Patent ID: 8562352

Claim:
A method of assisting a user in application of make-up, the method comprising: providing the user with a face chart product, the face chart product comprising a postcard-sized card having a first card surface, the first card surface depicting a face chart and a code key situated alongside the face chart and explaining the face chart; wherein the face chart comprises: a makeup application strategy, and an image of at least a portion of a human face, wherein the makeup application strategy comprises a plurality of distinct makeup applications; wherein the image includes a first side of the human face depicting bare skin and a plurality of coded indications on the bare skin, each coded indication using codes on the code key and identifying a makeup application location of a makeup type; and wherein the image includes a second side of the human face depicting the plurality of distinct makeup applications applied to the human face at corresponding locations mirroring the makeup application locations, providing the user with a plurality of multi-functional cosmetics brushes, each of which is suitable for applying one or more of the plurality of distinct makeup applications, wherein the cosmetics brushes have markings matching codes on the face chart to associate each cosmetics brush with at least one corresponding makeup application; wherein the multi-functional cosmetics brushes are travel-sized and not longer than 4.5 inches from an end of a handle to an opposite end of a pile of brush hairs; wherein a ferrule tightly wraps around the pile of brush hairs; wherein the ferrule is affixed to the handle; and wherein each of the multi-functional cosmetics brushes includes a pile of brush hairs that have been (1) cut on 90 degree angles across a top of the pile of brush hairs protruding from the ferrule, (2) cut on 45 degree angles on sides of the pile of brush hairs to create a dome-like effect, and (3) sparingly spliced at 90 degree angles straight down in a center of the pile of brush hairs; instructing the user to associate each cosmetics brush with the at least one corresponding makeup application by matching the markings with the codes; instructing the user to apply the makeup types using the cosmetics brushes to create the plurality of distinct makeup applications in accordance with the makeup application strategy.