Touch up paint looks terrible!

[cinammonfishsticks]

Painted my living room a blue with dulux heritage - had a couple of chips from moving the ladder so touched up from the paint can trying to blend it out and the dried touched up areas are now hugely visible. They almost seem shinier and lighter in colour. What can I do?? It's slap bang in the middle of the wall and I feel like all my hard work is ruined 😢

Did you give the paint a good stir before you touched up? If not try doing that and then paint over it again. Are you sure you've give it enough time to completely dry?

I thought I had! Is there anything to be done other than repaint the whole wall?

Be sure to stir your paint for a long time. Repaint each section of the wall where the light reflects it differently top to bottom. Your best bet is to repaint the whole wall.

Have you fine sanded down the areas where you are putting the new paint? So the joins don't show so much?

Nice photo / painting over it? 🙈

Unfortunately it's slap bang above the tv or I'd stick a picture over it. We're having new floor put in tomorrow so looks like I'm just to my going to have to live with it 😢

I'd generally do the whole wall for any big patches, but for small ones, I've never had a problem touching the bits up with Dulux. Did you use filler to patch the damage? Because filler will often make a paint look different. Shinier, usually, and sometimes darker than paint on the surrounding plaster. I've had it where I have painted a whole wall twice but the patch (done before those paint coats but after the mist coat) still shows up. Even repainting the whole wall wouldn't necessarily help if it is that. It's maddening, I know.

No filler, just a small paint chip that I filled in and tried to feather out and left a gleaming patch of flashing. I think the issue was it was dulux heritage which is a very Matt chalky finish. Ended up repainting the whole wall to fix it!

Sorry you had to do that. I think some special finishes are a bit quirky. I have to use clay paint in most rooms here 'because' lime walls, it's a great matt velvety finish, but very sensitive to filler on the really old walls, even some lime fillers. I haven't yet found a perfect one.
On new lime walls it's perfect, but I can't afford to have the whole house done in lime where it's patchable.😬