Patent ID: 7754196

Claim:
A mascara composition comprising rigid, substantially rectilinear polymeric fibers in a physiologically acceptable medium, wherein the polymer is selected from the group consisting of non-aromatic polyamides, aromatic polyimide-amides comprising a repeating unit of formula (I): optionally, also, a repeating unit of formula (II): —NH—R—NH—CO—R 2 —CO— (II) optionally, also, a repeating unit of formula (III): optionally, also, a repeating unit of formula (IV): in which R represents a divalent aromatic group, R 2 , represents a divalent aromatic group, R 3 represents a tetravalent aromatic group, R 1 represents a trivalent aromatic group and M represents an alkali metal or alkaline-earth metal, and mixtures thereof, and wherein at least 50%, in numerical terms, of the fibers are such that the angle formed between the tangent to the central longitudinal axis of the fiber at one of the ends of the fiber and the straight line connecting said end to the point on the central longitudinal axis of the fiber corresponding to half the length of the fiber, is less than or equal to 15°, and the angle fanned between the tangent to the central longitudinal axis of the fiber at a point halfway along the fiber and the straight line connecting one of the ends to the point on the central longitudinal axis of the fiber corresponding to half the length of the fiber, is less than or equal to 15°, for the same length of fiber ranging from 0.8 mm to 5 mm.