I'm a huge fan of the metallics line from Folk Art, and since blue is my daughter's favorite color, we go through a lot of it. This is a shimmering metallic blue that looks like a metallic car finish when painted on smoothly to something. It can be mixed with other inexpensive bottle acrylic paints to tint or change the color, but if you're not using a metallic paint it will cut down the shimmer considerably.