Review on 🎨 InstaMorph Pigment Pack: Enhance Your Moldable Plastic Creations! by Kristen Reid

Some people have mentioned how to flatten pigment grains and cut off chunks or strips for Instamorph coloring if you want more color control or don't have deep colors or need less intensity than just a single grain. you get if you don't use much more base product than you need. I would advise, especially if you are planning to make multiple things and want them all to be the same color, not to mix colors in the Instamorph base product but to mix colors first. I usually take about 10 beads of each color and black, then roll them into a ball and then flatten as described to get a rectangular shape of each base color about 0.25mm thick. The reason the length, width and thickness are the same is because when you cut a strip that is the same length and width, the thickness of each is the same and you can actually use a color chart to determine the number of pieces or strips of the same color. Mix with another to get your color. This makes it much more accurate than just trying to shave off a few beads and hoping we shave off the same amount. Then I just mix my paint with pigments and make the same rectangle out of it and then use strips of that to then add them to the base product for an Instamorph. It is very difficult to mix colors on Instagram and not achieve an intensity that you cannot control. If you really want to make a color many shades lighter, you'll need to add a lot of base product to make it happen. Having purple already mixed with red and blue, which I can take small amounts of and gradually add to the base instamorph, gives me a lot more control when trying to achieve a lavender or lilac hue. Adding color is very easy to achieve the desired depth or intensity, while you cannot remove color once added to the base product. So once they have been added to the base the only way to go from a dark or deep or more intense color is to add a lighter shade to add more base and then you can get a lot more than you wanted when you eventually achieve the desired color. This is when I first tried using lavender to get enough violet light and actually ended up with way more lavender plastic than I've ever needed for one project, or 6 other projects for that matter. It also makes it a lot easier to get good tone when you want to add a very, very small but measurable bit of black. If you're in the habit of always making the rectangles the same size, you can easily keep track of the amount you used to create the color by writing down the length and width of the strips you used. This way you already have a color to use when a project repeats a color over and over again. Whatever amount of pigment I didn't use, I put it in small ziplock bags to use when I make or renovate a project it was used on, or to use when mixing other colors.