Product Review: Gold Rush!

May 10, 2010

Here is a comparison of most of the golds I have tried and which ones I actually have in my kit.

Favorite, 100% Never leave Home Without It Gold: Kryolan Interferenze Bronze

• This one is Super Duper shiny and luscious.  It makes pretty jewelry- very realistic metallic shine.
• Makes an awesome lipstick for almost every design.
• Has a bit of a reddish brown undertone so it doesn’t work well as a wash for fair skin.  You have to be heavy handed unless your model’s skin is mocha colored or darker.
• I use it for flower swirl bases on dark skin just like I would use Kryolan Int. Silber on fair skin.

Here it is used for a Princess Tiara on fair skin:

And here is one on darker skin:

Here it is as lipstick on fair skin (Hey, it’s me!):

But!  It does not work well for dots or for linework over other colors.

So if I’m looking to use a gold for linework over a base color, then I pick my Wolfe/DFX gold.

• Solid, bold yellow gold
• Excellent dots and great for line work
• Kind of boring when used as a base-  Even a bit dull for tigers, though it could work
• Wolfe and DFX golds are interchangeable to me.

The dots of “yellow” on top of the black swirls are Wolfe Gold:

Now, I also bought a 2ml size of Snaz Gold (Metallic, Electric, Sparkle?  I’m not sure) when I was first sampling everything.  It was kind of bleh and didn’t work well for my needs.  Very transparent and not shiny enough for me.

DFX Old Gold - I just got this one in the mail and I will be keeping it with me for gigs.  Very pretty!  It is kind of a dark, copperish gold.  I haven’t used it yet, but I will report back soon!

Here is a comparison picture of the golds I have:

Clockwise from Top: DFX Old Gold, Kryolan Int. Bronze, Wolfe/DFX Gold

Clockwise from Top: DFX Old Gold, Kryolan Int. Bronze, Wolfe/DFX Gold

I have not tried: Paradise, Kryolan Metallic Gold, Fardel (I’m dying for some of this!!), FWW, Ben Nye Lumiere Creams

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