Patent ID: 8894311

Claim:
An applicator for eyeliner, the applicator comprising a stem and an applicator endpiece carried by the stem: i) the endpiece being of elongate shape along a longitudinal axis; ii) the endpiece including a flexible zone that deforms while the applicator is in use and that has first and second dimensions d x and d y respectively along first and second axes that are perpendicular to each other and perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the endpiece, the first and second dimensions d x and d y being substantially equal, the flexible zone being closer to a distal end of the applicator than to a distal end of the stem; and iii) the endpiece including a head extending from the flexible zone, the head being connected to a remainder of the endpiece solely via the flexible zone, the head being flat in a plane containing the longitudinal axis and the second axis, and measured parallel to the second axis, the head having a maximum width (L max ) that is greater than the second dimension d y , the maximum width ( Lmax ) of the head being within a range of 0.4 mm to 4 mm.