What pigments can't be pressed...

[melliquor]

Does anybody have a list of the pigments that can't be pressed? I did some pigment pressing yesterday and had trouble with Entremauve. I was so pissed because I wasted alot of my Entremauve trying to press it. It was hard on the top and wasn't set underneath the hard bit.

Post any that you had trouble with here. I couldn't find a list in any of the posts.

 

[purplkaret]

i think as a general rule, mattes can't really be pressed.

 

[bruinshorty]

I think the really fine textured ones can't be pressed (mainly the metallic ones like rose gold etc and mattes)

 

[msmack]

well for me, i have pressed 4 pigments. sunnydaze, apricot pink, goldenaire and pinked mauve. pinked mauve turned out kinda wierd. had a darker 'crust' on the top and was slightly crumby in texture after i did that. the others turned out very well. so i don't know what to think, but i won't be pressing pinked mauve again! HTH

 

[MACATTAK]

I bought a few pressed pigments before & pastorale & aire-de-blu came completely crumbled/broken. Those textures may not do well being pressed.

 

[melliquor]

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Originally Posted by msmack well for me, i have pressed 4 pigments. sunnydaze, apricot pink, goldenaire and pinked mauve. pinked mauve turned out kinda wierd. had a darker 'crust' on the top and was slightly crumby in texture after i did that. the others turned out very well. so i don't know what to think, but i won't be pressing pinked mauve again! HTH

I had the same thing happen for me with Quietly and Mauvement. There was a different colour on the top crust of the pigment and underneath matched the pigment from the jar. It wasn't crumbly though and when swiped, it was the colour that it should be. I pressed Pinked Mauve and came out perfectly. The two that were messed up, I am think that I used too much heat.

 

[Lexx13]

yikes I ruined my Acid Orange pigment by trying to press it. It went completely HARD, like I had burnt it. oops. I soaked it in water to soften it and then once dry I chopped it so that it is somewhat usable. I haven't had a problem with any others except the matte ones.

 

[Love Always Ivy]

usually if you press a pigment and the texture turns rock hard and gives no pay off, you can take a pin and crumble it up and save your pigment. ive done this when i screwed up a bunch of BE eyeshadows.

 

[elizs]

I had problems with Acid orange too. It turned rock hard and I couldn't get it to set niceley. I've pressed a bunch of other though that turned out well
(golders green, kelly, emerald, chartruse, azreal blue, entremauve, rose, rr blue, goldenaire, lovley lilly, frost, white gold) I use 91% rubbing alcohol & add 4 drops of homeade mixing medium to everything that I do.

 

[Gisselle]

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Originally Posted by Lexx13 yikes I ruined my Acid Orange pigment by trying to press it. It went completely HARD, like I had burnt it. oops. I soaked it in water to soften it and then once dry I chopped it so that it is somewhat usable. I haven't had a problem with any others except the matte ones.

same here

 

[lindsaykinzie]

The only pigment ive pressed is my vanilla pigment, and it came out great.

I agree with some of the others, I have heard that mattes don't press well.

 

[panda0410]

I was once told that the key is "there is no 'M' in pressing" - dont do 'M'etals or 'M'attes!! There does seem to be an exception to the rule though and that is there are some frost pigments which dont press well either - namely the ones that are more like mattes such as grape, entremauve and provence - while some might have success with them these colours dont usually press very well and often results in wasted time and wasted pigment.

 

[calbear]

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Originally Posted by bruinshorty I think the really fine textured ones can't be pressed (mainly the metallic ones like rose gold etc and mattes)

Where were you with this little nugget when I needed you, oh say about four days ago before I tried to press Rose Gold.

 

[jenii]

I thought I read somewhere that the best ones to press were the ones that sort of "ball up" in the jar. You know what I mean?

 

[BunnyBunnyBunny]

I agree with the very fine ones. I have pressed several mixed pigments that worked well. I cannot remember the names though.

However, I have a TWINKS eyeshadow that broken, and when I tried to set it, it was still loose powder. It didn't work at all! I think because once it broke it turned very fine.

 

[ShuGirl]

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Originally Posted by jenii I thought I read somewhere that the best ones to press were the ones that sort of "ball up" in the jar. You know what I mean?

Heck yes--I just pressed my Your Ladyship pigment and it definetly is the kind that balls up.

 

[user79]

The "chunky" pigments don't press well, they crumble after a while. Steel Blue seemed fine at first but after amount a month or so, the pigment lifted up and crumbled, seemingly all by itself. Very weird.

 

[me_jelly]

I believe the fine and smooth textured frost/pearl pigments press the best (i.e. the fine, almost creamy textured ones, but not the chunky, matte, or powdery ones)

 

[Sonya Adams]

I've never had problems pressing my pigments (even some of the mattes and matte-like frosts - like entremauve) and have sold/swapped/and shipped a bunch and have heard nothing but good things.

I use 91% or 94% (depending on what I can find) alcohol and press with a c-clamp though, rather than books or hand-pressing. It REALLY makes all the difference in the world.

I also don't make the pigment "soupy" when I'm getting ready to press - I make it "gummy" or "goupy" like.... um... frosting? thick pea soup? Anytime I accidentally overdo the alcohol and make it WET, I have problems (I use an eye dropper now though, so I don't generally have that problem).

 

[evie42]

I have to agree that pressing with a c-clamp makes all the difference. I've successfully pressed orange matte, entremauve, pinked mauve, mauvement (wow lots of mauves?). The matte ones can be a bit tricky, I thought I messed it up at first because you can't get it into a goopy consistency, it was either too wet or too chunky. So what I did was let it sit in the wet stage for ~5 min until it evaporated a little, then pressed it. When it first came out, the color was definitely not right, it was way dark and ugly looking. But after all the alcohol dried up (took about 3 days), it returned to its normal color and texture. It also takes a lot more pigment to make a decently sized pan, I think it took 25% more pigment than what I was using for the other pans.