Dear MascaraJunkiez,
What you are doing is called libel, if you don't know what it is, look it up in a dictionary....
Do you have any proof that TKB is actually selling mica's that aren't pure? Do you work at a laboratory? Can you actually test them other than swatching them and looking at them?
And how do you know TKB and SC have the same supplier. Do you work in the same business? I know for a fact SC has a couple, TKB has a couple but how do you know they are the same? Do you know how many suppliers there are worldwide? Do a calculation of probability and let us know the outcome.
How do you determine what is the same color, just by looking at them? Do you own a microscope? Did you know that particle size has an import influence on how shimmery and opaque a product is. Furthermore a lot of suppliers sell 'almost' the same color but in different particle sizes and with different ingredients.
What surprises me is that you are mouthing off a pigment supplier but don't seem to have any knowledge about the subject. It has been said before, but the ingredients you mention are quite common in pigments. You might add Carmine and ferric ferrocyanide to you 'on top of your head' list. These are also quite common in colored mica's.
So selling over a 150 mica's is proof of exactly what?
Now try looking up the MSDS at SC and the ones at TKB, i did..., I checked a couple of colors and couldn't find any difference. Maybe i just looked up the wrong ones but maybe you should support your claims with a some proof??
Since when is shimmer a standard to determine quality in a mica? Do you know how silly that sounds?
And what is exactly the problem with mixing colors? It's not cutting them. I don't see any problem with buying a sample of mixed colors, spares me in buying 2 or more samples and have to do it myself and ending up with twice as much.....
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MascaraJunkiez /img/forum/go_quote.gif Nope..it's tkb definitely, and her micas aren't pure...they do have additives. Off of the top of my head I know she has zinc oxide, tin oxide, silica, iron oxide, mica in the majority of her ingredient listings. Her ingredient list is even longer than the rest of the mica suppliers. they all have the same supplier, she just cuts her's and makes different combinations of the same color and resells them. Nothing wrong with it. But it's obvious (based off of the filler ingredients in her micas; the fact that she has over 150 micas while her competitors with the exact same colors have a more concentrated base with less filler and they also have less shades) that she's cutting and reselling the sme thing over and over again.
I've never seen the ingredients you listed on any of CS's stuff (not to say it's not there...I just haven't seen it). I don't know what reason there would be for them to not list additives in their products that aid in adherence they don't seem to have a problem with using unnatural or controversial ingredients.
I guess to each his own. Between my sister and I, we have the full sized version of the majority of tkbs micas as well as CS. So I know for fact that they are selling the same colors, just curious as to why the quality is so drastically different. CS are much more pigmented (metalic-like/oxide based), less fall out, easier application and glide..but no shimmer. TKB's are more SHIMMERY with less glide, fall out, and the "need" for a base...plus...there's a good chance that you are repurchasing the same color you did before...this is especially the case for her bronzes.
I'd recommend buying from both and mixing the colors...that way you get the best of both worlds.