extremely minor home improvement foulup #387

so we got some pretty good paint from Sherwin Williams ($$ not $$$ but not $ either or .$) and we got it in this one color and painted the living room and it covered up good and we got it in this other color and painted the bedroom and it was good.

and so my dottir's room was lite pink and therefore her request was for dark pink and we got that other paint in dark pink (Haute Pink if you must know.)

And one coat I put on really good and thick and slathered ... and #$%& the light pink is all coming through in streaks! And put on two coats and there were still suspect areas!

What's up with that? How come a light color covers up a darker color just great, but a darker color can't cover up a lighter color? How does that even make sense?

the living room and the bedroom only took one coat, going from darker to lighter ...

maybe there's some explanation having to do with your eyes perceiving light intensity on a log scale or suchlike.

or maybe "it" is out to get me and "it" is playing by "its" own rules without even worrying about what's "fair".