Sigma Make Up Brushes

I was recently contacted by Sigma Make Up and asked if I would like to try their brushes. After seeing reviews from Youtubers whose opinions I trust, I knew they were worth having a look at. I wasn't expecting this box until next week as mail from the US has been quite slow lately, but this arrived in 4 days! As you can imagine, I was quite thrilled to get home from work and find a giant brown box waiting for me.

Inside the box:


The presentation was just lovely! Inside this black box, the brush sets were wrapped in orange tissue paper and they included a little thank you note.

So, what did I get?


They sent two of the full brush sets (which include the three newer brushes), a pink travel set and a Sigma shopping tote. I will be giving away the second full set of brushes once my 10k contest is finished with so keep a look out for that!

The full set:


Also included with each of the full sets is a mini SS217. I won't go into which brushes are included as this post will end up being miles long! But I will be doing a large review, probably split into face and eye brushes once I've given them a good go.

Initially, I am quite impressed. I haven't had time to give them a good go yet as I have been very busy over this last week. The face brushes are lovely and soft, and the eye brushes look like they're going to work very well. I don't have a full set of MAC brushes to compare, so I'm only going to be able to do the ones I have. Some are close to their MAC counterparts, but others are not quite the same. I have noticed the the white hairs in the two skunk brushes (SS187 & SS188) are not quite as flexible as the MAC ones. The face brush I'm planning on testing first has to be the SS109. It's flatter than MAC's and seems a little more dense. I use it a lot as it's my liquid foundation brush.

I also received one of the travel sets. This is "Nice in Pink":


I'm really looking forward to playing with this one! I am always complaining about brushes when I travel to London. I don't have a travel set, or even anywhere to carry my brushes! So as this pink set folds up nice and small, it'll fit easily into my backpack!

The brushes seem to be exactly the same quality as the full sized ones, just smaller. The heads seem smaller as well, not just the handles. An example being the SS150 in the travel set. The head of that seems closer in size to my MAC #129, rather than the SS150. The set comes with a loose brush (both the travel sets have an extra brush) and I'll be adding my SS217 mini that came with the full size set.

I know I'm going to get questioned but I will not feature anything on this blog that is not 100% honest. There's been a lot of Youtube and Blog coverage about the Sigma brushes so people's honesty is being called into question. I cannot speak for those, but I am looking forward to properly reviewing these brushes and giving you my honest thoughts.

If you've tried any of the Sigma brushes, then do let me know! I'd love to hear what you think of them.