I've seen that Colorverse has recently started making little mini bottle collections that include three 5 ml bottles. It's a pretty hefty price to pay—about $6 per bottle off the Colorverse website!—which is quite a bit more than what you might pay for a sample vial. Of course, you don't get the packaging or the tiny little teardrop-shaped bottle.
Colorverse Life on Mars is a light blue green.
This ink wasn't very waterproof and left behind some light yellow-green marks behind. However, it dried pretty quickly: in a medium nib, it was dry to the touch by the fifteen second mark.
In both a medium and fine nib, there wasn't much shading. In a medium nib you see more of that yellow-green hue come through, whereas blue was dominant in a broad nib.
There's very little shading and no sheen on Tomoe River paper.
I compare it to some other blue greens that I have. Noodler's General of the Armise is probably the closest, though it is a tad more blue. Organics Studio Barkley's Blue Teal is lighter and more blue. De Atramentis Petrol is more green.
I had this ink in my Kaweco Skyline Sport with a broad nib. Life on Mars had a slightly wetter than average flow and paired well with my Kaweco Sport. They worked well together and I ran out of my little squeeze converter-ful pretty quickly.
I'm a fan of the color, though Life on Mars can only (currently) be found in one of Colorverse's box sets. So if you also like the color, you'll have to buy the entire set, and Life on Mars is the smaller 15 ml bottle.
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