Day 8’s ink is Diamine Dream Catcher, a dark blue “extreme sheen” ink. It’s a super saturated ink with so much red sheen that it makes the ink look a bit purplish.

Here’s another angle of the sheen:

As you can see, the base ink colour barely appears in these samples:

I was using a TWSBI GO with a 1.1 nib to test out Diamine Dream Catcher and I hadn’t seated the nib properly after cleaning (a common issue with my TWSBI GOs is how hard it is to get the nib and feed assembled well enough to not burp out ink or wobble when writing with them). This meant that I almost had the nib burp ink on the page, which is why there are a few smudges in this sample.

You can see the lovely dark blue base ink colour pretty well when you write with it, but as soon as the ink dries practically all you can see is red sheen. It also (unsurprisingly as it’s such a saturated ink) takes a long time to dry.

Today’s bear is called Tilly, and she was made by J&P (Jean & Pauline) Bears. I like her face but I don’t like that she’s clothed.

Diamine have a lot dark blue inks with varying degrees of red sheen, and in this Diamine Dream Catcher is a bit of a disappointment as it doesn’t really stand apart from its predecessors. If you want a super sheen ink, then maybe this will be for you. Personally I don’t plan on buying a full bottle of this.