Sigma Mrs Bunny Essential Kit

Hi beauties! 

I was stalking Luxola.com for a few days in June hoping to come across some kind of a random sale and as soon as they had a big percentage off the entire website, i jumped on the opportunity! Can you imagine I bought these brushes at 35% off! The original price was SGD $209 but I paid SGD $136! 

(Edit: Luxola, will you stop spiking up your products' retail prices? What's up with you guys excluding Sigma brand brushes on some of your discount codes? Can you also bring in popular brands like Kat Von D, Hourglass and Anastasia Beverly Hills too? K, thanks bye!) 

To put the cherry on top, the order came in within one day! I ordered in the morning and was able to receive it by night. How efficient, Luxola? If you'd like, click on the Luxola.com banner linked at the side column of my blog and take advantage of my discount code for % off! They're my affiliate link. 

The Mrs Bunny Essential kit contains 12 pieces of full-sized synthetic bristle brushes and a brush case. The brush case came in the same colour as the brush handles; baby blue with silver ferrule. This specific kit is cruelty free and vegan-friendly.

I bought the Mrs Bunny kit because i prefer synthetic bristle brushes to natural hair brushes. The difference between the two is that the synthetic ones do not absorb too much product into its fibres compared to the natural hair brushes.  Hence, products translates better from the pan and onto the skin than natural hair bristles. Natural hair brushes eats up and absorbs more products into its fibres than depositing it on your skin and you're only wasting more products in the end.

Syntetic bristle brushes are versatile and works well with any products. Be it liquid concealer, cream foundations, gel liner, cream contour, powder eyeshadows, face powders or pigments but natural hair brushes are very limited to mainly powder products and does not work well with liquid or cream products or even pigments.

I have owned other Sigma brushes like the F50 Duo Fibre and the F05 Small Contour brushes prior to this purchase and had loved the way Sigma brushes felt on my skin. That was the reason why i was not hesitant to spend a little bit more money on brushes that i knew, from experience, were great in quality. To say that the brushes are soft, is the biggest understatement of the year. 

Real Techniques brushes are affordable but are a tad stiffer and scratches my skin a little. I have extremely sensitive skin that WILL react and tell me if it doesnt agree with things i introduced it to but my sister who doesnt have sensitive skin, did told me that she thinks RT's brushes are really soft and not the slightest bit scratchy. So if your skin's like mine, just be on the know that RT's are a tad scratchy for me. They are still good brushes though, nonetheless, but Sigma synthetic ones are much softer.

Honestly i have the most sensitive skin and i can vouch for the softness of these Sigma synthetic bristle brushes. So far, they don't scratch against my skin and are really super gentle.

I believe that an artist is 'handicapped' without proper tools. Makeup is an artistry where faces are the blank canvases, and  eyeshadows are the watercolours. The right kind of tools that helps me execute well-blended looks, yet maintains a degree of crisp, clean and detailed eye work in my "smokey", "cut-crease", "sandwiched" or "strong catliner" eyeshadow looks is the ultimate deal breaker for me.

So to sum it up:

Pros

- These Sigma brushes do not shed

- They retain their shape really well even after countless of washes 

- The bristles are soft and did not scratch  my sensitive skin

- Sturdy handles that's got some weight to them

- Brush handles are appropriately long enough to grab on and the syntethic bristles are of good quality

- Sigma's synthetic-bristle brushes are cruelty free. MRS BUNNY kit is an ALL synthetic brushes kit. 

- Good amount of eye brushes and face brushes in kit

- Sturdy brush case makes the kit travel friendly 

- Lasts up to 2 or more years. Great investment. 

Cons:

- Still to me somewhat expensive (SGD $209 for 12 pcs. $17/brush)

- Bristles DO become rough and scratchy over time and after going through plenty of washes. My 2 year old Sigma brushes feels a little scratchy on my skin.

- The wooden part of the brush handle do get chipped over time (the wood from my F05 brush handle got chipped)

- Natural hair bristle brushes ARE NOT  CRUELTY FREE. I dont know the condition of how these animals are kept, whether they're locked up and caged up or whether they're free range (able to roam freely). I dont know if these animals are sufficiently fed with good nutrients, proper food and water, or fed with bad diets or injected with growth hormones,etc. If im aware that a company is not cruelty-free, i will not support them. Sigma claims to cut/trim the furs of these animals only. 

So, would i repurchase Sigma brushes? Only the synthetic bristle ones and only if I really needed it. 

Here's closeups of the brushes. I will have a detailed post on these brushes and tell you more about its individual function and purpose soon!

5 Face Brushes

From left to right: Concealer, Blush, Flat foundation, duo fibre and complexion brushes

7 Eye Brushes

I would rate this  ❤ ❤ ❤.5 (3.5 hearts)  out of 5 hearts because Sigma needs to be completely cruelty-free in order to have my full stamp of approval. Needs to have better corporate social responsibility? Great product but at the expense of our furry animal friends? Hmm.. 

Im more than satisfied with the softness and the way my makeup application turns out with these synthetic bristle brushes. PLUS, synthetic ones are way softer compared to the natural hair brushes so i dont know why anyone would want to buy natural hair brushes that's stiffer and scratchier.   

I wouldn't say that these brushes are a must to have in your life but if you have the budget for it, i would recommend trying out Sigma synthetic brushes, generally. However for my beauties who are on a budget and feel it's unnecessary to own them, there are many other brushes out there that are decent and affordable too. I.E: (cruelty free) Urban Decay, Tarte, Too faced, Eco Tools, Real Techniques, etc.