Crystal you look gorgeous! I love the modeling moves!

Makes me wonder if the regular Kalour pencils are the same as the regular Castle Arts pencils. 🤔

I like to see the blending test. I use coloring books & I need easy blend pencils 😂

Love the green dress❤❤❤

Yes, skip the swatching and get straight to how they lay down and blend...

What is castle art? Never heard of them

Thank you for comparing different sets!

Appreciate the comparison ❤

Maybe you can pre-swatch half of the card and then swatch the other half on video for those who like to watch the swatching and see how the pencils do....

Ah, so it wasn't just mine. I thought maybe my trays were inserted upside down because the numbers were all backwards...but it looks like yours were arranged the same as mine. Great video!!! The perfect quick look!

Unfortunately many of the colors are similar! What a bummer, they should have chosen a better color selection

Thank you for the extensive review. I dislike owning the same pencils with different retailers branding. I get confused easily so I'm very grateful for the amount of work you were willing to do to determine which other set of pencils where closest to these new Kalour's in performance. Excellent video.💜💜💜💜💜💜💜

I GOT TO HAVE THEM ALL 😂

I like to watch switching so I can see how the pencils do. If they are scratchy and stuff like that.

I have found iBayam color pencils for the best everyday use plus they are under 10.00 for a set of 72 ...I really enjoyed your videos...I do have Kalour sets but don't used them much

I buy the Ccfoud blender pencils from temu. They have a set of 24 for under 10.00. I also believe Brutfuner and Ccfoud are the same pencils. At least the black barrel sets seem to be.

Thank you for doing the sleuthing. I don't think there's anything nefarious going on. I just think there's only a few colored pencil factories in China and they host multiple brands. Kalour and Brutfuner are definitely made in the same place to the point where people have bought Kalour sets and found Brutfuner pencils inside the tin. And we know several companies, including Brufuner, picked up those discounted defective Shuttle Art black barrel pencils that were going around a few years ago. While I love the new Castle Arts Harmonious set, the colors and the feel of the pencils feel exactly like some of the dusky grays, blues and purples from some of the trays in the Brutfuner 520 flower box sets. Earlier this summer, Arteza mysteriously was out of stock at the same time the original Star-Joy pencils were back in stock (72 set). After those sold out, all of a sudden Arteza had a bit of stock that went on sale. I'm certain they use the same factory and each brand was given a turn to produce its pencils. Kind of like how magazines use the same 2-3 printers. I just recently got one of the larger (150) Marco Tribute sets. I didn't notice it with the 80 pencil special collectors set, but swatching the larger set out, I'm like "these feel like something I've used before..." I haven't figured out what they are yet... Anyway, it's good to know that these pencils are the same as the Castle Arts Gold. Now I won't feel like I need them!

I like the swatching, but it’s fine however you prefer.

I really enjoyed this review. I subbed.

I find your video because I'm deep in to those metallic sets. First I head the 172 Shuttleart color pencil set, I didn’t use the metallics in there for black paper. I use them as extra gray tones for a lager art project, but one of them was getting fast to its end, so I was searching for a cheap pencil to replace this color without buying the hole set again. I ordered a lot of small sets and single pencils and find a lot of different Metallic blues. I am working on a list at the moment, there are 3 differed metallic blues only by Faber-Castell

I have this color and I love it! ❤️💋🍒

I bought a set of these colored pencils ( 24 manga set and 24 classic) and they are an average set of colored pencils...where i live they cost around 7 dollars for 24 colored pencils set... they feel very waxy and they dont blend easily , some of them lay down better on the paper but some other like the light tones are not that good...if you cant afford prismacolor or any expensive set ,its better to buy the faber castell classic line...in the red box..the new one are more pigmented that the old one....hope that help.

Thanks so much. Excellent Review! I am looking at the 150 set now on Temu. Hard to find reviews on the Marco Tribute,🤣 especially the 150 + 10 extra of something, i think there are a couple blenders, a couple graphite and not sure of others , the Temu description states "+10 pcs function pen" seems like a translation issue.

Any recommendations for coloring books? 😅 i just ordered this pencils

I checked my wishlist yesterday and they were at the same "sale" price as they were on prime day!!!

I got the white TIR TIR mini but haven't tried it yet.

One of the worst pencils I've ever had. absolutely no layers possible

I did get the Nyoni chalk pastel colored pencils they were a few bucks cheaper than normal ! Hope I like them ! I haven’t tried that foundation but it looks really nice on you . I’m way older than you so I wonder how it would do for me !❤

Love the Coty air spun powder and Milani blush! Your skin looks great! Can you try Laura Geller baked kit with foundation bronzer highlighter and blush? Supposed to be very moisturizing and good for dry skin. Thanks!💄💋🫥

I bought nothing on prime day - I was super annoyed when I noticed that the prices went up on a number of things on my wish lists but then they didn’t reduce them at all 🤦🏻‍♀️.

I only use hand crank sharpeners. I have this one on my Temu order. That's how they should work if you have a good one with the thing coming out like that all mine are like that and they are expensive.

So cute. 💕

I love the blazer, and the last outfit the most,!

What paper is best for printing the coloring pages for the pencils?

I received this book today and it is truly, truly gorgeous and worth every penny.

Fantastic Video

Hmmm, I was just considering getting a room divider for my bedroom, yesterday~ Thx for helping narrow the search, Crystal! 😁 🖤J

I think it’s really cute ❤

The gold dress is gorgeous, I can’t believe you paid 15$ for it! You look very chic in it.

How do they compare to faber castle polychromos?

Finally, a good set of muted colors.

the black dress was the best fit 🖤I also liked the dark blazer with shorts. Yes you need a small or medium instead ✔️love the rust but in a smaller size too!