World Soap Challenges- Week Two!

It's almost unbelievable how many soapmakers has signed up for this challenges and I'm so delighted to be part of them. This second week task has been quite demanding- of skills, working time, utensils and afterwards, cleaning time, ggggrrrrrrhhh...
I don't mean to sound rude, nor to offend anyone, but first time I saw this technique, I wasn't that impressed. I suppose the layers with two contrasting colours aren't my style. Later, I saw some beautiful creations done by this technique, but I didn't try it until now.
I'm really looking forward to seeing this week soaps, I'm sure I will completely change my mind about so called 'Elemental Swirl'.
I watched the soapmaking video Amy had uploaded on her page, I bet her soap will be amazing. If you still haven't seen it (which I honestly doubt), here's the link.
Ok, my turn now. This is my version of 'Elemental' soap.

This soap has nothing to do with 'elemenatal', it doesn't represent neither of four elements. I wanted layers which don't stay opposite each other on the colour wheel, yet I thought I shoud keep the idea of one warm and one cold colour pattern.
I opted for purple/blue for one layer and varieties of pink for another. The pecil line between them is acivated charcoal.

So, three colours used for the bottom layer were: purple (purple oxid), blue (blue oxid) and black (pigment dispersion) and for the upper: pink I (ulramarine rose+TD), pink II (ultramarine rose+ pink FD&C), pink III (red pigment dispersion + TD)






I did ITP swirl regularly, but the colours just wouldn't disperse evenly through the mould, so you can see some parts of the soap (in the corners) are less swirled.
When I unmould it, I realized I didn't like it all all. I wish I had made the pink part lighter than I did, it would have suited better to the purple one.

I didn't want to stylize top, in order to let the colours stay distinctive, as I knew they would all blend in the soap. They still can be distinguished in the soap, but I like the tops anyway. I could have saved less of colours for them, though. Oh, 'could have, 'should have'.... the heck, I'm stopping here....

For the end, I'm gonna tell just that if Amy hadn't organized this challenges, I possiblly wouldn't have tried this technique, at laest not soon. But hey, that's the challenge about, isn't it!
I can't wait to see what you all will come up with!

Take care & see you next week!

Состав  / Ingredients: Сапонифицирани масла/ Saponified oils - Маслиново (Sodium olivate), Кокосово (Sodium Cocoate), Палмино (Sodium palmate), Рицинусово (Sodium Castorate), Сончогледово (Sodium Sunflowerate),  Бадемово (Sodium almondate), пигменти (pigments), мирис (fragrance).