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No Live, she had glowing sleeves before she took Amber's powers. This picture is from the fight against Amber itself, and the sleeves are glowing before she uses fire dust to turn dirt particles into glass to throw at Amber.

And the point in having dust is so no one else knows she is the Fall Maiden; it helped with hiding the fact that she was the assailant who stole half the Maiden's powers in DDI, otherwise you can bet that Ozpin and Co would have been a lot more proactive in finding her than just "Oh, send the kids. It'll be fine."

And why not have Dust? It's an extra power, and she wants to be powerful. Look at her list of abilities and weapons: Dust dress, Maiden Powers, unarmed combat, Dust vials to manipulate, weapons that she then discards and in later episodes makes from Dust, and her semblance (whatever it is). Take the dust out of the equation and she has to carry around physical weapons and only has her unarmed combat skills, Maiden Powers and her semblance. She has a much more impressive list if she still uses Dust.