The Prismacolor 9 Series

 I just have to say 

    i have dropped eyeshadow palettes harder than I've dropped prismacolor colored pencils (the 900 series to be precise) and I have yet to crack a pressed powder...

HOWEVER

you so much as show a prismacolor 9/ 900 series the SIDE of your reusable water bottle and you will be sharpening it 'til the cows come home.

I mean 

the pigment is finely milled. 

which i love. 

which is a fragment. 

which is what you get when you drop a prismacolor 9/900 series colored pencil. 

you get fragments of the utensil you just bought. 

you get broken off colorful tips in between your toes and melted on your patio. 

you really cannot ever drop these pencils. 

maya, 

what happens when you drop one? 

well reader, 

when you drop a prismacolor 9/900 color series colored pencil you crack the pigment within the wooden stick. 

you think everything is right as rain because the wood of your colored pencil remains intact. 

but you best believe you cracked some shit inside. 

the pigment is finely milled, and then congealed together to create the tip of your colored pencil. 

and when you drop said colored pencil...

that finely, finely, milled (and then congealed) pigment goes BEZERK. 

it just SNAPS. 

(this goes for all pencils, mind you)

and then you spend your time sharpening away. 

just sharpening 

and sharpening. 

and sharpening. 

fragments on fragments on fragments. 

IT'S A MESS. 

but i keep buying them. 

why maya? 

well, reader, 

i love the 9/900 series because that finicky pigment is so vibrant-- especially when used on black canson paper, or stonehenge cold pressed aquatint black paper--and the purity of color would make anyone blush. 

the color 

is

flawless. 

and so i endure the headache. 

is this a PSA? 

of sorts 

is this an extended gripe? 

certainly. 

thank you.