The present invention provides resin beads that are capable of realizing a water repellent and oil repellent effect, and further, that are also capable of providing cosmetic materials excellent in persistence of makeup when added and used in cosmetic materials etc. because the resin beads themselves contain silicone in a fixed state, and the present invention also provides a process for producing the resin beads. Resin beads being resin particles (a copolymer) obtained by subjecting a monomer mixture containing a plurality of monomers each having a copolymerizable functional group to suspension polymerization in a state where at least a non-polymerizable silicone is present, the resin particles containing the silicon in a fixed state, and a process for producing the resin beads.