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 custom paint over existing paint.

Since prepping your existing paint is so important, we will cover it in some detail. The very first step is to remove as much of the vehicle’s hardware as you can (i.e. taillights, mirrors, side marker lights. Don’t remove something you want to paint, though. You must then mask areas that could potentially be damaged by sandpaper or scuff marks (grilles, door handles, chrome trim, rubber trim).

You must prep the entire surface of what you are painting. Use a wet-sand paper in a 600 grit or a red Scotch-Brite scrubbing pad. Remove all shine from the surface you are going to custom paint. Make the entire surface look dull. Those micro-scratches give the paint a good rough surface to adhere to.

Mask the entire project for paint. Anything that could be effected by overspray should be covered. After masking, use a cleaner to remove any wax and grease (like PPG’s dt-330) so that the project will be ready for paint. Always follow manufacturer’s instructions for use of their products. It is vital that YOU DO NOT TOUCH THE PROJECT AFTER CLEANING. If you are not painting immediately, repeat the cleaning process before paint.

Pick the products that you plan on using. Which product you use will determine the rest of the paint job. Our instructions will tell you how to custom paint with the product you have chosen. The remaining directions will differ depending on the product you have chosen.

Ghost Pearl (transparent irridecent pearls) paint job

Candy “metallic” Pearl paint job

Metal Flake paint job

Temperature change (thermochromic paint) paint job

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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 paint colors?” Well, that’s easy. Just simply stir your mixture of pigments into any medium you wish to apply. It’s as simple as adding some powder to a clear coat and stirring it in.  Not any specific clear, either. ANY CLEAR medium that sticks to an object. From nail polish to Elmer’s Glue to auto paint and fiberglass. We mean EVERYTHING CLEAR. So here it is: the top 5 reasons to use pigments instead of paints.

1. Shelf Life. Pigments can last nearly forever if kept in a cool dry storage room.

2. Pigments will never freeze and gum up. Just mix them into a fresh clear and color match your project years later.

3. Color Matching. Use the same pearls in your paint, powder coat, or nail polish. You can even make your shoe leather match your car.

4. Having some extra pearls means you always have the exact color match from the same color lot, in case you need to do some repairs down the road.

5. The enormous amount of savings from buying your pigments separately can save thousands of dollars as opposed to buying pigments “already stirred in” to a paint.

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In conclusion, you should never let the huge companies tell you that you cannot mix pigments yourself. It is very easy to mix your own pearl pigments into paint, and the results are that you have a product that will be as good to spray or paint in 5 years or in 5 minutes. Paint With Pearl pigments have always been the easiest to use when you want to make DIY custom paint colors.

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Theatrical Makeup, Costume Design, and Monster Makeup. Make your own cosmetics, finally!

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Did you know that our ghost pearls, candy pearls, chameleon pearls, and Metal Flake are non-toxic and can be used in theatrical makeup and even costume design? DIY Cosmetics at their finest.

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Candy Pearls and Chameleon pearls make great colorants when mixed with your favorite theatrical makeup mediums.  Use in Mineral oil, beeswax, petroleum jellly, and even essential oils. Create amazing effects on bare skin or mix with liquid latex to tint it and make incredible colors. All pigments work great in airbrush. Try using in Costume Design and monster makeup as well.

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When you look at the ingredients for your normal everyday cosmetics, you will find that Mica is a pretty big part of giving your makeup and cosmetics their color. Our Mica Ghost pearls give subtle tints.  They are frequently used to give skin an iridescent color, like this beautiful fairy on the left. Ghost Pearl used both on her skin and in her costume design. Our pearls are great in creating biological effects like fish scales and lizard skin. Great for Monster makeup.  Taxidermists use our pearls in creating realistic fish scales and reptile skin.

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Paint With Pearl – 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 Paint With Pearl.  Since then we have accumulated some copy cat businesses selling similar products. We sell the highest quality at the best prices.  We have more user videos than anyone else, and we now have the best available prices on the web for Thermochromic Pigments. Since 2008, we have done numerous experiments with Heat changing pigments. We also have an actual powder coater that has had success spraying thermochromic pigments in powder coatings.

People often ask us “What is that car paint that changes color when wet?” We often have to explain that it’s not the water. It’s the temperature of the water. When you see people splashing water on cars, the are making the pigments disappear with hot water by changing the temperature of the Thermochromic Pigment.[/vc_column_text][vc_video link=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INXOTlBaeAs” title=”Using Thermochromic Pigment under Ghost Pearl and Chameleon Pearls”][vc_column_text]

For a better understanding of Thermochromism,  check out the Wikipedia Definition!

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We were the first to perfect the use of thermochromic pigments in paint.  We have consistently show-cased the hard work of our customers with killer youtube videos and pictures of all the cool color change effects. We have also pioneered a way to add life to your thermochromic pigments by top coating them with our Ghost Pearl and Ghost Chameleon Pearls.  Our Ghost Pearl and Ghost Chameleons have a lot of the same properties of Sun-Screen, and will protect your Thermochromic Pigments from harmful UV rays.

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Therrmochromic is Heat Sensitive Pigment, and yes it changes color when the surface temperature changes. It changes color with different temperatures, That is why in all these videos of Thermochromic Pigment changing, it is done with hot and cold water, because that is the fastest way to make the surface temperatuer change.

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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 audiences will be baffled.  We should know, we have sold to magicians for years, and have seen our very own pigments being aired on national television in a special broadcast featuring one of America’s top magicians.  Of course we had to agree to never disclose the identity of the magicians we have done business with, but some are household names in the world of magic.

Magicians and makers of magic tricks alike are buying our products. Whether it is disappearing blood using red themochromic pigment or simple playing cards that can change to a different card just by heating it up in your hands, we can supply the tricks that the famous magicians use.

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We at Paint With Pearl appreciate all of our customers who take the time to send us pictures and feedback on all of our products. Our Candy Pearls, Metal Flake, True Chameleon pigments, Thermochromics, Glow In The Darks and all other paint pigments are truly custom paints and can be used in almost any application. There are so many options with our products! Photos, Videos and testimonials are a great way to show off the capabilities of our additives. If you find the opportunity, send us some great pics and a small testimonial about what you did with our products and we will send you a gift card for the website. We love to show off the work that our wonderful customers are doing. Contact us and send us your work!

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We sometimes get questions about Thermochromic in Plasti 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 Paint With Pearl appreciate all of our customers who take the time to send us pictures and feedback on all of our products. Our Candy Pearls, Metal Flake, True Chameleon pigments, Thermochromics, Glow In The Darks and all other paint pigments are truly custom paints and can be used in almost any application. There are so many options with our products! Photos, Videos and testimonials are a great way to show off the capabilities of our additives. If you find the opportunity, send us some great pics and a small testimonial about what you did with our products and we will send you a gift card for the website. We love to show off the work that our wonderful customers are doing. Contact us and send us your work!

All of our products can be used in plasti dip, we were the first company to supply the dip community with pigments.  If you have any reservations about whether our products work in Plasti Dip, you should know that we were the pioneers who introduced Plasti Dip Pearls to the world.

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Pearl Pigments and how we discovered the stuff that just works in everything.

In the past 10 years, we at PWP Mobile have learned quite a lot about pearl pigments and metallic pigments, which we call Candy Pearls ®, along with pioneering the whole DIY mixing of pearl pigments and other pigments into many different kinds of coatings.  Knowing that the temperature threshold of the pearl pigments was about 1600 degrees and that the pigments were so stable and non-reactive opened ip the doors for us to try them in powder coat, Fiberglass, nail polish, and the Ghost Pearl ® would actually work in some pottery glaze and glass blowing applications.

It all began back in 2004, when I was painting my 1949 Buick Super. I painted it white, and wanted it to have an iridescent look of another color. I decided to go to our local paint store and find out more about these pearl pigments.  I was shocked that a very small amount pearl pigment (which was a Dupont ® product) was about 30 dollars for about 20 grams at my local paint store. It was then that I decided there had to be a better way to get pearl pigments.  10 years ago searching for the right manufacturers was tough, but we managed to find the right people. We started with a tax return check and bought our first shipment of pearl pigment, which we now call “Ghost Pearl“. We quickly learned by trial and error that we needed to package our pearl pigments in 25 gram bags.  We started an Ebay store under the seller name 69_Muscle.

Shortly after I was laid off from my job, so I decided to use my severance to build a web site to run along side my Ebay store. After 2 long months of learning old school web programing, we had a small site that started to sell its own pearl pigments. Paint With Pearl was born. Now, 10 years later there are tons of copycat websites and competitors that all noticed what a great idea we had. You can still see our old website at retro.paintwithpearl.com.

We have expanded over the years to include many different colors and special effects pigments, but we are still just a mom and pop shop, and we honestly have the VERY BEST customer service out there, as well as the VERY BEST prices available on the web.

[vc_row full_width=”” parallax=”” parallax_image=””][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text] Our Products have been used in plasti dip since the beginning of plasti dip.  To be completely honest with any readers out there,  the first car ever to be plasti dipped with pearls was with our products.  Secondly, the first chameleon plasti dip was done with our colors. And actually, it was our video. But also, the people who sell plasti dip pearls now are all OUR OLD CLIENTS. Despite any claims that any one else has been the “Industry standard”, all of those pearls came from us, and we are proud to say so. We are the original when it comes to plasti dip pearls. Check out this video to see what our Singapore clients did with our stuff.

The Puzzleman from YouTube did a really cool chameleon dip job using only 2 bags of pigment. He is truly a master. By the way, the price has dropped by 50% since this video was made. And the people who buy in bulk? Well, they are getting 10 bags for 200 dollars! And yes, if you subscribe to our page, you will also get 20% off coupons occasionally to drop your price to 16 dollars a bag (if you buy 10). That is pretty much the best price out there. We intend to keep introducing more colors, without weird names, and will make sure you get the best price out there.

Now, Many people believe that our pearls are not compatible with plasti dip, but we have pioneered this field. Not one dip seller out there did not start with our help in the field of pearls and pigments. Even the biggest distributors out there got all of their pearls from us.

Because we turned out to be such a strong competitor, the plasti dip companies decided to make it “mandatory” to use “their” pigments rather than ours. Honestly, we all get our pearls from the same people, so this type of demand seemed irresponsible, and frankly, irrational.  If you want the best price on pearls,  then you should buy from a family and not a multi million dollar corporation. It is their dream to make you live by their rules, but we break rules and make things affordable.

Plasti dip is just like any other clear medium. The definition of paint is basically glue + Pigments. All paint is basically a binder (a glue to make the color stick) with pigments added to it. See how the Puzzleman used our pigments to make our colors stick to his mustang:

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We at Paint With Pearl appreciate all of our customers who take the time to send us pictures and feedback on all of our products. Our Candy Pearls, Metal Flake, True Chameleon pigments, Thermochromics, Glow In The Darks and all other paint pigments are truly custom paints and can be used in almost any application. There are so many options with our products! Photos, Videos and testimonials are a great way to show off the capabilities of our additives. If you find the opportunity, send us some great pics and a small testimonial about what you did with our products and we will send you a gift card for the website. We love to show off the work that our wonderful customers are doing. Contact us and send us your work!