I was about to go through and sanitize my kit from my last gig when I remembered that I needed to take pictures for insurance. Thought you guys might be interested in my working kit. I don't have everything I want yet. But I'm constantly buying bits and pieces as required. My kit works remarkably well for me at the moment so we'll see how it goes.

Foundations and Concealers: Ben Nye and Kryolan Concealer Wheels. RCMA and Graftobian Palettes, Keromask Concealers, Yaby Liquid Foundations, Graftobian Corrector palette, MAC concealers, RCMA Foundation Thinner

Lip Stuff: Graftobian Lipstick palette, Depotted lipstick (Various), NYX lip pencils, Lucas Paw Paw treatment, Gosh cool lip jams, OCC liptars

Eyeshadows: MAC various, Yaby Matte palette, ProFace matt palette, Ben Nye Lumiere Palette, Inglot, Kryolan Glamour palette, Barry M pressed eyeshadows, Grimas Matt eyeshadows.

Powders: Graftobian Warm and Neutral pressed powders/foundations, Natural born cosmetics brow palette (love!!!), MUFE HD Powder, ELF HD powder, Ben Nye Neutral set, Black Opal Creme foundations

Blush: La Femme Blush palette, Graftobian Creme blush palette, Inglot Face and Body Highlighter (Amazing!!!)

My few clean brushes, stack of dirty brushes and more dirty brushes to be washed

This is what they look like laid out.

My Light hair kit: Combs, Frizz serum, Hair Spray, Hair pins, Brush, Heat Protectant, Straighteners, conical wand, Mini hairdryer, hair bands, hair clips

Other stuff: Primers, Eye pencils, Eyebrow stuff, Mascaras, alcohol, wipes etc

I know I left out a bunch of stuff. I just got lazy y'all. Lashes and disposables and other knick knacks that I use. You'll forgive me this time. But you get the jist. If you're a make-up artist, what can't you live without in your kit? I wanna know. If you're a make-up junkie I still wanna know: what can't you live without. I know there are so many things that are amazing out there and if I missed something...I wanna hear about it!

Foodies time. Be Blessed xxx

Sho sho aka Shona is from Singapore. She's my first oriental model. And Praise God she allowed me to do her make-up. I learnt so much. It can be difficult to get differing eyeshapes where I live. So she was a very steep learning curve for me. I used Yaby foundations on her which work very well. Kryolan eyeshadow (which I LOVE) and some other random bits and pieces that I cannot remember at the moment. I like how it turned out. Forgot to take a before picture.

This was my second foray into Bridal hair. I think God is trying to tell me something because it keeps coming up. So I've decided to learn how to do "light hair" ie be able to do some decent Bridal hair styling if needed. Doesn't hurt to have the extra skill I guess.

Okay. I'm typing with one eye open. Let me know what think :) Na'Night!

I took my sweet time reviewing the Complete Sigma Professional Brush set. The hype around these brushes on youtube has been unreal. It's been the same on beauty blogs. So many people love them. Certain youtube guru's touted these brushes as the next best thing since sliced bread aka just as good as if not better than MAC brushes.

Hmmm.

I disagree. A lot.  On so many points. These brushes are no where near as good as or even better than MAC brushes. I have a decent brush collection and there is no way you are going to convince me that these brushes are on par with MAC. Bull poop. Yes you read right. Bull Poop.

With that being said they aren't completely useless. However I wanna talk about the ones that didn't make it into my personal stash or freelance kit.

Forgot to add the SS252

• The natural hair brushes shed. EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM SHED!
• The smell like dead goat. I know what dead goat smells like cause we used to slaughter them for parties back home. The smell is the same and it does not leave
• The brushes are rather scratchy
• The black haired ones bleed like a shot alien
• They are useless at holding their shape ie. very flimsy

As I worked with these particular brushes I found myself increasing annoyed. They just were not doing what I wanted them to do. Eventually I stopped reaching for them in my brush roll and simply took them out. I'm not going to compare them to their MAC counterparts in terms of what they look like. I just expected these brushes to be very well made considering they are handmade. The quality does not match the claim.

All is not lost for Sigma though. The brushes I can live with are:

• Eyeliner brush
• Concealer brush
• Foundation brush
• Small angle brush
• SS224 blending brush
• SS275 Angled brush

Notice a trend? Bar two, they are all synthetic brushes. Now in my opinion, it is very difficult to mess up a sythentic brush like a foundation or concealer brush. So if these had turned out to be rubbish as well I would have been very unhappy. They aren't the best out there but they serve as great "extras" in my kit.

I only realised about 3 weeks into testing these brushes out that the eyeliner brush is not a lip brush. I automatically used it as a lip brush and have continued to do so. I never once saw it as a liner brush. So it will stay that way.The small angle brush is flimsy-ish but it works when needed. Not as firm as I would like but hey I can live with this one. I have a love hate relationship with the SS275. It's STUPIDLY flimsy but it's great for blending out concealer. Sheds the worst this one. So I hate but it but like it all in one go.

The one brush in this whole brush set that I find worth having is the SS224 blending brush. It is still a bit scratchy. And it sheds and bleeds as well. BUT this brush blends VERY WELL. And I love to blend. Sigma did right with this brush. If it didn't smell or bleed or shed I would love this brush 100%. It is the only brush that performs it's job excellently in this set. The rest are a bit meh.

So this post is probably useless because most of us in the blogosphere have bought what we wanted from Sigma, but I felt like telling you guys anyway.

The question remains: Are they worth it?

If you are starting out from scratch, kinda broke and want something cheap to learn with then maybe.

If you're a season make-up junkie, consider the synthetic brushes but definitely look into the SS224.

If you're a make-up artist possibly consider the SS224. That's the only brush that I believe will be worth your time in the end.

Stay Blessed lovelies xxx

Hi people!

I'm just dropping in to let you know that I havent fallen off the edge of the earth! I am alive and kicking! I've been busy. Bridal season is in full swing and that has me occupied most weekends if I'm not at church. I have loads to catch up on, a few reviews for you that are out of the norm for me so hopefully I should start catching up this weekend.

I hope you're all well. Thank you for sticking around! means a lot to me!

Speak soon!

God bless

Debs xxx