After disappearing for quite a while, I thought I'll make it up by doing some swatches that are long overdue. That was how my TKB Trading collection looked like after 2 purchases. I bought about 30 Mica pigments on the first go, and subsequently fall in love with their products and got more.
This was requested a long, long time ago. Like more than half a year ago. I just never had the time and mood to sit down to do them because I was busy with my projects. So finally, Here they are!.

Disclaimer: I paid for everything that I own from them. The reason Why i have so any of their products is because they are very inexpensive and great value for money. I live in Singapore and the company is based in the USA.

Company: http://www.tkbtrading.com/
What they Offer : TKB trading is a company based in the USA that sells ingredients and misc items needed to product mineral makeup. This means they sell the " flour, egg, sugar" that makes up a cake. You can find mineral makeup base ingredients like, mica, Talc, Silica, zinc oxide etc etc that are used to make mineral makeup foundation powders. They also sell Mica powders and oxide pigments that are used to make eye shadows. Their pigments and mica powders are also good enough to be used on their own as eye shadows. They also sell cosmetic sifter jars, pans, empty compacts. Not forgetting, dyes, lipstick bases, natural oils, liquid silicons, etc etc.

Mica powders (shimmery) : http://www.tkbtrading.com/category.php?category_id=12
Pigments (matte, oxides): http://www.tkbtrading.com/category.php?category_id=43
Jars and tools : http://www.tkbtrading.com/category.php?category_id=14
Go to their website to see more stuff they offer.

TKB Samples :
USD1.50 for 1 table spoon (USd3++ for 1 Oz which is about 3 tablespoons)
*1Table spoon fills a 20gm jar (w/o sifter) you will have enough to fill another 5gm jar if u wanna put a sifter in

USD1.50 / USD0.99 for 1 teaspoon
*1teaspoon fills a 10gm jar (w/o sifter)


This is what my tkb trading pigment/mica collection looks like now. The swatches below are all done on TKB trading's Eye Fix Eye primer.
If you want to see how these pigments look in their jars, go to this post @ http://msfrenchfries.blogspot.com/2009/03/updated-tkb-trading-swatches.html
I wrote some information about their consistency and finish on that post too :)

*click on the pictures to enlarge*

Labels: swatch, tkb trading