Which base is BETTER for CANDY Paint - Pearls or MicroFlake? (Surprising Results)

So.. Pearls or Flake?

Pearls are much more subtle, just gives an iridescent quality to the color. Personally, I prefer the sparkle of the flakes. But I think it would depend on the color and car.

The traditional pearl has a smoother look. The other has a texture look to it. I think it’s depends on the car and color. Great video.

Deffo the pearl side for me, it's cleaner.

Got to say that I like the fact you did the glass beaker for the mixing. Looks so much better than the bucket.

I love how the glass container has a pour spout and they never use it when pouring into the spray gun hopper.

Hard to answer the question , cause it all depends on where you wanna go with your color effect!...i can see people liking the micro-flake more, and see others liking the pearl base more!...i just love these experiments!...keep it up DYC team and thank you for all the work that goes into these vids!

I liked how you showed something as simple as a dividing line takes a fair amount of time. I've learned a few things and the painting part of the " paint job " is the easy part. Prep, sanding, repair, more prep, more sanding, more sanding and tape are the hard parts. As for pear vs flake....I feel you get a better effect on body line changes. The flake is cool but it's like looking at a bass boat. Putting one down then doing a graphic with the other might be cool.

IMO the pearls give the finished coat a much smoother look and doesn’t look Orange peeled and rough textured. The subtleness of the pearls are a cleaner look for me. But as always, love the vids and content y’all are putting out! Keep em coming, bro!

I have a couple things to say… I love the amount of detail you put into prepping a car for what is essentially just an experiment. You really care and love for your work and it shows. I’ve been watching for years and years but I just now saw the first sign of aging and it made me wonder. How long have you guys been doing this? And how did you start? I absolutely love the content of this channel, I love that you guys listen and interact with your viewers even after you blew up. Keep up the great work guys!

It honestly depends on the look you want. The micro-flake gives that old school Candy Bling color pop. The Pearl base gives a nice subtle metallic effect that accentuates the candy color. Both look great.

Definitely pearl. Smoother, shinier and altogether lovely.

The pear side looks smoother and looks more uniform. I agree that it’s just personal preference on if you like flake or not but the flake did nothing to enhance the candy finish. Now I think if you did this same test in Autoflex you’d get a more comparable result and it obviously would look better from further away. But I do think a silver metallic base or any lighter metallic base in general is going to give you a better representation the candy color of choice every time.

Definitely depends on the look you're going for, I like the smoother look of pearls, personally, which is why I keep asking and hoping for a matte pluto midnight flip sometime

Would love to see a video where both pearls and micro flakes are used together with candy and see how it comes out, maybe flake then pearl or pearl then flake, candy on top of it

Both look amazing!!!! For me I would say Pearl. But would love to see this in person. Thank you for using Blue

Wow, both look amazing. I think it comes down to the look you are after. Personally I prefer the Pearl side for that foe color shift effect but if you are after a 'metalic' look I think the flake side would be the way to go. Thanks for the video!

I think they both look great but I am partial to the silver micro flake on the driver's side better it just pops.

The pearls for the "wet" look is gives the paint. Although the flake is absolutely awesome as well!

I like them both but pearl looks better IMO. Thanks for the contrast.