Foam applicators to apply cosmetics or nail polish

Abstract

A cosmetic foam applicator product applies cosmetics to the skin and a nail polish foam applicator applies nail polish to fingernails and toenails. Each foam applicator has a stem and an adjacent head. The stem for the cosmetic foam applicator has sidewalls contoured as finger grips and its head has elongated tips that extend away from the stem. The relative length of the tips determines whether the cosmetic foam applicator is soft tipped, firm tipped or medium (soft or firm) tipped. The stem for the nail polish foam applicator has parallel straight sidewalls and its head has a bulge with an elongated tip that extends from the bulge.

1 . A foam applicator product, comprising a body having an elongated stem, the stem having sidewalls symmetric in configuration with each other that extend from a proximal end of the stem, a head adjacent the stem and having an elongated tip part that projects outward away from the stem in a direction of elongation of the stem to terminate into at least one tip, the body being made of a closed foam material that has memory, the body being deformable under manual force from a relaxed, non-tensioned state to a deformed, tensioned state and being configured because of the memory to resiliently return to the relaxed, non-tensioned state from the deformed, tensioned state once the manual force that deformed the body is removed. 
     
     
         2 . The foam applicator product of  claim 1 , further comprising a foam strip that has a plurality of further bodies each substantially identical in shape to the body and that has the body, the plurality of further bodies and the body being arranged relative to each other so that all have respective tips that point outward from the foam strip, a pair of the further bodies having the proximal end of their stems abutting each other, the body and one of the further bodies having the proximal end of their stems abutting each other, the foam strip having separation cut lines between adjacent ones of the further bodies and the body so that the further bodies and the body may be separated from each other under manual force at the separation cut lines. 
     
     
         3 . The foam applicator product of  claim 2 , further comprising voids between the sidewalls of the stem of neighboring ones of the further bodies and the body, further comprising inserts that fill the voids and that are made of the same closed foam material, the inserts by removable from the voids under manual force. 
     
     
         4 . The foam applicator product of  claim 2 , further comprising a further foam strip spaced from that foam strip and that is substantially identical in shape to that of the foam strip except that lengths of the elongated tip part differ from lengths of the elongated tip part of the foam strip so as to provide a difference in level of softness and firmness. 
     
     
         5 . The foam applicator product of  1 , wherein the closed foam material is selected from a group consisting of styrene butadiene polymer synthetic foam and nitrile butadiene polymer synthetic foam. 
     
     
         6 . The foam applicator product of  2 , wherein the foam part includes a plurality of elongated tips spaced apart from each other. 
     
     
         7 . The foam applicator product of  1 , further comprising a cosmetic on the body, the cosmetic being selected from a group consisting of a liquid foundation, make-up, blush, eye shadow, concealer, loose powder, and mineral make-up. 
     
     
         8 . The foam applicator product of  1 , further comprising a nail polish on the body. 
     
     
         9 . The foam applicator product of  7 , wherein the sidewalls extend in a nonparallel manner relative to each other. 
     
     
         10 . The foam applicator product of  8 , wherein the sidewalls has portions that extend in a parallel manner relative to each other. 
     
     
         11 . The foam applicator product of  1 , wherein the sidewalls have portions that are concavely curved. 
     
     
         12 . The foam applicator product of  1 , wherein the sidewalls have portions that converge toward the proximal end. 
     
     
         13 . The foam applicator product of  1 , wherein the sidewalls have portions that extend in a nonparallel manner relative to each other. 
     
     
         14 . The foam applicator product of  1 , wherein the sidewalls have portions that extend in a parallel manner relative to each other. 
     
     
         15 . The foam applicator product of  claim 2 , further comprising two foam strips that are substantially identical in shape to that of the foam strip except that lengths of their elongated tip part differ from lengths of the elongated tip part of the foam strip and with respect to each other so as to provide differences in level of softness and firmness, namely, soft tipped, firm tipped and intermediate tipped whose level of softness and firmness is between that for the soft tipped and the firm tipped, the foam strip and the two foam strips being spaced from each other. 
     
     
         16 . The foam applicator product of  claim 15 , wherein each of the foam strip and the two foam strips are packaged with respective inserts, each of the inserts containing an associated set of directions for application of cosmetics, a content of the associated set of direction varying from insert to insert depending upon whether the directions concern the soft tipped, the firm tipped or the intermediate tipped foam applicators. 
     
     
         17 . The foam applicator product of  claim 1 , wherein an entirety of the foam applicator is hypoallergenic, biodegradable, anti-bacterial and is latex free. 
     
     
         18 . The foam applicator product of  claim 1 , wherein the tip has an outward contour selected from a group consisting of rounded, flattened and pointed.