Best & Worst Inks of 2023 // A Year In Review!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 มิ.ย. 2024
- In this video, I go over how many inks I've acquired, used/given away, and which were my most and least favourites! Thanks for watching! #fountainpen
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Just wanted to mention: the Vinta ink is Dugong Bughaw not Duzong Bughau, it's Tagalog for "blue blood" as in someone born into a rich family/nobility. Sorry, I know people think youtube comment corrections are annoying, I just can't resist since my country isn't exactly popular and I don't get a lot of chances to share anything about it. Anyway loved the vid, I can't buy a lot of ink so I always love seeing vids where people show off and talk about their ink :)
Thank you for this! I am Filipino but I am sorry to say my Tagalog is not great, growing up in Canada. I appreciate the correction!
Celadon is a type of ceramics style characterized by the jade hue of the glaze and simple designs. It originated in China but was perfected by the Korean people and its one of their most well known ceramics styles. I love celadon and I also recently purchased celadon cat ❤
Thanks for this info - I love hearing the back stories behind inks!
I loved seeing your list! Definitely not surprised by opera rose and autumn forest. Definitely surprised to see that you like sheening inks as long as they have shimmer! Happy Holidays, Karyna!
The sheen with shimmer combo surprised me too but it just works! And you inspired me with Teranishi Opera Rose and Dominant Industry Autumn Forest!
Beautiful selection. I just wish Birmingham Inks would ship internationally or find an Aussie outlet! One day!
I agree! I've found a retailer in Canada but yes they should have one in Aussie too!
You are an Ink MASTER Karyna. Loved this review. I have never tried Birmingham Inks. Would love to in the New Year!
Thanks Lori! And yes you need to try BPC!!
🎉really really enjoyed your video
Thanks so much!
KWZ Brown-Pink and Pillars of Creations are two of my favorites. Vintage Bugong is great, but it should be put into a pen that can be disassembled for cleaning. The Wearingeul inks you mention are all interesting (but I put them in wet medium or broad nibs). Of the Birmingham Pen Co inks, Pennsylvania Slate is a favorite. Yule log is great. I like Autumn Forest. Enjoy your inks, and happy exploring of new colors.
Thank you! I wish I appreciated sheening inks more but some are just too hard on my eyes. I've heard so many people love KWZ Brown Pink and it makes me think I should give it another try!
I ordered Teranishi Opera Rose because of you! I'm going to put in in a fountain pen that's pink and reminds me of cherry blossoms. I also love dusty pink/browns so your recommendations are right up my alley!
Aww glad this was helpful!
I'm a big fan of Celadon Cat too.
Another fun one. I agree with you about Bleu Azur, which I think I sent you. Will have to try out more Dugong since I do have the bottle. I like the sheening ones. So funny that Barley is not a favorite of mine. Will probably still have the rest of the bottle when the SF show rolls around again and will bring it if you're planning to attend. Or let me know if you run out before, and I'll ship. Will have to check out my PA Fieldstone because I think it looks different from the one you have. Thanks!
Thanks Pam! It was hard to choose my favourites! And I may take you up on that offer - will wait until SF so I can see you in person!
Beautiful selection! Thank you for the video! I have steered more and more towards saturated, well flowing inks that behave well (no bleeding and easy clean). My recent favorite is Diamine Poinsettia. And my biggest disappointment was Teranishi Opera Rose. I expected more pink color and however bold nibs I use with it it's just too pale for me. I also dislike shimmer so I think we have quite different tastes. But it's all the more fun!
This is the great thing about inks - there are so many to suit all different tastes!
I like them all. Some are my favorites as well. I tend to gravitate towards Moss Park Green over Peter Moss, but I have and like them both. I haven't inked up Parol yet, not sure why. It is such a cool ink. I want to try Autumn Forest in a 1.1 nib. I had it in a fine nib but I think I will get the full effect in the 1.1. Thanks for sharing.
Autumn Forest in a stub is so goood!!! And I highly recommend Parol - I love it!
@@KarynaLovesToPlan I am definitely trying it in a stub for sure. Parol was one of my first ink samples I got. I definitely need to ink it up.
This is why I transitioned to pointed dip calligraphy which makes all the problem characteristics in even the inks whose colors your loved a non issue. Only important thing with dip calligraphy is flow and surface tension.
I just got into this hobby this month. Inks excite me as much as the pens! BTW, also Filipino so it's nice to see you chose a Vinta. I was gifted a vial of very dark sheening ink but the one who gave it to
Me forgot what the color is called. Did say it was from a Christmas edition. Also gave me a red from the same collection. My green might be Parol but haven't used it as I'm saving it for when I get a green pen. 😊
It may be Vinta Parol, if it has shimmer in it, too? If so, I loved that one!
Welcome to the hobby!
@@KarynaLovesToPlan yes! Very shimmery dark green! I believe the red one is Vinta Red Karol.
lol, too funny I just swatched kwz brown-pink and was like, this is purple. I said the same not brown or pink, but I did like the purple!
Glad you agree with me!
I love both BPCo taupe colours and… if you want something similar but with shimmer, look at today’s inkvent ink (17th) 😉
Thanks for the tip!
Karyna, have you ever experimented with mixing the colors that are too light?
I have tried a couple but never to the point of filling a pen with them. I really should try them in the future!
Hi Karyna! I like so many of the ink colors that you love. Just wondering...which one would you rank higher, Diamine Celadon Cat or Robert Oster Sydney Darling Harbour and why? Which one of the two is wetter?
This is a tough one because they're different colours. I like them both. I think Darling Harbour is a tad wetter than Celadon Cat. Good luck!
I also struggled with Wearingeul. Dry and just behaved really weird in pens!
I've tried some good ones but the lighter ones... I've learned my lesson!
@@KarynaLovesToPlanI'm still hoping to find a pen that'll work with my bottle of Stonecutter Song.
Like you said, the darker inks aren't dry
This was a fun video to watch. That vinta ink actually looked foiled. lol
Yes that was a crazy sheener!
I also gave away my little bottle of Herbin Bleu Azur. Just too light. I love sheening inks so your hates have given me some new ones to hit :) I can't with dry inks either. I want juicy wet ink. And I use M and B. I love BPC inks. They are very rich and the flow is awesome. Diamine inks are some of the best behaved inks ever. Pnly the Iroshizuku inks match them.
Glad that you like the sheening inks - I wish I could appreciate them! And yes to Diamine and BPC!
My BPC Pennsylvania fieldstone goes down a greenish and dries to a pink shade. Interesting.
The BPC inks are all so interesting, even between different batches!
Unfortunately I can't see any shimmer on the swatches, maybe if you could zoom in and wiggle the paper in the light it might be visible and not so flat. I was surprised to really like Maple 🍁 with the almost corally orange tone. Celadon has been on my wishlist for a while but I thought it would be too light, but your swatch wasn't too light at all. So now it might be coming home at some point. So many inks, so little money! 😇🩵🙏🙌
I really want to love Autumn Forest (the color combo is stunning), but I feel like it is giving me such a hard time. Currently have it in a TWSBI mini with a medium nib, and maybe that is just not the right pen for it. I usually do well with TWSBIs and shimmer though!
Sorry that Autumn Forest isn't working out! Definitely try another pen for it!
I too absolutely adore the colors in Autumn Forrest the color is near perfection in the first 50 letters, and I would just give half my ink collection to get the shimmer to remain consistent throughout the writing sample (even just a few sentences). I have tried many many pens. However I find few companies know how to do shimmer to perfection … but that isnt going to stop me from trying 😉😍
Lie de the is from the same range as the cafe one 'j herbin' is older labelling before they dropped the 'j'
Sbre Brown is still here on TH-camr. He's good value for the fountain pen community. I have too much of that ink though because when I was buying it there was only 120ml options
No real disapponting inks this year. Mention goes to Herbin Rouge Bourgogne which tends to Magenta, but then again, it was the colour for 2023. Pens out of favour goes to one of my Noodler's Ahab, and Herbin fountain pen that has a converter that rivals the Pilot Con-40 for least liked. Aside, 2023 was a good year for pens & inks, hope it carries to 2024, Year of the Dragon.
I understand about the Pilot Con-40 - why such a horrible converter for such great pens?
1. So many beautiful, unusable inks.
2. The Brown-Pink reminds me of Noodler's Red-Black, which is brown. It drove me crazy till in my mind I renamed it Red-Brown. It's a nice enough Red-Brown. The real name accurately represents its contents, a mixture of red and black, but so what, the result is brown.
3. I would love to see some ink paintings of yours.
4. Yule Log for the win.
Yes, amazes me how beautiful some inks are but just unusable!
I'm glad you understand me with the KWZ Brown Pink!
I'll show off a couple when I do my full journal flip through!
And yes to Yule Log!
I hate to complain, but it would be very helpful if you would not Shake the writing samples as you're holding them in front of the camera. It was impossible to read them and made me motion sick!
Sorry about that. Will work on that going forward