2013年6月30日星期日

Off season is coming

According to our experience, now all makeup brush factories have entered into off season. During this season, only a few orders from customers, some factories have to eke out the production line.
 
The off season will be from July to September, which is the most hot period of the whole year. During this period, most Europe and America customers will have their summer holiday, so they do not work and will not place order from the makeup brush manufacturers.
 
However, as summer is mostly rainly and moist days, the lead time will be longer than normal. The normal lead time is about 40 days, but in summer, due to the rainly and moist weather, the drying period will be much longer, so the lead time may reach 60 days if there are many and continous storm and rain.
 
So we strongly suggest customers place order before your summer holiday, then go to enjoy your holidays, we will arrange everything during your holiday, and after your back to the office, your makeup brushes will appear in front of you, it will not waste any time.
 
Also, due to the off season, there will be not many orders, the production line will not so busy, so we will have enough time to make each brush perfect. That means the brush quality during this period will be certainly better than usual.
 
As a makeup brush factory, during the off season, if no order, we will also do all preparation work for the production. As after the off season, orders will certainly rush up, if no full preparation, we must be in tearing hurry. In a word, although the off season is coming, we do have a lot of work to do.
 

2013年6月25日星期二

We need required logo file

Logo is a certain topic during customizing makeup brushes. Since logo design will also affect the price, most customers will send their whole logo design to us at the very beginning.
 
The whole logo design should be the exact logo to be printed on the handle. If customers would like to have their name and picture on the logo, they need to reflect the size/color/font/position of the letters, and color/size/position of the picture, as well as their typesetting. Please remember that the letter and picture should be one, it does not mean a separate picture design and a separate letter design and then combine the two pictures in one word file, such design are not required logo file.
 
The logo file can be .eps or .doc or.jpg or.pdf etc, but most designers use PostScript to make the logo file.
 
While some of our customers are only small beauty salon or individual makeup artists, they have no capacity to hire a professional art designer, so they just send their requirements on the logo by words and would like the makeup brush factoryto do the logo design for them.
 
However, no makeup brush manufacturer will offer logo designing. The logo is always offered by customers.We only do the production.
 
If the logo only have letters in one color, we can help to do the logo if customers tell us the fonts and position. But if the logo include letters and picture, and also have different colors, we do need to know its typesetting. Before printing the logo on the brush handle, we need to firstly make a printing plate which includes the whole logo (picture and letter), if anything changs, the whole plate will be useless, so we need to confirm everything at the very beginning.
 
If the customers’ company do not have any aart designer, they can source a professional art designer at your location and let him do everything. Such art designer is very easy to find. It will make everything easy. Otherwise, it will hold the project for long time.
 
 

2013年6月23日星期日

We do NOT sell several brush

We receive many emails every day which require to buy only 1-10 makeup brushes from us. But, as we explained, we are a makeup brush manufacturer instead of a warehouse or distributors, we produce makeup brushes only after getting orders from customers, so we do not have inventory for makeup brushes.
 
Some customers visit our website: http://www.tmakeupbrushes.com and see the pictures shown on the website, then they thought all these brushes are stock items. But in fact, these are only the brushes we once or have made for our customers. We put the pictures on our website only to show our capacity and our brush quality, most of them are not inventory. Even if we have some brushes in stock, they are only leftover stock or reserved sample, the quantity will not too many. Also, these brushes will have the customers’ logos. So we can not sell them to other customers.
 
Some customers would like to customize makeup brushes with their own brand or name, but they only require 1 of each. That is because they are makeup brus artists, and only want to get a special makeup brush instead of sell the brushes to any one. We do understand their situation, but we really can not offer only 1 brush with their own logo. As the cost is rather high, sometimes, the customers will be shocked by the high price to buy only one makeup brush with their own name, and believe we charge exorbitant prices. But it is really the situation. Therefore, to avoid any misunderstanding which may affect our potential customers, we will not sell one brush.
 
We have MOQ for our orders, the MOQ varies according to different brush types. Therefore, to get known our MOQ, please firstly let us know what kind of brushes you need, then we will give you feedback accordingly. But whatever, we will NOT sell one brush or less than 100pcs for each.

2013年6月9日星期日

About the brush holder

If you have several or even more than 10pcs makeup brushes in hands, you must consider storing them in certain place instead of in messy.

The traditional way is put them in a makeup brush bag, so that we can take all of our brushes even in travel, and can also protect the brushes from dirts and dusts. However, if at home, brush bags are not so convenient, we need to take out and replace each brush during makeup. That is why the brush holder are invented.

With the brush holder/container, we can conveniently take out and store makeup brushes during apply. Also, as the brush holders usually have two parts, we can store more than 20pcs brushes. And after closing, it can also prevent dirts and dusts, and can also take with us during travel.

For the holder material, it is usually PU leather or cloth. The outside material is usually PU, while the inner materian can be PU or cloth. Some may think PU must be better than cloth, it is not the case, PU has heavy smell, while cloth has not. Also, as the holder cover is usually guled, if the inner cover is also PU, it is hard to ensure the smooth on the inner cover, but cloth can be easily glued, so will look very smooth.

For the holder size, it depends on the size of your brushes. If your brushes with rather long handles, it is better to have a tall holder; if you only need to store several brushes, you may only need slim holder, but if you have more than 10-20pcs brushes, you will need larger holder.

For the holder shape. It can be round or oval, the sigma holder has oval shape.

If the material and size is different, the price of the holder will accordingly be different. Therefore, during customize makeup brush holders, please send your detailed requirements on the holders to your supplier or manufacturer, including the inner and outside material, height and diameter. Otherwise, you may not get required and satisfied holders.

2013年6月5日星期三

Stick bristles can reduce bristles falling

To reduce the bristles falling during makeup brush production, we have used varoius methods, such as combing out some extra or fly bristles, washing off broken hairs, brush off the heads by hands etc. However, even after these process, there are still some stubborn bristle can not be completely removed. Some customers still find that there are some bristles falling during applyiing makeup.

Although it is normal to have several bristles falling during first usage, we still try our best to reduce the falling quantity to be the minimum. God helps those who help themselves, after our exploration and research, we found a way to remove some more bristles, that is stick off the bristles by adhesive tape.

After assembling the makeup brushes, rolling the brush heads on large adhesive tapes, then the adhesive materials will stick to the bristles, during rolling and pulling, the loose bristles will be left on the tape. Repeat this step for several times, you will find no bristle falling even during cleaning.

Anyway, such method has its limit. For top grade animal hairs, such sticking will somewhat hurt the hair tip, then will affect the hair excellence of the hairs. Therefore, for top grade goat hair like XGF goat hair and ZGF goat hair, it is best not use such process.

For synthetic hair or high/medium/low grade animal hairs, sticking the hairs can greatly reduce the falling quantity. For top grade animal hairs, we will use our hands to brush off the falling/broken hairs and try our best to protect the hair tips.

As a professional manufacturer who offers service to customize makeup brushes for customers, we will use our experience and profession to handle all problems during production, and will give customers proper suggestions and guides during our communication.


2013年6月3日星期一

Use F80 to apply BB or CC cream

It is known that Sigma F80 is usually used as foundation brush, it seems that it is only for color cosmetics. However, for those girls who have no time to do the whole complex makeup, or who prefer nude makeup, F80 also has its place. It is also a perfect tool to apply BB cream.

Here we would like to introduce the difference between BB cream and liquid foundation.

What is BB cream? BB Cream was originally developed in Germany in the 1950's. "BB" is short for Blemish Base, Blemish Balm or Beauty Balm Cream. It was used on the wounds of patients who had laser surgery to heal the scars faster. In addition to helping wounds heal, the cream also provided a light coverage to the skin to help hide scars.The trend then spread to Korea, Japan, South East Asia, the rest of Europe, and finally to the west.

The important ingredients in the BB Cream were Abyssine, Hydroprolisilane and Beta-Glucan. So it can provides coverage like a foundation, but the coverage is usually sheer, it also has the following usage:
·                 Ingredient to help control acne and blemishes
·                 Pigment that can act as concealer
·                 Pigments that can cancel out redness
·                 S.P.F.
·                 Antioxidants
·                 A light moisturizer
The main difference between BB Cream and Foundation is that it is designed to be a all-in-one product. Whereas foundation focuses on heavier pigmentation to even and conceal, BB Cream tries to focus on all of those including acting like a "medication" for your skin.
Therefore, for the girls who prefer nude makeup, F80 is also a essential tool. Comparing applying by hands, it will make your face more natural and and clear.