Recently Pen Chalet had a half price ink sale on Monteverde inks. The Desk took the opportunity to stock up on inks for review. Today I’ll be reviewing California Teal. As the name suggests, the ink is a beautiful teal that leans toward the green end of the spectrum. In the bottle it appears blue,…
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Ink Review: Colorverse Ink Andromeda #16, Einstein Ring #04 and Lights on Ceres #05
(This is part four of a series of reviews about the new Colorverse ink line. Please refer to the overview for details about the whole collection.) Continuing with the grouped reviews of Colorverse inks, today I am going to go through the purple-pinks I bought. I know a lot of people were waiting on these so thanks…
Ink Review: Colorverse Proxima B, Saturn V & Crystal Planet
(This is part three of a series of reviews about the new Colorverse ink line. Please refer to the overview for details about the whole collection.) For the second collection of Colorverse that I’m going to review, I decided to focus on the blues. I got all three shades of blue from the Season One:…
Ink Review: Colorverse Mars Curiosity, Hubble Zoom & Space Laika
(This is part two of a series of reviews about the new Colorverse ink line. Please refer to the overview for details about the whole collection.) It was so hard to decide which set of Colorverse ink colors to review first so I decided to go with the colors I was most surprised about. First,…
Colorverse Inks Overview
I thought I’d start my massive review series of the Colorverse Ink collection ($36 per set) with an overview of the product. If you’re not familiar with Colorverse inks yet, they have recently come onto the pen and ink scene by way of Korea. The original series of inks, Season 1, started as a Kickstarter…
Ink Review: Sailor Shikiori Yodaki
This is the last of the Sailor Shikiori colors and I saved what I think it the best for last. I don’t know how widely known it is but when we were cooking up the Col-o-ring, I used Sailor Jentle Irori as my litmus test color for paper testing. It has a gold sheen that…
Ink Review: Sailor Shikiori Yozakura
Next up in the new Sailor Shikiori line is Yozakura (20ml for $15). I was going to save this one for last because I thought it was going to be my favorite of the four but it ended up taking second place. So, there. I ruined the finale. You can skip ahead if you want.…