Second, any colorant or leafing you apply to glass, such as the products we will be discussing here, Rub N Buff and Pinata tints will wear off gracefully as commercial gold leafing does. You must frost the glass first, then color it The Etch Cream will only frost the glass, and since it gets rinsed off under water, will not leave any colorant on the glass. On this page we will address all those issues and give you the instructions on how to use each product successfully, what you need to know about each product and what not to do.įirst and most importantly, adding color to the Etch Cream will NOT work.
There is also some misguided information about coloring an etching. They do not know which product to use or how to use it. We get asked all the time by customers how to go about coloring an etching.