From high-end and affordable makeup brushes to blushes, shadows, lipsticks, and more, Sigma Beauty leads the makeup community with first-of-its-kind innovations, award-winning products, unbeatable quality, and a focus on vegan, cruelty-free, and eco-conscious beauty.
How Sigma Beauty Began
In 2009, power-couple molecular bacteriologist Dr. Simone Xavier and civil engineer Rene Xavier Filho launched Sigma Beauty with a single functional brush set, the Essential Kit. Designed to create a full face of makeup with just one set of brushes, the duo used social media to spread the word and garnered a cult-following, causing that first set to sell out.
With three driving forcesâquality, function, and innovationâin mind, Sigma Beauty set out to offer high-quality, cruelty-free brushes at competitive prices.
Sigma Beauty Today
After starting with cruelty-free luxurious makeup brushes, Sigma Beauty evolved a full line of professional quality beauty cleaning tools, lipsticks, blush and contour palettes, eye and brow makeup, and much more. The brand listens to its consumersâ attitudes and behaviors to develop new beauty solutions, as well as feedback to improve its existing products. With high-quality materials, ingredients, and technology, Sigma Beauty continues to innovate every tool, texture, formula, and color.
Sigma Beautyâs brushes are the preferred tools used by professional makeup artists around the world, and both Xavier and Xavier Filho are still as involved as ever by helping to invent, design, manufacture, and sell Sigmaâs products. Itâs a passion project summed in the name itself, ÎŁ, the capital Greek letter for a mathematical sum called “Sigma.”
Benefits of Sigma Beauty
Clean Beauty
A large focus for Sigma Beauty is developing professional-quality makeup products free of parabens and harsh chemicals that can damage skin to put customersâ health and safety first.
As well as parabens, all of Sigmaâs current makeup and brush cleansers are free of more than 70 harsh chemicals, including sulfates, phthalates, mineral oil, acetone, and bisphenol (BPA). Sigma believes in Clean Beauty not as a trend, but as a movement, which is why its Clean Beauty Seal guarantees products free from those harsh chemicals, and all its new launches are formulated to comply with that extensive clean ingredient list. The brand has also committed to monitoring, reformulating, and improving its current and future products as the clean beauty movement continues to evolve.
100% Cruelty-Free
All of Sigma Beautyâs productsâfrom brushes and blenders to cleaners and makeupâare cruelty-free. The brushes have been cruelty-free and vegan for several years, but every Sigma Beauty product is manufactured and developed using methods that do not involve experimentation on animals.
Vegan
Just as Sigmaâs brushes are cruelty-free, they have also been considered vegan for nearly a decade. Featuring synthetic SigmaTech and Sigmax bristles, these exclusive fibers are nonporous, more hygienic, more effective, and longer lasting than natural bristles. Their nonporous nature leads to less product absorption and waste, and they are hypoallergenic and sustainable to boot.
Beyond the all-vegan brushes, blenders, and cleansers, Sigma has an extensive list of other vegan products, such as a large assortment of makeup. Some vegan makeup products include the Soft Focus Setting Powders, Ambiance Eyeshadow Platte, Eyeshadow Base Primers, Renew Lip Oils, and Infinity Point Lipsticks.
Xavier is an animal lover and veterinarian, so Sigma is continually working to develop and reformulate its makeup, whenever possible, to align with vegan qualifications. This includes refraining from using ingredients like animal oils, musks, and fats that can clog pores and cause allergic reactions.
Instead, Sigma is focusing on skin-soothing plant-based ingredients, like vitamin E, jojoba oil, and sunflower seed oil. After all, the skin absorbs up to 60% of the products applied to it, and vegan ingredients can help avoid breakouts, rashes, and unwanted redness.
Other Important Notes
Sigmaâs brushes are built to be long-lasting from bristles to base. With regular cleaning and brush care, these brushes can last a lifetime, which means fewer brushes end up in landfills.
Since its creation, Sigma now boasts an 85% female team. All Sigma products are designed in the United States with the highest quality ingredients and components and are hand-checked for quality at its headquarters in Minnesota. Their natural mica is also sourced from a mica mine located in Hartwell, Georgia.
April is Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Month, and Sigma Beauty also partners with ASPCA for all of April to help further their mission.
Sigma Beauty Products
Sigma is constantly creating new products to add to its lineup of brushes, cleaners, and makeup. From the first-ever brush drying mechanism in 2011 and the first-ever, now-patented brush cleaning device in 2013 to cult-beauty awards from âAllure,â âTeen Vogue,â âInStyle,â and more every year from 2016-2021, Sigmaâs high-quality beauty products are no joke.
Best-Selling Brushes
While the brand offers a variety of products, Sigma Beauty is most known for its unbeatable brushes. The vegan, cruelty-free, antimicrobial, and hypoallergenic brushes use ultra-soft synthetic SigmaTechÂŽ and SigmaxÂŽ fibers to better hold, apply, and blend a variety of makeup and skincare formulas with minimal product absorption.
SigmaxÂŽ Fibers are Sigma Beauty’s exclusive thermoplastic engineering polymer developed to evenly apply cream and powder products. Theyâre also extremely soft, durable, and strong with outstanding heat and chemical resistance. SigmaTechÂŽ Fibers are Sigma Beauty’s exclusive selection of high-performance synthetic fibers with specialized tips that hold and deliver cream and powder products without any absorption and maintain their original shape, even after washing.
Natural brushes are expected to survive for one to five years, or even less without proper care. The bristles can dry out after multiple washes, the natural fibers do not work well with glues or bonding agents and tend to shed, and their porous nature can absorb makeup while also harboring bacteria, dirt, and oil.
On the other hand, Sigmaâs brushes are known for being virtually indestructible: Theyâve even been run over by cars and still wonât break. They can withstand multiple washes, stay soft, and rarely ever shed. The nonporous synthetic bristles provide a more uniform application, are suitable for powder, cream, and liquid formulas, and are quick and easy to clean.
Beyond the bristles themselves, Sigmaâs brushes feature high-performance SigmaAlloy™ ferrules (the metal that connects the bristles to the handle) made with a special metal alloy of copper and zinc that isstrong, antimicrobial, and corrosion and wear-resistant. Each ferrule is also layered in chrome, copper, and gold for lifelong shine and protection.
The ferrules feature patented interlocking technology with double-threaded engineering invented by Sigma Beauty to create a tight waterproof seal. While conventional brushes are typically glued or pinched, this innovative screwing system firmly attaches the ferrules to the solid, polymer-based handles.
F80 Flat Kabuki Brush
An award-winning and best-selling foundation brush, the F80 Flat Kabuki Brush creates an airbrushed finish with liquid and cream formulas thanks to its ultra-soft Sigmax fibers. The dense, flat brush head blends and buffs foundations into the skin for a smooth, high-definition finish with buildable medium to full coverage.
Create a matte, poreless base for any makeup look with ease. Use it with cushion compacts by tapping the brush head into the sponge, all without over-absorbing products.
3DHD Blender
Another award-winning Sigma product, the 3DHD Blender is hand cut to create its unique shape. Reach every angle and contour with ease to prime, conceal, sculpt, and highlight to perfection.
This precise blending sponge creates a sheer to medium coverage airbrushed finish. Use the flat bottom for applying foundation, the pointed tip for concealing around the inner corner of the eye, and the sharp edge around the eyebrows.
E25 Blending Brush
Diffuse harsh lines and create seamless shadow looks with the SigmaTech fibers of Sigmaâs E25 Blending Brush. Apply and combine multiple shades, then blend and buff with this slightly firm, rounded brush head.
From packing on color to switching shades, this flexible eyeshadow brush works well with all eye shapes and looks. Blend quickly and easily from lid to crease and above.
F40 Large Angled Contour Brush
With extra-soft SigmaTech fibers, the patented F40 Large Angled Contour Brush sweeps blushes and bronzers across the cheekbones for a naturally contoured look. The fluffy, angled brush head makes soft contouring a breeze without streaking.
Pick up pigment with ease and create a smooth, soft finish that blends well into foundations or bare skin.
Most Wanted Brush Set
If itâs difficult to choose which Sigma brushes to start with, the Most Wanted Brush Set features five best-selling and award-winning brushes that do it all. This set includes the F80 Flat Kabuki Brush, F35 Tapered Highlighter Brush, E40 Tapered Blending Brush, E25 Blending Brush, and E30 Pencil Brush.
As the name might suggest, the F35 Tapered Highlighter Brush dusts powder highlighter along the cheekbones, temples, nose, and corners of eyes for a diffused finish and natural glow. The E40 Tapered Blending Brush softens and blends harsh lines with its soft, fluffy brush head of SigmaTech fibers. Itâs perfect for gently applying color, transitioning shades, or applying targeted highlights.
Finally, the E30 Pencil Brush has a firm tip for precise color placement. It easily softens and blurs for a smokey eye look, and the small head is ideally sized for lining or adding an inner corner highlight. You can read more about the F80 Flat Kabuki Brush and E25 Blending Brush above.
Basic Eye Brush Set
For an eye-specific set, the Basic Eye Brush Set includes seven unique styles, the E05 Eye Liner, E30 Pencil, E40 Tapered Blending, E55 Eye Shading, E60 Large Shader, E65 Small Angle, and E70 Medium Angled Shading brushes. You can learn more about the E30 Pencil and E40 Tapered Blending brushes above.
The E05 Eye Liner Brush features a fine, tapered tip to smoothly create clean, even lines with liquids and gels. The E55 Eye Shading Brush uses soft and dense bristles and a rounded head to evenly apply color across the lid. The E60 Large Shader Brush uses firm bristles and a flat, rounded head to apply even the most intense shades evenly in a single swipe.
The E65 Small Angle Brush features a thin, firm angled brush head to create precise, smooth lines along the lashes or hairlike brow strokes. Finally, the E70 Medium Angled Shading Brush uses a soft, angled brush head with beveled edges to softly apply color, add highlight to the brow bone, or blend color in the crease.
Cleaning
We canât promote these incredible makeup tools without offering an easy way to clean them, and, luckily, Sigma comes in clutch once again.
The Sigma Spa Express Brush Cleaning Mat uses seven exclusive textures on its compact silicone surface to clean brushes of every size. Quickly swirl away product residue, build-up, oil, dirt, and bacteria. Not only will this clean your Sigma brushes, but it will help prolong their life. Make the most out of the cleansing mat with the Brush Cleanser Trio. This set includes the SigMagic Brushampoo Liquid, SigMagic Brushampoo Foam, and SigMagic Scrub.
The SigMagic Scrub is a portable silicone scrubber with a super-concentrated solid cleanser for quick and easy brush cleaning. The all-natural cleanser dissolves tough pigment and foundation stains while the silicone texture penetrates brush bristles to scrub it all away. It also features a suction cup base for easy hands-free use.
The original formula, the SigMagic Brushampoo Liquid sinks deep into bristles for thorough, everyday brush cleaning. Ideal for fluffy face brushes and blenders, this all-natural cleanser dissolves built-up, oil, and dirt while conditioning brush bristles.
Finally, the SigMagic Brushampoo Foam is perfect for quick and easy brush cleaning. This all-natural, ready-to-use brush cleaning solution dissolves build-up, dirt, and oil, and is gentle on eye brushes.
Check out more Sigma Beauty products by checking out the brand here.
For questions, concerns, or article ideas, feel free to reach out to our eCosmetics Beauty Editor directly at beauty@ecosmetics.com
