Latest patent reviews on eye color cosmetics

L'Oréal S.A., Paris, has patented a brush for applying makeup to eyelashes and/or eyebrows.

L'Oréal Patents Eyebrow Brush
US Patent No. 8,875,719 B2; L'Oréal S.A., Paris, has patented a brush for applying makeup to eyelashes and/or eyebrows. The brush is comprised of a core, bristles comprising end portions extending substantially radially around at least a portion of the core, wherein the bristles define a bristled portion of the brush having a first length measured along a longitudinal axis of the core; and at least one notch having a second length measured along the longitudinal axis of the core less than half the first length, with at least one notch defined at a notched bristled portion of the brush. The bristles further define a non-notched bristled portion that is devoid of any notch all around the core along the non-notched bristled portion of the brush.

The brush has a non-circular cross-section in a plane perpendicular to the core and intersecting the notch, and at least one notch is configured to form at least one bunch of eyelashes and/or eyebrows that are not separated from one another when the brush is used to apply makeup thereto.

Multi-Layer Eyelash Painting
US Patent No. 8,875,718 B2; Daniel Phu Dinh of Beverly Hills, CA, has patented a method for multi-layer eyelash painting. It entails fastening a user’s upper eyelashes against the user's face using an eyelash fastener; and applying eyelash paint to the user’s eyelashes in a multi-layered approach. The eyelash paint is a colored solution that provides color to the user's eyelashes when applied. The paint applied to the user's eyelashes one layer at a time such that a first layer of upper eyelashes is removed from the eyelash fastener, with eyelash paint being applied to at least one eyelash of the first layer to form a first painted eyelash layer, thereby providing a user with eyelashes having eyelash paint attached thereto.