A new color shifting pearl ….

The back color on this bait is a new to me color. Came in the mail today. The bait is shown in the picture without any top coat so the true color isn’t lost in the clear plastic top coat.

This shifts from the blue, maybe just a shade darker at its darkest, to a beautiful purple then to a really nice teal. Its incredible the way it shifts thru the color range.

The belly color is Kiwi-Rose and goes from the green you see to a rich gold then to a really smooth looking pinkish rose color. If you look at the underside of the bait you can see the pink starting to come out.

The pearls have been applied with a soft brush.

These two colors shifters are a great combination and is hard on the eyes when the bait is turned in different lighting.

Ok, I’ll bite! What is the product?

Color shifting pearl is a product commonly used in custom automotive paints, make-up and fingernail polishes. Its a hyper-fine powder that when mixed into various mediums, paint is a good example, will change from one color to another to another mostly depending upon the underlying color and/or the transparency of the medium it is being used in and the angle of light hitting the surface. I find that by using a very soft artist brush I can brush this powder on a black plastic bait’s surface and get results like what the picture shows. Black seems to be the best color to apply it too since literally all of the light that hits it is reflected. Applying this powder over clear or white renders a very weak color shift if any at all.

When air brushing some of my hard baits if I want to use this color shifting stuff as a top coat I’ll apply a thin coat of transparent black over, say a purple back color. The transparent black allows the pearl to do its thing and at the same time allow the back color to show. The baits in this picture have a thin black coat over purple. The color shifting pearl used changes from purple to blue to purple yada, yada, yada depending on the angle of the light hitting it, but its been applied in a clear gloss top coat so the colors are not as distinct as on the soft plastic bait.

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