Patent ID: 7870633

Claim:
An applicator, comprising: a support including two rigid halves disposed in a single plane and connected by a preferential folding axis, at least one of the rigid halves including a rounded edge portion such that a distance between an edge of the support and the folding axis varies along said folding axis non-monotonously; and a resiliently deformable applicator element on one face of said support, said applicator element being a foam pad including an application surface on a face of the applicator element opposite a face contacting the support, wherein the folding axis is coplanar with the support such that, in response to a folding force exerted on said support, the applicator element is deformed so as to modify a transverse curvature of the application surface observed transversely to said folding axis, wherein the application surface of the foam pad is an outermost face of the applicator, and wherein, in response to the folding force exerted on said support, a lengthwise curvature of the application surface observed axially, along said folding axis, is modified.