Crystal Pearlescent Clearcoat 

Crystal pearlescent clearcoats are part of the colour change effects and their main characteristic is to bring, in superimposition through an automotive topcoat, a "light" colour effect produced by the topcoat components, through reflection and light.

Apart, of course, from the protection and gloss provided by the UHS bodywork topcoat, which forms the basis of this formula, the result of these topcoats is that the base colour of the bodywork is retained, with little or no change, but in addition a second colour is added, which sometimes appears depending on the angle and the light.

Crystal Pearlescent Clearcoats

These effect topcoats are formulated with the latest generations of mother-of-pearl: they are transparent and produce a change of colour depending on the angle of view.

In addition, the transparent "Crystal" mother-of-pearl they contain offers a strong reflective and iridescent power, day and night.

A Crystal pearlescent topcoat must be used in combination with a base coat, and therefore applied over an undercoat of a certain colour. For example: orange, green, blue... Combinations with opposite colours are the most interesting, as they create dramatic colour changes.

Example: Orange background / Green Pearlescent Crystal Clearcoat

The darker the background colour, the more obvious the effects of Extrem Crystal Pearl topcoats, while conversely, the lighter the background colour, or even white, the more discreet the effect.

Tips for use

It is not useful, and therefore not recommended, to superimpose effects, double them, or accumulate them. What does this mean?

One should not apply a mother-of-pearl on a mother-of-pearl, or a mother-of-pearl on a metal . Because the effects cancel each other out.

So, if you have a metallic paint, you should not apply a Crystal topcoat on it.

Two different application techniques

Crystal topcoat has the advantage of making this effect two in one (topcoat + mother-of-pearl).

However, it should be noted that in the case of slow-setting topcoats or if the wet topcoat is slightly displaced during drying, the pearlescent particles will also move and cause the marbling effect to disappear.

For more qualitative work, it is therefore possible to use Crystal powder pearlescent materials and to mix them with a transparent 1K basecoat.

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