Colorverse Witch by Starlight - 65ml Bottled Fountain Pen Ink - The Goulet Pen Company

on saleColorverse Witch by Starlight - 65ml Bottled Ink

Product Code CV-WitchStar

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on saleColorverse Witch by Starlight - 65ml Bottled Ink

Product Code CV-WitchStar

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$29.50
Size:
65ml Bottle

A special edition Goulet exclusive ink! This 65ml glass bottle of Colorverse blue ink with added rose gold shimmer was made just for Goulet Pens. 

This color was inspired by and named after the Witch Head Nebula, and designed with a color separation effect like the Nebula cosmic fog. 

Colorverse inks are made in South Korea.

Due to the amount of particulate in this ink used to achieve the sparking look, you may experience restricted ink flow in some of your pens. We recommend shaking the ink thoroughly before filling and gently rolling the pen in your hands often to keep the shimmer effect consistent. This will also help prevent clogging. You will also want to be diligent about cleaning and maintaining your pen when using this ink.

Condition
New
Brand
Colorverse
Type
Bottled Ink
Color
Blue, Purple
Bottle Material
Glass
Bottle Opening Diameter
19.7mm (0.78in)
Fast Drying
No
Fluorescent
No
Shimmer

Whether or not the ink contains glittery particles.

Yes
Freeze Resistant

Whether or not an ink is specially formulated to better withstand freezing temperatures.

No
Volume
65ml
Iron Gall

Ink made from iron salts and tannic acids. Though quite permanent and waterproof, these inks are typically known for causing chemical corrosion to metal pen parts (especially the nib) and should be used sparingly or with less-valuable pens.

No
Lubricated

Whether or not an ink is specially formulated to increase flow in your pen.

No
Pigmented

Whether or not the ink contains finely-ground solid particles in liquid suspension.

No
Scented
No
Water Resistant

Whether or not the ink, once dried on the paper, will resist being washed away with water.

No
  • 5 stars: 23 (74%)
  • 4 stars: 3 (10%)
  • 3 stars: 1 (3%)
  • 2 stars: 4 (13%)
  • 1 star: 0 (0%)
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Hannah M.
Beautiful ink

Beautiful ink. It’s such a gorgeous color, and it writes beautifully. I love the bottle too. It officially sits front and center in my ever growing collection.

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Anonymous
Looks great and works very well with my other pens as well

Looks great and works very well with my other pens as well. Just needed to remember to shake it up before use.

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KYLEE Z.
The initial color is good

The initial color is good, but I would love to see a little more of the variation come out while writing.

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Alana T.
Soooo pretty

Soooo pretty. “Starlight” is a great name for this ink because that’s what it looks like. The shimmer is more of a sparkle and it’s very visible even when writing with a fin tip pen. I haven’t had any clogging issues so far.

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Kirin G.
Worth Giving a Shot

I bought the 65ml bottle without hesitation when I normally buy a sample first. I fell in love with the color the first time I saw it on the website and had to try it, in spite of the clogging issue. I even bought a 1.5mm stub nib for my Lamy. Unfortunately this does still clog even broad nibs.

What I do is -not- shake the bottle, I refill my converter with ink and leave the large heavy glitter sitting on the bottom. Slightly saddened to not have the sparkle effect but being able to smoothly use this ink and it's stunning color is well worth it. If you are on the fence, give this ink a try.

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Anne C.
One of my favorite ink colors!

I love this ink so much. Even though it's a shimmer ink, I really haven't had any noticeable issues with clogging. I do need to gently shake my pen to get the shimmer dispersed, but that's normal behavior. The color is fabulous! I definitely will buy this again,

As usual, the order process and shipping is top notch.

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H.E.
Truly gorgeous

I love this ink so much the glitter is extremely finely milled dosnt clog my pen and looks gorgeous when the light hits the paper

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Craig
My Current Favorite Ink

The Ink is a nice mid-tone cool grey. It writes well out of my broad Monteverde Innova and stub TWSBI Eco. I don't get a large amount of shimmer unless I tilt and angle the paper.

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Rae
Obsessed with this ink

The shimmer on this ink is stunning. I have it loaded in a Diplomat Magnum with a medium nib, and it's always a delight to write with. This one is in my top 3 inks.

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Buffie C.
Sparkles like Starlight

I have a lot of ink. I've swatched over 100, and I can say this is my favorite to use in my Sailor Pro Gear medium nib. It requires a little warm up before writing, turn the pen from end to end, to get that shimmer evenly distributed. But that sparkle!! It is stunning. A night sky blue line that sparkles like starlight.

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Amy
Disappointed

It's a very pretty ink when the shimmer comes out evenly, but in my Kak�no and my TWSBI ECO it either has little to no shimmer or so much that it clogs the feed. Maybe I'll keep it for using with a dip pen or maybe I'll sell or give it away, but I don't care for larger nib sizes so this ink is pretty useless for me. I got it after reading how well it behaves in even fine nibs but that's not the case for me, even with rotating the pens to redistribute the shimmer frequently while using, which is a bit of a hassle anyway, I decided. Shimmer inks just aren't for me I guess.

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Denise

This is a beautiful color with a bunch of shimmer!

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Joshua J.
Hard to pic fav between this and Hayabusa

Colorverse is easily my favorite ink brand, and this one does not disappoint. The color dried is an intense dark purple that could pass as black ink on official documents, though the fairy dust shimmer may give it away. If you want a good solid beautiful ink for everyday writing this is a great choice and my new go-to when refilling my pens. If you want a bright obvious purple, go with haybusa glimmering.

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Sheema
Truly celestial!

This is one of my new favourite inks! After reading some of the reviews here and complaints about clogging, I avoided using it in my TWSBI 580, which doesn't always handle shimmer that well. Instead I tried it with my Kaweco Student in a medium nib. The result was beautiful: the ink flowed strong and wet, with a very generous distribution of shimmer. No clogging whatsoever. In fact, the ink flow was so strong and wet that I have to be careful what kind of paper I use this on; in a less suitable paper it will bleed through to the other side somewhat. But the effect is truly celestial! A very gorgeous colour, a sort of indigo-violet, leaning more towards blue, a bit similar to Robert Oster's Mystic Storm - but balanced out by a truly lovely rose-gold shimmer that complements it and elevates it beyond. I did notice that the shimmer particles seem to be quite heavy, because in the bottle when they're settled on the bottom it takes quite a number of tilts and turns before they start shifting and distributing throughout the ink. But if you can nail that part then you'll be rewarded with an effect that's truly ethereal and otherworldly. I tried this with a glass dip pen, but the shimmer only came through in the first few strokes. So it definitely needs to be paired well with just the right sort of fountain pen and nib for best performance.

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Morgan
Pen-Clogger

I was hoping to repeat the excellent experience I've had with some other sparkling inks (like Diamine's Red Lustre) using my TWSBI 580 with a F nib. Unfortunately, the nib clogged almost immediately. Not willing to give up on an otherwise very pretty ink, I bought a 1.1mm stub nib. That one wrote for a few minutes before drying up. Cleaning the fine glitter out of the pen was challenging. This one gets to be used exclusively with dip pens and brushes, I guess.

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Amy H.
Starlight and Witchlight

This is ink for deep philosophical poetry, for odes to a muse, for spell lists, for notes to myself to buy more chicken. This lovely ink makes the mundane special and the special even more so. I love how smooth it is, the shimmer in the depths, and the color. 10/10, would buy again!

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Amy
Impressed

I bought the sample size first and could not wait for the full bottle to arrive. It's such a dark color it barely looks purple, in my opinion this is perfect. Shimmers like fairy dust, I love it.

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Alex
Beautiful but persnickity

People are saying this isn't purple; to my eyes it's blurple, just as advertised. The shimmer particulates are particularly heavy so you have to fill your pen quickly after shaking the bottle, and it's really prone to clogging smaller nibs. Really pretty but due to its high maintenance, I probably won't reach for it super often. Wish it came in a smaller bottle.

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Elizabeth G.
Blue not purple

I was so excited to try this ink. It's not purple it's blue and has very little shimmer. If you shake the bottle before you fill the shimmer sinks to the bottom before you can get your pen into the ink. Really bummed.

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Dan F.
Magical Cauldron of Color

I gifted this to my girlfriend and she absolutely loves it. The colors in the pictures are actually a really great representation, but there are actually even more hidden treasures of color that shade and reveal at the edges. The amount of shimmer is supremely abundant.

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Kjell
Awesome looking but hard to keep going

The glitter in this ink together with it's deep dark blue colour is awesome! I can keep staring at a finished page with this ink. Though, it clogs up my pen very quickly. I used a TWSBI 580ALR with a stub nib and had a hard time writing after a page or so. The ink stopped flowing and I had to go clean my my pen.

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Anonymous
Beautiful, but beyond difficult.

Up front, let me say that I really love how this ink looks. It's beautiful. I really want to use it, and sincerely tried to use it.However... I simply could not find a pen in my collection that would write with it for more than half a page. Then it would gum up to the point where it simply would not write. I tried a Lanxivi Yongsheng 0.5mm Italic pen, a Noodlers Triple-Tail with music nib and ebonite feed, and I even bought an Ellington Nautilus with a Medium nib, just to see if a larger nib would help.All three wrote very beautifully for about a half to two-thirds of a page. It was a very beautiful ink, and I had hoped to make it a regular in my rotation. But alas, Every. Single. Pen. I tried to ink up with this ink was gummed up to uselessness inside of a page. The Ellington required ultrasonic cleaning with Dawn and ammonia to get the gunk out of the feed. I was disappointed by this ink. I tried to the best of my ability, and even consulted articles and videos on using ink with shimmer or sheen. I was trying what they suggested, but having to clean the pen after less than a page was just a bit too much. If I could find some advice that would let me use this ink, perhaps in a dedicated pen that I cleaned more often than others, that would be wonderful. I'd change my opinion and my review if I could actually use this lovely ink.

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Julie P.
Lovely Deep Purple Color

Witch by Starlight is a lovely deep color. Behaves well in my pen and I love the name!

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Tessa
Beautiful!

The ink goes down a really dark, almost navy blue but dries to a beautiful glistening purple. I didn't actually see the purple until the ink had completely dried and then it was actually quite a bit lighter, pleasantly so, than I would have expected with how dark it went down. The shimmer is not overbearing, in fact the 'glistening' description actually fits quite well as it's pretty soft and shows up most when moving the page under light. There was no feathering or bleed-through for me either. I tried it in a Lamy fine nib, but I have a calligraphy pen which is a lot wider that I'm excited to try it with.

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Roxie
Did I Get a Bad Bottle???

The color isn't bad and the flow is nice but I'm so confused by the swatch and the reviews. The ink I have does not go down blue and definitely does not dry to purple. In fact there's nothing purple about it. The bottle I have goes down a greenish-grey and dries to a dark grey. What am I missing?

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Anonymous
Colorverse Witch by Starlight

Pictures don't do this ink justice. It's incredibly lovely and pairs well with my Sailor Wicked Witch pen.

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Jessie S.
Love this color

I purchased this ink as a sample and fell in love with it. So very excited to see the full sized bottle back in stock. The ink writes beautifully and smoothly.

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Terence G.F.
Another Grand Colorverse fountain Pen Ink

I purchased this fountain pen Colorverse ink for a friend that likes purple or purplish inks. I did a sneak dip and the color is just top shelf.

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Crystal C.
Beautiful color!

The rosy shimmer is a nice contrast to the blue-purple ink base. I used it in a Sailor 1911L with a fine nib and the ink paired with it well.

Frequently Asked Questions

Which pens can accept this ink? 8EDA1617-F73A-4DAF-8245-6D2BF4ABEB7B

Any of these fountain pens will work with bottled ink. Typically, as long as the pen can be filled with a converter, has a built-in filling mechanism like a piston, or can be eyedropper-filled, it can accept bottled ink. You can also refill an empty ink cartridge from bottled ink using an ink syringe.

Is shimmering ink safe to use in fountain pens? 8EDA1617-F73A-4DAF-8245-6D2BF4ABEB7B

Yes! Shimmering ink (a fountain pen ink that has small particles of glitter mixed in) is a great way to add some flare to your writing. We have found that a larger nib will showcase more shimmering particles while writing, but you can use any nib size with shimmering ink. While it is safe to use in fountain pens, it may require a little extra maintenance.

Due to the amount of particulate in this ink used to achieve the sparking look, you may experience restricted ink flow in some of your pens, especially with finer nibs.

We recommend shaking the ink thoroughly before filling, and gently rolling the pen in your hands often to keep the shimmer effect consistent. This will also help prevent clogging.

You will also want to be diligent about regularly cleaning and maintaining your pen when using this ink.

For more information, check out our blog post on How to Write with Shimmering Ink, or watch the video here:

What's your return policy? 8EDA1617-F73A-4DAF-8245-6D2BF4ABEB7B

This product may be returned if it is in new, unused condition; or if it was found to be defective.

We accept returns for up to 30 days from purchase. You can read all our Return Policies here.

To initiate a return, please submit a request at the Return Portal. Our Customer Care team might reach out to you for more information.