Understand Primer for Color Uniformity

another thing I'll talk about when it comes to primers my accent color going over the top of this white is that going to require a primer or not and and if I don't have any type of adhesion issues if this isn't a semi-gloss wall if it's not a high gloss wall it's not oil-based paint I can paint right over the top of that then I would be good to go but you could be painting an accent color like a lime green color or a candy apple red color any type of vibrant colors any type of really dark accent colors probably accent colors going in an ultra deep base or a deep base would require a primer not for adhesion purposes but so we can get a good even color across our entire wall and not have lap marks not have uneven darks and lights all over the wall now if I was doing a candy apple red over the top of this white right here I would say it's probably going to take you know between somewhere between five and ten coats to get that candy apple red to be a true candy apple red and not be extremely translucent but you're still going to be building up on your lights and darks and overlap marks and the only way to describe that is that when I roll here and I come down and roll again and I overlap those overlap marks are going to be darker on the on first coat and then the middle portions that don't have like multiple overlaps on it and what happens is your first coat if it has any lights and darks they're only going to build up on top of each other and continue to be lights and darks even after 10 coats what a primer is going to do I'm going to talk about a primer and how that's going to help you not have to do five to ten coats and be extremely frustrated putting on your top coat you're going to put on a primer that's going to have a color in it and it's going to have a specific Sheen that's going to make that process a lot faster easier and you're going to have a nice true even color across your wall so now when it comes to getting that true color I'll kind of just try to explain just a little bit more instead of having a white I've got a primer right here I'm going to be using Benjamin Moore's Fresh Start primer right here it appears like um it's just straight out of the can but I