders, and are best...
by matt | Apr 27, 2013 | Articles
Making great fiberglass surfboard paint colors and graphics can be a real chore. So many glassers and color experts get tired of the same old products for Fiberglass. So we took our pigments to the North Shore of Oahu to get opinions from the guys who make the best...
by matt | Feb 26, 2013 | Articles
When Custom Paint jobs look their best, is when people understand more about what makes them custom paint, and what makes a custom paint job look amateur. A good thing to remember is using warm tones with cool tones can often turn out bad. A few years ago, one of the...
