Sparkle, Shimmer & Beautiful Colour with Mica Powders

Sparkle, Shimmer & Beautiful Colour with Mica Powders  
Mica powders can be used any time you want a metallic or pearlescent effect.
Perfect for bringing new life to mudane colours of clay like your scrap heap.
The mica effect is intensified when used on darker colours of clay.
Always apply mica powders to your unbaked clay.
To prevent these products from wearing off of your polymer clay surface, (especially jewelry) just apply a sealer like Cernit Varnish or Sculpey Glaze.
Use mica powder with resin, alcohol ink, encaustics, acrylic, watercolour, paper, shrink plastic, leather, glass etc.

Our Products
At Shades of Clay, we have some great mica products that we think you’ll love whenever a metallic or pearlescent look is desired.
Mica powders can be applied with paint brushes, applicators or even your fingers.

PanPastels
These are beautiful artist quality pigments that blend effortlessly to create new colours.
They work great on many different surfaces including unbaked polymer clay.
Metallics
Pearlescents  Pearlescents can be used on their own or mixed with the original colors for custom pearl effects.

Pearl Ex Mica Powders
This is a top brand that has been around forever.
These are safe and non-toxic pigments that will create sparkle or shine that won’t tarnish or fade.
Use them with alcohol inks, watercolours, acrylics, clay, resin, and a whole lot more!

Ginger at The Blue Bottle Tree created a very helpful colour chart showing all of the Pearl Ex colours used on both light and dark clay.
Get the chart!
The Blue Bottle Tree- Pearl-Ex-Color-Chart.

Ginger is  an authority in the polymer clay world and she has been sharing her knowledge for free for many years.
She also has some amazing tutorials.  You can find them here.

Cernit Polymer Clay-  Pearls
Yes, that’s right, we have Cernit clay with mica powder in it for extreme sparkle and shine!
There 7 Pearl colours in all: Black, Violet, Magenta, Blue, Green, Pink, White Pearl.
Purchase them individually or save a bit and get them as a set of all 7 colours here.

Cernit Polymer Clay Pearls