New Ink Review: Diamine Golden Oasis Shimmer 2016

November 2, 2016

I've heard that the release date for these new inks is 4th November; Fountain Pen Day, so I'm posting separate reviews for them on here. I assume they will come in the same type of bottles as the previous set of shimmer inks, but I haven't seen the retail bottles yet.

Currently I only have samples that Diamine very kindly sent me to test, and to review 'if I wanted to', but I've noticed that my samples don't need much shaking to mix the particles in, and the pens need very little shaking once they are filled.
Generally speaking, I found all 12 of these new shimmer inks to be wetter than all of the other shimmer inks I have used.
I have had these inks in these pens for over 2 weeks now. Every pen/ink combination has started straight away without a problem, and I have experienced no stopping or skipping.
Some take longer to dry than others, and a couple just soaked into the paper straight away. The most saturated inks will show through and bleed through on cheap paper.
None of them are waterproof inks.

Diamine Shimmer Golden Oasis is a bright green ink that is darker than Diamine Kelly Green. It's a reasonably well saturated ink with gold shimmer. The gold shimmer shows up really easily. I used a Parker Sonnet Moonbeam that has a M nib and I had no trouble seeing the excellent gold effect. This ink feels quite wet, and takes a little longer to dry than some. I have regularly used this Parker Sonnet with shimmer inks, but this one was the wettest that I have tried in this pen.

The first picture is a scanned review form, and the second is a photo. These have been adjusted with Photoshop to get the colour you see to look as close as possible to the actual ink colour.