Mad Micas soap rainbows 🌈 (colour reference)

[josianeg]

Hi! I’m not sure if it’s the right place to post this, but I thought about it and couldn’t figure it out... moved

It’s not a company review, not finished soap... I meant it more like a reference of Mad Micas colours for my fellow soapers. ❤

I know the website has a picture of each of them in CP vs MP soap, but what I thought was cool about these pictures is seeing the colours all together in the same pictures.

Might be very Aspie on my part, but I know I enjoy that kind of things and thought I might not be the only one?

All pictures were taken outside in natural daylight on a cloudy November day in Montreal, so I increased the exposition a bit, added some warmth and removed a bit of contrast and shadows. The colours look pretty accurate on my IPhone’s screen.

First, pretty rainbow picture! Weeeee!!!

In the next picture, the micas were added to clear MP base* and go as follows (they are all from Mad Micas except the bigger bag which is from Nurture soap):

Top row, left to right:
• Flashdance (MM)
• Northern lights (NS)
• Harold’s purple crayon (MM)
• Twilight (MM)
• Key west blue (MM)
• Blue tide (MM)

Bottom row, left to right:
• Strawberry moonshine (MM)
• Spicy tomato (MM)
• Always a bridesmaid (MM)
• Tequila sunrise (MM)
• Bright yellow raincoat (MM)
• Olive martini (MM)
• Crazy eyes (MM)

Observations:

• Spicy tomato is a pretty realistic red for fresh sweet cherries, even if the colour is a bit too warm. (It was my first time using micas, does anyone who if they behave like paints? Could I add a pinch of blue to make the colour colder?)

• I’m crazy ... about “Crazy eyes”! Such a pretty green and so shimmery in MP!

• Although “Always a bridesmaid” was in the oranges sample kit, it looks pretty red to me.

• Colour difference between “Harold’s purple crayon” and “Twilight” is hard to see in pictures, easier to see in person. The first has a really pretty shimmer that make it very interesting to look at.

• “Strawberry moonshine” would be a perfect bubblegum pink!


* I used both clear MP bases from Nurture soap and COOP COCO (in Montreal). Now I understand what NS means by “no sweat” base... the COOP COCO definitely isn’t. I’ll use the one from NS from now on.

** I was so excited to use my self made cherries silicon mold and even more when they came out! I made it with fresh cherries and made sure not to lay all of them the same way so the resulting fruits would look more realistic. Now I can’t wait to use them as toppers on the frosting of my first cupcake soaps!

 

[josianeg]

Thanks for moving my thread!

 

[GemstonePony]

I love this SO much! And those cherries are absolutely adorable!
You can mix Micas, but start with way less of the accent color than you think you'll need. I have Spicy Tomato as well, and it can be easily overpowered by other more finely ground Micas.

 

[artemis]

Might be very Aspie on my part, but I know I enjoy that kind of things and thought I might not be the only one?
...
First, pretty rainbow picture! Weeeee!!!

I showed your rainbow to my Aspie daughter. She said, "Oh, wow! That is awesome! The red one drives me crazy, though."

 

[FiddleFoot]

This is fabulous! Thank you for sharing!

 

[josianeg]

I showed your rainbow to my Aspie daughter. She said, "Oh, wow! That is awesome! The red one drives me crazy, though."

The red one?

 

[GemstonePony]

The red one?

Because it's cherries instead of dots like all the others.

 

[artemis]

The red one?

The cherries at the red spot of the rainbow. The rainbow is made of all those neat columns of spheres and then there are the cherries doing their own thing.

 

[josianeg]

Because it's cherries instead of dots like all the others.

Yeah, I agree. I almost didn’t include them in the picture for that exact reason (same for the purple - 3rd colour from the left - because I didn’t have a big ball of that one) but then I though the idea was to make a color reference picture, not artwork!

 

[artemis]

Yeah, I agree. I almost didn’t include them in the picture for that exact reason

I asked her about the purple! Since they were spheres, they got a pass.

 

[Mamma Mays]

Hi! I’m not sure if it’s the right place to post this, but I thought about it and couldn’t figure it out... moved

It’s not a company review, not finished soap... I meant it more like a reference of Mad Micas colours for my fellow soapers. ❤

I know the website has a picture of each of them in CP vs MP soap, but what I thought was cool about these pictures is seeing the colours all together in the same pictures.

Might be very Aspie on my part, but I know I enjoy that kind of things and thought I might not be the only one?

All pictures were taken outside in natural daylight on a cloudy November day in Montreal, so I increased the exposition a bit, added some warmth and removed a bit of contrast and shadows. The colours look pretty accurate on my IPhone’s screen.

First, pretty rainbow picture! Weeeee!!!

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In the next picture, the micas were added to clear MP base* and go as follows (they are all from Mad Micas except the bigger bag which is from Nurture soap):

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Top row, left to right:
• Flashdance (MM)
• Northern lights (NS)
• Harold’s purple crayon (MM)
• Twilight (MM)
• Key west blue (MM)
• Blue tide (MM)

Bottom row, left to right:
• Strawberry moonshine (MM)
• Spicy tomato (MM)
• Always a bridesmaid (MM)
• Tequila sunrise (MM)
• Bright yellow raincoat (MM)
• Olive martini (MM)
• Crazy eyes (MM)

Observations:

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• Spicy tomato is a pretty realistic red for fresh sweet cherries, even if the colour is a bit too warm. (It was my first time using micas, does anyone who if they behave like paints? Could I add a pinch of blue to make the colour colder?)

• I’m crazy ... about “Crazy eyes”! Such a pretty green and so shimmery in MP!

• Although “Always a bridesmaid” was in the oranges sample kit, it looks pretty red to me.

• Colour difference between “Harold’s purple crayon” and “Twilight” is hard to see in pictures, easier to see in person. The first has a really pretty shimmer that make it very interesting to look at.

• “Strawberry moonshine” would be a perfect bubblegum pink!


* I used both clear MP bases from Nurture soap and COOP COCO (in Montreal). Now I understand what NS means by “no sweat” base... the COOP COCO definitely isn’t. I’ll use the one from NS from now on.

** I was so excited to use my self made cherries silicon mold and even more when they came out! I made it with fresh cherries and made sure not to lay all of them the same way so the resulting fruits would look more realistic. Now I can’t wait to use them as toppers on the frosting of my first cupcake soaps!

 

[Mamma Mays]

So just to clarify, have you added the micas to m+p soap, in order to then add colour to your own soaps?

 

[josianeg]

So just to clarify, have you added the micas to m+p soap, in order to then add colour to your own soaps?

Hi!

I’m not sure I understand the question...

I made this colour reference to help people chose micas colours from Mad Micas. There is so much choice that one can easily get overwhelmed.

I made the balls for my “bubblegum” soap and before using them, I thought they were too pretty not to be photographed (that’s a recurrent theme in my life ). While I was taking pictures, I thought it would be useful for me to know which ball was which colour so I took pictures of the balls next to the mica bags. Having done all this, I felt like sharing the knowledge (another recurrent theme) with the other members.

I know the colours in clear M+P soap are the closest to the actual micas, and that in my future CP/HP soaps they will look a bit different and won’t shimmer, but that’s fine with me.

 

[Mamma Mays]

Hi!

I’m not sure I understand the question...

I made this colour reference to help people chose micas colours from Mad Micas. There is so much choice that one can easily get overwhelmed.

I made the balls for my “bubblegum” soap and before using them, I thought they were too pretty not to be photographed (that’s a recurrent theme in my life ). While I was taking pictures, I thought it would be useful for me to know which ball was which colour so I took pictures of the balls next to the mica bags. Having done all this, I felt like sharing the knowledge (another recurrent theme) with the other members.

I know the colours in clear M+P soap are the closest to the actual micas, and that in my future CP/HP soaps they will look a bit different and won’t shimmer, but that’s fine with me.

Thank you for clarifying