It seems like nothing wants to work I just want to color adjust my formulas !! I have ground , mortar and pestle got the isododocane to disperse with glass muller and it doesn't want to mix into any of my foundations it won't totally change the color and when I put it in the liquid lip stain it soon flakes off??? Is there anything left I can do why isn't it mixing what am I doing wrong is it still the pigment partly size they should be fine enough now . So frustrating I have been working on this for months and the company I buy my ingredients from offers different advice but I have tried it and all fails
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How do you color adjust a formula that won't accept small amounts of extra color? The answer is to use "monochromatic" adjusting bases. Make several batches, each with only one pigment. To color adjust, you just mix the batch being adjusted with adjusting base(s). Since they are all complete formulas, you are not changing anything but the ratios of the pigments, so the formula itself is unchanged, and therefore remains stable with identical performance.
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Here are the ingredients of formula 1)C11 Isoparaffin, Trimethylsiloxysilicate, Dimethicone, Silica Dimethyl Silylate, Quaternium -18 Bentonite, Propylparaben. May Contain: MICA (CI77019), CI77891, CI 15850, CI45410, CI77492, CI 77499, CI 77491HOW TO APPLY
formula 2). Active Ingredients: Titanium Dioxide (7.3%) Inactive Ingredients: Aqua/Water (Water), Cyclomethicone, Trimethylsiloxysilicate, Butylene Glycol, Boron Nitride, Dimethicone, SD Alcohol 40B, PEG/PPG 18/18 Dimethicone, Nylon 12, Tribehenin, Isododecane, Polyisobutene, Sodium Chloride, Cetyl PEG/PPG 10/1 Dimethicone, Bisabolol, Serica (Silk Powder), Tocopheryl Acetate, Retinyl Palmitate, Malva Sylvestris Flower Extract (Mallow), Lilium Candidum Bulb Extract (Lily), Lactobacillus/Eridictyon Californicum Ferment Extract, Cymbidium Grandiflorum Flower Extract, Alumina, Polydimethylsiloxane/Polymethysilesquioxane Copolymer, Ethylene Brassylate, Methicone, Trisiloxane, Sorbitan Sesquioleate, Tetrasodium EDTA, Methylparaben, Propylparaben, May Contain (+/-): Mica (CI 77019), Titanium Dioxide (CI 77891), Iron Oxides (CI 77491, 77492, 77499)
If you are purchasing a finished product from a manufacturer, you will need to contact that manufacturer to special order the adjusting bases.
If you are just buying retail products, then the best you will ever be able to do is buy other retail products of the same formula and mix them together to get your own versions.