As people become more and more interested in customizing their cars, thanks to entertainment like Pimp My Ride and The Fast and The Furious, paint manufacturers have stepped up to the plate to develop more kinds of custom car paint. This is a direct attempt to capitalize on the growing trend towards automobile personalizations, which is worth over twenty one billion dollars in the custom car aftermarket.
The main difference is the wide available of colors that are being created to satisfy the desire to be unique that is shared by most custom car hobbyists and professionals. The trend is now for dramatic, bold paints and especially through what are known as high tech color shifting paints that change hue as the vehicle is rotated in the light.
Some of the prettiest color-shift paints shift from blue to purple, red to gold, green to purple or silver to green. Nowadays you can request for these colors to be applied not only to custom cars but also more pedestrian cars such as Cavaliers, BMWS, You could customize a Toyota or an Accord as well but mainly these paints are favored by the Pimp My Ride type enthusiast who is busy blinging out a wreck of some kind in his or her garage.
These color-shift paints are manufactured using ChromaFlair light pigment, which is a product, developed by a company from Santa Rosa California called Flex. This type of custom car paint contains little flakes of pigment that gives it the ability to change colors.
These ChromaFlair light pigment flakes are also used to make fabrics and plastics shimmer as well. When mixed with paint the flakes cause the color of the paint to shift creating sparkling and color shifting effects that are spectacular and one of a kind.
If you are thinking of applying a scene or graphics to your customized vehicle then you might find this paint to be an exciting option. At auto shows all over the world, artists are using this type of custom car paint in their airbrush canisters, as a way of painting graphics and also as the starry background for their drawings. Some artists also use color-shift custom car paint to decorate the interior of the car as it can make ordinary parts of the car such as dashboards, cup holders and consoles gleam. It can also be used to create a faux metallic looking trim around the edges of a car or to highlight such customized features as hub caps, wings and spoilers.
Obviously this type of custom car paint is is very glitzy it automatically makes just about anything it touches into a bling so it is a quick fix for anyone who wants to instantly transform a boring car part or accessory into a glittering statement.