Patent ID: 8047213

Claim:
A cosmetic coating implement for applying a cosmetic material comprising a coating part in which a plurality of brush bristles are disposed on a shaft member formed of spiral core wires and a holding part which is held in order to use said coating implement and connected to said shaft member, wherein said brush bristles disposed on said shaft member have at least two protruding parts consisting of curved surfaces comprising at least two protruding parts with respect to a direction of length of said shaft are formed by said plurality of brush bristles, each of said curved surfaces starts and ends at said shaft member at two separate spaced apart points along said direction of length on said shaft member, said curved surfaces are consecutively and symmetrically disposed along said direction of length of said shaft member without a space between starting and ending, said curved surfaces are points of consecutive ones of said curved surfaces of said protruding points substantially elliptical in shape with respect to the direction of length of said shaft with a long axis of said elliptical shape along said direction of length of said shaft, and one of said at least two protruding parts is at an end of said shaft member with brush bristles extending beyond said end by an amount equal to a length of said brush bristles, whereby said cosmetic coating implement is provided with a soft tip end.