Color Recipes 3

Links checked 12/12/13

I didn't mean to post this entry but what the heck, I'll go with it.

Since these recipes were made before TKB Trading's Pops! pigments were discontinued please see my entry Alternatives to TKB's discontinued Pops.

More color recipes made from both TKB Trading and Coastal Scents pigments in addition to some eyeshadow sets, L.A. Colors Tease Collection and Almay Trio for Greens. I’ve purchased the 5 spoon set TKB Trading sells for this purpose. I won’t claim that these recipes I made are “outstanding” but they are definitely different.

When it comes to cooking I never follow a recipe to the letter and I feel the same about color recipes. Feel free to tweak the recipe to suit yourself.

In each picture is the recipe from above, small finger sample ala TKB Trading and a swatch in polish below that. I'm aware I need better pictures.

(from Tease collection)   

(from Trio for Greens)

Color Recipes

II- “Coral”

2x LAC pink eyeshadow

(from Tease collection)

2 pinch (CS) Duocrome Red Orange

2 pinch (TKB) Sparkle Rose

2 pinch (TKB) Lemon Drop Pop

                      

 JJ- “Shimmering”                      

Almay dark green eyeshadow

(from Trio for Greens)

2 drop (TKB) Pisces Blue

2 pinch (TKB) Emerald

1 tad (TKB) Apple Green Pop

1 tad (CS) Crystal Ice

2 smidgen, 2 drop (TKB) Hilite Green

KK- “Princess”                           

4 dash (CS) Blue Claret Pearl

4 dash (TKB) Scarlett O’Hara

1 smidgen (CS) Cerise Flambe

1 smidgen (CS) Crystal Ice

1 smidgen (TKB) Hilite Red

1 drop (CS) Sparkle Gold

2 smidgen (CS) Hot Side Pink

              LL- “Forest”               

2x LAC-A (green)

(from Tease collection)

2 pinch, 2 drop (TKB) Apple Green Pop

3 dash Blackstar Green

1 smidgen (TKB) Green Apple

2 drop (CS) Majestic Green

1 drop (CS) Paradise Diamond Pearl

MM- “Echo”                              

1 dash (TKB) Pisces Blue

2 pinch (TKB) Apple Green Pop

4 dash (TKB) Blueberry Pop

NN- “Spring Thing”                  

Almay-A (light green)

(from Trio for Greens)

3 dash (TKB) Green Apple

4 dash (CS) Summit Turquoise

OO- “Hilite Lime”                    

2 drop, I dash (TKB) Hilite Green

2 drop, 1 dash (TKB) Hilite Gold

PP- “Hilite Peri”                        

2 dash (TKB) Hilite Violet

2 dash (TKB) Hilite Blue

QQ- “Hilite Pink”                      

1 dash (TKB) Hilite Violet

1 dash, 1 drop (TKB) Hilite Red



-MK

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Franken: #224 Blackstar Turquoise

Links checked 12/12/13

I wanted to show you another franken polish but didn't want to remove my current polish so I'm using my model for this post. This is both a franken and a color recipe comprised mainly of Coastal Scents pigments.

In the Blackstar line of pigments there is a blue, green, red and gold but no purple or aqua color which I thought was a shame so I decided to try my hand at making them. The final result turned out like I wanted but is somewhat diminished in polish.

The supplies used were: CS Summit Turquoise, TKB Black mica, CS Ocean Blue and CS Emerald glitter (using TKB Trading's mini spoon set) for the color recipe. For the franken I also used the requisite BBs, clear polish, Sally Hansen Black Out (XtremeWear) and CS Crystal Ice mica.

The recipe is ®SS Blackstar Turquoise

3 tad (TKB) Black mica

2 tad (CS) Summit Turquoise (like Hilite pigments)

2 smidgen (CS) Ocean Blue Glitter

1 smidgen (CS) Emerald Glitter

Blackstar Turquoise shown below as dry swatches in natural daylight. The swatches on the left were taken outdoors in direct sunlight.

 

The polish is: an unspecified amount of ®SS, ½ clear, ¼ SH Black Out, and a small amount of Crystal Ice mica for sparkle. Is there such a thing as "too much" pigment? Sure, but I add it until its opaque enough to suit me and settling be damned. I can't paint well on fake hands either.

Outdoors, no sun.

 

                                            Outdoors, direct sunlight.  

 

                                        Indoors, daylight but no sun.

-MK

Color Recipes 4

Since these recipes were made before TKB Trading's Pops! pigments were discontinued please see my entry Alternatives to TKB's discontinued Pops.

I have a few more color recipes made from both TKB Trading and Coastal Scents pigments. I’ve purchased the 5 spoon set TKB Trading sells for this purpose. I won’t claim that these recipes I made are “outstanding” but they are definitely different.

When it comes to cooking I never follow a recipe to the letter and I feel the same about color recipes. Feel free to tweak the recipe to suit yourself.

In each picture is the recipe from above, small finger sample ala TKB Trading and a swatch in polish below that.

(from Tease collection)   

RR- “Creamcicle”                     

2x LAC-B (orange)

(from Tease collection)

1 tad (CS) Metallic Rustic Gold

4 pinch (TKB) Strawberry Pop

4 smidgen (TKB) Hilite Copper

2 pinch (TKB) Tangerine Pop

SS- “Blackstar Turquoise”       

3 tad Black mica

2 tad (CS) Summit Turquoise

2 smidgen (CS) Ocean Blue Glitter

1 smidgen (CS) Emerald Glitter

TT- "Blackstar Purple"             

3 tad Black mica

2 tad (TKB) Hilite Violet

2 smidgen , 1 drop (CS) Purple Punch Glitter

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Color Recipe Flubs

Links checked 12/12/13

I spent my day yesterday messing around with my pigments trying to create something new in addition to trying to tweek The Conservatorie's Shamrock. After several hours and two flubs I decided I'm not much good at it. I often forget to factor in that the color is going to darken when it's added to polish and some interference pigments will be diminished; what looks great "dry" is less remarkable in polish.

So after Shamrock ended up looking like a cross between Coastal Scents' Duocrome Iridescent Green Gold Mica and Gemtone Topaz Mica (I could've sworn that was Gemstone) and my 30 gram container was too full to continue, I started wondering what does everyone else do when their color recipe fails? Do you set it aside, hopefully to go back later and fix it? Do you give it away to someone else or forget about it altogether? Would anyone else even want something like that?

What do you do? Fill me, let me know. Got suggestions, ideas? You can tell me that too. In the meantime I'm going to pack my flubs away along with the frustration before my white walls go green and not in the environmental way. -MK

Color Recipes 2

Links checked 12/12/13

Since these recipes were made before TKB Trading's Pops! pigments were discontinued please see my entry Alternatives to TKB's discontinued Pops.

I have for you today a few more color recipes made from both TKB Trading and Coastal Scents pigments. I’ve purchased the 5 spoon set TKB Trading sells for this purpose. I won’t claim that these recipes I made are “outstanding” but they are definitely different.

When it comes to cooking I never follow a recipe to the letter and I feel the same about color recipes. Feel free to tweak the recipe to suit yourself.

In each picture is the recipe from above, small finger sample ala TKB Trading. The card shows them swatched in polish. 

(from Tease collection)

(from Trio for Greens)

AA- “Lawless”                        

Maybelline “Lawless” eyeshadow

Closest current color would be

Maybelline Expert Wear Singles in Antique Jade

1 dash (CS) Ultra Shimmer

1 dash Blackstar Green

1 dash (TKB) Hilite Green

1 pinch (TKB) Blueberry Pop

3 pinch (CS) Summit Turquoise

1 dash, 1 pinch (TKB) Indian Blue

2 pinch (TKB) Apple Green Pop

BB- “Sparkling”                       

(CS) “Colleen’s Dream” eyeshadow

(sample size)

1 tad (TKB) Sparkle Blue

2 smidgen (CS) Cellini Red

CC- “Twinkle Twinkle”            

1 dash (CS) Crystal Ice

3 tad (CS) Cellini Red

1 tad, I dash (TKB) Libra Blues

DD- “Burnished”                       

3 tad (TKB) Umber

3 smidgen (CS) Cellini Red

1 tad (CS) Paradise Star Gold

2 dash (TKB) Strawberry Pop

EE- “Fusion”                             

2 tad (CS) Gemtone Topaz

2 pinch (CS) Gold Rush

FF- “Blood Diamonds”             

2 tad (TKB) Deep Russet

1 tad, 2 pinch (TKB) Red Basics

2 smidgen (CS) Crystal Ice

1 smidgen (CS) Pearlescent Fire

2 smidgen (CS) Cellini Red

GG- “Indian Ocean”                 

LAC blue eyeshadow

(from Tease collection)

1 pinch (TKB) Pisces Blue

5 pinch (TKB) Capricorn Sea

1 smidgen (CS) Crystal Ice

1 smidgen (CS) Gold Rush

HH- “Wild Plum”                     

Almay dark purple eyeshadow

(from Trio for Greens)

1 tad (TKB) Grape Pop

3 dash (TKB) Grape Parfait

1 drop (CS) Paradise Diamond Pearl

2 smidgen (TKB) Blueberry Pop

1 drop (CS) Crystal Ice

2 drop (TKB) Hilite Blue

2 smidgen (TKB) Scarlett O’Hara

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Links checked 12/12/13. The original date of this post is 2010 so all of these pigments are not available for purchase. 

Since these recipes were made before TKB Trading's Pops! pigments were discontinued please see my entry Alternatives to TKB's discontinued Pops.

As promised what I have for you today are a few color recipes I whipped up from both TKB Trading and Coastal Scents pigments. I mentioned in another entry that TKB has an extensive collection of color recipes on their website and I’ve made some of these as well, purchased the 5 spoon set TKB Trading sells for this purpose. I won’t claim that these recipes I made are “outstanding” but they are definitely different. In the case of “In the Mood” and “Red Violet” I didn’t apparently keep track of the exact amounts used but at least put them in order of least to greatest.

When it comes to cooking I never follow a recipe to the letter and I feel the same about color recipes. Feel free to tweak the recipe to suit yourself.

In each picture is the recipe from above, small finger sample ala TKB Trading and a swatch in polish below that.

Update 10/22/10: I am still not pleased with what was supposed to be a polish swatch on these pictures so I'm adding a pic of my index card swatches. The color turned out a little better.

O- “Fairy Kisses”

3 dash (TKB) Pearl White 2 dash (CS) Blue Claret Pearl 2 dash (TKB) Raspberry Pop 1 dash “Red-Violet”

P- “Lavender”

Equal parts (TKB) Raspberry Pop & (TKB) Blueberry Pop pinch of (CS) Metallic Red Raisin 4 pinches (TKB) Raspberry Pop

R- “Majestic”

2 dash (CS) Majestic Green 1 dash (TKB) Colorona Dark Blue 1 dash (TKB) Blueberry Pop 1 dash (TKB) True Green

K- “Red-Violet”

(CS) Antique Red (TKB) Grape Pop (TKB) Bishops Violet (TKB) Hilite Violet

V- Vixen

2 dash (TKB) Scarlett O’Hara 2 smidgen (TKB) Grape Pop

U- “Concord”

2 smidgen (TKB) Grape Pop 5 smidgen (TKB) Deep Blue

W- “Seafoam”

1 dash, 1 smidgen (TKB) Apple Green Pop 1 pinch (TKB) Pisces Blue

X- “Butterscotch”

2 dash, 2 smidgen, 3 pinch (TKB) Lemon Drop Pop 3 smidgen (CS) Met. Rustic Gold

Y- “Grace”

2 pinch (CS) Chrome Carmine 1 dash, 1 pinch (TKB) Scarlett O’Hara

Z- “In the Mood”

(TKB) Colorona Blue (CS) Metallic Pixie Purple (TKB) Deep Blue (TKB) Blueberry Pop

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