Reality Series

A New Pigment Range for Intrinsic Skin Coloration of Addition Cure Silicones

Spectromatch has developed a new colouring range that will make skin matching quicker and easier than ever before. It enables improved levels of colour constancy under various lighting conditions and between different observers.

The Reality Series skin colouring system is the first and only formulated to reduce metamerism.

The Reality Series consists of thirteen base skin shades and four tints.

In combination with our Expert Series Flocks a greater variety of colour textures can be achieved.

How does it work?

A database of hundreds of measured skin tones allowed us to observe how skin tones occupy colour space. This enabled us to select our base shades so that they produce accurate starting points for any skin tone.

Using our colour formulation algorithms to define optical properties we have formulated the tints necessary to achieve a match for any skin tone from any base shade. Using these tints reduces recipe sensitivity; therefore you are much less lightly to under or overshoot when adjusting your colour.

Using our recipe prediction engine we have formulated the perfect blend for each Reality base shade from our Expert Series pigments. This allows us to mimic the optical properties of real skin so the match is maintained when viewed under different lighting conditions and by different observers, thus greatly reducing metamerism.

Skin measurements made with a translucency probe have enabled us to derive the exact pigment loading levels required to achieve the most natural looking prosthesis for any skin tone.

For a more in depth look at the colour science behind skin colour matching please download our Colour Science for Silicone Prosthetics white paper.