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[jille]

I did some pink beads yesterday but they came out brown grrrr is it the same reason as turquoise glass or something else?

[awrylemming]

What did you use?  If its rubino, you have to be very careful how you work it, it goes a nasty colour the second you get it too hot, and most of the effetre and CIM pinks tend to be fussy.  Which is why I generally work Bullseye when I use pinks, they're nowhere near as pernickety.

[jille]

it's effetre, from a mixed bundle, not sure what was on the label but it's a baby pink.
Talking of Bullseye Warm Glass have a sale on lampworking stuff including rods

[awrylemming]

Yep, I know    I'm wondering if they'll do the one pound a rod thing at Flame Off again ..    Hmmmm, very tempting.

[Jolene]

I think they are having a sale as they are not at the FO this year Sue

[awrylemming]

Ahh.  Glad you said, cos I would have waited!!

[Kalorlo]

it's effetre, from a mixed bundle, not sure what was on the label but it's a baby pink.

Hmm, baby pink doesn't usually go brown. Did you use any silver on them? I'm assuming it was opaque? Did the end of the rod go brown too? I'm asking because there are are two striking colours that are called pink: tongue pink aka striking terracotta looks white in the rod and goes terracotta, and there's powder pink which I've never used.

Opaque light pink is the normal one to get in a sample pack and it didn't do anything odd when I was on a hothead. Fairly pale washed-out pink.

If it was transparent and not rubino... 

[Izzybeads]

Not to put to finer point on it...Effetre pinks suck!

Tongue pink is great for pigs but nothing else, in my humble opinion.

Baby pink, burns easily and can react to other colours one time and not another.  Sometimes it comes out pinker than pink, other times barely pink.  If it was a mixed bundle, it could quite possibly be tongue pink, I find the colour a browny pinky colour - think pig!

I am with Sue on the pinks.  For a really good pink you can't go wrong with Bullseye, its a beautiful soft pink that retains colour and glass-i-ness, unlike Effetre which to me, goes a naff Angel Delight type texture to look at, not flattering.  Having said that I do use it for faces.

[jille]

I'll have a look at the label next time I'm home, it's frustrating being away when something like this happens, and i can never find anything. i just let it go over my head or I'm be even more gaga than i am already.
i tried it on it's own and with some silver brown glass, and some caramel brown colour, sorry i don't know the proper names off hand. They all went brown. i was trying to recreate a bead I'd accidentally made and rather liked. 
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[Kalorlo]

The silver brown will make it go yellow/brown as it's a silver glass. If it was Reichenbach caramel, I wouldn't be surprised if that would too, since that glass reduces.