I wonder if Aliexpress delivers to you.

These aren't oil pastels but soft pastels the pencils and I also have an old box of Rembrandt soft pastels of at least 25 years old. I also found a box for portraits but I am not skilled when it comes to faces I am rather blind.

There are soft pastels and soft pastels in all ranges and it mainly depends on the paper how good you can blend them but also if you can cover the paper. I believe I had way better results with the simple bamboo paper than with this. But I refuse to not use it after I spent money on it who knows I may find a different approach or the idea is to see the texture, like we can see the texture of canvas?