Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to another episode of an ink review on the Marilyn Darling Show. In this video I’m testing Ferris Wheel Press Pearl Series “Ink Pot of Mystery” Pearl #10, and I’m going to be honest right out of the gate: when you look it up and it says it’s $6,000, I have no idea why. Nobody needs to spend $6,000 on 15 mls of ink. That said, I still put it through my usual routine so we can figure out what it actually does on paper. Color-wise, Pearl #10 is that weird in-between shade where you’re like… is this green, is this blue, is this gray? To my eye it’s a greenish bluish grayish ink, and the chromatography is really interesting—gray at the core with tan/brown, blue, and even a little pink teasing out at the edges. I also do a quick water test and it does have a little bit of water resistance, which is always nice. Then I run it across a big stack of papers. On cheaper papers and envelopes it feathers like a chicken and can bleed/ghost, but on better paper (like Copperplate, Hobonichi, Midori MD, Tomoe River 68gsm, and more) it shades beautifully and behaves much more politely. I also do quick comparisons against similar “dusty teal/green-gray” neighbors and talk a bit about getting ready for the LA Pen Show—because of course I am.