EFNIR: Lamy Vibrant Pink

[LizEF]

3 hours ago, chromantic said:

After initially planning on using Pinkly in my Optima Luce Rosa, I decided to use this instead. Great match for the pen and well-behaved, too.

it's a great ink for markup.

[amberleadavis]

16 hours ago, chromantic said:

After initially planning on using Pinkly in my Optima Luce Rosa, I decided to use this instead. Great match for the pen and well-behaved, too.

 

 

OOO nice choice, but Pinkly is amazing too.

 

On 7/27/2021 at 8:49 AM, LizEF said:

Thank you!  And you're most welcome!

 

Hmm.  Sparkles?  Is there glitter in this ink?  I didn't get any glitter...   Just googled Levenger Pinkly - yeah, that's even more hot pink!  Suitable for Cindi Lauper's hair...

 

No sparkles for me.

 

On 7/28/2021 at 1:37 PM, namrehsnoom said:

Thanks for this review… always great to know an ink is not for me 😉

 

 

Nope, this ink is not for you.

 

@LizEF This ink is very hard to capture the color.

 

[LizEF]

5 hours ago, amberleadavis said:

@LizEF This ink is very hard to capture the color.

 

So many inks are hard to capture, but that's a gorgeous display of pink you managed there!   Thanks for the addition!

[chromantic]

^^ amberlea - I have Pinkly! in my M300 Ruby so I thought I'd used something different in the Optima.

 

Pinkly doesn't have sparkles, no, but the Lamy does, very tiny gold specks and very diffuse (nothing at all like a shimmer ink) so you might not notice them unless you look very carefully. Out of three small squiggles, I counted 6 specks.

[amberleadavis]

9 hours ago, chromantic said:

^^ amberlea - I have Pinkly! in my M300 Ruby so I thought I'd used something different in the Optima.

 

Pinkly doesn't have sparkles, no, but the Lamy does, very tiny gold specks and very diffuse (nothing at all like a shimmer ink) so you might not notice them unless you look very carefully. Out of three small squiggles, I counted 6 specks.

 

Is it specks or just sheen?  I do see sheen with the pilot  parallel.

[chromantic]

16 hours ago, amberleadavis said:

 

Is it specks or just sheen?  I do see sheen with the pilot  parallel.

 

It does have gold sheen but it also has gold speckles. Vis mentions them in their review and shows them in a couple of the photos.

[amberleadavis]

5 hours ago, chromantic said:

 

It does have gold sheen but it also has gold speckles. Vis mentions them in their review and shows them in a couple of the photos.

 

Cool

[fireant]

On 8/21/2022 at 12:48 AM, amberleadavis said:

 

 

OOO nice choice, but Pinkly is amazing too.

 

 

 

 

Amber, What size parallel nib did you use?

 

[amberleadavis]

1 hour ago, fireant said:

 

Amber, What size parallel nib did you use?

 

 2.4 mm

 

[fireant]

Oh ok, I snaged a 6mm when we were in Eugene but it was way big lol.

[LizEF]

On 7/27/2021 at 7:24 AM, LizEF said:

Cleaning was easy despite the fact that the ink likes to cling.  You'll need pen flush or a swab to convince it to let go, or perhaps more plain-water flushes than I was willing to try.

So, I had this in a Platinum 3776 Century, SF, for a long time.  Both the section and the converter proved a pain to clean.  After several flushes, some soaking, some pen flush, and two trips through the ultrasonic cleaner, I ended up taking the converter apart to get the pink off the piston head.  A few more plain water flushes did the trick on the section to push out the remaining ink the ultrasonic loosened.  The lip of my bulb syringe is now stained pink...

 

I conclude that the longer this ink stays in contact with your pen, the more tightly it clings!  Forewarned is forearmed: use a pen that's easy to clean!

[inkstainedruth]

Not sure how I seem to have missed this thread before now.  I have a bottle of Vibrant Pink, but have never opened it (I have had trouble with some shimmer inks in the past, and the pen I mostly used for them had to get repaired recently when the piston rod snapped... ).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[yazeh]

2 hours ago, LizEF said:

So, I had this in a Platinum 3776 Century, SF, for a long time.  Both the section and the converter proved a pain to clean.  After several flushes, some soaking, some pen flush, and two trips through the ultrasonic cleaner, I ended up taking the converter apart to get the pink off the piston head.  A few more plain water flushes did the trick on the section to push out the remaining ink the ultrasonic loosened.  The lip of my bulb syringe is now stained pink...

 

I conclude that the longer this ink stays in contact with your pen, the more tightly it clings!  Forewarned is forearmed: use a pen that's easy to clean!

Yep. You can even say that any pink ink, kept in a pen will make you regret it

 

[LizEF]

1 hour ago, inkstainedruth said:

Not sure how I seem to have missed this thread before now.  I have a bottle of Vibrant Pink, but have never opened it (I have had trouble with some shimmer inks in the past, and the pen I mostly used for them had to get repaired recently when the piston rod snapped... ).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

Some people say there's shimmer, but I never saw any.  Gold sheen, yes, but no shimmer.  You can always not shake it up.  Hope your pen recovers quickly!

[LizEF]

1 hour ago, yazeh said:

Yep. You can even say that any pink ink, kept in a pen will make you regret it

  I actually like the color - it's great for markup, but when it's that hard to clean, well, let's just say I'm glad I only have about half a mL left.