What’s the best white gel pen for Realistic highlights?

I get this question a lot— as if the problem is the brand of pen rather than the white pen technique.

If you’re coloring cranberries with the same technique you also used on a fuzzy brown bear or a prickly pine tree… And if you’re using the white gel pen highlight technique on everything?

You’ve got realism problems.

Tools On My Desk: Best White Pencils, Pens, and Markers (for Copic Marker, Colored Pencil)

Best White Pens for Coloring?

Everyone loves a good white gel pen.

C’mon, you know you do. You whip out your white pen at the end of every Copic Marker or colored pencil project, to add realistic highlights and shine to everything.

Hold on there…

Does white gel pen actually look realistic?

But what else is there? What do artists use to color white?