E40 Tapered Blending (was SS224)

10 Reviews

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   truthfulBustard4

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   This was a game changer for me. I had used lots and lots of makeup brushes but none of them work as well at blending eyeshadow as this! I now have 2, and take them on vacation with me they are so important!

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   debonairWildfowl9

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   Absolute must-have brush. Great for blending all over or just in the crease. Picks up good amount of product but allows for easy application

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   jubilantAbalone7

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   I have the natural and synthetic. The natural is fine-does a good job of blending. They never should have switched to synthetic and called it the same name. It not the same brush. The synthetic doesn’t blend nicely, it’s scratchy and a waste of space in my brush cup.

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   worriedEland7

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   I find this quite large for my eyes and I have large ones! The brush I got was scratchy AF so I haven’t used it much. Personally I think sigma shader brushes are worth it, for blenders and the like go cheaper with Zoeva (depending on the set) or Real Techniques

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   decimalSausage4

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   I have a mini e40 that came i a set of 5 brushes, the brush is fluffy and working ok but it is shedding like crazy !! Shedding while using and shedding while spot cleaning and washing 🙁

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   alertCoati2

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   This brush is supposedly a dupe for MAC 224 but I find it much larger. I feel it’s too large for my eye. I can use it but it pretty much takes up my entire eyeball. I do use it for concealor or highlight. I can use the tip of it to buff in concealor if it’s only a very light layer of concealor. My favorite way to use it is with highlighter. It’s slightly small but works and my highlighter goes exactly where I want it. I prefer the MAC 133 for highlighter, but this is a good backup. This is not a super soft brush but it’s not scratchy either. If I declutter my brushes this one might get passed on.

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   ferventBittern1

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   I recently bought this after reading lots of positive reviews on it. It’s very good for blending eyeshadow and leaving it looking absolutely flawless, however I found that it was slightly too big to use comfortably. It’d be better if it were slightly smaller.

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   truthfulMandrill6

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   I was so excited to recieve my e40 but when I got it it looking NOTHING like the brushes the youtubers use!!! The bristles are longer and bend from side to side when trying to blend. Yuck

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   forsakenCod7

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   I, like so many other reviewers here, am wildly disappointed with the Sigma e40. I am certain I have a genuine product having purchased it from an official retailer listed on the Sigma Beauty website. All the features on the brush all indicate a genuine product. However, like many others, my brush is different in both look and feel to the brush used by Jaclyn Hill. The bristles on my brush are long, the brush is not fluffy and when used in the windscreen wiper motion the bristles bend side to side rather than splay out slightly at the end for the perfect blend. What this means is the shadow smears across the lid rather than blend across the lid. Given I’m sure it’s genuine and I have seen many comparison photos showing the two different bristle types, I can only conclude that there has been a change in the production or there are serious and significant concerns relating to the consistency of production. Maybe they’re made in two different factories? Living in Australia purchasing Sigma products can be an expensive experience for substandard products. Either way, I am not satisfied, won’t recommend and will likely never repurchase another Sigma product. I will stick to the much more affordable Zoeva 228 crease (amazing brush), the Morphe G17, Morphe M505 (tapered end but amazing), or Morphe M441. These brushes do a brilliant job and are a fraction of the price. Only issue with these products is shipping costs to Australia can get a bit steep, but overall am happy to pay for these brands as they still work out less expensive than MAC and Sigma and are better quality IMO.

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    truthfulCoconut0

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    This is my first review here, and I’ve been compelled to write it out of sheer disappointment. I’ve been looking for a decent blending brush for a while now, and although I would love to try the MAC 224, I just can’t bring myself to spend £23 on it. When I lost my only half-decent blending brush, I was desperate and needed another one quickly. I had a free trial of Amazon Prime, so decided to buy a brush on there to make use of the free next day delivery. Enter the Sigma E40! I had heard it was a great dupe for the 224, and even though it was still quite pricey at £14, I decided to take the plunge. Most of the reviews were glowing, but there is one on Amazon to which I wish I had given more attention, particularly as it address the exact concerns that I have.

    I was actually really looking forward to getting the E40, so when the package arranged, I tore it open like a crazy person. My first inspection of the E40 generated a feeling of being slightly underwhelmed. It was fluffy and seemed reasonably soft, but I had expected it to be a bit more dense. The length of the bristles seemed very long too. Still, I put my initial concerns to one side and gave it a try.

    And this is where the searing disappointment comes in. The brush does not blend very well at all. It isn’t dense enough to do a decent job, and this fact, when taken with the excessive length of the bristles, makes the blending process really awkward. The bristles bend from side-to-side, which means that I can’t get a nice fluid blending motion going, and the resulting finished blend just looks… untidy. I have tried several times with this brush to get it right, and I just can’t seem to handle it.

    After seeing some of the reviews on here, and on rereading a couple of more negative reviews on Amazon (in one of which the reviewer said, had she not bought it from a recognised Sigma reseller, she would have thought she had gotten a fake!), there are many people that agree with me. I wish I had seen the reviews on here first, because I probably would have gone for a different brush.

    Having looked at some blog pictures of the E40, I’ve come to a few conclusions. Some pictures seem to show a different looking brush-head to that on the one I received; in several images the E40 brush actually looks like the MAC 224, with good shape, decent density and bristles that aren’t excessively long. In a few others, it looks a bit more like mine – less dense with longer bristles. This must mean that either Sigma have changed the design of this brush, or that there is a great deal of inconsistency in the manufacturing process. I have also entertained the idea that some fakes are creeping onto the market, although this seems unlikely – the ferrule and handle of my brush have the Sigma detailing which seems too well done to make it a fake, plus it is still much more profitable to counterfeit the ever-popular MAC brushes.

    To summarise: my experience with the E40 means that I can’t recommend this brush to anyone. I took delivery of a Morphe E23 brush this morning, and although I haven’t used it yet, it looks and feels far superior to the E40. Do yourself a favour – don’t buy into the Sigma hype and shop around for your brushes!