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Adding our table top epoxy resin pigments creates a whole new deep effect to your river table or other epoxy project. Our pearls, glows, thermochromics, and candy concentrates all mix well into table top epoxy! Whether you are refinishing a bar-top, wooden table, or making coasters for your home, our pearls make the perfect table [...]

Using our non-toxic pigment in silicone for amazing effects There is something cool about being able to make things for yourself.  Silicone is a great medium for making cool wearable items or fun molds. We are pleased that our Ghost Pearls, Candy Pearls, Chameleon Pearls, and Nightshade Pearls are all perfectly compatible with all different [...]

An amazing new trend has caught our eyes, and our gag reflex! Guerrilla advertising in urinals.  Yes, it is weird, but it makes sense?  What is the one time of day you can find a man concentrating very hard?  No pun intended, but yes, it is when he is concentrating on his pee stream. Well, [...]

Using our Pigments and Pearls in Cerakote We have recently been selling to a lot of people using our pearls in Cerakote gun finishes. Well we had to check into it. Behold! We found that everyone selling pigments for use in Cerakote were actually our old customers! Upon further investigation, we found many pictures on [...]

Flake Tips for a better application of Metal Flakes in Custom Paint Sometimes, applying flakes can be a bit of a problem for the novice. The most concerning is the seemingly rough surface created immediately after applying flakes. Flake application requires a few more coats of paint and some sanding, but hopefully you can do […]

Metallic Paint DIY Paint With Pearl has always been a go-to for the DIY people out there who just know how easy it is to do some things rather than pay someone else to do them.  The same applies to paint. What is paint? It's glue (called binder) mixed with pigments and thinned to the [...]

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 […]

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. [...]

Theatrical Makeup, Costume Design, and Monster Makeup. Make your own cosmetics, finally! Did you know that our ghost pearls, candy pearls, chameleon pearls, and Metal Flakes are non-toxic and can be used in theatrical makeup and even costume design? DIY Cosmetics at their finest. Candy Pearls and Chameleon pearls make great colorants when mixed with [...]

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. It tends to glow for several […]

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 fear when it [...]

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 [...]

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 other leather items, such as jackets [...]

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 out bad. A few years ago, one of [...]

As we have discovered through our customers, our ghost pearls , metal flakes 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 effect sealer is charging $90.00 for a 4 ounce quantity. That [...]

Candy and Ghost Pearl powders are great for creating incredible pearlescent wall paint or interior decorating FAUX FINISH effects in your home or business. TIP#1: Faux finish pearlescent wall paint glaze with Ghost Pearl or Candy powdered pearl pigments is super-hot right now. It is achieved by mixing pigment into clear glaze or water-based polyurethane, and […]

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 base coat, Bronze copper candy tint pigment in […]

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 custom paint jobs has lead us initially to open this business. Our disappointment at the [...]

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 effective at changing to a clear as the […]

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, interiors, or toys and knick-knacks. It is a way of […]

Metal Flake – Metallic Flakes 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 flakes. In most of the older flake jobs, the amount of extra knockdown and sanding involved with doing the overall paint job […]

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 [...]

Our Chameleon 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 Chameleon Pearls ® are a color shifting paint with angle and light, with usually several different colors involved with the shift. The older Chameleon Pearls ®  were made […]

Our definition of Candy Pearls ® Paint as compared to our other custom paints…At Paint With Pearl, we pride ourselves on the quality of our Candy Pearls ® pigments. These are quality metallic Iron Mica colored pigments known as Candy Pearls ® that have a good deal of their own iridescence built right in. The […]

Ghost Pearl is 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 Pearl paint is as easy as doing any other type of paint, with the [...]

Thermochromic We sometimes get questions about Thermochromic in dip or other coatings 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 […]

First in dip or other coatings 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 dip or other coatings Pearls, […]

Pearl Pigments and how we discovered the stuff that just works in everything. In the past 10 years, we at Paint With Pearl 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 […]

 Our Products have been used in dip or other coatings since the beginning of dip or other coatings.  To be completely honest with any readers out there,  the first car ever to be dip or other coatingsped with pearls was with our products.  Secondly, the first chameleon dip or other coatings was done with our […]

Use Paint With Pearl 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, Dupont, BASF, All Kandy and [...]

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 when used in a base coat-clear coat scenario. The mixture of our pearls in [...]

Surfing is not just a sport, but also an art. Surfboard makers have long used various materials and techniques to create unique and beautiful boards that not only perform well in the water, but also catch the eye on the beach. One such material that has gained popularity in recent years is our Mica Ghost [...]

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 car companies made a [...]