Colored Pencil Review: Caran d’Ache Alpine Frost Bicolor 9-Piece Colored Pencil Set

One of my favorite colored pencils are the Caran d’Ache Supracolors and the extra-posh Luminance pencils. I also love two-ended pencils. Caran d’Ache calls these BiColor and occasionally release sets of these little gems. For this winter, they released the Alpine Frost boxed set and who doesn’t love a boxed set! So, Caran d’Ache Alpine Frost Bicolor 9-Piece Colored Pencil Set (currently $34.31) was kind of a no-brainer for me. Normally, the only BiColor pencils I can find from Caran d’Ache are the standard red/blue or red/graphite style which are part of their Graphicolor line. Caran d’Ache has many tiers of colored pencils. The Luminance line is their lightfast, museum-quality pencils. They also have the aforementioned Supracolors which are the artist-grade water solubles. They also make Pablos which are their artist-grade non-water soluble line. Then there’s the Swisscolor which are the student grade which are available in water soluble (a little paint brush printed on each pencil…