Patent ID: 8568049

Claim:
A mascara brush comprising: a carrier portion and a bristle covering of bristles respectively protruding outwardly along their longitudinal bristle axis L from the carrier portion, wherein the bristle covering comprises bristles consisting essentially of a bristle stem and an eyelash retaining organ adjoining thereto, which is configured as a retaining projection, which projects over the surface of the bristle stem in a direction parallel to the longitudinal bristle axis, wherein the eyelash retaining organ is arrow-shaped with two mutually opposing hook-like appendages that protrude laterally from the bristle stem and, at an outermost end of each appendage, form an angle of less than 70° with a longitidinal axis of the bristle stem; wherein the bristles of two adjacent bristle rows, relative to the longitudinal bristle axis, are each positioned on a level of a meridian extending centrally through a free space between the eyelash retaining organs of bristles of a center bristle row standing next to each other, while a maximum extension of each eyelash retaining organ, in a longitudinal direction parallel to the longitudinal bristle axis, is so large that one eyelash retaining organ, respectively, overlaps with the closest retaining organs of the adjacent row, if projected onto each other in a circumferential direction, thus ensuring that, from outside the bristle covering, in a radial direction, there are no annular channels that are continuous in the circumferential direction in the bristle area formed by the bristles with the eyelash retaining organs and, instead, such a free space remains only between the bristle stems.