Paint Your Car With ‘Mermaid Paint’ for the Coolest Look on the Road

Get ready for your newest obsession: beautiful chameleon paint (aka mermaid paint) that shimmers and changes color. While this paint is gorgeous, it’s more than just eye candy. We’ll tell you how to get the look.

And, more importantly, we’ll tell you how much it costs…

Real-Life Mermaids

This kind of paint goes by many different names. Some call it chameleon paint, and others refer to it as mermaid paint. In other settings, it’s known as color changing paint, or flip paint. But no matter the name, the effect is the same: pretty hues that reflect light in unusual ways.

Mix It Well

Chameleon paints are created using a special pearl ink pigment that’s treated with metal. Depending on the specific treatment that’s applied to the initial pearl pigment, different colors of paint are achieved.

Drive the Rainbow

The pearl pigment contains tiny reflective flakes that act like millions of microscopic prisms. They bounce light around in different ways depending on their light source, which is how a car can appear purple from one angle and blue or red from another.

A Million Hues

What’s even more fun is blending various chameleon paints together. Mixing two different color flip paints will create a hybrid of the two colors, and with some experimentation, this has been used to create some very unique hues.