so... a while back, about.. i'd say a month ago, i got me a stippling/skunk brush from sephora (#44)
it worked okay. i  liked it. sometimes it shed, but hey, all brushes shed a little bit SOMETIMES.
i washed it for the first time, and some of the black dye on the goat hair came out. "no big deal" i say. "sometimes the over excess of dye washes out. yanno, like when clothes bleed in the wash the first time"

as you can see, i rationalize a whole lot.

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ALRIGHTY.......

black handle= MAC
silver handle= sephora
just in case you can't figure it out on your own

stats:
sephora= washed 4 times
mac= brand new as of today, washed once
i use sephora professionnel deep cleaning antibacterial shampoo for deep cleaning, and MAC brush cleaner for spot cleaning.


this is when they first met each other. they rolled together and got frizzy together @_@
guuuuuhhhhh.
as you can see, the white fibers of the sephora brush have all been dyed greyish black by the black hairs's dye coming out in washing.
that dye does NOT come out of the white fiber.

( more eye-burny makeup brush sex picutres )


TL;DR: looking into buying a stippling brush, go straight to MAC and ask for a 187. DO NOT go anywhere else.