Product Uses

Use any of our Illusion Pearls, Color Pearls, chameleons, or metal flakes in your next custom paint job. By using our automotive paint tips, you can save yourself thousands of dollars, in some cases, and hundreds of dollars in most cases-with the same end result. A perfect custom paint job.

Our Illusion Pearls, Color Pearls, and most of our Metal Flakes are temperature rated at around 400 degrees F, making an ideal additive for clear powder coatings. Give any powder-coating project a true custom paint look with our additives. Also, by using our products, you can color match your automotive paint to your powder coat. We have one powder coater using our Thermo in powder coat.  Start with one bag of pigment (25 grams) per pound of clear powder.  You can stretch it to 2 pounds depending on the amount of color saturation you are looking for.  All of our pigments can be used in clear powder coat.  The only products that have a lower temperature threshold are the thermochromic pigment and the chameleon flakes (in jars).  We have had powder coaters use these but only in low heat cure powder.

Powder Coater’s Corner

 

Use our Illusion Pearls, Color Pearls, Chameleons, and Metal Flakes in your fibreglass gel coat to give a metallic sparkle to your surfboard, boat, outrigger, or any other fibreglass project. Make an ordinary white bathtub into a white pearl bathtub. The possibilities are endless. If you work with fiberglass, we are your friend.

For years we have been selling metallic paint pigments, pearl pigment, candy paint, and Temperature Changing Paint for your custom paint jobs.

Using our Illusion Pearls, (especially the Silver Ghost Pearl), you can make special reflective coatings for street signs, home theater screens, even license plate paint to fool those traffic cameras. Reflective coatings are most commonly used for safety.  We are also carrying a safety reflective grey and safety white pigment.

Used in thousands of different products from toys and electronics, to plastic jars and bottles, our Illusion Pearls and Color Pearls can make a great product look even better by adding the pigments directly into the raw melted plastics before molding.

Under stage lights, metallic paints can add not only create visually stunning sets, but a visual reality to metal architecture, such as bronze statues or copper roofing. Create realistic water effects with different shades of blue, violet, and green Illusion Pearls.

Create effects like the pros do with our Illusion Pearls, Color Pearls, Metal Flakes, and even thermochromic pigments. By adding directly into Faux Finish Glaze, you can create rustic aged looks, realistic copper trim, oceanic views, or just about anything you can imagine.

Our pearls are so versatile, they can be mixed into Leather Paint (some people use varnish or clear coat), clear shoe polish, and many use our product in screen printing for T-Shirts that have an extra metallic quality.

People are making custom bar tops, bathrooms, and even flooring using our pearls, candies, and flakes inside concrete sealer. People are changing their slate tiles to look like mother of pearl. Concrete kitchen counter builders are using our products. Used on concrete flooring of large grocery stores. The possibilities in concrete and tile are endless.