1/02/2022

BlueFire Colored Water-soluble Professional 72-Pencil Set

THE GOOD
> The package is really elegant, well presented and organized.
> The set contains 72 colored pencils plus a complimentary brush, with enough diversity of colors to do coloring and work on shadows and mid-tones.
> OK as coloring pencils.
> The tiny coloring Fantasy Dream is really beautiful.
> Good priced for the amount of colors you get.

THE NOT SO GOOD
> These are watercolor pencils, but once you apply water, the color is barely there. I expected, for sure, the color to dilute and be less vibrant once it becomes watercolor, but the dilution of the color was dramatic, like the pigment doesn't hold much with the water because the pigment is not good.
> The brush doesn't help much with the water-coloring, as the color didn't spread well, the bristles hold too much water and there aren't enough bristles in it for the water to be more evenly distributed.
> Color chart on the box doesn't match the pencil colors in the box. Also, there are discrepancies in the numbering on the pencils, with some of the numbers missing or just wrongly numbered.
> The color trays arrived with the colors all mixed up as per my photo, not color organized, so I had to spend an hour organizing the pencils properly.
> Bad quality pencil body and lead that break and bristle easily, like just getting the pencil out of the grip.
> The holding tray is made of plastic, and the grips where the pencils are held, tend not to be stable, so once I get one out, others pop up on their own.

OVERALL
This is a good set for just coloring, not so much if you want professional watercolor pencils. Quality of the pencils overall is average and they're easily breakable.