Ok this might sound gayish. While I was looking at my mom while she apply a make-up, I notice that it is somewhat like chalk pastels sanded down into very fine grains. I also thought about using it as a substitue for my chalk pastels. Has anyone done this? Will it work?

Not gayish at all. You need to be careful about which kind you use. If you use your Moms favorite kind you may get yourself in trouble - seriously - some of brands are oily and may not be as nice as pastels. Just test them out. Lots of them have a glittery quality to them, so they may not look right.

Thanks! I know I'll get into trouble if I used my mom's fav, so I'm using the excess ones. I'll check out the results.

I would be interested in finding out how it works. I would think the oil based would adhere better, of course I wouldn't think you could find good weathering colors. Might work real well on figures though.

Good idea, although I would think that they would be lighter and pinkish than normal dust. But I could be wrong. Let us know how it turns out!

~Chip :-)

dont forget about the blusher brushes these are dirt cheap massive and very soft you can use these for applying pastels or dusting down your models

the earth colours of women's make up can be used for figures flesh painting, i ve tried it and it works . most of them are sticky enough dut to the oil base but some cheaper are just dust like the pastels. still believe that the painting pastels are cheaper , better and in a lot of colours that tthe make up doesnt come out

I never thought of painting figs with them. Good idea Major Goose. I will certainly look
into that!

~Chip :-)