Open almost any twelve-colour pencil box and there is exactly one shade meant to stand for skin. Faber-Castell's Children of the World set exists to fix that. Three pencils, each sharpened at both ends in a different tone, give six skin colours in a pack small enough to sit alongside a child's ordinary colour pencils.

The six tones run from a pale cream through peach and warm pink into mid and deep browns, so a child can actually match their own face, their family and the people sitting next to them in class rather than settling for the nearest approximation. The pack is titled in both German and English, "Buntstifte in Hautfarben", colour pencils in skin colours, and the barrels are printed with small hand icons in each tone so the right end is easy to find.

The tones are made to be layered rather than used flat. Drawn over one another they blend into the in-between shades, which is how you reach a complexion that sits between two of the six. That makes a three-pencil set considerably more flexible than the count suggests, and it is why the pack is popular for portrait and family drawing in primary classrooms.

The blister carries Faber-Castell's carbon-neutral production symbol and a mark for wood from certified sustainable forests. Safencia lists the set of 3 at Rs. 695 with Cash on Delivery across Pakistan, and WhatsApp confirms stock, your city and delivery charges before dispatch.

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