Patent ID: 8671499

Claim:
A cosmetic brush for applying a product to a body comprising: a handle having a group of bristles fixed in a top end of the handle opposite a bottom end of the handle; and a cap slideably coupled to the handle and configured to be slideably displaced, while remaining coupled to the handle, from a stowed position exposing the group of bristles to a use position covering the group of bristles, the cap comprising; a ventilation system to ventilate the covered group of bristles when the cap is in the use position, the ventilation system comprising at least one aperture arranged in a wall of the cap and at least one other aperture arranged in a wall of a sleeve rotatably coupled to the cap, the sleeve configured to rotate between an open position and a closed position; wherein when the sleeve is in the open position, the at least one aperture arranged in the wall of the cap is aligned with the at least one other aperture arranged in the wall of the sleeve to ventilate the covered group of bristles; and when the sleeve is in the closed position, the at least one aperture arranged in the wall of the cap is unaligned with the at least one other aperture arranged in the wall of the sleeve to prevent the covered group of bristles from protruding from the least one aperture arranged in the wall of the cap when the cap slides between the use position and the stowed position.