In fact many light colored pearl colors such as white pearls require a specific base color underneath making them a true 3 stage color. Lighter colored pearl car paint colors tend to be more transparent than lighter colored metallic shades and as such many pearl car colors require a uniform color underneath since the lighter pearl color is likely not to hide color differences beneath. Pearl colors can be 2 stage where a pearl base color is applied then cleared or a 3 stage system where a solid base color is applied, then a pearl midcoat, and a protective clearcoat. As such, pearl colors are said to have more 'color depth' than the average car paint color. Unlike metallic colors whose sparkle is based on a silver aluminum platelet, pearls are available in a wide range of sparkle colors and sizes. Pearl Paint Colors with colored shimmers are made by combining special pigments called pearlescent pigments with traditional transparent pigments. To see these in-person purchase a hand sprayed chart in the color selectors area in the online store. To learn more about metallic paints visit our metallic paints page. Metallic paints are often confused with metal flake paint which is a very different type of sparkling paint color that will be discussed later in more detail. Relatively speaking durability of metallic paints is good to excellent depending on the system used and color. As a general rule, lighter colored metallic paints are more difficult to apply evenly than darker ones.

From an application standpoint, metallic paints can range from very easy to apply to more challenging depending on the color chosen. Combining these metallic pigments with a wide range of transparent pigments yields thousands of distinctly different car paint colors. This metallic pigment gives paints a sparkle with numerous variations in sparkle size and brightness based on the type of metallic pigment used. Metallic car paint colors are colors that have a sparkle to them originating from a finely ground metallic aluminum pigment.

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