Review: Kryolan metallics and 'inferenze' colors

I got a palette of Kryolan colors, all metallic and inferenze.

The metallic colors are amazing. Excellent coverage, deep colors. Very full, rich, and dimensional. I wish I had more of those. I do not have a silver, just the bronze, copper, gold. I'll get the silver soon.

The inferenze are also very pretty but NOT particularly opaque. You might have to do a layer, let it dry, and then layer again to get opacity.

I haven't tried much linework with these but I don't get he sense that they would be excellent for it... because they blend better than paradise stuff does. I'm talking seamless, perfect gradations between colors where you cannot tell where one stops and the other begins.

I got some of this stuff for metal robot type work and the metallics I have are just great.

I get the sense that the infereze would blend well with other colors and be solid over some sort of base, or mixed with some other color to give some subtle shimmer and depth.

In all cases the colors are rich and full and gorgeous.

I'd love to see some photos!

You can see the bronze (it might have been copper) and then inferenze blue, red, and purple. You can see that they aren't quite as opaque... especially the purple. The blue and red blend together to create a different (similar) purple shade with a heavier coverage.

Ooh, they're pretty! I love the look of the blue!

Yes, the blue was the strongest of the inferenze colors I've tested so far. I've still got a green and such to go.

The inferenze.. PB? on the back is ULTRA soft. Like play dough. And super super thin.... not really sure what it is supposed to look like. Kind of a clear blueish translucent sheen. I think it is mainly meant to go over other colors?

OK, so I did more tests. I tried putting the PB/opal white over blue. It worked but... well, as you can see in the pic the dark blue becomes light blue. It does gain a 'sheen' though, semi-metallic.

The PB by itself is next to the dark blue. This flecky white color-ish thing. Horrible coverage, you can still see skin tones and such if you look. Not super metallic.

The Nacre though is super translucent and actually adds a more metallic look without nearly the color shift. Moreover, the color is more 'true' as in a navy blue still looks navy despite being a lighter color value, whereas the opal REALLY shifted the color. The Nacre can also just add a shimmer effect to normal skin tones by itself wheras the PB/Opal has this icky-white ness to it. Also, as mentioned before, the Opal is this super mushy consistency, it is very hard to load a brush.



In the pic, starting at the elbow, it is the Nacre, the opal/PB, dark blue, opal mixed with dark blue, and then various other Kryolan inferenze colors (dark metallic blue, green, etc.

Here we have the copper metallic vs the copper Inferenze. The inferenze is brighter, more 'orange' or new penny color and the metallic is more brown/ old penny color.

Both are about the same level of 'metallic'/shiny. Depending on the light angle they are either defined or really easy to blend. I think this can have some cool revealed effects.

On the whole so far I'm very impressed with the Kryolan metallics. I haven't used wolfe yet but these are very nice and blend super well. (like airbrush well).

You will note that once again, inferenze has a less heavy coverage than the metallic. Granted, it might be possible to load the brush better and get a perfect coat first shot... but the metallic kryolans do this effortlessly.

Finally, I should point out that once the paint dries (and it dries pretty fast) it is very stable. I gave it a hard smudge/rub (hard enough to make my skin hurt) and while the paint moved a little and some edges got a little blurred, for the most part the paint stayed very crisp. This is true for all the paints.

I have a few interferenz and I need to work with them more. I love my regular Kryolan colors, but the interferenz is almost grease paint to me. They are ok in butterflies for an accent color, but black Wolfe line work doesn't look as nice over it.

I will say I used the gold for a full face (The Star) in a christmas play and it looked gorgeous and stayed all day. The glitter also stuck to it better.

I have some DFX black coming, I'll test ways of getting sharp lines over it.

I think the absolute key will be letting it dry. Once it was dry the Kryolan seemed ultra stable.

I have that lovely blue interferenze but the coverage is definitely sheer. I haven't bought another interferenze since. It does go great under or over colors as an accent but that's where it stops for me.
The metallics have a sort of lack lustre to them. <-- I think that's what I'm trying to say.
For instance, the gold is more "golden" but not GOLD like Goldfinger, IMHO. I will probably never buy Kryolan metallics again either, especially not after getting a taste of the Mehron metallic powders. I plan on giving Wolfe a try too.

Thanks for this thread. I was considering an Interferenze pallette but now think I will hold off for a while. Seems like I can get much the same sheer effect with pressed powders much cheaper. I do hear though that Interferenze bronze is luscious so that may have to be a "single" purchase.

The exception would be the silver. It is a really nice metalic white...it is not silver. I like it. Mozart pink and Strauss wine are nice for little girls lip stick. I actually think that the ben nye powders have more opacity than the interferneze metatlics.

how do you use powders?