Diamine - Shimmering Fountain Pen Ink, Golden Sands 50ml

The color is pretty good, but like any other particle based ink, the shimmer dust will block the pen nibble as the ink on it dries, within 24h of parking it. With a couple of tricks, it does work beautifully well overlaying gold artworks all around the letter sheet.For the tricks,One must always keep an ink well with plain water to re wet the nibbles just before using the pen anew. This is quite the common case with other inks like octopus/squid ink base or a soot base ink. Wet and exercise the nibble until a normal flow before start the writting.Secondly,🎵Shake shake shake, shake shake shake, shake your pen, shake your peeeen!🎵This must be a constant and is most needed to keep a good spread of the shimmer/dust. Just as if painting with a spray can.The end pleasure is only as great as the effort to atain it.Small efforts, simply contempts.

It is exactly what I wanted and although difficult to read in Low light a really nice colour for my Journal

Good

Arrived 6 days before due date. Diamine Shimmertastic Fountain Pen Ink - Golden Sands.. Excellent value for money. Wonderful quality of ink. Beautiful colour. Looks great when it's dry. You can see the Gold shimmer. Just have to remember to shake up the bottle before filling the pen.

The glitter in the ink simply won’t flow through a fountain pen! And before you ask yes it’s a proper calligraphy fountain pen. All you get it a sort of gold colour writing but virtually no sparkle. The first one or two strokes after you load the pen are better but to be perfectly honest it is not suitable for a fountain pen which makes it not fit for purpose. If you shake the bottle the glitter disperses into the carrier ink but settles to the bottom of the bottle in a few seconds. It might work with a quill type pen I suppose but that’s not a “fountain pen” which what I bought it for.

This golden ink with gold shimmer is absolutely beautiful. I use it in my Lamy fountain pen with a medium size nib and it follows really well without any clogging from the glitter particles and looks lovely on paper. I have tried several of the Shimmertastic colours and this is my favourite one.

beautiful colour and brilliant quality as always

great quality ink and the added sparkle is lovely. Shake well before you use though