I couldn’t resist getting this Wonder Pens exclusive ink inspired by cat eyes.   Isn’t that just the cutest ink concept?  And they did such a great job with the colour! I would have gotten both cat eye inks, but I thought the other one was probably too close to my recently purchased Brilliant Mint, so I regretfully skipped it.

Tuna and Olives is a nice olive green with a bit of shading.  In my dip pen it’s pretty dark, in the pilot metropolitan I use for work, it’s noticeably brighter, and it’s really pretty on the paintbrush too as well as being lighter again.

I really like the way it matches my new green pilot metropolitan.  Yes, two years later, I finally decided to buy a second one.  (I still want all the colours; I still don’t need all the colours.) I decided to get a medium nib for work, and I’m really happy with how it’s working out with both the pen and the ink.   I’ve found that I like having a clip on the pens in my work notebook, and I’m less excited about finicky sparkle inks because I often pull out the pen to make notes halfway through a meeting so if it blocks up when I can’t get up and rinse it easily I’m going to be miffed.  So a nice standard ink and a pretty pen is pretty ideal for this purpose.

This is my first ink from Dominant Industry.  They’ve got a cute bottle shape and comes in a cute little soft bag that presumably doubles as padding for shipping and also a way to keep your ink from getting exposed to light if you don’t like keeping the boxes around.  I like the little tag with their ink bottle on it.  It also came with a tiny pipette for filling pens, though I didn’t need it for the metropolitan or my dip pen.

The closest ink I have it Diamine Pine Needle which is… really not very close.  They both have green and shading, but pine needle is a vibrant “new pine needle” kind of green and includes so much green shimmer that I can’t really use it in anything other than my Pelikan pens with extremely wet nibs.  Tuna and Olives is a duller olive green and I expect it’ll work in every pen I’ve got.

Normally this is the point where I say I’m excited to try this ink but that probably goes without saying since it’s already in a work pen!  I also picked up a second Wonder Pens exclusive colour while they had them in stock, so expect to see that swatched soon too!