Ink Review: Noodlers Park Red

[white_lotus]

Well blood is red, so how can you avoid a red ink that doesn't look like blood?

 

I wonder if mercurochrome would sheen? (I have a bottle. Apparently mom's still use the stuff.)

[inkstainedruth]

Well blood is red, so how can you avoid a red ink that doesn't look like blood?

 

I wonder if mercurochrome would sheen? (I have a bottle. Apparently mom's still use the stuff.)

Even fresh blood is darker than what I was looking for. I wanted something more like fire engine red. A "right smack in the middle of the color wheel for red" red. Or the color of my first car: a 1984 Dodge Omni (the color was called "Graphic Red" that model year). Something like this one (although mine was of course not the macho turbocharged version this one is): http://www.hemmings.com/mus/stories/2007/07/01/hmn_feature18.html#PhotoSwipe1424314302784

It's a color that as a "Light Summer" (for anyone who followed the "Four Seasons" Palette of figuring out what colors you looked good in, which was very big in the 1980s -- later expanded to 3 sub-palettes for each season) I just cannot successfully wear. I can do berry-toned reds (reds that lean blue), but not true red; They just don't look good against my skin tone and hair color. So, perversely, I'm drawn to the color.

Can't wear tomato red either, but nothing induces me to want to....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[amberleadavis]

Thank you for the review!