hey guys it's rae here welcome back to my channel so do you guys remember earlier this year when
i tested out the world's blackest paint in existence and it was absolutely incredible
well my friends our petty art king stewart semple recently created the world's goldest gold
and just like the world's blackest black if you haven't heard the backstory behind
the world's goldest gold it's a lot let me explain the backstory the decade is the 1980s
everything was excessive hair makeup clothes
music and of course gold paint gold paint on everything make everything gold
and obviously to create things out of gold it got very expensive
very quickly so during the 1980s a pigment called
quinacridone gold pigment po48 py 150 series number two
we'll just call it quadraconie for short anyway this pigment was very special because
anywhere that you painted on it basically was made to replicate to look like real gold
well enter in the 90s were all things excessive and bright all that was out muted brown fashion
was in and of course painting everything gold was considered tacky and by 2001 the company
that produced this once very sought after gold pigment they had literally just piles and piles
of it laying around not knowing what to do with it anymore enter in daniel and smith painting company
they heard that this pigment was no longer going to be sold or made anywhere else in the world so
they were like hey pigment company we'll buy that whole entire supply and take that off your hands
for money and just like that the entire world stock of gold pigment 48 was now monopolized
by daniel smith painting company making it not available to literally anybody else in the world
and over the course of the next 17 years they eventually ran out of the pigment
therefore making the color no longer exist anymore and in modern day if you're lucky
enough you might be able to still find some on ebay selling for hundreds of dollars
but generally speaking that color was gone forever
until our petty art king stuart semple recreated his own version that's one not only more gold and
more reflective than the original two he reformulated it in the form of acrylic so
it's more universal and easy to use and three he made it at a price point of only 11.99 per bottle
and just like black 3.0 if you purchase this paint you basically agree to a waiver
saying that you are not in any way shape or form daniel smith purchasing
this gold paint and so today not only am i going to test it out see what it looks like
but i'm also going to put it up against some of the best gold paint that money can buy so
we'll see if it truly is the goldest paint in existence so yeah as always let's unbox
okay so here it is for this video i ended up getting not one not two but three different
bottles because i like to have backups and probably even better than just the paint
alone it actually came with this button that says hello my name isn't anish kapoor
i absolutely love this this is gold uh no pun intended
now right off the bat i'm not gonna lie it's a little bit smaller than what i would expect
marker for scale but i mean for 11.99 am i really complaining no it comes
in a nice glass bottle which i think is really nice it's resealable which
again is very very very nice but yeah i really like this packaging
it doesn't smell like anything
oh wow right off the bat this paint is tripping me out even though this paint i know is still
liquid it's not dry in any way shape or form up close it looks like it's already dry i
don't know how else to describe it that is so weird all right here we go the first swatch
this is one swipe not diluted not anything this is just one singular swipe oh my god and right
off the bat it is super super reflective in fact this paint is so reflective when i was trying to
get my very first swatch with my iphone it was like literally reflecting back into the camera
not even able to pick up the image here's what it looks like on my iphone it can't even pick it
up that's how shiny this paint is oh my god look at that look at it look at that it's like a pure
glare oh my god so let's test this bad boy out on white paper and see if it's as equally stunning
the white swatch looks a little bit darker than the gold swatch even though
i know they're the exact same color it just freaks my brain out but yeah i gotta say even
on white paper it's just as reflective just as bright just as shiny just as nice honestly
so far i would say that the only downside of this gold paint is that when you look
at it from like a weird angle it kind of looks poopy like a poopy kind of brown
oh wow when this stuff is liquid it looks even cooler it literally looks like liquid gold
it's so pretty i'm gonna have to get a slow-mo shot like i'm gonna have to turn
off the camera my really nice camera and get a slo-mo shot that's how beautiful this is
even the water that i'm dipping into the brush even that looks really gorgeous
it kind of looks like a jlo 2003 moment you know and i'm here for it it's so pretty
so when i was looking around my house looking for something to paint with the
world's golden gold paint i actually stumbled across that little pumpkin
from my black 3.0 video where i painted the whole entire pumpkin black
and now it seemed appropriate to repaint over it with the world's goldest gold
bam here it is i'm actually kind of amazed because it doesn't look like there's
paint on this it kind of looks like there's like a gold foil on top of this
and at this point it's piqued my curiosity to the point where i want to see what it looks like
on something that is actually gold so let me go look around my house and we'll see what i can find
now for this test i'm not gonna lie at first i was a little worried because i don't think
i have anything that's made with actual gold in my house all the stuff that i do have it's
kind of like a super synthetic kind of gold you know like it doesn't look real whatsoever
except i do have one thing that i know has gold inside of it my gold gucci pen
so yeah i'm gonna go ahead and put this gold directly over the pen and
we'll see what it looks like over gold directly
it doesn't look like polished gold literally whatsoever
but i am impressed that this acrylic paint is so shiny so reflective its
reflection is comparable to straight up polished metal that is incredible wow
now so far this is by far some of the coolest paint i've ever had the pleasure of working with
not only is it super reflective it has cool packaging and it also comes at a good price
but i want to see what it looks like compared to other gold paints so i went ahead i ordered some
of the highest rated paint that i could find and we'll see if this paint really is that special
so the first paint we're going to test out will be arteza acrylic colors premium in aztec gold
so right off the bat two things one it's a little bit thinner it's a little bit more
transparent it's a little bit darker you can tell there's less pigment inside of the arteza one
and two probably most importantly by far it's not as reflective and shiny as the world's
goldest gold even just looking at it through my camera monitor you can clearly see a difference
between like the shine of the world's goldest gold and the arteza one so art is a not a good
match so like i said the pigment inside of this gold paint is made up of mica pigment
so what better comparison than straight up mica pigment this is from pearl ex and by the way if
you want to see any of these products i will leave literally everything down below on amazon i'm also
going to mix in a little bit of gum arabic that way it's not just like loose pigment in water
interesting i was not expecting that whoa so basically the acrylic inside this aka the polymer
which is the ingredient that makes it acrylic it's so thick in comparison to like the gum arabic that
it's actually way more gold way more reflective than just using the pure pigment so surprisingly
pure gold pigment is out all right so the last brand that we're going to test out is actually
a twofer and just on a weird side note you guys are absolutely not gonna believe
the coincidence of this paint brand's name look at its name look at its name
coming in at $17 we have iridescent gold in artist grade quality all right so here we go
interesting i don't know if the camera is going to be able to pick this up but right off the bat the
golden artist acrylic is a little bit more shinier on my phone camera the swatch is coming up almost
pure white which i think is really interesting we also have golden's fluid acrylic in iridescent
gold and this one is literally the exact same size the exact same color and of course the
exact same finish and the biggest difference of all is that the golden acrylic is only
two dollars cheaper than the world's golden gold so yeah let's go ahead and test these out
um they are literally the exact same uh yeah when you put two of the best paint brands next
to each other they look literally the exact same in fact i would say the most iridescent
one was the golden thick body acrylic it wasn't even the world's goldest gold
final thoughts unlike the black 3.0 the blackest paint in the world not to be dramatic but that was
like a life-changing experience you know like i had so much fun with that black paint and i
don't really feel that way about this gold paint but i did have a great time painting it all over
things it's incredibly reflective is it the world's goldest gold eh probably not so much
but you know for a price point of only 12 bucks i think it's definitely worth the experience
if you're interested in any of the stuff i will link everything down below
and i will see you guys next friday which i think will be january 1st 2021 so yeah that
being said guys thank you so much again for watching and i will see you next video bye