For the cost of getting into powder paint all depends on what you want to spend. Not trying to be a smart you no what. You would be wise to look up for old guestions on this subject and way all the differant ways to do it. Like in the heat source for heating the jig its self. Theirs 2 our 3 ways to do it. Myself I have done thousands of heads with a heat gun and it works great for me. As far as mixing colors to get a good pink you just want to buy some of the candy colors and they are dead on. Candy pink our any of the others in the colors you want. I have taken some of the chart. and mixed them to get a differant shade of chartr. but I don't think it realy helped me all that much. Right now I just finished a batch of swim jigs for bass and each jig has 6 diffeant powder paint colors put by just dusting them with the use of a small childs paint brush. They look and fish great. Feel free to pm me with any guestions. STEVE