Messy Color™ Mermaid

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Mermaid (511586)<br />An opaque teal.

An opaque teal.


“Mermaid turned out to be a gorgeous shade of teal that was great to work with. I found it pitted a lot less than similar colours in the 104 line, for a very smooth finish.” Read more at Two Glassy Ladies’ blog. – Amy Houston

Click here for other interesting Mermaid discoveries.
 
Messy Mermaid with silver reactive glass
Sue Stewart
Great Bluedini core, Mermaid swirls, & DH Aurae bumps
Patricia Frantz
Messy Mermaid
Genea Crivello-Knable
Messy Mermaid & light ivory
Darlene Collette
Messy Mermaid
Melanie Graham

Messy Tester's Feedback

  • Mermaid is unique to the 104 glass color palette.
"Mermaid is the perfect color teal that I've been looking for. I've used the Vetro odd Ocean Green in the past, but not only is it really hard to get, but it boils/sparks/bubbles very easily.  Mermaid will eventually start to spark after lots of working, but it's really lovely glass to work with, and the color after working is a lovely teal blue." – Carol Oliver
"Mermaid looks like a cross between Petroleum Green and Dark Turquoise. This color has received the strongest positive response from most beadmakers and rightly so because it is beautiful and fills an empty place in the present glass color palette." Read more at the Frantz Art Glass blog. – Patricia Frantz
  • Special thanks to Carol Oliver & Genea Crivello-Knable for providing the photos in this section.

Darlene Collette mixed Mermaid & Effetre Butter Yellow.
Genea Crivello-Knable did a study of how to produce a crisp lime green & aqua starburst using Mermaid.
Sue Stewart made a bead with Pulsar & Mermaid with Effetre silver color #2.
Darlene Collette used Heffalump, Mermaid, Simply Berry & DH Aurae for a watercolor effect.
Visit the Fritipedia Wiki CiM Page for more information about Mermaid.
See Kay Powell’s Mermaid frit testing samples.
Browse Serena Thomas’ color gallery.

“Mermaid turned out to be a gorgeous shade of teal that was great to work with. I found it pitted a lot less than similar colours in the 104 line, for a very smooth finish.” Read more at Two Glassy Ladies’ blog.
– Amy Houston
"Reducing Mermaid results in a brick-red coating. I don't like it, so I'll probably never do this again. Some people might think it's attractive, though, and it's a deeper red than the coating that forms on turquoise." Read more about Melanie's Mermaid tests, including Mermaid with Copper Green, silver leaf, Triton, ivory, and dark violet.
– Melanie Graham
"Love this brand new colour from CiM: Mermaid, gorgeous rich blue-y sea green with some nice streaking, etches beautifully and also has that great dark-outline-reaction with Effetre ivory." Read more at Lush blogs.
– Julie Fountain
"By looking at the side view of the Mermaid & Fremen bead you can see a darker band of blue around the center and a lighter shade around the bead hole. It seems not only does Mermaid cause this very interesting color band, but also retains a crisp design instead of it's normal organic reaction!"
– Genea Crivello-Knable
"Designs are twisted and raked in rainbowy raku stringers. The neat thing about Raku is that it seems to escape Mermaid's organic nature and all of the lines and dots remain crisp. Usually Mermaid has more of an organic nature to it and likes to swallow dots and lines." Read more at Genea's blog.
– Genea Crivello-Knable
"Mermaid is about two shades darker [than ASK Tribal Turquoise], but it's a beautiful shade of opaque teal." Read more at Melissa's blog.
– Melissa Villadiego
"Mermaid is a teal that does not duplicate any of the Effetre/Vetro colours. Mermaid falls between Dark Turquoise - being just a little greener, and not quite as green as Petroleum Green." Read more at DragonJools blog.
– Dwyn Tomlinson
"Apparently, I got a bad rod, because when I was recently asked to re-test it just in case, I had a completely different experience than the last time. So here I am to update you on the properties of this pretty glass!" Read more at Kandice's blog.
– Kandice Seeber
Find out why Kandice Seeber thinks Mermaid is "highly reactive" and "persnickity" at her blog.
– Kandice Seeber