Metallic Mica Powder

This is metallic mica powder intended for floors, not the resin-art pigment sold by the ounce for tabletops and tumblers. A metallic epoxy pigment for floors has to disperse cleanly into a much larger volume of 100% solids resin, hold its color through a full exothermic cure at floor thickness, and still move the way an installer expects when the coating is worked. That is a different job than tinting a two-ounce pour, and it is the reason floor-grade pigment is bought by the container rather than the jar.

The pigment works by suspension. Mica platelets stay in the wet film and orient with the resin as it is spread and moved, so the finished floor shows depth, drift and light-and-dark movement instead of a flat single tone. That movement is created by the installer, not by the pigment. Squeegee direction, roller work, a spiked roller, and how long the film is left open before it kicks all change the pattern. Two floors from the same container can look completely different, which is the point of the system and also the reason a sample board matters.

Metallic pigment is dosed per gallon of mixed resin. Where the resin manufacturer publishes a loading rate, use that rate exactly, because loading affects more than color. Too little pigment and the floor goes translucent and shows the primer and the slab. Too much and you can affect film clarity, flow and cure. If you are pairing this pigment with a resin that does not publish a rate for it, mix and cure a sample board at the loading you intend to run before you commit a whole floor to it.

Metallic floors are a system, not a single product. They are usually built over a primed or base-coated slab, poured or spread at a heavier film than a standard color coat, and then sealed with a clear topcoat, because the metallic layer itself is not the wear surface. Plan the topcoat before you pick the color. A gloss clear deepens the metallic effect and makes the movement read stronger. A satin or anti-slip topcoat flattens it.