Preview

Going to go ahead with these amped-up Arcanes, and see how it works out (see previous post). Photos do not even come close to showing the colour changes and dimension (but you probably know how hard it is to capture that in pictures). They look fairly right on application, but pictures of the actual product turned out very dull. These are all transparent. Not completely sheer, but not opaque. Of course on a sticky base they will seem like it, but can easily be layered over other colours. For example, if you applied a plain black or dark grey shadow or liner, then a thin layer of Pixie Epoxy over that, then applied one of these, you'd have a very dramatic sparkly effect.

Edited to change swatches.

About arm's length away, and in low indoor lighting. Yes, the pink one really is intense in some light.

Angled and closer to the same light (camera compensated by darkening it).

The determining factor on keeping these and building upon the collection will be how well they sell for the "second round". With every new release, there are rapid sales in the first few days. Sometimes more than others (Royalty, the new purple blush, sold astoundingly well in the first 2-3 weeks, much to our surprise). After the initial rush, if there is still demand and response is good, we shall keep going with them. The price will be higher due to the considerably higher cost of specialized colorants and the ratio in which they are used.

14 July update

Hello everyone.
Going to make this short, as my office time is quite limited this week. We've been working, when time allowed, on a new higher level of Arcanes for a while. The problem is, these are considerably more expensive to produce, so if introduced into the product line, they will be a little higher priced. So, and while not exactly limited edition, they may be included on a test basis. If they sell well after the initial first few days rush, then they will be kept and probably expanded. New products which are poor sellers after a couple weeks are somewhat of a waste of space, time, and ingredients, especially ones which have methods or colourants specific to them. The bright semi-mattes recently released sold fast at first then fell flat and are hardly moving at all after a short time. So we will see if the new Really Neat Shiny Things are worth it.

Pressed shadows are undergoing a slight base/additive tweak (just altering ratios in most) this week, so those won't be restocked for a while.