******
- Verified Buyer
These chalk markers work great and the colors are bright and vivid. I used them on a back to school board that wasn’t huge, but it was still very easy to read because of the quality of the markers. When my little one smeared them, they cleaned right up off the board and him!These were great for organizing my kitchen food containers and canisters. The ink flowed smoothly and didn’t smudge. The tip size I ordered was perfect for even small labels.I have two adult children that are both visually impaired, so we have a glass light up board that we use to leave notes for each other. The bright flashing lights and bright colors draw their attention a lot better than just a plain chalkboard. Anyhow, we got our board about 3 years ago and we're due for some new pens, so we got these after reading the reviews. First thing I have to say is....holy smokes, that eraser is amazing! In the years we've had the board I swear I had tried just about everything! Every single kind of cloth I had in the house both wet and dry, rubbing alcohol diluted and wiped with a sponge, using paper towels....NOTHING would work to take up all the smears!! This handy dandy eraser which is much like a Magic Eraser as far as density and texture, makes light work of clearing the board so we can start fresh! No getting it wet, no smears left behind...its a Godsend!! Now onto the pens...I absolutely love the variety of colors this pack comes with and how you can flip the nibs around to give you 2 different tips for each pen! Bonus is they send you a couple extra nibs for back up just in case. The formula of the "ink" is nice. It does come out pretty liquid so be careful what angle you are using it and don't press too hard or you will have a mess.I included a drawing I did on our sliding glass door for my daughter to congratulate her on her graduation. I was really happy with how it turned out. One thing to mention if doing a drawing like I did is that once a color dries, if you go back over it, the nib of the pen you are using will pick up the drier layer making it difficult if you need to go back and fill in spots. Also, when doing the teeth on the bulldog in the picture, I had done the black outline first and waited for that to dry. When I went back in with the white, I had to be very careful not to touch any of the black outline or it ended up on the nib of the white pen and then would make gray streaky colored teeth. Qtips came in handy to clean up my mistakes! Oh and of course we cleaned the window with windex and then I wiped it down afterward with diluted rubbing alcohol and water sprayed on and wiped with a lint free cloth. Then I allowed it to fully air dry before starting with the pens.Highly recommend these for glass light up board or for use on any other glass. I will for sure purchase these again without hesitation!Great colors and ink flow!It takes awhile to get them to work, especially the 1st time. Colors don't look the same on tinted windows, red looks orange, blue is light blue. But other than that I was happy with them. I bought to decorate my son's car for Senior week before graduation. Mistakes were easily wiped off with a cloth.This is more like a 4.5 star review, but I have to round it and I only leave 5 star reviews if an item is absolutely perfect. I was very impressed that these behave exactly like paint markers: shake them, press down on the tip to release the pigment, and draw away! The pigment dispensed easily and the colors are beautifully vibrant. They dry to a matte finish like you would expect from chalk, but the end result looks more like milk paint since the liquid can seep into small cracks and cover rough surfaces completely, unlike regular chalk. I had no issue removing them from non-porous surfaces - which is how they are intended to be used. I also love that they take a little time to dry, which means you can blend them while wet and create some very nice gradient effects.There are a couple of small annoyances:1) The viscosity of the liquid chalk is wildly inconsistent. I imagine this is because darker colors have such a higher pigment concentration, but it means you have to get used to the color flowing out of each pen at a slightly different rate. This was mostly frustrating when starting to use the pens as I had to press down on darker colors like purple for well over a minute before the pigment started coming out, whereas light blue immediately spilled out in less than 2 seconds. So make sure to start the pens on a piece of scrap and not your actual project.2) The cap colors aren't completely accurate. Colors like pink and yellow look like just lighter shades on the cap, but come out wildly fluorescent.3) Packaging could be sturdier. The box these came in is very thin cardboard, and mine arrived banged up pretty badly. There was no damage to the pens, so I didn't care, but if I were giving these as a gift, I would be upset.These work well. It was great to have different sizes.This is a great product, with several different uses (and one I didn't anticipate until we got them).We have a kitchen chalkboard that is used every day for family communication. These are perfect for that, especially with all the different colors for highlighting, emphasizing, and just artistic fun. If anything, we spend too much time at the kitchen chalkboard with these markers now because it's so fun to be creative :-)The use for these that I didn't anticipate is with my 4 year old "budding artist". My 4 year old son is really into drawing right now. He's way beyond crayons. We got him a set of 40 Sharpie pens that are really great for him to be creative on paper. But after using these chalk markers on the kitchen chalkboard for a while, and knowing they work on glass too, it gave me an idea.We live in a modern architecture house with a lot of large panes of glass and lots of sliding glass doors. Including 3 sliding glass doors and large panes of glass that go into an atrium in the middle of the house from the living room, kitchen, and my home office room. What a perfect canvas for my budding artist with these colorful chalk markers!!!In this crazy time where my toddler has been home for 12 months due to his day care being closed, it’s been hard to keep him occupied. And these wonderful liquid chalk markers are a great new way to keep him busy, happy, and creative.
