Pigment Pressing Gone Wrong - Help??

[Guinevere]

Hey

I've been pressing some pigments lately and one of them went horribly wrong. I'm talking about "Noctural Plum".

The pics are clickable and you can see what I mean. It literally cracked into these little pieces.

I used 70% alcohol and I used this method with other pigments before and it was no problem.

Any ideas why that happened? May it be because of the matte consistency/finish Noctural Plum pigment??

Any of you experiences with that?

Would be grateful for suggestions!!

 

[malaviKat]

I believe you need to use something that contains dimethicone to press matte pigments as they're a different texture than the others. EnKore on Youtube has a video about this... I believe he uses Face and Body mixing medium. You can use other things like EZ Press from Coastal Scents.

(FYI I haven't pressed any matte pigments so this is not based on personal experience.)

 

[Guinevere]

I have the EZ Press, but I wasn't so happy with it, so I changed back to the alcohol method, but maybe the matte's need that really. I'm going to try it again with it.

 

[DirtyHarriet]

To be honest, I've never had much luck with matte pigments. The Encore method left them so hard that they were impossible to use. I never get that creamy shadow texture.

 

[dietcokeg]

This has happened to me before - basically - crush all the eyeshadow up again so its fine and loose - and i usually use 90% alcohol - makybe the 70% isnt making the bond strong enough? press its on with a coin covered in cloth and it should work! hope that helped somewhat - if all else fails - which i sincerly hope it doesnt you can just use it a a pigment!

 

[Guinevere]

I'll try,
Thanks