The pony hair brushes

Recently, the pony hair price increases a lot, and the price changed every day, so many makeup brush factory dare not quote the pony hair bushes, because if customers place order after a month, they may lose money if do the brushes, but if not accept the order, they may lose the customers.

 

Then why the pony hair price changes a lot? In fact, it is because there are many people are speculating the pony hair in Chinese market, it is not because the pony hair itself is so precious.

 

While custom makeup brushes from makeup brush manufacturer, many customers will require pony hair for their powder brushes or blush brushes, as they think pony hair is better than goat hair; it is true for eye shadow brush, but not for blush brush and powder brush. Some top grade goat hair is much softer and better than pony hair, also the powder holding capacity of goat hair is much better than pony hair.

 

So, while replying inquires, we will suggest goat hair for powder brushes and blush brushes, which will save money for customers and have better performance. Of course, it is finally depends on customers decision.

The red wood makeup brush handle

The red wood in fact is a kind of collective, which includes: Sequoia and Sequoiadendron of California and Oregon, USA; and Metasequoia in China. These trees can live to an old age, with some for hundreds to thousands of years.

 

Red wood is an endangered wood due to habitat losses from: fire ecology suppression, logging, development, and air pollution. In China, Metasequoia trees are so rare they were thought to be extinct, until rediscovered by a Chinese forester in 1948. They were found on mountainous slopes in remote parts of the Hubei region of China.

 

When something is scarce, it is precious, since red wood is so scarce, its price must be very high, and therefore the products made of red wood will also be expensive too, it is also the case for makeup brushes.

 

During custom makeup brushes, to show the top-grade, some customers will ask for red wood handle for their brushes, while finally they will find that the price is too high for them, as since the handle uses so high-grade material, the bristle and ferrule should use top grade material too, such as the best goat hair whose price is about 4 times of the common good goat hair, so that the whole makeup brush can look superior. Therefore, the unit price of the makeup brush will be too expensive, even the big brands like MAC and BB will not use red wood for their brushes.

 

To handle this, many Chinese makeup brush factories suggest immitating red wood to customers. Imitating red wood is also a kind of high-grade wood material, which is very similar to red wood but much cheaper, so that the whole makeup brush can look very elegant and superior, and not only the customers but also the end users can afford this. Of course, we will tell customers that it is not real red wood but a imitating one, it totally depends on customers if to accept or not.

The painting of makeup brush wooden handle

The wooden handle is the most common handle of makeup brushes. Wooden handle is mostly used for high-grade makeup brushes; the surface can be painted vary colors, such as red, black, white etc.

 

While if customers would like to custom makeup brushes with wooden handle, it is not enough just to tell us the color name, for example tell us you need the handle to be red painted, as there are too many colors can be called red, according to Pantone, there are 88 colors with the name red. So if customers are not sure about the color description, please visit http://www.pantone.com/ to check the exact color name or code.

 

Also, even the same color can have different painting process. For example, the red handle can be matt painted and varnish painted, the surface of matt painted wood is somewhat like ground-glass, with diffuse reflection and no glare, which looks simple but elegant; while varnish painted wood has smooth and bright surface, with specular reflection and glare, which looks bright and gorgeous.

 

In case of any miscommunication, during custom makeup brushes, please be patient and careful to communicate with the makeup brush factory to confirm all details before you place orders.

About the foundation brush

During custom makeup brushes, many customers have the misunderstanding that since it is custom makeup brush, they can choose whatever material they like, which is not always the truth.

 

For example, some customers would like to have sable hair or other animal hair for the foundation brush, while the makeup brush factory usually use synthetic hair for the foundation brush, as the synthetic hair does not absorb water, has high ductility and will not waste any foundation.

 

Many may think synthetic hair brushes are not as good as animal hair, it is also a misunderstanding, some synthetic hairs are even better and more expensive than most animal hair. Most famous brands like MAC, BB or MAKE UP FOR EVER are using synthetic hairs for their foundation brushes.

 

Of course during custom makeup brushes, we, as a professional makeup brush manufacturer, will give you proper suggestions during your selection of materials. We will try our best to offer you the most proper and cost-effective makeup brushes at the reasonable price.

Send makeup brush samples via regular post or airmail

In makeup brush industry, customers often ask for samples from makeup brush factory, while neither the customers nor the makeup brush factory would like to pay the freight charge. As if send via express like DHL/FEDEX/UPS, the freight charge may reach RMB300 or more, which is too much at the very beginning of the cooperation; while if not check the samples, there is no reason for customers to trust the product quality, and makeup brush factory can not prove their reliability.

 

So to establish cooperation, we have to find a way to resolve this problem, however, if send via not good express, due to the different situation in different country, we can not ensure the sample can reach customers, the samples may be lost during transportation.

 

Upon this situation, the suppliers in Ebay find a good way to ship samples or products, that is HK post, which is quick, safe and most important much cheaper than the express, while the package weight should limit within 2KG, and for the companies who is far away from HK, they have to send the package to HK or Shenzhen, it is not so convenient.

 

These days, a customer suggested us try regular post to send samples, then we went to the post office and ask for the related issues, and get excited to know that the fee is very low, just about RMB5.0 and generally can reach customers within two weeks and the package will not be lost. Therefore, if the samples are not so urgent, it will be great to try regular post or airmail. We have sent samples via airmail for several times, and customers can always get the package gladly.

 

We believe we can win more customers via regular post or airmail, since customers can get samples without paying any fee.

Tell us your target price while inquiry

Not like the standard parts whose price can be available just by the part number, makeup brushes is a customized part, the price varies a lot depends on different material or outline requirements.

 

We get many emails like this: we need some makeup brush, please send me the quotation…….And we have to reply: please send us your detailed requirements on the makeup brush. If fact, such emails offer no information to us, we have no base to offer quotation.

 

Some will send us the detailed dimension or pictures of the makeup brushes, while after getting our quotation, they declare: your price is too high; you have no intention to cooperate with us.

 

We are a makeup brush factory, we would like to cooperate with all potential customers, so we always try best to offer the best price, and for customer understanding, we always clarify the detailed material and size on the quotation sheet.

 

It is known that different material can greatly affect the makeup brush price. Some customers pay more attention on the material or quality, while some may pay most attention on the price. Therefore, during custom makeup brushes from a makeup brush factory, it is better for customers to tell us your target price. After knowing your target price, we can review and evaluate if we can meet such price. If your target price is high, we can use good material, and if the target price is very low, we may suggest you use not so good material. As an experienced makeup brush manufacturer, we will give you our suggestions, and of course finally it depends on you. We will clarify all details including the material in our quotation sheet.

 

In a word, while custom makeup brushes from a makeup brush factory, it is better to tell us your target price, so that we can together push the project move forward more quickly.  

The difference between high grade and low grade makeup brushes

We all know that the bristle material is the most important factor to judge the makeup brush grade, low grade bristle material like goat hair, normal nylon etc, and high grade bristle material like sable hair and Squirrel hair etc. Bristle material is also the key factor of the makeup brush price. Many experienced makeup artists will tell you again and again that bristle material is the most important during buying makeup brushes.

 

It is true that bristle material is the most important as it is the part that directly touch your skin. But it is not the only case to decide the makeup brush grade and price.

 

The most two common ferrule material is aluminum and copper, some may also use stainless steel, but it is very rare. If no special processing or requirements, copper ferrule is much expensive than aluminum, thus the makeup brushes with copper ferrule is somewhat in the higher grade than aluminum ferrule.

 

Also the handle material can also decide the brush grade. Think about that, a makeup brush with sable hair and copper ferrule, but with normal plastic handle! I believe it will never be classified into the high grade makeup brushes. Once a USA customer would like to buy some high grade brushes from a Chinese makeup brush factory, and would like to have plastic handle. An experienced salesman in the makeup brush factory told him like this: usually, no high grade makeup brushes will use plastic handle! Then you may ask: what kind of handle is better for high grade makeup brushes? The most common is wooden; you may notice that all MAC makeup brushes are with wooden handles.

 

Of course, we can not say copper ferrule is surely high-grade than copper ferrule, or wooden handle is absolute expensive than plastic handle, it depends on the detailed customer requirements, some may need to have special processing, or the different requirement on the brightness or colors etc. Therefore, it also depends. What we said above is just a general case.

 

No matter you would like to have high grade or relatively low grade makeup brushes, please just email us to describe your detailed requirements, we, as an experienced makeup brush manufacturer, have made various brushes for various orders to custom makeup brushes.