Where To Buy Luster Dust?
Decorating By asweetheart3 Updated 1 Dec 2006 , 6:30pm by confectionaryperfection
Where is the best and cheapest place to buy this stuff?
I just bought some off of Amazon and I tried it today. I love it!! I need to buy some more. I painted a ribbon with it, and then brushed some on dry and the ribbon was gorgeous!! I wish I had ordered more than I did!
Yes, it will look like real pearls and Gold like jewelry..like these..
Thanks for responding.
My other question is, for those ornament cupcakes, do they use a seperate color dust on each one (red on the red cupcakes, blue on the blue), or is there one paticular shade they used on all of them?
TIA
Thanks for responding.
My other question is, for those ornament cupcakes, do they use a seperate color dust on each one (red on the red cupcakes, blue on the blue), or is there one paticular shade they used on all of them?
TIA
I was wondering the same thing... I would think you can either use red luster dust with red fondant and blue with blue... OR maybe we can get away with it by only using the super pearl on all the colors??
Hopw someone else can tell how its done.
Where are the ornament cupcakes? I must have missed that. It sounds like the way you are describing it, it can be done either way. Using the same color dust as the fondant would just intensify the color, and the pearl would just add that finish. When you dust it on, it looks irridescent like a pearl, and when you paint it on by mixing with alcohol, it looks metalic. If you paint pearl dust on colored fondant, it does lighten it a bit, but dusting doesn't make much of a difference in shade.
Is this what you are looking for?
http://cakecentral.com/cake-decorating-ftopict-53115.html
tinting fondant first with gel color, THEN dusting with DRY super pearl dust will work just fine, and make your dust stretch further. mixing it into "paint" and painting it on would take quite abit of the powder. the luster dusts do come in so many colors but if you want just plain non metalic color, go for the petal dusts. i have not tried dusts on buttercream, only fondant, chocolate and royal icing. i love the stuff!
i too buy mine from ebay (jesterpartysupply or something like that)
Hey, those are awesome!! I'd say you just used pearl dust on them, right? Not individual colors. I can tell from the glare of the camera flash. They all have the same color sparkle. Very creative! Oh, and BTW, I think you could easily get $50 out of a nicely packaged box of 6. 
Thanks for your help!! I've never used any sort of luster dusts before, and kinda needed it spelled out for me.
mnmmommy your cupcakes are beautiful, and are a real inspiration.
You can't dust on BC for obvious reasons. You will gunk up your brush and mess up your icing! You can spray it on through an airbrush. Mix it with alcohol, of course. I have done that and it works ok, but the brush tends to clog after a while. If you are desperate for that BC taste and the pearl look, maybe try a rolled BC. You can dust that.
I have a question.... I want to buy some luster dust but there are so many colors out there I don't know where to begin. For those of you that have/use it do you recommend I start with certain colors? It seems the silver/gold I many get the most use out of. TIA
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i started with all the metal finishes, gold, silver, copper and super pearl. i also ordered a few basic colors. my favorite and the most used and versitile is the super pearl. now, if you get the luster dust, all of them will have a translucent glittery color to them and will only be solid if you paint them on with alcohal. if you want a basic color without the metalic sheen, go for the petal dusts.
someone asked if the pearl does the same as silver...it all just depends on the look you are trying to achieve. for example...if i use grey tinted fondant, and dry dust with super pearl, it will look silver. if you use pearl on white fondant, it looks like a pearl. if you use silver on white fondant, it will look silver. i do think that the pearl is the most versatile and useful though. but ifyou are going to buy some, you may as well pick out a few colors to make it worth your shipping expense. if you pay two dollars for a dust, but then four or five for shipping, i say what the heck, buy at least four or five colors, cause you know you will love them and want to use them on everything once you have em'
if you go to ckproducts you can get them for under 2.00 each. but you have to be legal. if anyone wants i can add to my next order with them, wont have before christmas thou. ckproducts.com
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