Rub 'n Buff is ideal for restoring cherished antiques,stenciling, frame finishing,antiquing, home decor, restoration and craft projects. European Gold Rub 'n Buff is a cool light gold wax-metallic finish that is perfect for antiquing stenciling and other craft projects. Rub onto clean, dry, or previously painted surfaces or on post-fired ceramics with a finger or soft cloth, then gently buff to a beautiful luster.

If you don’t have any handy, I love this inexpensive brush set and use it for makeup, but the stiffer large brushes will work for this project.

Spanish Copper – Almost like rust, this copper is much closer to bronze and has an aged patina look. Normally, I would use my finger but for sample purposes, I did use gloves as to not mix any of the colors.

Rub n Buff makes surface decorating fast, fun and easy - your friends will think you spent hours on it! The spray paint I used looks horrendous and so I have just spent a half hour reading about rub and buff and all the various gold colors when I stumbled upon your blog. When testing out these colors, I made the rookie mistake of not sanding first like I normally do, so it made the “buffing” step next to impossible and resulted in a chunky, terribly textured, dull finish. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. If you’ve already done that, your item hasn’t arrived, or it’s not as described, you can report that to Etsy by opening a case.There aren’t as many silver colors as there are gold ones, and the two silver colors are both beautiful!

Now that I’ve found the “winner” for color matching the faucets in our bathroom (European Gold this time) to use on our bathroom vanity and a couple of exposed shelving screws, we are one step closer to being finished with the bathroom renovation!Rub'n Buff is a wax base metallic finish that is formulated from imported carnauba waxes, fine metallic powders and select pigments. There’s this stuff in a little tube that really could live up to the marketing hype of “miracle cream” but it’s not a face product. It looks like they make two more, Autumn Gold which appears to be a rose gold, and European Gold which seems to be a lighter, silvery variation.