Review (2/5): Good in theory, bad in practice
I was excited to find these. I keep my makeup brushes on my bathroom counter and while I am good about cleaning them, I know they are exposed to a lot of dust and germs, so I was hoping that these covers would be a good solution to keep them nice. I was wrong.
Let's start with the three large heads. I was happy to find that these were three different sizes as the main brushes I use have different volumes of bristles. I put them on based on the size of brush and cap. There was no other way to possibly get them onto the brush rather than stick down the heard pull it through until the heart was around the bristles. The silicone was so difficult to slide up my brush handle that I was scared of ripping them and my brush handles are not that thick. Once they were in place I came across my next problem, how to gain access to the brush without fully removing the silicone cover. I somewhat figured out how to use the top hole to flip the cover inside out and expose the bristles, the problem was that in doing so many of the bristles got stuck or were pulled in the wrong direction. I have expensive brushes and I take care of them. I do not want them damaged by a cheap piece of silicone. I tried my best to keep them neat, but after about three days of doing this, the first of the three silicone covers began to rip from this practice. I'm not sure what else I was supposed to do to access my brush. I ended up taking the covers off all three and will maybe use them for traveling, but that's it. They are impractical for day to day use.
No to the small ones. These are just annoying. They are all so tiny and all the same size. I have whole bunch of different sized eye shadow brushes and only one or two and the right sized head to fit in these, which makes them mostly useless for me. I don't get the appeal of the suction cup. The pictures show people sticking them to the bathroom mirror, but once the brush is taken out of the cap and the cap remains on the mirror they are going to be impossible to place back in the cover without taking it off the mirror. Additionally the hole to stick the brushes in the caps is so small that the brush bristles were being bent. Again I'm not going to ruin my brushes that cost several times what the covers cost to keep these annoying caps on them.
The only reason this set is not getting one star from me is that I can use the large ones when traveling to keep my brushes nice in my makeup bag, but otherwise this set is completely useless.