CiM Testing: Troi
I’m assuming this bluish-green is named after the colour of Deanna Troi’s uniform in Stark Trek: TNG. It’s a pretty colour and like all other opaque blue-greens and green-blues, it’s a tad streaky. I try to get around this as much as I can by studying where the major streaking is occurring on the rod and then making sure that I position that ‘inside’ the bead-to-be as I wrap it onto the mandrel.
Troi melted well with no popping or pitting. It’s quite soft and therefore tends to spread; encasing it without any bleed onto the encasing layer is quite tricky. To get around this you need to work cooler and slower than you usually do, not allowing the base bead to get over-hot.
Troi is more blue than Effetre opaque Petrol Green 218 and I’d say it’s quite similar to and maybe a little less saturated than CiM Mermaid.
These beads are CiM Troi thinly encased with Effetre Super (Crystal) Clear 006, with Effetre White 204 decoration and CiM Cerulean Sparkle spacers.
The photographs were taken indoors in natural daylight.