The LC 500's maybe the most sculptural car Lexus has ever shipped, and pearl white is the colour that shows every one of those surfaces to you. We photographed this 2018 example the day its Icon Rocklear install finished. The coating's permanent, it bonds into the clear coat, and it gives the pearl a soft glow under the hex lights with the black roof drawing one hard clean line over the top of it.

A design this deliberate deserves paint that stays flawless rather than paint you're chasing, which is the whole argument for doing it once, so here's what doing it once actually involves.