The hair thickness of makeup brushes

For custom makeup brushes, customers usually send us the brushes they would like to order and require us to exact copy the brushes.

 

It is easy to check if the color is the same as original brushes; if the logo is the same as original; if handle length/thickness, ferrule length/thickness and hair length is the same… all of the above can be judged by visual observations. While some can not, for example, customers can not judge if the hair material is the same as original, they have to touch and feel the hairs to check the softness etc. However, few customers can recognize the exact hair material just through feeling and touching.

 

Hairs are the most difficult during customers’ inspection, besides the hair material, hair thickness is also very difficult to evaluate. Some customers believe that they can judge the hair thickness by holding the hairs. But as professional makeup brush manufacturer, we know that judgment on hair thickness is more difficult than hair material.

 

Firstly, most customers just evaluate the thickness by hands/eyes which can not show the exact hair thickness unless the difference is very obvious. The makeup brush factory usually inspects the hair thickness by the diameter of the ferrule that connects the hairs, but some brushes are fluffy while some are dense. In this case, if customers judge by shape, the brushes are the same, but if judge by holding the brushes, they will feel the obvious difference.

 

Secondly, the hair material will also affect the hair thickness. Some customers send us their existing brushes to us but they do not like their hair material, so they require us to change to a better hair material without any size change. We make samples exactly according to their size (same ferrule diameter, same density), but they insist that our samples are not as thick as their original brushes. In fact, that is because our hair material is much better and softer than their brushes, so even if with the same hair amount, our brushes may not feel so thick. The experienced customers and manufacturers will know that better hairs are softer and slimmer than worse hairs.

 

We really hope that our customers can judge from different aspects during evaluating our samples, after all, personal feeling is not so accurate, although we will always try our best to meet customers’ every requirement, it is really hard for us to produce makeup brushes just according to customers’ personal feeling.