Review on FolkArt Milky White Milk Paint - Assorted Colors, 6.8 Oz Bottle For All Your DIY Needs by Dee Kray

The paint itself is just all right. I used Sumter Blue and Tavern Ale to paint a kitchen cart, and there was a marked difference in consistency and coverage between the two, so there’s one strike. The company says the first coat goes on like a stain, and the second like a paint. That was true of the Tavern Ale - the first coat was thin and easily showed the wood grain. I liked that look and didn’t apply a second coat. The Sumter Blue, however, covered just like chalk paint, total coverage with the first coat and no wood grain showing at all. I left that with one coat also. I bought this locally because I needed it today, and the chain craft store that I bought it from (hint: starts with an M) didn’t have the oil you’re supposed to use, so I’ll be finishing this with regular wax for chalk paint and hoping that works OK.My biggest gripe, though, is actually with the packaging. First of all, the bottle has a narrow neck - so narrow, in fact, that the smaller of the two milk paint brushes that FolkArt sells, and which I made the mistake of buying, won’t fit in the bottle, so you have to scrounge up a jar or a bowl or something the pour it into. Come on, guys, it’s a 6-oz bottle, I’m gonna use most or all of it on one piece of furniture, lemme just dunk my brush. Then there’s the seal on the bottle. Please tell me why, in the name of all that is holy, does anyone think that supergluing one of those little aluminum seals that’s the exact same size as the opening it’s covering is a good idea for ANYTHING, much less PAINT? And I’m talking exact size here — no little overlap to grab hold of, no little tab to pull up. I ruined the manicure on both thumbnails trying to pry up the edge of the seal on one of the jars without success — you’d think they had the Crown Jewels in there, that’s how secure it was. I gradually realized the only way I was going to get the bottle open was to poke a hole in the foil. But anything I used to poke it with was going to get paint on it, so scissors and knives were out. I finally used a wooden barbecue skewer that I could throw away. Once I got a hole in the foil, I had to peel it back. Yep, got paint all over my hands because it came off in little pieces. So there’s all that. Finally, if you’re thinking that, because it’s water-soluble, it’ll wash out of your clothes if you get any on you, think again. I got some on my shorts while I was wrestling with the foil and immediately went to wash it out. Too bad, pants ruined.