sigma premium travel kit - classy in silver

this is kind of overdue but i wasn't very motivated to get down to blogging about it because it was somewhat a disappointment for me. anyway, here is my sigma haul!

comes in a nice box with lots of pamphlets.

my free gift.. which is quite nice.

i got it in the mail before christmas but i waited till christmas day to open it! haha.. because as some of you know i was kind of trapped at home during the holidays so this was one of the highlights for me.

when i first opened the black mesh bag and took it out, i was already a little disappointed because the bag didn't feel like very high quality. from all the reviews i've seen on youtube about sigma, i always had the impression that their products were very good quality. i wasn't expecting top quality as well since sigma brushes are much cheaper, relative to mac ones but they ended up falling short of my expectation a bit.

dajie owns several sigma brushes and i thought they were pretty nice. when i got mine, the first thing i notice was...

which was mostly why i was disappointed with the brush kit. dajie bought her sigma brushes a couple of years back and back then, they were made in U.S.A! i guess now sigma is expanding too quickly because of all the hype and marketing on youtube, they've outsourced their factories. the brushes are still good, bristles are as soft as i imagined them to be. but the engraving on the brushes are horrid! there's hardly any consistency in the print and that's sad because my brushes look like a mess even though they are supposedly from the same kit.

i had the intention to get the sigmax round top kabuki and a few other things from sigma but after this purchase, i'm reconsidering. i'm not trashing the brand or anything, the brushes are still great for an affordable price. it's just that i am paying for the brand and i'm just anal like that. apparently there's another cheaper alternative to sigma brushes that i've been hearing about and it is sadona lace. they are obviously not as commercialized as sigma but maybe they will get there some day.

let's wait till thanksgiving this year. i will probably not be able to resist the black friday sale and just order more stuff from them anyway. (: