Jacquard Pearl Ex Pigment 32 Color Set Powder for Epoxy Resin, Watercolors, Calligraphy Ink & Clay

This is the most intelligent way to buy your Jacquard Pearl X powders if you use them or want to try them in your crafting! I love these powders. The set of 32 is the best way to buy them because you can try all the colors in the other kits. If you use one color a lot more than the other colors THEN you can order just that one color in a larger size later. Why have large jars of colors sitting around taking up your craft storage space if they're colors that you don't like and won't use? This set is awesome! I DO have to say that JACQUARD'S packaging stinks!!! When you remove the cellophane wrap from the box that holds all the powders the front of that box is completely open. There is nothing to stop all the jars from falling out of the box! I ended up getting two small boxes, from an order from merriartist that I'd placed previously, and cutting a 6"x6" piece of paper from a paper bag. I then used my glue runner to glue down the sides of the cut papers to the tops of the two small boxes. Then I wrote in order what colors were in the box. I say in order because I wrote them in the order that I had the powders placed into the two small boxes. That way I wouldn't have to look all over the tiny jar to find out which one it was. It can be hard to see the little names of the colors on those little black jars. All in All I love these pearly powders! You can put them into ANYTHING liquid. You can also use them dry by putting a tiny bit of powder on a piece of scrap paper and picking up a few grains of the powder on a brush and placing the grains right where you want them on your project. Then you just rub them in and they'll have a beautiful metallic and pearly sheen where ever you put them! They are beautiful!

Easy to use and the colors were wonderful. I put a little in the dyes that I use for my leather art. So beautiful!

Well worth the price. I was not disappointed; and they will work great with polymer clay.

Really great pigments, no clump, vivid colors, lots of variety in this pack too. If I had a complaint it'd be that the box is shrink wrapped & there's no vacuum formed plastic to hold them into the box. They sit in a vacuum formed backing inside the box but that whole window there is just open space once the shrink wrap is removed. Nothing to hold them in there. A clear sheet of plastic cut to size can fix that or your own vacuum former. I'm sure most folks just toss the jars in a bin or stack them on a desk somewhere. I just like wish I could use the original packaging for upright storage. More a personal gripe than a real complaint. All in all wonderful product and I've gotten some absolutely amazing resin art out of them so far.

I wanted to try out colored mica powders in resin and bought this set to see what colors I liked. Well, I may never need to buy any others because a little goes a long way with these powders! A little pile on the end of a popsticle stick is all you need for small projects like I'm doing. I love the color variety in the set, and yes there are 5 different golds, but they really do have slight differences from each other. The duo colors have been my favorite so far. I've also mixed the powders with paint and water then placed the mixture into mini misters to spray them onto paper. That's also worked well so far and much cheaper than buying the pre made mists! The powder will come off of the paper when dry if you touch it, but that can be fixed with clear varnish or a light covering of hairspray. Overall, a great deal!

For as expensive as these powders are, they couldn't put a plastic cover over the box?Without a cover on the box, you have to store them flat or risk them flying all over the place.With one of those hard plastic box covers, this would have the perfect presentation for a gift.Also, the amount in each jar is so tiny, this is strictly a sampler--not suitable for large projects.But it is the lack of a box top is that really disappointed me.I had to play around with these to figure out what effects were possible. I used to use Krylon's Make-It-Pearl on my garden sculptures, but they discontinued the product. I think it might still be on the market if it had a better name. When it was getting hard to find, I started calling around to stores. And whenever I asked for it, the person heard "naked pearl". It was a pain.I was mainly interested in the pearl colours: Micropearl, Pearl White, and Macropearl. There are no instructions, so you just have to experiment. I found that Pearl White gave me the coverage most like the Krylon product. Micro and Macro separate out into a web, which worked out perfect for the bird sculptures. [See photos.]I used macro on the grey heron (larger web) and I used Micro on the plover (smaller web). This effect was perfect for feathers. In the pictures the grey heron is the larger bird.On the dragon and fairies, I used Pearl White.Using a pearlizer blends the colours in a way that is ethereal beyond description. The closest way I can describe it is: it's like the way object change colour at different times of the day.

Pearl EX make fantastic mica powders, but they are expensive. I was looking to add a few colors to the silver mica I already had, but realized that at $5-6 a pot, I could buy this whole set for the cost of 6 or so single 3 gram colors. If you can justify buying this set up front, you get each 3 gram pot of for just over a $1, which is a crazy price compared to the price of buying them one at a time..There are a variety of colors, but too many golds for my liking. I would have preferred another green, a non-so pink red and another copper shade, and ditched 3 of the 6 or so golds. But that is nitpicking. I use them on polymer clay and I still have way more options than I need for any projects.