Inkvent 2025 - Day 8

The first day of a new week brings an ink name that confused me until I saw the blurb for it on YouTube seemingly facetious ink, a sheener snoozefest, and a bright sunshiny ink to combat the cold, dreary weather.

Swatches

Colorverse

Snow Angel is...brown? I'm guessing Colorverse is having a laugh at when snow gets all slushy and gross after a while. Otherwise, I don't see how a light milk chocolate brown relates to "snow angel". In fact, it may have been too on the nose, but I wouldn't have minded this ink being called Hot Chocolate, Hot Cocoa, or something to that effect.

Editor's note (Dec 8, 2025, 4:30PM Pacific): For Colorvent, I don't have the box, only a set of samples. The person I bought them from did send me pictures of the box flaps for each day with the name and little blurb/hint, but I am not looking at them, lest I get spoiled. So I didn't have context when I saw "Snow Angel" and a brown ink. In addition, I got Colorvent, which is primarily space-themed, confused with Inkvent, which is holiday and UK-themed, which is why I didn't realize that Hot Chocolate or Hot Cocoa wouldn't be on-theme ink names. 🤦‍♀️ I was watching someone's daily video for this ink and saw the blurb:

This is the image the blurb is referring to:

Now this makes more sense! 😅

As for the color, it's fine. It does remind me of a creamy hot cocoa drink that's on the lighter shade. The pinkish tones I could've done without, but they're not a total dealbreaker.

Diamine

I already groaned when I saw "extreme sheen" on the side of the label for Dream Catcher, but then I swatched it and was even more disappointed. Have we not seen this kind of blue base with red sheen ink so many times before? It reminds me of either Cosmic Glow or Vibe from last year's Inkvent. Vibe was more of a dark teal with strong red sheen, so it would be closer than Cosmic Glow, I think, but still. I admit that blue inks with red sheen are the ones I probably like the most because I don't mind the result of the sheen either mixing with or overpowering the base shade, but it doesn't mean it's not also completely overdone.

Slackvent

Kuretake Chrome Yellow is such a nice, vibrant orangey-yellow, just the kind of yellow shade I prefer most. So sunshiny and saturated! I have only used one other Kuretake ink.

Tangent: I have one that's tea-themed which I bought on a whim and didn't realize how expensive it was. It kind of soured me because the brown shade didn't seem all that interesting to me at the time, and I felt I paid way too much for it. I should revisit it, though, to see if I was being too harsh. /tangent

This Kuretake ink looks happy and bright. Given my reaction to the other two inks, I think Slackvent ended up "winning" today's round.

Your thoughts on today's inks? Let's talk here, or discuss on Mastodon, or Bluesky.

Previously: Day 1, Day 2, Day 3, Day 4, Day 5, Day 6, Day 7