Delivering Cosmetic Color and Special Effects
Cosmetics like lipstick and nail polish use strong colors, shimmer, brilliance, and reflectance to enhance consumer features. Consumers seek rich, eye-catching color, which can be difficult to communicate, measure, and manage throughout production. X-Rite offers the technologies and expertise to take full advantage of market opportunities and expand your color palette.
Consumer preference and product development create both challenges and opportunities in the cosmetic global market. Whether you create a solid lipstick with a strong color or a nail polish with interference pigments, we offer the tools you need to maintain consistent color in your existing collections and quickly execute on current trends.
X-Rite enables cosmetic manufacturers the tools to:
- Achieve precise color measurements for both color and appearance.
- Integrate consistent color quality control.
- Achieve color harmony between locations and suppliers.
- Increase overall profitability and reduce waste.
Quality Control of Lipstick and Nail Polish::
A reliable, easy-to-use quality control program for lipstick and nail polish ensures samples can be properly evaluated and controlled. X-Rite cosmetic color measurement tools capture precise color measurements, even for interference pigments, to consistently measure against a standard and provide a quality audit trail.
- MA-5 QC Multi-Angle Handheld Spectrophotometer: Precisely measure metallic colors and special effect pigments found in lipstick and nail polish.
- EFX QC Software: Monitor and manage those effect pigments to gauge quality and look for areas of improvement.
Formulation of Lipstick and Nail Polish:
Reduce the number of iterations to achieve a color match and deliver accurate colorant formulations. X-Rite’s color formulation solutions for lipstick and nail polish achieve the tightest tolerances and process cosmetic color data for optimal initial color matches.
- Ci7800 Benchtop Spectrophotometer: Seamlessly communicate and coordinate color-critical values and specifications to ensure color integrity.
- Color iMatch Software: Provide optimal initial color matches and reduce wasteful formulation attempts.
Featured Resources
Whether you manufacture cream, liquid or powder cosmetics, join X-Rite and Pantone to learn how to control cosmetic color from design to print to shelf.
A color tolerance can ensure consistency and minimize variability. This whitepaper offers tips to select the right color tolerancing method and set a realistic color tolerance.
