Advantages: Excellent quality, good colours, comfortable to hold, and good to look at. Disadvantages: Would have liked an extra black pen.
I have always found the Staedtler fineliner to be a very reliable product. I study graphic design and therefore require a pen to perform to a certain standard and I have found that the Staedtler fineliner has always been able to provide this function.
I like the appearance of the pen, the combination of the silver body with a colour coded lid and end is really cool. Also, the packaging itself is very innovative: a see through packet that you can turn into a pen stand makes it easier to access the pens and it brings an aesthetic quality to the product.
No matter how much you suck the top the ink doesn?t spill out into your mouth, which is definitely a bonus when you are in deep concentration.
It also has dry safe anti smudge technology, which means when the ink touches paper it dry instantly. This is a very important aspect for me ...
Advantages: Easily obtainable, good value, recyclable. Disadvantages: Really just the idea of it not being a genuine new original!
10mls
In my packs, the cartridges were fitted into a plastic clip 'bracket' for protection during transport. There was also an envelope to return unwanted cartridges for recycling, which must be good for the environment? One of my envelopes had a draw on it to win a car, (if I win I will review it on Ciao and give Richada a run for his money lol!) or you could choose to donate to a charity and get tesco club points.
To read more about the recycling and the prize draw see:
http://www.inkagain.co.uk/collection/tesco.shtml
The ink cartridges took only a few moments to clip into place, and I suffered no mess.
MY OPINION:
Although I chose a colour cartridge H50 and a black H90, The packs did not specify the quantity of ink inside the cartridge. However there was a helpline No. 0800 8494 658, which I rang to enquire the ink ...
Advantages: Interesting to watch, loads of cool tattoos to look at Disadvantages: Often I find myself wanting a tattoo done by Chris Garver but unfortunately I don't live in Americ
Miami Ink, if you haven't heard about it already, is a TV show about a tattoo parlour in Miami (if you hadn't already guessed!).
The series began in July 2005, introducing four eager tattooists, Ami James, Chris Nunez, Chris Garver and Darren Brass, as well as Ami's apprentice, Yoji Harada. Throughout the episodes new tattooists enter and go, the most famous probably being Kat Von D who turned the studio around with her beautiful portrait tattoos.
Each show lasts about an hour long, and during that time we see a variety of clients enter the studio to get their tattoos.
The guys who run/work in the studio are all fairly young, heavily tattooed and have been through different walks of life. Most of them have spent their lives tattooing, so working in the shop you can tell means a lot to them. Each artist has a different personality ...
