You may wonder what makes them different than all the other powdered pigments (such as Pearl Ex) on the market. Perfect Pearls contain a binder within the powder itself that is lacking in all other powdered pigments on the market. This means you don't have to add gum arabic to your powders to create a watercolor paint and you don't have to spray it with a sealant when you are done. Perfect Pearls comes in a package of four colors, which includes two brushes (VERY nice high quality brushes, one fine point for detail painting and one larger round brush for dusting) and a "Perfect Medium" inkpad which is used to stamp with and allows you to brush the dry Perfect Pearls over the wet ink. The package also contains a very useful tips sheet. The colors available per package (which runs $14.99 retail) are as follows:

Perfect Pearls Metallics set: Bronze, Copper, Gold, Pearl, 2 brushes and the mini Perfect Medium pad.

Perfect Pearls Interference set: Interference Blue, Interference Green, Interference Red, Interference Violet, 2 brushes and the mini Perfect Medium pad.

Perfect Pearls Naturals set: Blue Smoke, Kiwi, Plum, Rust, 2 brushes and the mini Perfect Medium pad.

Perfect Pearls Pastels set: Berry Twist, Blush, Sunflower, Turquoise, 2 brushes and the mini Perfect Medium pad.

Perfect Pearls Jewels set: Forever Blue, Forever Green, Forever Red, Forever Violet, 2 brushes and the mini Perfect Medium pad.

Ranger also sells a standard size Perfect Medium pad and the reinker for it. It's my opinion that the brushes included in this package alone are more than worth the cost of the set. They are extremely high quality brushes. I love it that Ranger gives me a packaged product that includes EVERYTHING I need to use the Perfect Pearls at a very reasonable cost. This product is VERY versatile and extremely convenient to use.

You can mix the Perfect Pearls into a watercolor paint simply by adding nothing more than water. The more water you add, the more translucent the color becomes. If you don't want to use a palette to mix the powder into a paint, then use a waterbrush or blender pen. Just dip your waterbrush or blender pen into the powder and then apply it on your surface. The colors are translucent enough that you can mix shades "wet into" directly on your surface, or apply a wet color on top of a dry color and still achieve beautiful shading and highlights. Perfect Pearls are also outstanding when used in combination with other products such as watercolors, pastel pencils, chalks, colored pencils, mixed into wet Radiant Pearls, markers, etc etc etc.... as I said, they are EXTREMELY versatile.

Perfect Pearls can also be used "dry". Stamp on your surface using either the included Perfect Medium pad or an embossing/pigment inkpad of choice, use the larger round brush to "dust" the dry Perfect Pearls over the stamped area. This is a fantastic look, and if you try the interference colors over dark (black, navy blue, etc..) cardstocks, that is also outstanding. You can brush the dry Perfect Pearls over UTEE tiles (or mix it into melted UTEE), on top of polymer clay prior to or after baking.