2018年12月6日星期四

Goat hair in different season

Goat hair is the most popular natural hair used on powder brushes, eyeshadow brushes etc. Most users should know that goat hair has many grades, such as XGF goat hair, ZGF goat hair etc.

Generally speaking, XGF goat hair is the softest and best, so during customizing makeup brushes, many customers will require XGF goat hair for their brushes. However, sometimes, they may find that the softness of two makeup brushes both with XGF goat hair may not be the same, or sometimes, not softer than ZGF goat hair. So they doubt that they are cheated by the makeup brush manufacturer.
In fact, as a kind of natural hair, goat hair is just like human hairs. In winter, the goat hair is thicker and rougher; in spring, after hair lossing, the new born hair will be much softer. So sometimes ZGF goat hair may be softer than XGF goat hair. We distinguish different goat hair grades not only by softness but also hair tips and powder holding capacity.
Therefore, to customize makeup brushes with private label, it will be the best to send us physical samples to show us the exact hairs you want. Firstly, customers may not so familiar with the hairs, and may have some misjudgment on the hair types; Secondly, the previous makeup brush suppliers may cheat you on the hair material; thirdly even with the same hairs, the feeling will be different in different season.

2018年12月2日星期日

How to avoid ferrule oxidation

As an essential part of makeup brushes, ferrules take an important role in makeup brushes, it connects both hairs and handles. Even for some brushes that without ferrules, they are just invisible, ferrules are still included in the brushes.

However, as a metal material, the ferrules are easily to be oxidized, especially in damp environment. Even the human sweat may lead to oxidation. But during the makeup brush assembly and inspection, we must touch the ferrules. Then, how to avoid the oxidation during the assembly and inspection:
1. Assembly- during ferrule production, we will firstly cover a protective film on the ferrule, and during assembly, workers will wear cotton gloves to avoid of sweat on ferrules.
2. Inspection- after the makeup brushes are finished, we must remove the film on the ferrule and do the inspection. All inspectors will wear cotton gloves during inspection in case of oxidation.


We can only avoid of oxidation from our side as the makeup manufacturer. After getting makeup brushes especially with copper ferrule, users should store the brushes in dry environment. And after each cleanning of brushes, users should not store them until completely air drying.

2018年11月29日星期四

How to distinguish latex and non-latex sponge

In our previous article of the production process of beauty blender, we showed the production process of non-latex beauty blender.
It is known that latex sponge has short lifetime, the chipping always fall off, also may cause allergy to our skin. So it is not a good choice for most users. Therefore, non-latex sponge is born at the right moment.
non-latex sponge does not contain latex, so no harm to human body/skin; it includes VE which is good for our skin; no chipping fall off; no smell,eco-friendly etc.
Today, we would like to show you how to check if the sponge is made of latex or non-latex.
In fact, only one method,soak the sponge into water, and see if it will become bigger. If bigger, it is non-latex sponge, if not, it is latex.




2018年11月28日星期三

Makeup brush material-ferrule and handle



Ferrule Material
The ferrule material can be aluminum, copper
Aluminum ferrule: surface can be anodized to a variety of colors such as silver, black, red, blue, green, etc;
Copper ferrule usually can be plated into limited colors,and the cost is high.
Aluminum ferrule VS copper ferrule:
The cost of copper ferrule is 4-5 times of aluminum ferrule. The hardness is 10 times of aluminum ferrule
Copper ferrule is thicker/brighter/durable than aluminum ferrule.

Handle material:The handle material can be wooden, bamboo, plastic, and acrylic.
Plastic and acrylic handles need molds, so it is not proper for small quantity, as the molding cost is high, and needs to spare the cost to each brush, if the order quantity is not big enough, it is not cost-effective.
Acrylic handles is expensive than plastic handles due to the higher cost and difficult technology.
The advantage of plastic handle is: it can have various shapes/designs 

Wooden handle: the most common wooden handle is birch, the MAC and Sigma brushes are all with birch handles. Some customers will use ebony, but it is too expensive, few users can afford such brushes.

Bamboo handle: also very common and cost-effective, the most famous brands are BB and EDM.

Metal handle: normally can be aluminum handle and copper handles; both can be freely printed logo

Being a makeup brush supplier since 2000, we can supply makeup brushes with different mateirial per customer requirement. Please describe your material requirements in detail and custom makeup brushes from Chinese Makeup Brush Manufacturer at factory price.

2018年11月27日星期二

Makeup brush Material: Copper ferrule VS aluminum ferrule

From our previous articles, many customers may have known the difference between aluminum ferrule and copper ferrule ,i.e: the cost of copper ferrule is 4-5 times of aluminum ferrule. The hardness is 10 times of aluminum ferrule. Copper ferrule is thicker/heavier/brighter/durable than aluminum ferrule.

However, after plating oranodizing with difference colors, we may not distinguish them by brightness. The following is some tips to distinguish copper ferrule with aluminum ferrule:
1. Copper ferrule is much heavier than aluminum ferrule, with the same brush head and handle, we can obviously feel it by ourselves;
2. Copper ferrule is thicker than aluminum ferrule, enclosed pictures for your reference:

3. Some cheap aluminum ferrules will be easily scratched, copper ferrules will not.

So during customizing makeup brushes, shall we use copper ferrules or aluminum ferrules on our brushes? It depends on your budget and target market. Many luxurious brands only accept copper ferrule due to its brightness and luxurious, as they targets to top customers, so they use best materials for each part: top grade animal hair, copper ferrule, ebony handles. If your target market is middle/low market, it is really no necessary to pay extra cost on ferrules, use better hair material will be a better choice, after all, it is the most important part of the whole makeup brushes, and users can directly feel the quality by touching. 

2018年11月26日星期一

The production process of beauty blender



Now, almost every makeup artist have a beauty blender in their makeup tool collection. It can give us a flawless makeup due to its good performance in foundation makeup. Beauty blender itself has cute appearance, so it has been sought after by various users for many years. But do you know how the cute beauty blends are produced? The following chart may give you a rough idea on the production process:
During the whole process, the most important step is foaming, in this process, we can control the softness by adjusting the time/temperature etc. Therefore, even with the same material, the softness of the beauty blender from different factories may be different.
Of course, the polishing is also very important, in this step, we can get required shape.
Therefore, during ordering or customizing beauty blenders from us, if customers have specific physical samples to copy, please firstly send the samples to us, so that we can adjust the machine accordingly.


2018年11月18日星期日

The glue on makeup brushes

During makeup brush production, glues are essential to assemble ferrules to handles. The most common glue used on makeup brushes is glue rods. We put the glue rod into electrical glue gun,after electrified, the glue rod will melt, then we insert the handle into ferrule to finish the assembly. The glue rod will quickly dry in several seconds. More than 90% makeup brush factories use glue rods during the assembly due to its convenience and quickness.

However, after 2 years, or in the environment where has big temperature difference, the handle may fall off from ferrule, as the glue cannot well attach to handles. Such issue seldom happens, but if it really happens, we just need to use lighter to bake the bottom ferrule where connects handles for several seconds. Then the original glue melt, so that we can insert the handle into ferrule to do the assemble again. It is very easy and every one can do it, the only thing is to be careful in case of hurt by hot ferrule.

The second most common glue used on makeup brushes is AB glue, it is a kind of fragile glue and very strong which is hardly fall off. But it is more difficult to assemble makeup brushes with AB glue as it is fluid. If the workers are not professional enough, the handle may slant and cannot well connect the ferrule. Also, if the handle unfortunately fall off from the ferrule, we can only use new AB glue to do the assembly again.

2018年10月17日星期三

How to produce the synthetic hair of makeup brushes

We all know that natural hair is cut from animals: goat hair is cut from goat; pony hair is cut from pony etc. But how we get the synthetic hair? Or how is the synthetic hair produced? Today, we will take PBT synthetic hair as an example to show you the manufacturing process of synthetic hair.

The production flow:

 During the whole process, the workers take a very important role; their skills and experience decide the hair quality. They control the machine time, the temperature, the color etc. Therefore, even if some process is finished by machine, the whole quality is controlled by the workers. Even with the same material and machine, the final synthetic hair will be different.

During custom private label makeup brushes, each process and step is very important and may affect the final quality. Therefore, if customers want to exact copy their existing hair material, it will be the best to send us the physical samples of the hairs you want, so that we can adjust the machine and temperature accordingly.

2018年9月26日星期三

Talk something about injection molding for plastic handles of makeup brushes

For some customized makeup brushes with plastic handles, injection molding is essential to get required handle shape. It is known that the plastic injection molding cost is rather high; some customers cannot understand why they have to pay so much while they have not got any sample yet. They questioned that even with 3D printing, the price is much lower than injection molding.
Here we need to explain something about injection molding. It is true that the molding cost is high, but with such mold, the following cost on each brush handle will be very low. The plastic factory staff only need to put raw material into the mold, and comes out the exact required handles. With such mold, the handle dimension and shape will be 100% the same as request. And it only needs one mold no matter how many handles you need, also, it can be used in all following orders.
Of course, if the order quantity of the makeup brushes is too small, it is not cost-effective to develop a mold, as with such molding cost, the average price of each brush will be high. In this case, it is better to change the handle to wooden handle.
If the order quantity is big enough with special handle design, injection molding is the best choice.
For any special design for customizing makeup brushes, please firstly contact professional makeup brush factory for further discussion.

2018年9月19日星期三

The makeup brush drawings for customizing makeup brushes

During customizing makeup brushes, many customers send us physical samples or drawings per our request. Physical samples are the best choice in case of misunderstanding, but some designs are new to the market, so no available physical samples, so they send us 2D or 3D drawings instead to show their ideas and designs on the makeup brushes.

For some customers, 2D or3D drawings are too professional, the cost to have the engineer to create the 3D drawings is too high, so they prefer to draw draft by themselves. We can also accept such draft as long as the information on the draft is clear enough, with such draft, we can initially quote a rough cost, and move on forward.

The following is the required information on the makeup brush draft:
1.  The diameter/length of handle& ferrule& bristle; if the dimension of each part is different, all dimension should be marked.
2.  The material of handle& ferrule& bristle

Some customers send us the draft only with the brush shape, without any dimension information; we can not quote or produce with such drafts. So if customers cannot offer 2D or 3D drawings, please at least provide drafts with all above information.

2018年9月16日星期日

Typhoon Mangkhut caused production shutdown of most makeup brush factories

Yesterday-Sep 16th, Typhoon Mangkhut moved across the inland area of southern China, and caused heavy damage on the local area. The Maximum sustained wind near centre was75 km/h, before its coming, all of our local schools and factories are shutdown in case of any casualties.

Our factories also stopped production on makeup brushes, our workers stayed at their home until the typhoon passes. So the makeup brush orders that are scheduled to ship out maybe delayed several days, as all logistics also stopped working due to the typhoon. Also, the incoming storm will also cause the delay on production and logistics.

We will back to work as soon as possible, and offer our best service to all customers who want to customize makeup brushes with private label from us.

2018年9月13日星期四

The minimum order quantity of our makeup brushes

Many of our customers are new or just starter of makeup brush business, so the issue they most concerned during customization of makeup brushes is the minimum order quantity. However, we always firstly require customers to send us their requirements on the brushes, so that we can check the MOQ accordingly. Customers may be puzzled, why we have no standard MOQ on our makeup brushes?
In fact, since the makeup brush production is manual, we actually have no MOQ requirements on the production. The reason we have MOQ requirements on the customers is our suppliers have the MOQ requirements for their production. Therefore, if we can find existing materials on the market and customers do not need logo on brushes, then there will be no MOQ requirements. The most common situation is that some customers just want the latest hot sales in the market, and do not need their logo on the brushes, then we can easily find material from the market, in this case, we will have no MOQ requirements.
For customized makeup brushes, since customers have special requirements on brushes, we are not able to find existing material, and have to order from the suppliers, the MOQ will be high; if the material is easy to produce, the MOQ will be lower; if the material is difficult to produce or have strict requirements, the MOQ will be higher. So customers may find that for some brushes, the MOQ is 1000pcs, while for some is 3000pcs or more.
Finally, for makeup brushes with plastic handles which require molding, the MOQ will be at least 5000pcs, as the molding cost is high, if the order quantity is too small, the unit price will be too expensive to enter into market.

2018年9月10日星期一

Restate our sample policy

Almost everyday, we are required to send samples for quality checking by our customers. Some customers require the samples in our stock to see our ability and quality level as a makeup brush factory; some customers want to customize their own makeup brushes with their own design and private label, so they want to check required sample quality before ordering.
For the samples in our stock, we will not charge any sample fee, but customers should afford shipping charge. If customers have DHL/FEDEX/UPS/TNT account, they do not need to pay anything to us, we can send samples immediately. But most customers have no shipping account, and want to pay the shipping charge to us and we arrange the shipment. Some customers cannot understand why they still have to pay around USD50.0 for one single sample in our stock, they consider we charge ridiculous fees. However, such charge is shipping charge which not charged by us but the shipping agent. We can not offer any discount on such charge. For security reason, some customers insist that they will not pay the shipping charge until they have the tracking number of the samples, but the fact is: we ship the samples not via official DHL/FEDEX but their agent who can offer cheaper price, so we should firstly send the samples to them and then they will give us tracking number 1 day later. So we cannot accept shipment first without shipping charge.
For the customized samples without logo, if we have the material in stock, or it is easy to find the required raw material, we will not charge sample fee either, so the same situation as samples in stock, customers only need to pay shipping charge. If the brushes are special and need to produce raw material for them, we will need to charge sample fee accordingly.
If customers need logos on samples, we will always charge sample fee, as we need to develop printing plates for the logo which is expensive and we cannot afford this charge since so many sample requirements everyday. For the charged samples, we will refund the sample fee after getting mass orders. Shipping charge will not be refunded.
The above is our detailed sample policy, we hope to get understanding from our customers.
Let’s establish our business relationship from samples.

2018年9月6日星期四

Top grade synthetic bristles in makeup brushes

These two years, 90% of our customers require synthetic bristles for their makeup brushes, since synthetic bristles are vegan, stronger and cheaper etc.

Just like animal hairs, synthetic bristles also vary in quality and price, the cheapest is nylon which is widely used in makeup brushes in low and middle quality.


In past years, Sigma brushes were so popular, so the Sigmax bristles also appear in makeup brushes in many brands like REAL TECHIQUES etc.

Now, people have higher standard on the appearance and quality of synthetic bristles, so some top grade new designs appear, such as Sephora colorful synthetic hairs, coal bristles. These synthetic bristles can not only meet the function requirements, but also give people sight pleasure.

If customers want to customize makeup brushes with any special design or top grade synthetic bristles, please do not hesitate to contact us at any time.

2018年9月3日星期一

Talk something about 3D printing during customizing makeup brushes

Since we a makeup brush factory that specialize in customizing makeup brushes with private label, we often get some creative designs on the makeup brushes. While to ensure the brush function, brush hairs have limit space for special design; ferrules-no big meaning to have special design, so handles become the normal part for customers to express/show their special designs and thoughts. You may find mermaid handles, sword handles, crutch handles sand so on in the market, and these creative handles make the brush look more fantastic and beautiful.

However, these handles need molding which requires high order quantity, so during initial design process, many customers choose to produce a prototype by 3D printing to test the market. If the feedback is good, they can consider putting the makeup brushes into mass production.

Recently, some customers are puzzled, because their 3D printing supplier told them that the prototype was completely produced by 3D printing, why we tell them the brush handle needs molding?

It is known that 3D printing cost is high- about USD500; we cannot use 3D printing for all of our brush handles. For mass production, we have to use different process to reduce the cost, therefore, we need to develop a mold for the handle, and put materials into molds to produce required handles, in this case, if the order quantity is big enough, the handle cost will be very low.

In summary, 3D printing is only proper for prototypes, but not affordable for mass production.

2018年9月2日星期日

The impact of Chinese environment protection inspection on makeup brush industry

This year, many customers should find that the lead time of makeup brush factory become longer than before. Some puzzles are raised: what happened on makeup brush industry?
In fact, such issue happens on not only makeup brush industry but also all the manufacturing industries. This year, due to the pressure from worldwide, Chinese government pays much attention on environment protection; they overhaul all related industries which may have potential air pollution risks: Chemical industry, clothing industry, machining industry, painting industry etc. Many factories are forced to stop production, some can only work at night.. It is really a big hit to manufacturing industry.
For makeup brush industry, the inspected parts include: ferrule oxidation, handle painting, packaging etc. The situation is: we get orders from customers, all other materials have been ready, but just cannot get ferrules, as the ferrule supplier is under inspection and cannot produce the ferrules for us, or the supplier who survives from the inspection is just too busy. The same situation on handle and packaging.  Also, to ensure the brush quality, it is risky to frequently change the supplier, so we have to wait till the inspection is passed.
As a professional makeup brush factory, we will try our best and do whatever we can do to expedite the shipment, but it is government action, we really can control few things. We need to get understanding from our customers on this issue.

2018年2月25日星期日

Toney Makeup brushes has been back to work

After long period chinese new year holiday, Toney Makeup brushes has been back to work today.

If customers have any requirements or demands on makeup brushes, or want to customize makeup brushes from chinese factory with private label.Please feel free to contact us via Telephone, email, skype etc, we will feedback ASAP.
whatsapp/wechat:86-13812915705
Skype: florapan831010
 

You can send emails to us at any time, or call us at 86-13812915705 from 8:00-18:00 from Monday to Friday at China time.

2018年1月9日星期二

production process of makeup brushes

Most customers are very interested in makeup brush production proces to ensure our capacity to control quality during production. Therefore, we would like to introduce the production process to show our capacity as a professional makeup brush factory:
         
We have introduced before, the makeup brushes usually have three parts: brush handle, ferrule and hair.
As brush handles are repeatly painted and need long time to remove the painting smell, we will firstly produce handles:
The following is the flow chart of handle production:

 

                         
           Before painting                                                After painting

Ferrule production:

Incoming material inspection
Check the ferrules one by one to ensure the color, shape, appearance are all qualified

 

Wrap the qualified ferrules with plastic sheet, in case of any scratch or hints during assembly

 
Production of brush heads-the most important:
A qualified makeup brushes will need about 80 production steps, the following is just a rough flow chart: 

Customer special requirements on cosmetic brushes need to be done separately, such as the requirements on logo, package, as well as the requirements on the color, material and style of hairsferrules and handles.

2018年1月4日星期四

Handle material of makeup brushes

The handle material can be wooden, bamboo, plastic, and acrylic.
Plastic and acrylic handles need molds, so it is not proper for small quantity, as the molding cost is high, and needs to spare the cost to each brush, if the order quantity is not big enough, it is not cost-effective.
Acrylic handles is expensive than plastic handles due to the higher cost and difficult technology.

The advantage of plastic handle is: it can have various shapes/designs
Wooden handle: the most common wooden handle is birch, the MAC and Sigma brushes are all with birch handles. Some customers will use ebony, but it is too expensive, few users can afford such brushes.


Bamboo handle: also very common and cost-effective, the most famous brands are BB and EDM.

Metal handle: normally can be aluminum handle and copper handles; both can be freely printed logo

Being a makeup brush supplier since 2000, we can supply makeup brushes with different mateirial per customer requirement. Please describe your material requirements in detail and custom makeup brushes from Chinese Makeup Brush Manufacturer at factory price.





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Ferrule Material of makeup brushes

The ferrule material can be aluminum, copper

Aluminum ferrule: surface can be anodized to a variety of colors such as silver, black, red, blue, green,  etc;


Copper ferrule usually can be plated into limited colors,and the cost is high.


Aluminum ferrule VS copper ferrule:
The cost of copper ferrule is 4-5 times of aluminum ferrule. The hardness is 10 times of aluminum ferrule
Copper ferrule is thicker/brighter/durable than aluminum ferrule.

2018年1月3日星期三

The makeup brush hair material -summary and the most complete

The brush hair can be divided into two types: synthetic & natural/animal hair


Synthetic hair:

Due to the concern of cost control and animal protection, people invent the synthetic hair. Now, more and more makeup brush users require vegan and cruelty free, so synthetic brushes become more and more popular. Also, with the development of technology, synthetic hair quality increase a lot, they are not only soft and smooth, but also have great powder holding capacity. Many big brands such as Sigma, REAL TECHIQUES choose synthetic hairs for most of their makeup brushes.

The advantage of synthetic hair is: soft, smooth, vegan, cruelty free, affordable price, easy to maintain, durable, long longevity
 


Animal hair:

There are so many animal hairs used on makeup brushes, here we just list the main and popular types:
 1.the most popular- goat hair

Goat hair is the most common animal hairs used for makeup brushes. They are good at holding large amounts of powders, and with affordable price. Goat hair is a good choice for powder brushes, blush brushes, kabuki brushes, eye brushes etc, users can get an even application and the makeup won’t get trapped in the brush.


The goat hair can be dyed to required colors, please check http://www.cal-print.com/InkColorChart.htm for all available colors.

Base on quality, Goat hairs usually have the following types from low to high level:

#2 goat hair-low quality

SQ goat hair-low quality

HJF goat hair-normal quality

BJF goat hair-high quality

ZGF goat hair-top quality

XGF goat hair-best quality

2.pony hair
Pony hair is soft and durable. As it is much cheaper than sable/ weasel hair, at the same time softer than goat hair, it becomes the most popular choice for eyeshadow brushes. The eyeshadow brushes with pony hair will make the application more natural, and have good shading effect, especially for smoky makeup. 

We usually do not dye pony hair, but just keep its original brown color, to protect its softness.


3.weasel hair VS sable hair

Weasel hair is soft, durable and water resistant, also has excellent quality, elasticity and great powder holding capacity, it can be used in powder eyeshadows and cream eyeshadows,  so it is really a good choice of top grade eyeshdow brushes, eyeliner brushes, lip brushes etc.



However, weasel is wild animal on the national protection list, so many makeup brush manufacturers usually declare weasel hair to sable hair in case of any risk of shipment holding on customs. Therefore, some customers may require sable hair for their brushes, but in fact, what they really required is weasel hair.

Sable can be cultured, so will have no risk on customs. Sable hair is soft and fine, and as with most natural fibers, the powder is easily transferred to your skin and doesn’t get left behind on the makeup brush. Sable hair be used on eyeshadow brushes, face brushes etc;



Sable hair is fluffier than weasel hair.

The cost of weasel hair is about 6 times of sable hair, so the brushes made of weasel hair will be much expensive than sable hair


4. Chinchilla hair:

Chinchilla hair is the softest natural hair type. This softness typically makes chinchilla hair brushes the most luxurious and also the most expensive brushes. Similar to sable hair, the brushes are wide in the middle and have a pointed tip, which makes them ideal as blending brushes and for use on eye creases.



However, the chinchilla hair itself is too soft to reach a great brush shape, also not perfect in powder holding, so it is usually mixed with top grade goat hair, for example XGF goat hair.


5. Squirrel hair :

Squirrel hair can be made to many makeup brushes, the most common is pencil brushes and blending brushes. The softness is just after Chinchilla hair. Currently, the squirrel hair in Chinese makeup brush market is mainly imported from Canada.



6. Pahmi hair:

The proper hardness makes it a good choice for Brow brush



7. Badger hair:

It is the best choice for brow brush, but too expensive


We promise all of our makeup brushes are cruelty free, no animal will be tested or hurted during our brush production.

2018年1月2日星期二

How to choose your makeup brush color

During customize makeup brushes, color is always one of the most important topic between customer and makeup brush factory.As color can show particularity and can directly catch our eyes.
As professional makeup brush manufacturer in china, we can produce makeup brushes with different colors on bristle, ferrule, handle and logo. But customers may wonder which colors they can choose from. We know words or description can not show exact color, so we need a common standard to help us to reach agreement on colors.  In makeup brush industry, we usually use pantone PMS color code; customers can click http://www.cal-print.com/InkColorChart.htm to check all available colors for makeup brush bristle, ferrule, handle and logo. Then just tell the makeup brush manufacturer the code you need, it greatly avoid the misunderstanding between us.