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Thank you to everyone who was so warm and welcoming on my first review a few months ago! Finally returning with another review Tender purple: we know her, we love her. Reminds me sometimes of the pansies that would spring up in my backyard growing up. transcription: "Waterman Tender Purple Lamy Safari F nib, Rhodia DotPad I've had since the mid-2010s SMEAR TEST: five seconds or less! Well, I mentioned it in my first review, so it seemed only fitting to review Tender Purple next. This is THE purple to me00this is the colour I think of when someone says the word "purple". Weirdly, not quite as wet or fast-flowing as I remember, but I've had this bottle since the mid-2010s and haven't pulled it out since at least 2021, so who's to say! Maybe I'm misremembering, maybe it's a quality of aging, maybe it's Maybelline! (I should say, "not as wet as I remember" isn't to say this ink is dry, it's still lovely and wet.) No feathering, maybe the slightest bit of spread. No bleedthrough, but ghosting on this paper. There is some shading with this pen/ink combo, thought not all that much. A respectable but subtle amount, we'll say. Not too much to say about the bottle here. Stable, nice big opening. I did have to run the bottle under the tap because dried ink had glued it shut, but that's more on me for not pulling this one out in a long while despite it being only one of 3-4 bottles of ink I have with me on this side of the country. Thanks for reading ❤️❤️❤️ " Waterproofness test reveals it to have all but no resistance to the droplets.

These are my first ink reviews so I'd like to hear all suggestions how to improve them. I've got quite some inks in my collection already (most of them are samples but it's a start) and I will review some more in the future.