Fitz N Bitz - Irish Beauty Blog ★: Sigma

23 November 2011

2 Great Sigma Offers

Dia daoibh!

Just found out that the Sigma website are having a 'Black Friday' this Friday 25th November 2011. Basically what this means is FREE SHIPPING for all customers!! Yay!! This is a rare (annual) occurrence for Sigma international customers.

EDIT as of 25/11/11 It has now been extended to 11:59pm CST so that is 3pm-5.59am (Irish/British/GMT Time!)

Enter the above code BF2011 at checkout.

If you are interested in items such as sets or other larger items, or brushes that are hard to source within Ireland/UK (E45 I speak of you babes!!) I highly recommend placing an order. In saying that, there is no minimum purchase to be entitled to free shipping so buy as little or as much as you like! :) Here are some other offers:

If you spend between $30-$90 you will receive a free travel size E25 Blending Brush.

If your order is above $100 you get this mini eye-shadow pallete (you won't receive both though!)

Source

You can get 10% off your order by using the code PSW2011 or IN2011 (expires 30th November 2011) Because there you cannot get both 10% off you order and free shipping, so just use which ever works out best for you. But make sure to check out the 'special deals' sectiopn for some sale items! Or, if you miss out on Fridays sale the above code will still be active :)

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Otherwise, if you are in Ireland and are just looking for some individual brushes I highly recommend (second one!!) ordering from cloud10beauty.

Most of their brushes are actually cheaper than they are on the actual Sigma website!
Plus it's faster delivery
and you get 3 free samples.
To add to that, there is a special offer on at the moment. You will receive a free Sigma Travel E25 with any Sigma Order & Free Mini High Shine Lip Gloss with any Sleek Order (while stocks last) HALLO!!! Click HERE to have a look at the Sigma brushes they stock.

I am not affiliated or any of that other craic with either of these companies! Just sharing some valuable (imo) info with you ladies!! ;) Will you be making an order!?

Slán

19 February 2011

Sigma Brushes

FitznBitz 10:12 PM Beauty Bitz , Brushes 3 Comments

Hiya!!

Ok I'm quite excited about this post!! I got me some SIGMA Brushes!!! Now if you havent heard about these then log onto You Tube, find some beauty related videos and you won't be long finding out about them! Sigma themselves have a You Tube Channel if you want to look at that. Sigma brushes are Dupes for Mac brushes. They have the same or simlar codes for comparison purposes. Now I myself don't own any Mac brushes so therefore can't compare. I'm just so excited to own my first proper set of make up brushes. Their WEBSITE is full of different options such as purchasing brushes individually, in full sets, travel sets etc. A few weeks/months ago they came out with their latest kit "Make Me Up" - which is a 12 brush kit that comes in a solid travel holder tub. When this came out, it straight away caught my eye. I had always been visiting the site and procrastinating about what i'd like, so when a free international shipping offer came about....BAM I was sold!! I think this set it perfect for me as I wanted to make one proper order ie. make one big order rather than a few dribs and drabs and have to pay for shipping another time. So I ordered the 'Make Me Crazy' set - the purple one. I had a bit of a dilemma as to whether to go with the classic black which I love or this new colour, I went with this as if i ever buy any more individual brushes they will be black so that way i'll have both! I also ordered the infamous F80 which basically is a Foundation Buffer Brush. Again, rave reviews about this brush on YT! I also got the F45 Powder Buffer Brush. Here are the pics!!:

My Package Overview of Everything

Individual brushes F80, F45 & free E25

E25 Close up of brush heads

Included Brushes Holder

Holder & set of brushes

Eye Brushes

Close Up of brush heads

Face Brushes

Close up of brush heads

All my new stuff!!!!!

Now I was really impressed with all of this! Lovely looking brushes. They didnt look cheap - which is why I was so nervous about ordering the purple brushes, but it's not a bright girly purple colour. It's quite a deep purple, with metalic pink/purple ferrules. The text on the brushes seem to be stamped in with holographic text as opposed to the usual print that rubs off over time. Hopefully this will work better. The bristles are really soft (especially the F45 Buffer....softest brush I have EVER felt!!) Then I notice one....not so good thing. This:

My one problem :(

The E05 Eyeliner Brush was.....deformed!! It's seems the hairs aren't just out of place, but more like they have put put too far into the ferrule so they stick out compared to the others. I'll chance washing it and pinching it together for a few minutes to see if it makes much of a difference.....

The tub is a fantastic idea. It can be used as a travel case - perfect for keeping your brushes safe and preventing them from accidentely snapping! And when you're at home they can be used as 2 brush holders! Perfect! At the moment these containers are only available as part of the set but as far as I know, Sigma have considered making them available individually at a later date. Here it is up close for you to see the stitching, buttons etc:

Also in the package were some various leaflets.

List of brushes and their usesHow to take care of your brushes

So overall i'm am really really happy with my investment. I say investment cause I spent just over €100 on everything so I will be taking care of each and every one of them!

Make Me Crazy Set = $99/€72.50(aprx)
F80 Foundation Brush = $16/€11.50(aprx)
F45 Buffer Brush = $19/€14(aprx)

Do any of u ladies have Sigma brushes?? Thanks for reading :)

19/02/11 I contacted Sigma about my deformed brush and they are sending me out a replacement free of charge. In fact it has already been shipped. I'm quite impressed with the customer service!! :)

01/03/11 I just received my replacement E05 Eyeliner brush from Sigma. This one's perfect. Thanks Kate for the swift transaction! :)