What Color Are Your Fingers Today?

[Aelie]

Iroshizuku Tsuki-yo. I find it hard to avoid smudges from the threading in ink sample vials when I am in a hurry.

[cello]

A tiny little smudge of Rohrer and Klingner Sepia on my palm - darn it, I almost kept it clean!!

[thudthwacker]

Iroshizuku Yama-budo, generously speckling both hands. And my table. You know, Iroshizuku is some awesome ink. The bottles are lovely. But the cap has gotten stuck a few times, and while it came off without too much of a fight this time, I found that the little styrene insert had glued itself to the top of the bottle. My newly-acquired magenta freckles were the result of prying it off.

[Guardy]

Éclat de Saphir.

 

Still better than the one time I got Terre de Feu all over my shirt. Terre de Feu on light fabric looks exactly like dried blood, as it turns out.

 

J. Herbin's cartridges really really hate my pens, and that, my dears, is why you should use bottled ink.

 

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/Edited for really odd wording.

Edited April 26, 2016 by Guardy

[inkstainedruth]

For me, today, it's Noodler's El Lawrence, plus a tiny bit of Waterman Mysterious Blue -- both from refilling pens.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

Edited April 26, 2016 by inkstainedruth

[uemuraw]

Private Reserve Sonic Blue. I needed to open the flow on my stub nib just a scooch.

[dornblaser]

Blue Velvet

[chromantic]

Lamy Coral - this stuff does not wash off easily.

[snowbear]

Just filled the Sheaffer Imperial, so Cross Black

[Helen350]

Chesterfield Rose - not only on my hands, but a large splatter on my dress.

[DrDebG]

Well, I got a drop of Callifolio-esque Bklyn on my fingers.

 

"What?" you say, "I've never heard of that one."

 

And that, my friends, is the name of my first ink mix, named in honor of a fellow FPNer, Bklyn, who gave me the inspiration to "go for it" today.

[Guardy]

Standardgraph Reed Green, because I decided to swap out the 1.1 nib on my Lamy AL-Star for its original F nib.

 

It's not too obvious; reed green is fairly light and yellowish. But also really well readable and generally lovely, surprisingly.

[Helen350]

Still washing to get the remaining Chesterfield Rose staining out from under my nails, following yesterday's disaster.

[JuInd]

Lots of Visconti Blue because my Travellino leaks . This is another stupid excuse for me to buy more fp ​.

[Guardy]

Hm. Okay, let's see.

 

Lamy Blue.

a lifetime supply of Pelikan Turquoise, probably about six years old

Pelikan royal blue

trace amounts of J. Herbin Ambre de Birmanie
Pelikan brilliant black
J. Herbin Eclat de Saphir
some other blue of unknown origin
another black. Going by the amount tar-like, sticky residue left in those pens, I'm gonna guess Herlitz.

 

Oh, and a bit of pelikan's "dark green" dip-pen/drawing ink, for good measure.

 

(I decided to take a look at my long-forgotten Leaking Pen From Hell. Turns out the reason it ruined my day all those years ago was a chipped plastic stub - you know, the one the carts attach to. I liked feed and nib and so I went and looked for something to frankenpen. Which... MIGHT... have worked. Anyway, it meant I needed to look at a ton of crappy old dollar store pens...)

Edited May 1, 2016 by Guardy

[inkstainedruth]

There's a tiny bit of diluted Diamine Purple Pazzazz on my finger, from trying to get a pen started this morning.

And what looks like a bit of Diamine Havusu Turquoise on my other finger: I din't have enough left of the sample for a full fill of the M200 green marble, so I just dip tested it the other night. I am currently trying to decide between Havusu Turquoise and Edelstein Topaz and wanted to try both inks in the same pen(s) as a comparison; it won't be a complete and accurate one though, because the other pen was the Café Crème with a B nib (the Green Marble has an M) and that's one of the pens I lost in March; the replacement came yesterday, but isn't the B nib it was advertised to be -- it's an Italic (and maybe a stub, because there is definitely a fair amount of tipping). I've flushed the new pen out, but it's still drying....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

 

 

edited for typos

Edited May 1, 2016 by inkstainedruth

[TheYellowHobbit]

Iroshizuku ku jaku. Turns out that several days ago I hadn't inserted the converter correctly into my Kakuno, and when I opened it today there was an ink-splosion. Luckily nothing got stained except my fingers. And I lost a converter's worth of ink. At least I have a large bottle.

[rickygene]

A titch of Sailor Sei Boku on my index finger as I brushed the nib of my Pilot 823 this morning.

[uemuraw]

Blowing off steam before a trial. I think the blue is Ottoman Azure, and maybe some homebrew blue black. I definitely have some Pelikan Edelstein Amethyst. Looks better on paper than on me.

[Darkbulb]

Diamine Onyx black