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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 hairs, ferrules and handles.

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.

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.

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.