MAKE MATTE COLORS-VIDEO TUTORIAL BY TKB TRADING

Visit www.tkbtrading.com for more color blends. We have about 20 Matte Blends and over 100 Shimmer Blends. The Matte Blends are "more work" because you have to grind them. Anytime you work with pure pigment you have to use a grinder. The Shimmer Blends are easier because they can be shaken. Once you have a color, use it in your nail polish, add it to your lipgloss base, make an eyeshadow. . . . use your imagination! Visit www.tkbtrading.com to see more videos.

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Howto & Style

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• TKB
• TKB Trading
• Eye Shadow
• eye shadow
• how to make cosmetics
• how to make makeup
• how to make eyeshadow
• pigment
• color blending
• lipstick
• lipgloss
• nail polish

[jothimaya]

Can you use the matte blends straight as eyeshadow?

[TKBtrading]

@jothimaya Our blends, yes, because they generally have TKB matte texture base in them. In theory you can use the pigments straight too, but they will be draggy and staining, that is why you texturize them with something.

[SuperXrunner]

Thanks. Yhis is very helpful. I saw from another video snippet on your site that they only mixed the texture base, not grind it. Is it that only some micas need to grounded when used in combination with the matte texture base to make shadows or do all matte shadows need to be ground?

[TKBtrading]

@SuperXrunner If you work with pigments, you have to grind them, because they don't just "shake in". Colored micas a thinned down pigments, they are pigments already preblended with something lightweight like mica, that is why they can just shake in.

[applebebe03]

where can you buy the grinder

[TKBtrading]

@applebebe03 This is just a coffee bean grinder, you can buy it at a local Target, Walmart, etc.

[Sitauset]

I kind of like the way the colors streak about on the shaken version of the mix. lol It reminds me of an old couch & bed sheet set my Uncle had back in the 80s!

[MisssMeganNicole]

@Drummergenetic You only need a small amount of base,i.e. 5 scoops of pigment and 2 scoops base. You have to grind them,they can be put in a small ziplock baggie and rubbed between your fingers but a coffee bean grinder,blender or food processor works the best. If you add too much base it will look as you said muddy gray or washed out,remember to use a good eyeshadow base as well

[TKBtrading]

@StacyMcarthur You can use a pestel and mortar.

[Drummergenetic]

Hi, TKB! I ordered from you guys and I absolutely LOVE your color selection--but I have a huge problem. I can't get the micas to behave like eyeshadows, and it breaks my heart because the colors are so gorgeous in the pots!

I bought the Texture Base, and I have tried mixing and mashing the mica with the texture base, but I can't get the micas to behave like eyeshadow--they either turn a muddy gray or just fade away immediately. What do I need to do?