FriXion by Pilot Pens Review - Influenster Cosmo VoxBox 2012

In case you don't remember, I received these pens in the Fall Cosmo VoxBox from Influenster. It's been a while, a long while actually, since I've used erasable ink. It was probably sometime in the 1990s (yes, that long ago) when I last used it. I have to say that when I had to use erasable ink for school, I was not impressed. The ink seemed really thick and gross. It tended to glob up and if you ever did need to erase it, it tended to smear and create a giant mess. I'm not really sure what the point was if it was such a hassle to use. Using some sort of correcting fluid would have been much easier for sure.

Anyhow, that really isn't the case with these FriXion pens by Pilot.

I'll start by talking about the red pen. As you can see, or I hope you can see, from the photos above, It writes really well. The ink is pigmented and everything you'd expect from a regular red pen. This isn't just an ordinary red pen though. Remember, it's also erasable. In the bottom half of the picture you can see that I erased part of the word to show you how it looks when erased.

Overall it did an ok job of erasing. However, it left behind an orangeish or light red sort of color where the red ink had been. You could also clearly see the indentation from the writing. If you had written something and wanted to erase it to write something over it, you could. I think you'd still see a bit of the original writing underneath though. I would liken the erasability to that of a pencil though. Sometimes when you erase pencil you're still able to see a smudge of it here and there as well as the indentation left by the original writing. This has kind of the same effect, just with ink.

I'd say pretty much everything about the black pen as I did about the red one with a few exceptions. The black ink leaves behind a little bit of a gray cast when erased and it's not quite as noticeable as the orange/red left behind by the red pen.

Both pens were very smooth to write with and I really liked using them. I didn't have to scribble or anything to get the ink going, which was nice.

So the big question is: Would I use my own money to buy these?

Yeah actually I would - but I probably wouldn't erase them much. I like the ink flow and the way the pen wrote more than I cared for the ability to erase it. If I'm writing with pen, I try not to make mistakes anyhow.

Disclaimer: I received these products complimentary for testing purposes from Influenster.