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What we're going to do next is we're going to use a transparent glass to cover these
white dots that we placed on the beads. First color we're going to use is a dark, transparent
amethyst. Now you can do this bead with opaque colors and use an opaque purple, an opaque
green, but you'll see in the final product that this bead has much more depth when using
transparent colors. What you want to do is keep your base bead heated, but not soupy.
You want to get your transparent glass to a soupy state so you can press directly on
top of your dot and pull off. Now, you want to make sure again, the base bead itself is
not soupy, otherwise you would pull up some of the white dot underneath and it would create
kind of a flaw in your transparent coating. So what we're going to do is what I just did
with the purple. Make it soupy, keep the base bead warm, and press straight down on the
top and pull off. And again, you want to make sure that these transparent coverings are
about the same size as each other. Transparent glass will get darker the thicker your layer
is, and a little bit lighter the thinner your layer. So in order to make sure the colors
are even, you want to make sure that the amounts of glass you apply are even. So what I'm going
to do is finish up these dots off camera, and then we'll go and cover the smaller dots.