Diamine - Magenta Flash

Diamine Magenta Flash - vibrant in every way!

Magenta Flash is another electrifying ink from Diamine’s Shimmering series. This ink is a punch of attitude and glam. It’s bottled insomnia! There’s no middle ground here. You either can’t get enough, or you can’t get far enough away!

Diamine Magenta Flash’s shimmer and sheen

Visually, this ink juggles a lot of different qualities. It all starts from an extremely confident, bright purple-magenta. The color is certain, and almost never varies. It’s rich, saturated, and almost glows on the page. A very fine silver shimmer generously coats areas of pooling, and written strokes, as well. The silver projects a pinkish shine against the magenta foundation. As the splatter shows, there’s a very unusual, powdery, olive green-gold sheen that develops around pooling, and on some papers, it can be seen on stroke edges, too.

Diamine Magenta Flash - light to dark

As a writing ink, Magenta Flash performs very well. It’s wet, and smooth, with a higher viscosity than average (that’s fairly common with Diamine’s shimmer inks). This keeps strokes clean and sharp on all papers, with only minor micro-feathering in some examples. Shimmer coats written strokes, but sheen only showed on Kokuyo, Rhodia (both are coated papers), and Apica (uncoated). There’s really no shading, but a darkened stroke edge shows on the same three premiums. Drying was 15-25 seconds on coated premiums, 10-20 seconds on uncoated premiums, and under 5 seconds on office copy.

Diamine Magenta Flash - ink swatch card

Diamine Magenta Flash is a beautiful ink on the page, and a very nice writing ink, as well. Obviously, it’s more of a special occasion ink, and won’t appeal to everyone. However, if it interests you, I think you’ll really enjoy it!

Diamine Magenta Flash - rich sheen