Combine shipments

Some frequent customers will place several orders within one month to custom makeup brushes with normal or new design. For example, some may order blush brushes and powder brushes on July 1^st, and then place order for eye brushes and lip brushes on July 15^th; some may order brushes on July 10^th and order boxes/bags on July 25^th….. It is not because they like many orders but they have different demand in different time.

If customers are not in urgent need of the brushes or boxes, to save shipping cost, they will require the makeup brush manufacturer to combine some shipments together. For example, they place 5 orders in July, and the normal lead time is 30 days, so if not urgent, they may would like the makeup brush manufacturer to ship all 5 orders by the end of August. In this case, although some orders can be finished by the end of July, the manufacturer will have to hold the shipment for about one month.

Since it is customer’s requirements to combine shipments, it is certainly good to the customer. For the makeup brush manufacturer, it is both advantage and disadvantage. The advantage is it decreases all related shipping preparation and documents. It is known that for international shipments, each shipment needs a set of documents and related job, 5 shipments will need 5 sets documents and 5 custom declarations. So shipment combination greatly saves time and money for manufacturers in customs. The disadvantage is that it somewhat affect the manufacturer’s Capital Returning. The payment terms is usually 50% prepay and 50% before shipment. If the shipments are held, the balance payment will also be held. It is really not good to manufacturer’s resource flow.

To support customers and ensure long term cooperation, most makeup brush manufacturer will agree with the shipments combination. Toney will also try our best to offer better service for customers all over the world.

Continuous rainstorm affects our normal production

The recent heavy rainstorm in china has become the disaster to us, it not only caused death to more than 100 people, but also caused huge economy lost, and also greatly affected our daily life and production.

Firstly, the rainstorm causes the delay on our incoming material. As a makeup brush manufacturer, we have ordered material for makeup brush production, however, due to the heavy rain, the transportations are always delayed. Usually, the material will reach us within 3 days after shipment, but now it is still hold on Transport Company to wait for rain stopping. We can not blame the transport company since it is force majeure.

Secondly, the rainstorm brings moist weather and environment in our workshop, which will cause our production delay. We have explained a lot on why and how the moist environment affects our production, here repeat no more.

Thirdly, the rainstorm and bad road conditions also affect our shipment to customers. Most of our customers are international customers, so we usually ship via air or sea. However, our local forwarder will not agree to pick up the goods from our warehouse in such bad weather; even if the goods are safely delivered to forwarder warehouse, the air or sea may also delayed since it is not wise to fly or sail in such weather.

We will do whatever we can do to deliver the makeup brushes to customers on time, however, we can not control force majeure, and so if we finally are not able to ship on time, we really hope to get the understanding from customers.

User’ true feeling is very important to us

Although the one who place order to us may be a company, factory, trader or shop, we know that our end customers are the individual users, Therefore, after shipment, we still pay close attention to the selling and marketing of the makeup brushes we sold. We will be very glad to know end users’ feeling and comments on our makeup brushes.

 

Most customers will try the brushes by themselves before launching the brushes on the market to feel the brush quality and touch/handle feeling. In this case, they will directly tell us their feeling on the brushes via email or phone. If you are an individual and buy our makeup brushes from the trader/shop, and get known that we are the original makeup brush manufacturer, you can also let us know your feeling on our makeup brushes, please send us emails to sales@tmakeupbrushes.com or call 86-512-57864282. Your any comment will be much appreciated.

 

The normal feeling/comments on the makeup brushes will include the following:

 

Hairs: is the hair soft enough or not? How is the hair touching on skin? Can the hairs hold enough powders during applying...?

 

Ferrule: is the ferrule clean or not? Any scratch or glue remains on the ferrule? Is the ferrule shinning or not...

 

Handle: how is the handle feeling? Is it comfortable to hold the handle? What about the painting on the handles? Is the painting good enough...

 

Besides the above, you can also let us know your comments on the package and logo issue, any aspect on makeup brushes.

 

After getting your comment, we will try our best to improve our makeup brushes according to your comment and suggestion. Without your always support or suggestion, we will never become better and the best!

Brush hairs in moist weather

It is known that natural hairs will become wet in moist weather, while the finished makeup brushes should be in fluffy appearance, so it will be the best if there is no rainy day during makeup brush production. However, no one can control the weather, raining is the normal situation during makeup brush production, so the hairs often become wet, then how the makeup brush factory should do to keep the fluffy appearance of the makeup brushes?

If the delivery time is not so urgent and since the hairs will restore to fluffy in dry weather, the makeup brush factory can wait for sunny day to dry the hairs, and then pack and ship the makeup brushes once the hairs are dry.

If the delivery time is urgent, and it is always rainy during production, to avoid of shipment delay, the makeup brush manufacturer will add some powders into hairs during production. It is known that powders can absorb moist to keep the hairs dry. Since the makeup brushes are used to apply powders, it will be no problem if some powders leave in the brushes. Anyway, the makeup brush manufacturer will always remove/ shake off the powders from the makeup brushes before packing. If customers find some powder remains after unpacking, they can also shake off the powders by themselves. The method is very simple, just like shaking off the dust from our clothes.

If customers do not want powders during makeup brush production, they should state that they can leave enough time for the makeup brush factory to wait for sunny day, or they can accept the makeup brushes which are not so fluffy after unpacking, as the brushes will restore to fluffy in dry weather, the customers/users can dry the brushes at their location.

Process to attach hairs to brushes

Besides normal makeup brushes, some users may like another kind of makeup brushes which can allow powder to flow through. That means the brush hairs are attached to the powder containers, and the powders can automatically come out through the holes in the hairs bunch, then users can apply the powder onto their faces or bodies.

 

The process to produce such brushes is also different from normal makeup brushes. The normal brush handle will be replaced by powder container which is usually plastics and is designed by customers. The makeup brush factory only needs to attach the bristles according to the powder container. Here we would like to mainly introduce our process to attach bristles:

 

1) The makeup brush factory will firstly make a cup-shape mold, then shape bristles in the mold to get expected bristle shape

2) Wrap the shaped bristles with paper, insert into aluminum ferrule and glue bristles together;

3) Extract the bristles from aluminum ferrule after the glue is dried

4) Punch several holes to allow powder to flow through it

5) insert the bristles into powder container, add thinner (banana oil) to dilute the glue on the bristles, then the glue will stick the bristles to the powder container (after adding thinner, the glue will dissolve, thin and spread around, then will come to the joint area with powder container, so the bristles will stick with powder container after the glue is dried), so the bristles to flow powder will be finished.

 

Therefore, no matter how customers will design their handle, it will be no problem for the makeup brush manufacturer to attach bristles to the handles.

 

If customers would like the makeup brush manufacturer to source the factory for their handle-powder container, it is also ok as long as customers offer detailed design and drawing. We will always try best to meet customers’ every requirements.

Prototype for makeup brush

Some customers want to design a very special makeup brush to attract users, while there is great uncertainty as to whether the new design will actually do what is desired. New designs often have unexpected problems. Therefore, a prototype is often used to allow customers to confirm performance and consumer interest before starting production of the makeup brush. Then, customers or their engineers will use their experience to tailor the prototype according to the specific unknowns still present in the intended design.

Some customers will make the prototype by themselves, and then send to the makeup brush manufacturers for their checking; while some may prefer the makeup brush manufacturers to do the prototype for them, they just need to send detailed drawings to the manufacturers and pay for the prototypes, and after the prototypes being finished, the manufacturers send the prototype to customers for confirmation. Since prototype is only an early sample or model built to test the design, if customers do not like the prototypes, they can modify the design based on analysis of the prototype.

According to prototyping ways, the prototype can be divided into manual prototype, SLA/SLS prototype and CNC prototype; according to materials, the prototype can be divided into plastic prototype, silica gel prototype and metal prototype.

For makeup brush, CNC prototyping is the most common way to do the prototype, and the material is usually plastic. Anyway, it depends on customers’ exact requirement.

If customer have special design on the makeup brushes and would like to make/get prototypes first, please feel free to contact us via sales@tmakeupbrushes.com or 86-512-57864282.

Plastic handle of makeup brushes

It is known that wooden handle and plastic handle are the most common handle material for makeup brushes. Most users will prefer wooden handle for their daily usage, while due to its limit on the shape, wooden handle are not always the preference for all customers. Some customers want to custom makeup brushes with their own style; they aim to show a unique makeup brush to the users, so they cudgel their brains on the brush shape.

Plastics, thanks for their property, can be molded to various shapes to meet customers’ requirements on the handle shape. Most plastic handle shape will be achieved by injection molding, while the molding fee is very expensive, so if the order quantity is not so huge, plastic handle may not be a wise choice.

If customers would like to have plastic handles, they should send their design/drawing to the makeup brush manufacturers. Not like wooden handle which just needs the diameter and length, plastic handle needs detailed size of each part, so that the makeup brush manufacturers can check and evaluate the molding fee and other cost. Therefore, a detailed drawing is essential, 3D drawing will be the best, if no 3D drawing, 2D drawing with detailed size on each part will be also ok.

After calculating the exact cost, the makeup brush factory will quote customers in detail, including the molding fee, the unit price on the makeup brush etc. After paying the molding fee, customers will have the ownership on the mold; they can decide to leave the mold on the brush factory for future orders or to ship the mold to themselves. The brush factory has no right to handle the mold.

As professional makeup brush manufacturers, we can meet customers’ requirements on the brush handles as long as customers offer their detailed requirements, no matter they need plastic handle or wooden handle.

Sample request

Before ordering any brush, some customers will request samples from the makeup brush manufacturers to check the brush quality or to finalize which brushes are exactly the ones they want to order. Therefore, if the customers have not any target or ideas on the needed brushes, they will usually require samples as many as they can. Some even require more than 30 different brush types. However, most of them will be scared away after knowing sample fees from the makeup brush manufacturer. Most of them can not believe they need to pay so much for only several samples. For example, USD100.0 for 2 samples, USD500 for 20 samples etc.

 

The reason is most makeup brush manufacturers will not have brush samples in stock, even if these makeup brushes are listed in their price list. The brushes in the price list are only to show customers they once produce these brushes for some customers but not mean the stock brushes. Usually, the makeup brush factory orders material according to customers’ order quantity to produce the brushes, so even if there will be some remaining or inventory, they are spare parts for future checking.

 

So if customers request samples, the makeup brush manufacturers have to produce new samples, and to produce these samples, they have to order different material for hair/ferrule/handle, do different color painting etc for only few samples, so the cost must be very high.

 

However, some customers who are just entering into the makeup brush industry do not know this situation; they believe it is really daylight robbery to quote USD500 for 20 samples. Although we have explained this situation to every customer, they just do not believe our sincerity. But we get sample request every day, it is impossible to always afford such high cost by ourselves since customers have not any finalized order.