KR100505263B1 - An applicator including an applicator element configured to apply a substance to the skin - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a skin applicator comprising an application element 10 designed to apply a line of application material to the skin, in particular the eyelids. The application element has two or more tips 25 each having a fiber suitable for holding the application material, the flexibility of the application element being greater at the tip than at the site connected to the rod or container.

Description

An applicator including an applicator element configured to apply a substance to the skin}

The present invention relates to an applicator comprising an application element designed to apply a skin beauty product (cosmetic) or skin protection product to the skin, in particular the eyelids.

It is well known that a pencil can draw lines on the eyelids.

French patent application FR-A-2 633 256 discloses an assembly comprising an applicator with a tank containing liquid and a flexible application element for applying said liquid substance to the eyelids. The applicator element has a conical portion with a distal tip, extending from a cylindrical portion at one end. Selective flocking of these tip-removing conical and cylindrical portions results in a surface condition suitable for retaining the application material. The presence of a round cylindrical portion allows for the drawing of lines with a uniform line width on the eyelids regardless of the applicator's orientation to the eyelids.

French patent application FR A-2 412 287 discloses a tool for drawing a makeup line onto an eyelid. This tool includes a tank and an applicator. The applicator includes a rod positioned at its distal end and having a dispenser member made of a plastic material or a flexible rubber material with a nib at the end. This distributor member has a cavity open into two capillary groves extending to the nip. Dipping the distributor member into the liquid contained in the tank fills the cavity and the above-mentioned capillary grove with the application material. Draw a makeup line by moving your nip over your skin. While moving the nip, the coating material flows through the capillary grove to the end of the nip, where the cavity contains a stockpile of the coating material and the grove is continuously refilled with the coating material. Plastic materials or flexible rubber materials do not have a suitable surface state to hold the coating material.

Other applicators comprising a flocked applicator element are known for making nails or lips (see US Pat. No. 6 033 143). Packaging and application tools, including wipers, for use in eye makeup, for example, are disclosed in US Pat. No. 6,220,254.

For example, a new make-up effect that allows you to draw lines on the skin of body parts that cannot be easily achieved using tools as disclosed in French patent application FR-A-2 633 256 or FR-A-2 412 287. An applicator is needed to provide.

There is also a need to enhance the many different makeup effects that can be achieved with a single applicator.

The present invention is particularly intended to satisfy all or part of the specific needs as described above.

As one of several other aspects of the present invention, the present invention is a novel applicator comprising a skin applicator with an application element designed to apply an application material line on the skin, in particular the eyelid, wherein each application element is applied to the application material. A novel applicator is provided comprising at least two tips having fibers suitable for holding, wherein the flexibility of the application element is greater at the tip than at the portion connected to the rod or container.

The term "tip" is to be understood broadly as having a meaning similar to "protrusion," each tip may be of a variety of forms without departing from the scope of the invention, in particular its ends being round, planar or symmetrical or It may be asymmetrical circular.

The line drawn on the skin may be a single line, i.e., a line having a single width direction, or a plurality of lines that are clearly distinguished and substantially parallel, and more specifically, a plurality of lines of two strokes.

The width of the line is equal to the width of the stroke drawn on the skin at one stroke if the drawn line is one stroke, or the width of the line is the total of the width of each of the plurality of drawn strokes plus the empty space between them when the drawn line is plural lines. Corresponds to the width.

According to the present invention, the advantage is that different types of lines can be drawn without changing the applicator, which kind of pressure places the applicator on the skin in the desired orientation and possibly with some pressure on the skin using the application element. It is selected by applying.

If such an applicator is used and the user desires, the user can continuously change the width of the line drawn along the eyelids, for example, so that the ends of the eyelids are thin and the central portion thereof is thick.

The application element may comprise a flock covering at least some or possibly all of each tip to provide a suitable surface condition for holding the application material. The application material retained between the hairs of the flocking will be applied to the skin during use. Thus, for example, the material applied on the skin will only come from the stockpile of the applied material accumulated upon contact with the hair of flocking.

In addition, the application element may have a free surface that is completely flocked, wherein the term "free surface" refers to all of the surface portions of the application element that can be used for application purposes.

The application element may be made of at least a portion of the porous material, more particularly of the felt, the sintered material, or the foam. If the application element comprises a felt it does not need to be flocked.

In one aspect of the invention, the tip is designed such that the width of the line drawn on the skin when the application element moves in a first orientation with respect to the skin is substantially twice the width of the drawn line when the application element moves in a second orientation with respect to the skin. Can be.

The application elements may be of substantially the same shape or of different forms, in particular of different lengths, having two tips defining all or part of the surface used to apply the application material.

The applicator element may have two or more tips designed such that the free end of the tip is substantially in contact with the same plane perpendicular to the axis that is substantially parallel to the direction in which the tip extends. It may have two or more tips designed to contact each other two perpendicular faces.

As an example, one of the two tips may be located behind the other with respect to the direction in which the application element is placed on the skin when the application element is used to draw fine lines. The distal end of the tip is offset so that, where appropriate, it will be easy to draw fine lines with the forward inclined applicator, where one of the tips may bend. The two tips may optionally be in contact with each other, and one of these tips may be supplied with the application material by the other tip.

The applicator element may comprise one or more tips having distal ends that are substantially cylindrical, more specifically round cylindrical, or two or more tips, each distal end being substantially cylindrical, more specifically the same diameter or different round cylinders. The substantially cylindrical distal end can draw one or more lines having a substantially constant width, regardless of the degree of bending of the tip (s).

In one aspect of the invention, the application element has one or more groves extending over at least a portion of its height. In the case where the application element has two or more tips, the above-described grove may be open at one of its ends between the tips. Such groves can serve to, for example, increase the amount of coating material that can be applied to the application element to lengthen the length of the line that the applicator can draw and supply the coating material to the applicator surface while the line is being drawn. have. Such a grove can further improve the flexibility of the application element and does not need to open out between the tips. Such a grove also serves to contain a stock material deposit, for example when the applicator element is substantially lying on the skin and moving.

The application element may have a gap between the tips.

This gap can be defined, for example, by an edge having a concave surface connecting the two tips to each other and facing outwards.

More specifically, the application element has a flat end that is not exactly straight when viewed on an axis perpendicular to the face of the end.

The gap formed between the tips will be wide enough so that at least the distal end of the tip can flock over its entire periphery.

The application element may be designed such that when the applicator is in a predetermined direction with respect to the skin, the line drawn on the skin may be a thin or thick single line or a pair of lines depending on the pressure exerted on the application element by the user.

The tip may be connected to an intermediate portion of the application element that is harder than each tip, which intermediate portion is connected to a mounting endpiece, for example connected to a rod of the applicator. The intermediate portion can have a cross-sectional area, for example, increasing the assembly endpiece on approach.

The application element may comprise one or more recesses. The recess will be large enough so that all or part of its inner surface can be flocked without being blocked by the adhesive used to fix the flocking hair.

In one aspect of the invention, the application element is in a single piece.

In a variant, the applicator elements may comprise two or more applicator sub-elements that are made independently of one another or that are incorporated after they are made. The two lower elements will be made of the same or different materials, and each applicator lower element may have a tip.

The applicator element is elastically deformable and the tips can be bent while the applicator material is applied to the skin and then restored to its initial form when external stimulus is lost.

In one aspect of the invention, the applicator element may comprise at least a part made to be secured to the applicator rod or to be integrated with the rod, in particular to be integrated by molding.

The rods can be straight, and the application element optionally extends in line with the rods, and more specifically, it does not need to extend in line with the rod as a whole. In a variant or another example, the rod can be bent. Since neither the applicator element nor the bar is arranged along a common straight line, the user can more easily distinguish the direction provided to the applicator for drawing the selected type of line.

That is, for example, the applicator may be drawn with fine lines, primarily when the bend formed by the rod or the face of the bend formed between the application element and the rod is substantially the same as the direction in which the applicator moves over the skin. And, next, the pair may be designed such that a pair or thicker lines are drawn when the face is in different directions, for example, substantially perpendicular to the direction in which the applicator moves.

By way of example, the application element may be made of a plastic material that is not as hard as the material that makes up the rod. Thus, the deformation characteristics of the rod and the application element may be different.

The applicator element may have an assembly endpiece for securing to the housing of the rod and a distal end having two tips of which the axis is coplanar, the tip lying on the same side as its axis and having the axis and angle of the assembly endpiece, eg For example, an angle of less than 30 ° is connected to the middle part. As an example, the middle portion may have a cross section that includes two groves located opposite the diameter and whose bottom surface lies on a plane perpendicular to the plane containing the axis of the tip.

In an embodiment of the invention, the rod is connected to one end of the handle member, which member may also be suitable as a stopper for sealing a container containing the coating material, for example.

In another aspect of this aspect, the present invention provides a packaging and applicator comprising a container for holding a coating material for application to the skin, particularly the eyelids, and an applicator as described above.

The applicator of such a tool may be designed to be rotatably fixed to the container. The container may comprise a wiper, for example a wiper, which optionally has one or more orifices, for example slits, which remain substantially closed when there is no applicator as a mass of foam. Any other type of wiper, more specifically a wiper, designated capillary brake, may be used without departing from the scope of the present invention.

In another example of this aspect, the present invention includes one or more application surfaces that are not merely round cylindrical but have a surface condition suitable for retaining the application material, wherein the application surface comprises first and second applications of the application elements relative to the skin. Suitable for contact with the skin in at least one of the directions, the width of the line drawn on the skin, measured transversely in the direction in which the applicator element moves over the skin, moves in the first direction or the second direction over the applicator element. Another object is to provide an applicator characterized in that it is designed to vary.

In another aspect of this aspect, the present invention provides an applicator for applying an applicator to the skin, wherein the applicator has two or more flexible tips positioned substantially in the same direction when not in use, Depending on the direction, different lines can be drawn, the two tips being supported by a rod connected to the handle member and positioned in a non-zero angle with the axis of the rod portion connected to the handle member. .

In another aspect of this aspect, the present invention includes an applicator for skin comprising a container comprising an applicator material and also acting as a handle member, and two flexible tips fixed to the container and disposed substantially in the same direction. It is also possible to provide a tool comprising an application element having an application surface designed to draw two or more lines of different widths along the direction of.

In another aspect of this aspect, the present invention relates to a container containing an application material, and to which two or more lines, which are fixed to the container and which also act as a handle member, differ in width depending on the direction of the applicator relative to the eyelid. And an application element having a tabular surface designed to be capable of providing a tool for supplying an application material from said container to said application surface through one or more other channels made through said application element.

In another aspect of this aspect, the present invention provides a method for making up the skin, especially the eyelids,

Providing an applicator as described above; And

It also provides a method comprising moving the applicator on the skin, in particular the eyelid, to draw a line on the eyelid.

In practicing this method, the application element moves over the skin such that the contact between the application element and the skin is not limited by the tip.

In carrying out this method, the width of the lines drawn on the skin, especially the eyelids, is determined in accordance with the choice of orientation of the applicator relative to the skin.

In practicing this method, the orientation of the applicator to the skin is varied, for example, while maintaining contact between the application element and the skin such that the width of the line drawn on the skin is modified in a substantially continuous manner.

By way of example, the method may comprise moving the applicator over the skin in an appropriate direction to draw two pairs of lines, optionally of different widths, on the skin.

In practicing the present invention, sufficient pressure may be applied on the application element to allow the application element to bend while drawing lines on the skin. The ends of the application elements can be further bent to draw one thicker line instead of a pair of lines.

For example, this method

Moving the applicator in the first direction with respect to the skin on the tip of the eyelid to draw fine lines;

Moving the applicator in a second direction relative to the eyelid on the middle part of the eyelid to draw a thicker line; And

Moving the applicator in the new direction on the tip of the eyelid to draw fine lines again.

The method includes using at least some of the sides of the application element to attach the application material by moving the application element substantially to rest on the skin.

The present invention may be better understood upon reading the following detailed description of embodiments which do not limit the invention and with reference to the accompanying drawings as follows.

1 shows a packaging and applicator 1 comprising a container 2 with a neck 3 having an external thread.

The container 2 comprises a liquid or powdered substance P to be applied to the eyelids, such as liquid ink.

The wiper 4 is fixed inside the container 2, just below the neck 3, and consists of a mass of open cell polyolefin foam divided in the axial direction.

The container 2 is closed with a closed cap 5 which is screwed onto the neck 3. The hermetic closure 5 has a central portion 6 suitable for being fixed in an airtight manner at the neck 3. As shown in the example, the central portion 6 extends downwardly by a straight rod 7 on the X axis, at its free end an extension 8 defining a housing for mounting the application element 10. Is provided.

The application element 10 shown in FIG. 3, separate from the tool, comprises a mounting endpiece 15 designed to be cylindrical in a round shape around the X axis and to allow the housing to be coupled to the rod 7.

The applicator element 10 may also include a free portion 20 extending along the Y axis, which maintains a nonzero angle α with respect to the X axis, for example an angle of at least about 10 °. The free portion 20 has two flexible tips 25 that correspond to forming an intermediate portion 21 in connection with the end piece 15.

The intermediate part 21 is located along its length and opposite each other in diameter, with its cross section substantially V-shaped and its bottom lying in a plane R comprising the Y axis as shown in FIGS. 4 and 5. It has two groves 22. The cross section of the intermediate portion 21 may be circular or rectangular envelope, and more particularly, may be a rectangle perpendicular to the plane including most of the X and Y axes.

Grove 22 can retain the coating material, in particular by capillary action, to form a stockpile of the coating material, wherein the coating material held in the groove 22 is formed by a gap 29 formed between the tips 25. Can flow toward

The cross section of the intermediate portion 21 is tapered towards the end from the rod 7 as shown in FIGS. 5 and 6.

In the example shown, the tips 25 occupy about one third of the height of the free portion 20 extending from the end of the bottom.

Each tip 25 has a rounded cylindrical end 26 in the disclosed embodiment, as shown in FIGS. 3, 8 and 9.

These distal ends 26 are fully flocked 28.

In the example of FIG. 3, the tip 25 is substantially the same in shape and size. More specifically, its free end abuts a plane K perpendicular to the Y axis.

Making tips of different shapes and sizes does not depart from the scope of the present invention. Thus, as shown in FIG. 10, the application element 10 may include tips 25 of different lengths. The free end of one of the tips 25 may be adjacent to plane K1, while the other tip 25 may have a free end adjacent to plane K2 that is different from plane K1, where planes K1 and K2 are both Y-axis. Is perpendicular to

The application element 10 uses a piece of thermoplastic, in particular a thermoplastic elastomer, so that at least one of the distal ends 26 of the tip 25 is elastically deformable and bends relatively very well when the applicator is used to draw thick lines. It can be made to be.

If the user wants to draw a narrow line on the eyelid, as shown in FIG. 11, the application element 10 such that the plane defined by the X and Y axes is substantially parallel to the direction in which the application element 10 moves. The applicator element 10 can be moved so that the applicator is tilted sufficiently forward so that only one of the two tips 25 contacts the eyelid. If the applicator is tilted only slightly, the tips 25 may alternately contact the eyelids.

The user may draw a thicker line. To this end, the application element 10 can be moved in different directions, such that the plane defined by the X and Y axes is not parallel to the direction in which the application element moves, for example on the eyelid substantially perpendicular to the direction. As shown schematically in FIG. 2, when sufficient pressure is applied to the application element 10, the application element 10 is sufficiently bent such that the distal end 26 of the tip 25 lies on the skin and a thick line is drawn on the eyelids. . The intermediate portion 21 is stiff enough to not bend at right angles when the distal end 26 of the tip 25 is kept flat on the skin.

As the pressure applied to the skin becomes smaller, only two ends of the two tips are drawn in contact with the skin as shown in FIG. 13.

The user can continuously adjust the width of the line drawn on the eyelid by changing the direction of the application element against the eyelid and by varying the pressure applied while the application element 10 and the eyelid are in contact.

14A to 14E show various makeup examples that can be obtained using, for example, an applicator of the kind described above.

FIG. 14A shows a make-up including one thin line, while FIG. 14B shows a make-up including one thicker line obtained using the applicator in different directions.

FIG. 14C shows a makeup in which the lines drawn on the skin are initially thick and then tapered, where the width of the line can be determined by varying the direction of the applicator and possibly the pressure exerted on the skin during application.

14D shows a makeup with two lines with one line away from the other. Two lines may meet at one or more points, for example, both ends of the two lines may meet, as shown in FIG. 14E.

If the tips have different shapes, the two lines can have different widths as shown in FIG. 14F.

Grove 22 need not be open in the gap between the tips, which is shown in FIG. 15.

In the example described above with reference to FIG. 1, the rod 7 is straight and the tips 25 are inclined with respect to the X-axis to easily distinguish the direction of the applicator necessary to draw a line of the desired shape by the user.

The use of an applicator in the form of a bent rod as shown in FIG. 16 is not beyond the scope of the present invention.

FIG. 16 shows an applicator comprising a curved rod having a portion 7a on the X axis adjacent to the handle member 5 and a portion 7b on the Y axis adjacent to the application element 10.

The application element may be the same as or different from the element as described above. In particular, in the case where there is a curved bar, it is possible to use the application element 10 which is completely in line with the Y axis parallel to the axis of the portion 7b.

By way of example, FIG. 17 shows a tool 40 comprising a container 41 containing a coating material P, such as liquid ink. The container 41 has a neck 42 provided with an external thread, and is provided with a wiper 43 made of, for example, an elastomer. The wiper 43 is substantially cylindrical in shape, connected at its end to the rim 45 included against the end wall of the neck 42 and at its bottom end the diameter of the rod 55 of the applicator. A slightly larger central orifice 47 includes a wall 44 connected to the bottom wall 46 through which it is drilled.

The container 41 may be closed by a sealing stopper 50 that includes a handle portion 51 having an insert 52 defined to receive a rod 55 therein. The rod carries an application element, such as the application element 10 described with reference to FIG. 1. The passage through the application element 10 through the orifice 47 while the applicator is withdrawn serves to remove excess application material.

As shown in FIG. 17, the application elements are arranged in complete line with the rod.

The wiper may have a capillary brake.

By way of example, FIG. 18 shows a tool 60 comprising a container with a wiper 130 having a capillary brake. The applicator has a rod 7 which is larger in diameter than in the example shown in FIG. 1, and more particularly has no narrow portion.

The wiper 130 has a tubular portion 131 with a bottom end 132 and is positioned substantially midway along the wall 131 of the portion, for example the tubular portion, that extends from the bottom end 132. It has a wiper lip 133 which is designed to wipe the rod 7 and defines a circular orifice whose diameter is about the same or slightly smaller than the diameter of the rod 7.

In the example of FIG. 18, the lip 133 is not flocked, but the lip 133 is flocked as shown in FIG. 19 without departing from the scope of the present invention. During removal of the applicator, the coating material accumulated under the lip 133 serves to promote the retention characteristics of the coating material by the wiper.

Making the application element into one or more single pieces does not depart from the scope of the present invention. By way of example, as shown in FIG. 20, the application element may comprise two lower elements 10a and 10b each having one single tip 25 and made and made independently of each other and then merged.

The lower elements 10a and 10b may be made of the same material or, alternatively, of different materials, in particular of different hardness.

It is also possible to make application elements having two or more tips, which do not depart from the scope of the invention.

That is, FIG. 21 shows an application element 80 having three tips 81 that represent different or the same lengths and portions. Looking at the application element 80 from the bottom, the free ends of the three tips need not be located in a row of rows, for example equilateral triangles.

The application element may comprise a portion 105 at least whose end is flocked, such that the opening 106 is not closed by an applied adhesive to keep the flocking hairs stuck while flocking the portion 105. Its size has an opening 106 selected.

Portion 105 may form two tips 107 and 108, which may be the same or different. In the example shown, the two tips 107 and 108 are different, with the tip 108 having a width measured in a direction substantially parallel to the axis of the opening 106 than the tip 107.

The application element has an edge 109 that is positioned between the tips 107 and 108 and concave outward. A concave surface is formed between the tips 107 and 108.

As shown in FIG. 23, the application element may have an off center portion with respect to the axis of the rod.

In the above example, the application element is secured in a removable manner to the container containing the application material so that it is detached from the container to draw a line on the eyelids.

It is not outside the scope of the present invention that the application element is secured to the container during application.

To illustrate, FIG. 24 is provided with an annular rim 113 for mounting an end piece 115 which holds the application element 116 in a fluid state, such as liquid ink, at one end thereof. A tool 110 is shown that includes a container 111 having a defined neck 112. The application element is made of felt and may have two tips 117, for example, optionally having a flocked end.

The application element 116 has a channel 121 with one end open inwardly of the container 111 and the other end open between the tips 117. The tips 117 may be supplied with an application material during application by the channel 121.

The tip may have a rounded end as shown in FIG. 23, or alternatively may have a tapered end as shown in FIG. 25.

The application element may have the same two tips as shown in FIGS. 24 and 25, or may have two tips of different lengths as shown in FIG. 26.

For example, a user may draw a relatively fine line with only one of the two tips 117 in contact with the eyelid by moving the tool 110 over the eyelid in the first direction.

In addition, the user may move the tool 110 over the eyelid while the tool 110 is in a second direction in which the two tips 117 touch the eyelid at the same time or bend sufficiently to be substantially lying against the skin upon application. You can draw a thick line.

Naturally, the present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiment, and the tool of the present invention can combine various features of the above-described tools.

Throughout the specification, including the claims, the expression "comprises" should be understood to have the same meaning as "comprises at least one" unless stated otherwise.

The term "cosmetics" is used to mean a product of the kind defined in European Council Directive 93/35 (June 14, 1993).

The applicator and packaging and applicator comprising the same according to the present invention provide a new make-up effect that allows a line to be drawn on the skin of a body part which is not easily achieved using the applicator and the tool according to the prior art, One applicator can enhance many different makeup effects that can be achieved.

1 is an axial partial cross-sectional view showing a packaging and application tool forming a first embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 2 is an axial partial sectional view showing only the applicator separately in FIG. 1; FIG.

3 is a partial side view showing a state before the application element of the applicator of FIG. 2 is put into position in the applicator rod;

4 is an axial partial sectional view on IV-IV showing the application element of FIG. 3;

5 is a partial cross-sectional view in the V-V direction showing the application element of FIG. 3;

6 is a partial cross-sectional view on VI-VI showing the application element of FIG. 3;

FIG. 7 is a partial cross-sectional view on VIII-VIII showing the application element of FIG. 3 on a larger scale; FIG.

8 is a partial cross-sectional view on VII-VII showing the tip of the application element of FIG. 3;

9 is a partial view from below of the application element of FIG. 3;

10 is a partial view showing the tip of the application element according to the variant of FIG. 3;

11-13 illustrate three different methods of applying various coating materials to the eyelids with the applicator of the tool of FIG. 1;

14A-14F illustrate various types of makeup examples that can be obtained using an applicator in the example shown in FIG. 1;

15 shows the modified application element portion separately;

16-18 is an axial partial view of a tool making up another embodiment of the present invention;

19 shows separately a modified wiper portion with a capillary brake;

20 to 23 are partial perspective views showing modifications of the application element;

24 is an axial partial view of an article of another embodiment of the present invention;

25 and 26 are partial perspective views of a modified application element.

Claims (45)

Two or more tips (25; 81; 107) comprising an application element (10; 80; 116) designed to apply an application material line to the skin, particularly the eyelids, each of which has a fiber suitable for holding the application material; 108; 117, wherein the applicator element has a greater flexibility at the tip than at the portion connected to the rod or container. 2. Applicator according to claim 1, characterized in that the tip is flocked (28). 3. The applicator of claim 2 wherein said applicator element exhibits a free surface that is fully flocked. 4. An applicator according to any one of the preceding claims wherein the applicator element comprises a porous material. 5. The applicator according to claim 1, wherein the application element comprises a felt. The width of the line drawn on the skin as the application element moves in a first direction with respect to the skin is substantially equal to the width of the line drawn when the application element moves in a second direction with respect to the skin. An applicator characterized in that it is designed to double. 7. Applicator according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the application element (10; 116) has two tips (25; 117) that are substantially identical in shape. 7. Applicator according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the application element has two tips (25) in different shapes. The two or more tips according to claim 1, wherein the application element is designed such that the free end of the tip is in contact with a common surface K perpendicular to the axis Y that is substantially parallel to the direction in which the tip extends. Applicator characterized by having 25. 7. The application element according to any one of the preceding claims, wherein the application element is in two distinct planes (K1, K2) in which the free end of the tip is perpendicular to the axis (Y) substantially parallel to the direction in which the tip extends. An applicator characterized by having two or more tips (25) designed to be in contact. Applicator according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the application element has at least one tip (25) having a substantially cylindrical end portion (26), in particular a substantially round cylindrical end portion. Applicator according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the application element has respective cylindrical ends (26) which are substantially cylindrical, in particular round cylindrical ends which are substantially the same diameter. 13. Applicator according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the application element comprises one or more groves (22) extending along at least a portion of its height. Applicator according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the one or more groves (22) are open at one end between the tips. Applicator according to any of the preceding claims, characterized in that the application element comprises a gap between the tips (107, 108). Applicator according to any of the preceding claims, characterized in that the gap is defined by an edge (109) having a concave surface facing outwards connecting the two tips (107, 108) to each other. The applicator according to claim 1, wherein the applicator exhibits a flat end that is not exactly straight when viewed on an axis perpendicular to the plane of the end. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 17, wherein the application element is a thin or thick single line drawn on the skin according to the pressure applied by the user to the application element when the applicator is in a predetermined direction with respect to the skin. Applicator characterized in that it is designed to be a pair of lines. Applicator according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the application element comprises at least one portion (105) with a tip connected and having a recess. 20. The applicator according to any one of the preceding claims wherein the applicator element is a single piece. Applicator according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the application elements comprise at least two lower elements (10a; 10b) made independently of one another and then incorporated. 22. Applicator according to any one of the preceding claims wherein said two lower elements are made of the same material. 22. The applicator of claim 21 wherein the two lower elements are made of different materials. Applicator according to claim 21, characterized in that each lower element (10a; 10b) comprises a tip (25). Applicator according to any of the preceding claims, characterized in that the application element (10) is fixed to a rod. The applicator according to any one of claims 1 to 25, wherein the rod is straight and the entire application element extends in line with the rod. 27. Applicator according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the rod (7) is straight and the entire application element (10) does not extend in line with the rod. Applicator according to claim 1 or 25, characterized in that the rods (7a; 7b) are bent. 29. Applicator according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that one end of the rod is connected to a handle member (5) suitable for acting as a sealing stopper for sealing the container containing the coating substance. 30. The application according to any one of claims 1 to 29, wherein the applicator element comprises a distal end having two tips 25 of coaxial axis and an assembly endpiece for securing to the housing of the rod, the tip being flush with the axis thereof. And a cross section with two groves 22 lying opposite and connected to an intermediate portion 21 at an angle of, for example, less than 30 ° with the axis of the assembly endpiece, Applicator characterized in that the bottom of the groove (22) lies in a plane (R) perpendicular to the plane containing the axis of the tip (25). A packaging and applicator comprising a container for holding a coating material to be applied to the skin and an applicator according to any one of claims 1 to 30. 32. The tool of claim 31 wherein the applicator is designed to be removably secured to a container. 33. The tool according to claim 31 or 32, wherein the container comprises a wiper (4; 42). 34. A tool according to any one of claims 31 to 33, characterized in that the wiper comprises a mass of foam (4), in particular a mass of foam having one or more orifices that remain substantially closed when there is no applicator. 34. The tool of claim 33 wherein the wiper has a capillary brake. 32. A coating material according to claim 31, characterized in that the container 111 also acts as a handle member, the application material being provided from the container via its one or more channels 121 made through the application element on its surface. tool. Providing an applicator according to any one of claims 1 to 30; And Moving said applicator over the skin to draw a line over the skin. 38. The method of claim 37, wherein the application element moves over the skin such that contact with the skin is not limited to the tip only. 39. The method of claim 37 or 38, wherein the width of the line is determined by selecting the applicator orientation with respect to the skin. 40. The method of claim 38 or 39, wherein the orientation of the applicator to the skin is varied such that the width of the line drawn on the skin varies while maintaining contact between the applicator and the skin. 41. The method of any one of claims 37-40, comprising drawing two lines on the skin by moving the applicator in a corresponding direction on the skin. 42. The method of claim 41 wherein the widths of the two lines are not equal. Moving the applicator according to any one of claims 1 to 30 in the first direction with respect to the skin at the tip of the eyelid to draw fine lines; Moving the applicator in a second direction with respect to the eyelid above the middle part of the eyelid to draw a thicker line; And Moving the applicator in the new direction at the end of the eyelid to draw a fine line again. The skin applicator of claim 1 wherein the tips contact each other in an area extending from the portion connecting the application element to a rod or container. 32. A packaging and applicator as in claim 31, wherein said coating material is applied to the eyelids.