True confessions of a pastel smudger

[Elizabeth Schott]

Hello my name is Elizabeth, and I am a pastel smudge addict.

Does anyone else have this overwhelming desire to smudge each pastel stroke they make?

I look through a lot of the samples posted here and there are the most wonderful rough lines of color on children's faces - but I can't bring myself to try it... I really want too! Any words of wisdom to help me change my ways would be so helpful. Someone has to have a ten step program for smudgers?