As ever, y’all, forgive the potato-quality image.

Today’s contestants…

  • Amo-Iro / Sport EF
  • Hana-Ikada / Jinhao (model unknown) EF
  • Syo-Ro / Sport B
  • Grand Central Skies / Safari M

The shimmer in GCS doesn’t photograph as well as I’d like, but there is some serious depth to that ink as with most FWP products.

Also, confession time… But just between the lot of us, of course… I may be a 45 year old man, but dammit, Hana-Ikada is one of my all time favorite colors. Can’t even tell you why, but it brings a smile to my face to use, and it’s just SO well behaved and clean to write with…

Second and third faves, while I’m confessing such things, are FWP Pink Sugar Beach and Diamine Pink Ice. Slightly less well behaved, but only just, and who doesn’t love pink sparkly… Um… Yeah I’m not helping my case here lol!