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Mica does not an eyeshadow make. As you'll see it takes many pigments to...
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Mica does not an eyeshadow make. As you'll see it takes many pigments to create a smoky teal blue base, or a reddish brown one. Base ingredients are often referred to as fillers, but they are what makes your eyeshadow perform as it should- whether it has good adherence, blends well, wears well, or is matte, frost, plush, velvet or sparkly.
This demonstration shows the creation of "Promenade" from the En Pointe collection. I've never mixed colors together in a plastic baggie, but I have seem some makeup demonstrations from wholesale pigment companies that demonstrate this way. I've never "shaken" oxides, titanium dioxide or ultramarines in with micas. They can't BE shaken in. These ingredients must be mechanically blended first, to create a base. Your colored or effect micas are then shaken or carefully folded in.
As you can see, it takes a LOT of colors to create one color. Promenade, a gorgeous blue shade, requires Mica, Sericite mica, Titanium dioxide, Ultramarine Blue, Red Oxide, Umber Oxide, Orange Oxide, Black Oxide, Chromium Oxide Green.
I also include in my list the ingredients that ALL micas are coated with, as required by FDA legislation. The blue interference mica I used is mica coated with titanium dioxide. If a mica is coated with carmine, it has to be listed. If it is coated with ferric ferrocyanide, it has to be listed. "Mica" alone can never be the sole ingredient in a colored eyeshadow.
Enjoy this behind the scenes look at how Aromaleigh, a company that actually creates their own unique, proprietary colors (almost 500 of them!) works. This is just a brief peek, but I hope that it demonstrates what it truly takes to create a unique color. And yes, we do use recipes and write everything down. After 11 years in the biz, you start to get a little forgetful. Accurately recording your recipes is a must!
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