Laura N
September 29th, 2015, 09:21 AM
Hello, I just put a longer post about Blue Pearl on my blog, with more photos, and at higher resolution, but someone asked for a post here as well. And I'm happy to oblige. If you'd like to see more, you can go to the blog post here (http://fountainpenfollies.com/2015/09/29/first-look-diamine-blue-pearl/).
This isn't a typical review, but I think of it more as a first look.
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Blue Pearl is part of Diamine's soon-to-be released Shimmertastic series. It is a medium blue with silver flakes. Confession: I've tried all the Shimmertastics now, and I like them all, but Blue Pearl is my hands-down favorite.
I'm a blue ink fan, and this just seems the ultimate blue ink. It reminds me of Parker Penman Sapphire, but with added silver.
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It's unfortunately too shimmering and gorgeous to use at my boring and conventional job, but I think I'll want to use it for everything else. If I can't switch careers to something entirely more fabulous, just to use this as my signature ink. :)
These photos show Blue Pearl in a Pelikan M200 with a gold Richard Binder medium stub. I have found that the Shimmertastic inks, like the J. Herbin 1670 inks, really look their best in wetter nibs. Wider nibs also are good, but you can see that even this Pelikan medium shows off the ink very nicely.
I also believe that the Shimmertastics, like the Herbin 1670s, often benefit from rocking or rotating the pen before writing. That seems to get the gold or silver flakes moving a little in the solution. However, just like with the 1670s, when I forget to do that, I still get shimmer -- just maybe not always as much.
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I just received Blue Pearl yesterday, so I haven't had it long enough to clean it out of any pens yet. It does seem saturated to me. My experience with the first six Shimmertastics was that the gold particles rinsed out immediately, so the amount of cleaning depended entirely on the underlying ink. My first six all cleaned up pretty easily with just water, with Purple Pizzazz, as you'd expect with a purple ink, requiring the most time.
With Blue Pearl specifically, I have a friend who made a great guess about what the base ink might be. And if that's the case, it's an old friend to FPG readers, and I know for sure it's only an average to slightly higher maintenance ink -- one that will clean up after just flushing with water.
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I received my Blue Pearl ink sample from Diamine, which was very generous of them, and I'd like to pass that along. I have enough to send a sample to one more person. If you'd like to throw your hat in the ring, just go over to my blog and enter a comment. I'll also be posting reviews there in the coming days of Sparkling Shadows, Magical Forest and Night Sky, and I will do the same for those.
This isn't a typical review, but I think of it more as a first look.
21496
Blue Pearl is part of Diamine's soon-to-be released Shimmertastic series. It is a medium blue with silver flakes. Confession: I've tried all the Shimmertastics now, and I like them all, but Blue Pearl is my hands-down favorite.
I'm a blue ink fan, and this just seems the ultimate blue ink. It reminds me of Parker Penman Sapphire, but with added silver.
21497
It's unfortunately too shimmering and gorgeous to use at my boring and conventional job, but I think I'll want to use it for everything else. If I can't switch careers to something entirely more fabulous, just to use this as my signature ink. :)
These photos show Blue Pearl in a Pelikan M200 with a gold Richard Binder medium stub. I have found that the Shimmertastic inks, like the J. Herbin 1670 inks, really look their best in wetter nibs. Wider nibs also are good, but you can see that even this Pelikan medium shows off the ink very nicely.
I also believe that the Shimmertastics, like the Herbin 1670s, often benefit from rocking or rotating the pen before writing. That seems to get the gold or silver flakes moving a little in the solution. However, just like with the 1670s, when I forget to do that, I still get shimmer -- just maybe not always as much.
21498
I just received Blue Pearl yesterday, so I haven't had it long enough to clean it out of any pens yet. It does seem saturated to me. My experience with the first six Shimmertastics was that the gold particles rinsed out immediately, so the amount of cleaning depended entirely on the underlying ink. My first six all cleaned up pretty easily with just water, with Purple Pizzazz, as you'd expect with a purple ink, requiring the most time.
With Blue Pearl specifically, I have a friend who made a great guess about what the base ink might be. And if that's the case, it's an old friend to FPG readers, and I know for sure it's only an average to slightly higher maintenance ink -- one that will clean up after just flushing with water.
21499
I received my Blue Pearl ink sample from Diamine, which was very generous of them, and I'd like to pass that along. I have enough to send a sample to one more person. If you'd like to throw your hat in the ring, just go over to my blog and enter a comment. I'll also be posting reviews there in the coming days of Sparkling Shadows, Magical Forest and Night Sky, and I will do the same for those.