PLEASE NOTE: Showerwall deliveries are fulfilled direct by the manufacturer and offer a single person delivery to the kerbside only. Please ensure an able-bodied person(s) will be present at time of delivery to assist in taking in the goods. If your paintwork is completely covered with Pearlescent Glaze, your piece will be ready to go out on display as soon as it’s dry.

A simple dark-grey fabric interior for the basic Active Premium models of the 208 and E-208 line-up is the opening interior offering here, which is contrasted with Orange top-stitching for a touch of colour. Trimaterial ‘Cozy’ Leather-effect and ‘Isabella’ cloth With Light Blue Top-Stitching The glitter or sparkle effect of some pearlescent pigments is their ability to shine by reflection with many small flashes of brilliant light. Maximum reflection and color travel are only achieved when the platelets are uniformly oriented parallel to the substrate. This is achieved primarily by film shrinkage and leveling of the coating while it is drying. It can also be affected by the size of the particles. So how do you finish your beautiful pearlised piece? Well, something like this is all pearl all over, you don’t have to do anything because the pearl itself is really strong and it’s durable, so that’s it. Only for indoor pieces – not for outdoors of course.Another important consideration is the angle at which the light entered the layer and the wavelength of the light. If the two reflected components are in phase, they will appear bright, but colors out of phase will be suppressed by interference. You can also tint Pearlescent Glaze with Chalk Paint™. This will create a whole range of beautiful, shimmering pastels. Work with brighter, stronger Chalk Paint™ colours and only add the smallest amount of paint – the pigment particles in the paint will dull the shimmering effects of the Pearlescent Glaze, so be economical! Have fun with experimenting with different colours using an Annie Sloan MixMat. On detailed work where there is no glaze at all, what I would recommend is that you lacquer the piece first so you would lacquer it with either the Gloss Lacquer or the Matt Lacquer. I think the matt is nicer because you’ve got this lovely contrast between the matt and the shine of the Pearlescent Glaze. The process would be paint with your Chalk Paint™, apply your Matt Lacquer and then over that you would put your Pearlescent Glaze. Alternatively, you can finish by waxing it, which is no problem at all. It will actually matte it slightly. The other thing you can’t do is wax it and then put the pearl paint on top, because wax is obviously oily so you can’t do it the alternative way. But yes, more or less everything’s possible. Silver Foil on shrink sleeves is only possible with Flexo Presses (not Gravure). Though there is an inherent challenge, a thin solid strip of metal doesn’t shrink it crinkles and can end up having even less “luster” than metallic ink. That being said, you can totally design around this, limiting the amount of foil areas, keep out of high shrink zones, and it can perform excellent when shrunk. This does requires their press to be setup for in-line “cold” foil, and note that it takes up 2 stations of a press you’d otherwise have for color.

In 2020, Chalk Paint™ turns 30. Yay! To celebrate this milestone, I’ve created this Pearlescent Glaze. Pearl is traditionally used to mark 30th anniversaries. And when I began the company, I offered a similar product – Pearl Paint – so this is a nod to my heritage. There it is there. This is quite carved and I actually painted over the whole thing. It was Florence underneath and then I painted with the flat of my brush, so just the top went on. So I think that’s amazing and I love the way the colour gets on it. I do find that if you do a second coat sometimes, that really, really brings it out. So the first coat probably absorbs a little, and second doesn’t. Orange light is reflected by interference with reddish light from the iron oxide coating to create copper pearlescent pigment. There are various methods for achieving a matte finish: using a primer with a high epoxy content, a high PVC content in the paint itself, or a flattening agent in the lacquer. Whichever method is used, the paint absorbs more light than it reflects, producing a dull sheen with a certain texture to the colour that has an appeal.

How Are They Used in Paint?

When white light falls on a multi-layer pigment, some is reflected on the metal oxide-coated surface. Reflection produces a phase shift of half a wavelength. The rest of the light passes through the outer layer, and some of the light is again reflected at the surface of the mica. It emerges from the pigment parallel to the first reflected component but with a different phase relationship which depends on how much further it travels through the metal oxide coated layer. Rublev Colours Copper Pearlescent pigment is non-toxic and FDA-approved for use in personal care products and cosmetics. How Pearlescent Pigments Work Pearlescent pigments play an important role in the cosmetics industry. According to a Happi Magazine article, this market is set to grow by nearly 5% by 2022. These pigments add color, shimmer, sparkle, and glitter effects to cosmetics. There are yet more possibilities if you’re buying a car made from carbon fibre. Pagani, for instance, can add a coloured tint to the carbonfibre during the material’s manufacturing process – for the price of a whole, brand-new Ferrari. Bugatti charges a similar amount to have no paint at all, just highly lacquered, bare carbon fibre. If none of the above floats your boat, various car manufacturers use a range of other techniques to give even more lustrous finishes in a seemingly infinite spectrum of colours. You pay for it, though, with special finishes often adding thousands of pounds to the cost of a car.

There’s a little more detail to the cloth design in the second grade up the Peugeot 208 and E-208 tree, represented by the Allure Premium models, while leather-effect side bolsters and centre strips add more texture to the upholstery. The top-stitching in the Allue Premium cars is now Light Blue. Trimaterial ‘Capy’ Leather-effect and ‘Isabella’ Cloth With Lime Green Top-Stitching Step up from the Allure Premium to the GT and while the Mistral synthetic leather is retained, the Colyn cloth is replaced by Mistral Alcantara fabric. Alcantara is a tradename for a suede-like microfibre and it’s a desirable finish in modern cars. Bear in mind any crumbs of food you get on Alcantara almost immediately disintegrate into the fabric and are next to impossible to remove. We speak from bitter experience, here… Mistral Leather Effect With Greval Alcantara Once the panels or profiles have been cut or installed we regard this as an acceptance of their quality and suitability for purpose and therefore we cannot accept any subsequent claims for faults or damage.Pearlescent/Mica = as above, only instead of metal, ceramic crystals (known as ‘mica’) are added to the paint. These not only reflect light but refract it too, giving one colour different appearances in different levels of light. They’re normally as expensive as or pricier than metallic paints. On the flip side, pearlescent paints are even more susceptible to marks, they’re even more difficult to repair than metallics, and special care needs to be taken when washing a pearlescent car, as they’re relatively susceptible to damage from tiny bits of grit that may be on your car-washing sponge. What’s matte car paint? The Cupra Formentor can be specified in Magnetic Tech matte paint This particle size distribution is tight enough to ensure a uniform oxide coating across all the particles, helping to boost the color intensity further. It also creates a D50 optimal for light reflection with minimal edge scattering. An example of this type of product would be Silver Pearlescent pigment. The larger distributions will appear glittery but provide the least coverage, while the small distributions will appear satin and have more coverage. Mica platelets have a high level of transparency. White light will pass through the platelet—the titanium dioxide layer has a higher refraction index than the mica and the surrounding. Light is refracted and at the interfaces reflected in different angles. This phase shift creates so-called interference colors—the main characteristic of a pearlescent effect—. Iron oxide shows its typical color even in thin layers on a mica substrate.