Problems with Snazaroo Electric Black

I bought Snaz Electric Black thinking it would be a pretty shimmery black, but I can't get it to work. What's wrong with me? It doesn't matter if I use a brush or sponge, it just ends up looking like a non-sparkly, thin black. Am I going at this the wrong way? Has anyone else had problems with this color? Thanks!

should have got dfx metallic black... stick that icky snaz in the swap shop and buy the dfx

Wow! Sounds like it would make great 3D shadows, like I used on the dragon boy looking in the mirror and dragon eyes of the girl on my site ; )
Susan

Can you post a pic of your tries?

I'll try to get some up soon.

I'm finally posting a picture of this. It worked better this time, but still not super sparkly. You can see it applied with both the brush and sponge.

It sounds like it's better for shadows or sheer bases. I bet it'd make a great black lace(like on a vail). Sometimes you have to think out of the box to find a use for certain brands & colors of paint.
DFX metallic baby blue was like that. I now use it for a sheer fairy face.

I think it is pretty. Looks like it would make good line work on a butterfly. Not so intense for the summer months.

I agree... It looks pretty smokey, and not at all like I would expect a metalic black to look like. Idk about the rest of the forum, but when I hear the word 'black', I expect BLACK! but then, I'm not a fan of snaz... it's never worked well for me, so i'm biased...

I was (trying) to use it yesterday doing Batmans and it was just aweful.

It seemed to look better when sponged on, but I did have to go over that spot a few times. So it might be alright for a slightly sparkly Batman mask?

That is what I was doing too. Sponging over and over and it was taking me forever to get them done. They were not looking good so I took the picture down for the rest of the day. The boys had to choose something else. Thank goodness for speedy Spidermans!!

My Snaz Metallic Black looks just as new as the day I bought it... a year ago. It was just perfectly useless. I wish they'd invest in perfecting their pigments and maybe providing sturdier containers for their paints. I'm still boggled at the Child Safe rating when the paints degrade certain types of poly containers!

LOL! Jayde! I've never had Snaz around long enough to see what it did to plastics. It gets so goopy in the summer that it's used up fast.

You should try adding glitter to it. I had a black one opened to use as a base and a nice burst of wind came as i was poofing glitter on the final product and BAM glittered black aka "electric black". Although I like my version better. The nice sheerness lets bright colors like fushia and UV pop out!

Psalmbook wrote:LOL! Jayde! I've never had Snaz around long enough to see what it did to plastics. It gets so goopy in the summer that it's used up fast.

If you saw how much paint I have (all together now: tackle tart...but not as bad as a certain Canadian), you'd understand. T

he vast majority of my venues are indoors so I rarely have the issue with the gloopy paints. I found out about Snaz moonlighting as a container monster after it started eating the bottoms of the containers that I'd used to assemble mini kits for my helpers for a church function last year. Every one of those containers was compromised and a couple had given up the fight and just caved in as soon as I started trying to transfer the paint out of them. I don't use those paints so I got to see, first hand, the digestive tendencies of Snaz paints.

BluAngL83 wrote:You should try adding glitter to it. I had a black one opened to use as a base and a nice burst of wind came as i was poofing glitter on the final product and BAM glittered black aka "electric black". Although I like my version better. The nice sheerness lets bright colors like fushia and UV pop out!

I think I'm going to try that...do you have to melt it first?

no, well I didnt...The wind did it for me...that sounds like a good Idea, though i would feel weird melting it

Just put it in sunshine... it'll melt just fine

I've read before how the Snazz monster eats certain plastics, but I could never figure out which kind of plastic.

I have some newer "muffin tin" types of palattes that are rigid white plastic, like what other painting palattes are made if. It's not that kind right? It's the softer, cloudy-white kind?

Uh oh, how long does it take to eat the plastic? I guess I'd better check my palette.

All I know about Snaz eating plastic is that it eats the grey Grimas pots.

I've got Snaz in the Snaz brand palettes, in a Cepacol container (I made a split cake) which is fine after several years of contact, an in my Loew-Cornell Paint Saver palette as split cakes with no signs of any problems.

I haven't tried putting face paints in generic plastic containers that are sold for other things - I'm paranoid and figure they'll leach toxic chemicals into the paints!

I figured the Cepacol container is food grade plastic so it would be safe.

I've also been putting other brands in the Snaz plastic palettes with no problems for years.

Paint-saver palette is similar. Yay!