This is the Diamine Inkvent 2023 day 18 door:
Day 18’s ink is Diamine Blizzard. It’s a shimmer ink.
Diamine Blizzard is a teal-blue shimmer ink, with a great base colour that provides some shading and silver blue shimmer. It’s much more toned down than Diamine Glacier in terms of the amount of shimmer present.
Diamine Blizzard’s base ink colour is also a shade darker than Diamine Glacier, making it a bit more easily readable than Diamine Glacier. If you’re not interested in the insane amounts of shimmer in Diamine Glacier, than this ink would be a better fit for you.
You can see the shimmer effect here: it’s present, but it’s not aggressive:
This is Waldemar, a Steiner bear from Germany, one of several Steiner bears that I own. I think he’s the only bear that I have that has his tongue sticking out. In any case, you can see the shading in Diamine Blizzard in the sketch below:
And here’s the original bear:
While I love that Diamine has gone all in with the shimmer with Diamine Glacier, I think Diamine Blizzard would be the more “practical” of the two because of the darker base ink shade and because it has less glitter and so less potential clogging and cleaning issues. Which of these inks would you prefer?
Writing at Large 
Jean Wilcox
For what’s it’s worth (2 cents?) here’s my opinion. Of the two — Glacier and Blizzard — Blizzard may be less troublesome for writing and easier to read but I have several inks of similar color (Ferris Wheel’s Bluegrass Velvet for example). I really prefer the color of Glacier and would use it as an accent or on special correspondence. It’s near the top of my list of Inkvent inks I might actually buy.
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