Double profile mascara brush

Abstract

Double profile mascara brush having a stem supporting a plurality of radially disposed bristles, said stem being connected at one end to a handgrip (capsule), the free ends of said bristles defining a lateral surface of the brush, which presents a make-up application portion for applying the mascara to the short eyelashes and to the base of the long eyelashes, followed in the direction of the handgrip by a definition portion of greater diameter, for defining and perfecting the ends of the long eyelashes.

1 . An applicator for cosmetics, particularly mascara, comprising a brush having a stem provided with a plurality of bristles disposed radially to said stem, said stem being connected at one end to a handgrip, the free ends of said bristles defining the lateral surface of the brush, wherein said brush presents a make-up application portion positioned at one end of the stem, followed in the handgrip direction by a definition portion, the intersection of the brush lateral surface with a meridian plane containing a brush longitudinal axis defining a meridian line presenting in the passage zone between the make-up application portion and the definition portion a step or a slope variation with its concavity facing outwards from said axis. 
     
     
         2 . An applicator as claimed in  claim 1 , wherein the make-up application portion presents bristles the free ends of which always lie at a lesser distance from said longitudinal axis than the free ends of the bristles of the definition portion. 
     
     
         3 . An applicator as claimed in  claim 1 , wherein said brush lateral surface is substantially a solid of revolution about said axis. 
     
     
         4 . An applicator as claimed in  claim 1 , wherein said definition portion presents a concavity facing towards said axis and/or a substantially spherical conformation and/or a substantially ellipsoidal conformation and/or extends substantially rectilinearly, parallel to said axis or convergent therewith in the direction of the free end of the brush. 
     
     
         5 . An applicator as claimed in  claim 1 , wherein the make-up application portion extends rectilinearly, parallel to said axis or convergent therewith in the direction of the free end of the brush, and/or presents a rounded end portion. 
     
     
         6 . An applicator as claimed in  claim 1 , wherein the ratio between the maximum distance of said meridian line in the definition portion and in the make-up application portion from said axis is between 1.8 and 2.5. 
     
     
         7 . A package for a cosmetic, the cosmetic comprising mascara, comprising a container containing the mascara and an applicator in accordance with  claim 1 . 
     
     
         8 . A package as claimed in  claim 7 , wherein the handgrip and the container are arranged to cooperate to form a closure. 
     
     
         9 . A package as claimed in  claim 7 , wherein the container presents in proximity to its opening a collar adapted to remove any mascara excess from the bristles during extraction of the brush from the container. 
     
     
         10 . An applicator as claimed in  claim 1 , wherein the ratio between the maximum distance of said meridian line in the definition portion and in the make-up application portion from said axis is between 1.8 and 2. 
     
     
         11 . An applicator for cosmetics in  claim 1 , being an applicator for mascara.