These are nice inks but the bottles leak after they've been opened and left on their sides, even after making sure the lids were tight. To store them, put them back in the box but store the box on its side so the bottles inside are upright. Also, they are very messy, so gloves are a MUST.

Ive purchased other, more expensive brands and to be honest, these ones actually surpass some of them with the brightness of the colours! Im an experienced resin artist and I use alcohol inks in my projects very often. Used these inks yesterday for the first time and wow! Totally recommend, and the price is great!

good colors.

every thing went well

Messy to open n leak a lot

Love it, would buy again

This is a review for "Alcohol Ink Set 30 Bottles - 20 Vibrant Color with 10 Metallic Colors Alcohol-Based Ink for Epoxy Resin Art, Resin Petri Dish Making - Alcohol Color Dye for Yupo, Painting, DIY Tumbler - 0.35oz Each"I like that this set has "ordinary colors" (their terminology not mine) as well as metallic colors. I am thrilled to not see 3-4 yellows in a set. There are 4 colors that are in the red/purple family, which is nice. There are four different greens, three blues and one orange. (There are a few others, but those are the highlights.)In the metallics, there are no blues, greens nor purples. There are three colors I would classify as being in the gold family and two others in the brown family. There is one color that is called "metalic" in the large picture lower on the page that looks like a lemon/lime green. In the smaller pictures it is labeled as "bronze." This ink is definitely green leaning. Maybe they meant the green how some bronze things turn as they age?The set comes with a couple of bottle poker tools. Good thing it comes with more than one. The needle mounted in one of the poker tools wasn't quite centered and when I pushed it on to the first bottle, it bent it such that it is now pushed up against the side of the tool and will no longer work as a bottle piercer. In the end, I switched to using a sewing pin. While I could get the poker tools working, they didn't always go down far enough to break through the tip of the bottle. My pin was twice as long, so it worked better.I suggest doing the bottle piercing in the sink. Every single time, pulling the pin out, there was a little squirt of ink. Your fingers will be rainbow colored by the time you are done. I tried disposable gloves, but I couldn't feel the bottles as well and since they are so small, it just didn't work out for me.Nice set of inks, good variety of colors. I am happy with my purchase.

I use a lot of alcohol inks. This set came in a nice variety of colors, but the bottles are super messy no matter how you open them.More on that in a moment.Colors are true to their name and are very pretty. Came with regular colors as well as some metallics. All were separated and settled and took a lot of shaking to re-mix, so not sure how old they were when I received them? I haven't noticed my other brands separating nearly as much as these were. The metallics especially were hard to reconstitute, and a few of them had sediment in the tips that I have been unable to clear out and make useful.Ok, to the messy part. These came with some nice little pen caps to pierce the top. Much nicer than trying to use a push pen, but they are small so not the easiest to hold on to. There were a couple that no matter how I poked would not come out the top so I had to cut them with scissors. Either way- scissors or poking- they all seem to leak a bit when reclosed. So I think there is some bad design with the caps.Price is good for how many you get and that you get metallics (which are always a little more expensive) but honestly I don't think I'd order them again because of the leaky caps.

I've been wanting to try alcohol inks that are formulated for resin casting, so when I saw these I decided to try them.I noticed one other reviewer discussed how they struggled to pierce the bottles' tops, and hoped my experience would be better. Sadly, that's not the case. First off, when I ordered these, Amazon sent me Baby Gap socks. Not pertinent to the review, but I had to share; it was funny to receive a package that felt suspiciously soft for a container of ink bottles, open it and see a bundle of toddler's socks. So, with the bottles finally received, I picked peach and pink hues and grabbed the included puncturing caps.Yep, none of them worked. The best result I got was one of the caps did partially puncture the peach bottle top, and basically tore into the side of the tip of the pink ink bottle rather than puncturing the tip cleanly.Resin casting and airbrushing are my two most active hobbies right now, so I have several airbrush components laying around. I found an old 0.3 mm needle that I had kept for some reason, and used that.I was able to cleanly puncture the tips of the bottles with the airbrush needle, but there was still an issue that I inadvertently avoided. I always wear a full face respirator when I cast resin, and I had it on when I punctured open the bottles. The peach color ink bottle was pressurized, so when I removed the airbrush needle, the bottle erupted. Thankfully I was also wearing nitrile gloves, as it got all over my fingers, and a few drops of ink splattered on my respirator mask...directly over my eye.I had to re-puncture the pink bottle, and it too erupted, albeit not as severely, when I removed the airbrush needle. Having opened them, I cast the pyramid and sphere in the photo. I waited about 30 minutes or so before I squeezed a few drops into the castings, with a few drops of the white "middle" and "bottom" inks and left the castings alone after that. You can see the results.Yesterday, I opened the blue and violet bottles. Once again, both bottles erupted on me, and now I've got a few blue spots on my respirator visor. I cast the three cubes in the photos, but this time, I starting squeezing drops of the blue and violet inks immediately after I poured the resin. Noticing that the ink wasn't sinking with the addition of the weighted white inks, I took a swab stick (not the cotton tip end) and plunged it several times into the cube castings. On some of the plunges, I'd slowly swirl and move the stick around in the resin. You can see that the ink didn't fully color the resin, but the patterns at the tops of the castings are very interesting! I find it further intriguing that some of the weighted white inks stayed on the surface of the resin.I'm definitely going to design and 3D print some LED bases for these castings; I bet they're going to make highly unique curio lighting!So! Do I recommend these? I hesitate to. I haven't tried other resin-specific alcohol inks, so I don't have any "apples to apples" comparison here. In terms of casting performance, these are great and I look forward to trying all sorts of techniques and timings and seeing the results in my castings.But on the other hand....There are a lot of colors in this set, and if I want to use them, I'm going to have to open them.... Maybe I'll look for some smaller needles, in the hope that a smaller needle won't pressurize the bottles when they're punctured open. Either way, I'm not looking forward to that.

Great selection. Bright colours.