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Colorverse Colorvent and Enigma Inkvent ... Week 3 Round-Up

This post is going to cover days 15 through 20 of both the Colorvent and Enigma Inkvent calendars.

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Colorverse 15ml bottles from Colorvent 2025. Background wood toned

Colorvent 2025 - Week 3 Favorites.

For my Colorvent favorites:

  1. Follow the Water
  2. Cosmic Reef
  3. Golden Airglow
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watches of Colovent inks on col-o-dex cards. White background.

Follow the Water is a taupe, maybe dark wheat, maybe olivey color with a blue green shimmer. This is a weird color and I’m here for this! Some say this is a Ina-Ho dupe. I couldn’t say because I don’t have Ina-ho and it’s now discontinued. I know that I don’t have anything like this is my collection. Anyway, this is a candidate to get inked very soon.

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Small swatch in oversized col-o-ring paper and bottle

Next is Cosmic Reef. This is a base color of dark blue with a heavy dark red sheen. It kinda takes over but there are lighter areas where the dark blue comes through. It didn’t smudge after it dried for me, so I think this might behave really well. This is an interesting ink.

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Small swatch in oversized col-o-ring paper and bottle

Lastly for this week, Golden Airglow. Wow, wow, wow on this one. This is dark brownish-yellow with heavy golden shimmer. This knocked my socks off as soon as I swatched it.

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Small swatch in oversized col-o-ring paper and bottle
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Swatch card on Col-o-dex card, showing the shimmer in the ink. Dark background with glow from window.

Honorable Mention: Polar Night

For all the people out there who like to use fountain pen inks with water brushes. This one is for you! This is a pale lavender that chromashades blue. This reminds me of a lighter Ink Institute Electric Blue Spider Lily.

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Small swatch in oversized col-o-ring paper and bottle

Enigma Inkvent - Week 3 Favorites

For my Enigma Inkvent favorites:

(Again this week, these are hard to pick since Enigma does such a good job with this set! Including many small makers and hard to get inks)

  1. Amarillo Stationery Teal Waistband
  2. Bungubox Thumbelina
  3. Mishima Akori
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Swatches of Colovent inks on col-o-dex cards. White background.

Amarillo Stationery Teal Waistband. This is a beautiful teal that shades nicely. This was one of the set that I did not have and after swatching this, I am going to pick up a bottle. This color just jumps off the swatch card! There is something to this that I can’t quite put my finger on.

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A vibrant emerald teal from Amarillo Stationery on col-o-dex card and ink sample from Day 18 of Enigma Inkvent. Background is medium wood grain.

Bungubox Thumbelina. The second Bungubox ink in this set and another beautiful ink. This is a slightly darker pink than last week and still muted and dusty. I’ve had somewhat of an awakening with pink lately.

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A muted dusty pink from Bungubox on col-o-dex card and ink sample from Day 17 of Enigma Inkvent. Background is medium wood grain.

Mishima Akari. Another Mishima from the same set that mimics popular food stuffs (furikake) packaging in Japan. This is the orange in series. It’s a nice bright, shading orange. I couldn’t leave it out.

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Mishima Akari. A bright orange ink swatched on col-o-dex card with sample. Day 20 of Enigma Inkvent. Background is medium wood grain.

Honorable Mention:

Pennonia x Inkdependence Hens & Chicks. This was another one that I when released I didn’t pick up. I picked up Mike’s other green ink, Mr. Noses Peepers. Hens and Chicks though is a nice medium dusty green that leans a little blue in lighter areas. This also has a purple (I think) shimmer. I forgot there was shimmer in this and didn’t capture a lot of it on my swatch, sadly. This is a nice springy ink and I can’t wait to use it.

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Pennonia x Inkdependence Hens & Chicks. Medium dusty green ink with shimmer swatched on col-o-dex card with sample. Day 16 of Enigma Inkvent. Background is medium wood grain.

Thanks for reading! Keep enjoying those inks.

PS - All Inkvents were purchased with my own dollars!