Review on 🎨 Pentel Arts Oil Pastels: 50 Color Set (PHN-50) - Vibrant Pigments for Alluring Artwork by Dawn Fischer

I was looking for a pastel that blended well and didn't leave chalk marks. Well, there is no chalk dust, the sticks act like wax crayons and cannot be shaded. Hard wax builds up when pressed and doesn't shade at all. I am very disappointed in this product after all the great reviews I have read. I wonder how kids can get the advertised results. I think you get what you pay for. I've seen videos that oil pastels tend to form a hard outer shell and need to be washed off from time to time. I tried the suggestion and nothing changed. When you use a blending plug it removes the light color and you end up with a matte flat color as you can see in the example I attached. I can only surmise from other reviews that I must have a very old set of these pastels that have turned to wax.