Edit: My new light skin set arrived today, one day after my complaint. So, good job Amazon. Having not shared an envelope with a case of cat food, it arrived undamaged & was the correct item this time. Disclaimer: I’m not an artist. I color in coloring books. I also do not color skin. I bought these pencils just so I would have all 180 Black Widow colors. I really like the brand.Some of the colors in this set are very close to colors already found in other sets. If you are looking for light skin colors & you have all the other sets, you can use what you have in them. For example, mushroom, peach & light pink from the Monarch set & light mocha from the dark skin set. It’s got a couple very similar flesh tone colors that are nice to have (Egg Shell & Murk) but IMHO you don’t really need this set to color light skin. After swatching them out, I got the impression all of the Black Widow colors were formulated & then someone decided to pick colors from them that could fit in a skin color set. Might have been better to formulate skin colors for that purpose exclusively. I’m taking one star off for that. Don’t get me wrong, I am happy with the set. I’m more than halfway down some of my light pencils (like Mushroom) so these will help fill the gap they will leave when gone. I love that bright yellow color, Sunburst. It’s almost fluorescent & goes over darker colors to add a glint of sunshine. Also Murk will go fast. It blends well with Leather from the dark skin set (I use a lot of light tans). The mellow oranges (sherbet, saffron, & rust) can be used for salmon colors & blend well with the stronger oranges from other sets. This set also includes a duplicate white that I use for blending (Casper & Snow are identical to the eye). I needed a new one. One way to use your light colors is to blend with them. I love Black Widow & prefer them to Prismacolor. They are bit nicer than Goldfaber which I also use now. Not as waxy as Prismacolor but plenty soft enough. No problem sharpening them but if any pencil brand consistently breaks on you, it’s not the pencil but the sharpener. The core of soft wax pencils can be twisted by a sharpener & snap. Black Widow is a great brand to use in adult coloring books. Some of the more pricey brands are overkill IMO when used this way. Cheap pencils can often get the job done but if you want to blend & do other effects you need a good high wax pencil like Black Widow. Also they feel so smooth to use. I’m worth them.ORIGINAL: The light skin set arrived today packaged in a plastic unlined envelope along with my case of cat food. Needless to say, the tin was dented. Be very careful what you order along with your pencils because they all get packaged together & soft wax pencils are breakable. My problem is that the outside of the tin said light skin set but the pencils inside were the dark skin set. Before the inside plastic was applied, the covers to the tins must have been switched. Somewhere someone is opening their dark skin set to find my light skin! I was looking forward to using them today as they are the only set I don’t have. With the new set of 36 coming out this summer, I wanted to have all 180 colors. I just bought a second set of dark skin colors or I would have kept these. Luckily Amazon makes returns easy. Just bring them to an Amazon pick up depot & leave them in the assigned locker. The new pencils are already on their way & hopefully they are the correct set. If the pencils are as good as the other sets of Black Widows I own, I will change the rating to 5 stars. They are amazing. I’ve been using them for a year & my first pencils to get too short to sharpen were the dark skin set. Right now I’m taking two stars off for the manufacturer’s mistake & one star because Amazon did such a sucky job packaging them. WAX PENCILS ARE FRAGILE AMAZON! THE CORES CAN BREAK.