The present invention relates to makeup application by transfer.

Background

The purpose of making up keratin materials is to make these areas beautiful.

There is a need to cover keratin materials, especially the skin and the lips, with precise coatings, such as patterns at the millimetre scale.

However, no practical and efficient method exists. Drawing a pattern takes a long time to do and requires the intervention of a professional makeup artist. Methods using a patch or a decal transfer are disappointing, since the number of patterns is limited and it is difficult to avoid folds in the support bearing the pattern. This technique is, in particular, unsuitable for the face. On account of the movements of the facial skin, the support becomes cracked, thus giving a degraded and unaesthetic visual result.

There is a need to have available makeup patterns intended to cover a small area or indeed the entire area of the face or the lips.

There is a need to propose to each user a wide variety of patterns, colours, shapes and distributions, or even to propose to the user to define his patterns, so as best to satisfy his particular request, without the need to have a large number of references at hand.

Moreover, if the area to be made up has imperfections such as marks, microreliefs, wrinkles or fine lines, the makeup pattern has a less aesthetic result, not giving it a sharp, clean appearance.

There is a need for a makeup that is suited to the particular characteristics of the area of keratin materials to be treated. Thus, the makeup must occasionally be produced using a very thin coat of cosmetic ink to be comfortable for the user to wear, for example in the case of lip makeup.

There is a need to prepare the area to be made up so that the transfer keeps its precision intact and to have a beautiful, sharp and precise appearance.

The present invention is directed towards meeting all or some of these needs.

Summary

According to a first aspect, the present invention relates to a process for making up an area of human keratin materials using a makeup device having a transfer surface and a coat of at least one cosmetic colouring ink borne by the transfer surface and obtained by printing using at least one digital printer, the colouring ink being intended to be applied to the keratin materials,

the process comprising the following steps:

- forming a base coating by applying to the areas of the keratin materials to be made up at least one cosmetic composition comprising an oil,

producing a pattern on the area of the keratin materials by placing the coat of cosmetic ink in contact with the base coating present on the area to be made up so as to transfer the coat of cosmetic ink onto the keratin materials.

The process may also comprise a step consisting in moving the transfer surface away from the area of the human keratin materials after the coat of ink has been transferred.

The makeup area may be an area of skin, especially of the face, the scalp or the lips.

By means of the invention, the user can decorate and/or treat the skin or the lips uniformly or with patterns.

The use of a coat of cosmetic ink obtained by printing using a printer advantageously makes it possible, when compared with standard makeup applications, to obtain a complex and customizable makeup result. The use of a base coating makes it possible to offer a practical method, which can be used in a few minutes for preparing the area to be made up. This preliminary step facilitates the production, by transfer of cosmetic ink, of precise patterns, especially on facial skin or the lips. The invention makes it possible, after transferring, for the pattern to keep its precision intact. The base coating may also facilitate the transfer of the ink.

The use of a base coating on the area to be made up prior to transferring the cosmetic ink may smooth out the area to be made up so as to improve its visual appearance.

The presence of the base coating also improves the visual rendering of the patterns, over the entire made-up area, without allowing skin defects to show through.

The process according to the invention makes it possible to cover small areas or the entire area of the face or of the lips. The process according to the invention is compatible with the usual treatments for covering keratin materials.

The ink borne by the transfer surface comprises a dyestuff

The transfer surface is, for example, an outer surface of a substrate.

Base coating

The base coating may be prepared by applying one or more coats, each of identical or different composition.

The base coating may be colourless or coloured.

The composition may be in a fluid form.

The composition may be in the form of an oily gel or an emulsion.

The composition may be in a solid form.

According to the invention, the term "composition in solid form" means a composition which has a hardness such that it does not flow under its own weight, as opposed to "fluid" compositions. Such a composition may especially be in the form of a compact powder or in the form of a cast product.

The composition may be in emulsion form, in particular in the form of an oil- in-water or water-in-oil emulsion. The composition may be anhydrous. The term "anhydrous composition" means a composition containing less than 2% by weight of water, or even less than 0.5% of water, and is especially free of water. Where appropriate, such small amounts of water may especially be introduced by ingredients of the composition that may contain residual amounts thereof.

The composition may be a makeup and/or care composition.

The composition may be chosen from certain makeup compositions such as foundations, eyeshadows, face powders, lip glosses or lipsticks.

The composition may be chosen from skincare and lipcare compositions.

The oil present in the composition may be chosen from volatile and nonvolatile oils of hydrocarbon-based, silicone or fluoro type. Preferably, the oil is a nonvolatile oil.

The term "non-volatile oil" means an oil that remains on the skin at room temperature and atmospheric pressure for at least several hours, and that especially has a vapour pressure of less than 1.33 Pa (0.01 mmHg). The term "hydrocarbon-based oil" means an oil mainly containing hydrogen and carbon atoms and optionally oxygen or nitrogen atoms.

Non-volatile hydrocarbon-based oils that may especially be mentioned include:

- hydrocarbon-based oils of animal origin,

- hydrocarbon-based oils of plant origin such as triglycerides consisting of fatty acid esters of glycerol, the fatty acids of which may have chain lengths varying from C ₄ to C ₂ 4, these chains possibly being linear or branched, and saturated or unsaturated; these oils are especially heptanoic or octanoic acid triglycerides, or alternatively wheatgerm oil, sunflower oil, grapeseed oil, sesame seed oil, corn oil, apricot oil, castor oil, shea oil, avocado oil, olive oil, soybean oil, sweet almond oil, palm oil, rapeseed oil, cottonseed oil, hazelnut oil, macadamia oil, jojoba oil, alfalfa oil, poppy oil, pumpkin oil, marrow oil, blackcurrant oil, evening primrose oil, millet oil, barley oil, quinoa oil, rye oil, safflower oil, candlenut oil, passion-flower oil and musk rose oil; shea butter; or else caprylic/capric acid triglycerides, for instance those sold by the company Stearineries Dubois or those sold under the names Miglyol 810 ^® , 812 ^® and 818 ^® by the company Dynamit Nobel,

- synthetic ethers containing from 10 to 40 carbon atoms;

- linear or branched hydrocarbons of mineral or synthetic origin, such as petroleum jelly, polydecenes, hydrogenated polyisobutene such as Parleam®, squalane and liquid paraffins, and mixtures thereof,

- synthetic esters such as oils of formula R ₁ COOR ₂ in which Ri represents a linear or branched fatty acid residue containing from 1 to 40 carbon atoms and R ₂ represents an, in particular, branched hydrocarbon-based chain containing from 1 to 40 carbon atoms, on condition that Ri + R ₂ >10, for instance purcellin oil (cetostearyl octanoate), isopropyl myristate, isopropyl palmitate, C ₁₂ to C ₁₅ alkyl benzoates, hexyl laurate, diisopropyl adipate, isononyl isononanoate, 2-ethylhexyl palmitate, isostearyl isostearate, 2-hexyldecyl laurate, 2-octyldecyl palmitate, 2-octyldodecyl myristate, alkyl or polyalkyl heptanoates, octanoates, decanoates or ricinoleates such as propylene glycol dioctanoate; hydroxylated esters such as isostearyl lactate, diisostearyl malate and 2- octyldodecyl lactate; polyol esters and pentaerythritol esters,

- fatty alcohols that are liquid at room temperature, with a branched and/or unsaturated carbon-based chain containing from 12 to 26 carbon atoms, for instance octyldodecanol, isostearyl alcohol, oleyl alcohol, 2-hexyldecanol, 2-butyloctanol and 2- undecylpentadecanol;

- higher fatty acids such as oleic acid, linoleic acid or linolenic acid, and mixtures thereof.

The non-volatile silicone oils that may be used in the composition according to the invention may be non-volatile polydimethylsiloxanes (PDMSs), polydimethylsiloxanes comprising alkyl or alkoxy groups, that are pendent and/or at the end of a silicone chain, the groups each containing from 2 to 24 carbon atoms, phenyl silicones, for instance phenyl trimethicones, phenyl dimethicones, phenyltrimethylsiloxydiphenylsiloxanes, diphenyl dimethicones, diphenylmethyldiphenyltrisiloxanes, and mixtures thereof.

For the purposes of the invention, the term "volatile oil" means any oil that is capable of evaporating on contact with the skin, at room temperature and atmospheric pressure. The volatile oils of the invention are volatile cosmetic oils, which are liquid at room temperature, having a nonzero vapour pressure, at room temperature and atmospheric pressure, ranging in particular from 0.13 Pa to 40 000 Pa (0.001 to 300 mmHg) and preferably ranging from 1.3 Pa to 1300 Pa (0.01 to 10 mmHg).

The volatile hydrocarbon-based oils may be chosen from hydrocarbon-based oils containing from 8 to 16 carbon atoms, and especially branched C ₈ -Ci ₆ alkanes such as C ₈ -Ci ₆ isoalkanes of petroleum origin (also known as isoparaffins), for instance isododecane (also known as 2,2,4,4, 6-pentamethylheptane), isodecane, isohexadecane and, for example, the oils sold under the trade names Isopar ^® or Permethyl ^® .

Volatile oils that may also be used include volatile silicones, for instance volatile linear or cyclic silicone oils, especially those with a viscosity < 5 centistokes (5 x 10 ^"6 m ² /s), and especially containing from 2 to 10 silicon atoms and preferably from 2 to 7 silicon atoms, these silicones optionally comprising alkyl or alkoxy groups containing from 1 to 10 carbon atoms. As volatile silicone oil that may be used in the invention, mention may be made in particular of octamethylcyclotetrasiloxane, decamethylcyclopentasiloxane, dodecamethylcyclohexasiloxane, heptamethylhexyltrisiloxane, heptamethyloctyltrisiloxane, hexamethyldisiloxane, octamethyltrisiloxane, decamethyltetrasiloxane and dodecamethylpentasiloxane, and mixtures thereof. The oil may be present in the composition in a content ranging from 5% to 95% by weight and preferably ranging from 10% to 80% by weight relative to the total weight of the composition.

The composition may comprise water, especially in a mass content ranging from 5% to 90% and preferably ranging from 20% to 80% relative to the total mass of the composition.

Depending on the area of the keratin materials to be made up, the area of the body or the types of skin, one or the other effect, the transfer effect or the smoothing effect, is more particularly sought.

For example, in the case of skin that is naturally very smooth, a base coating that is particularly capable of promoting the transfer of the ink and of improving the visual appearance of the rendering is chosen, and in the case of skin bearing marks, it is above all the smoothing of the skin and good transfer of the ink that is sought.

The composition may also comprise conventional cosmetic additives chosen from film-forming polymers, waxes, pasty compounds, thickeners, surfactants, fragrances, preserving agents, sunscreens, fillers, dyestuffs, proteins, vitamins, provitamins, moisturizers, ceramides, pH regulators, and any other additive conventionally used in cosmetic compositions intended to be applied to keratin materials.

Printing

The term "digital printer" means a machine for printing in the form of pixels using digital data, different from a machine comprising a printing form. The printer may be an inkjet printer, for example a thermal or piezoelectric printer, a sublimation printer or a laser printer.

In one example, the printer is a laser printer arranged to allow the formation by electrophotography or magnetophotography of a coat of ink having a pattern on a transfer surface using at least one cosmetic toner and to deliver the toner present on the transfer surface in a state that is sufficiently free to allow it to be taken up or transferred by contact with the human keratin materials.

The term "cosmetic toner" should be understood as meaning a pulverulent cosmetic composition that is compatible with the formation of an image via an electrophotographic or magnetophotographic process as used in laser printers. Preferably, it is a toner that is suitable for electrophotographic use. The toner is cosmetic in the sense that it is compatible with an application to human keratin materials. Depending on the surface to be made up, the formulation of the toner may be different. For example, for an application to the hair or the nails, it is possible to use certain compounds that might not be used for an application to the lips, for example.

The printer may be a food-grade inkjet printer of the Gatocopy A426 machine type allowing printing onto non-flat objects.

Cosmetic ink - dyestuff

The dyestuff may comprise one or more dyes as described below.

The dyestuff may be present in the ink in a mass content ranging from 0.01% to 60%, preferably ranging from 0.1% to 40%, or even from 0.1% to 30% and preferentially ranging from 0.5% to 20%, relative to the total mass of the ink.

The colouring ink may comprise one or more dyestuffs chosen from water- soluble dyes, liposoluble dyes, pulverulent dyestuffs such as pigments, especially nacres, and glitter flakes, or alternatively colouring polymers.

The term "pigments" should be understood as meaning white or coloured, mineral or organic particles of any form, which are insoluble in the cosmetic medium, and which are intended to colour the cosmetic ink.

The term "nacres" should be understood as meaning iridescent particles of any form, in particular produced by certain molluscs in their shell, or else synthesized.

The pigments may be white, black or coloured, and mineral and/or organic.

Among the mineral pigments that may be mentioned are titanium dioxide, optionally surface-treated, zirconium oxide or cerium oxide, and also zinc oxide, iron (black, yellow or red) oxide or chromium oxide, manganese violet, ultramarine blue, chromium hydrate and ferric blue, and metal powders, for instance aluminium powder and copper powder.

Among the organic pigments that may be mentioned are carbon black, pigments of D&C type and lakes based on cochineal carmine or on barium, strontium, calcium or aluminium.

The nacreous pigments may be chosen from white nacreous pigments such as mica coated with titanium or with bismuth oxychloride, coloured nacreous pigments such as titanium mica coated with iron oxides, titanium mica coated especially with ferric blue or with chromium oxide, titanium mica coated with an organic pigment and also nacreous pigments based on bismuth oxychloride. Among the water-soluble dyes, mention may be made of the di sodium salt of ponceau, the di sodium salt of alizarin green, quinoline yellow, the trisodium salt of amaranth, the di sodium salt of tartrazine, the monosodium salt of rhodamine, the di sodium salt of fuchsin, xanthophyll and methylene blue.

The ink may comprise at least one water-soluble dye.

Among the liposoluble dyes, mention may be made of Sudan Red III (CTFA: D&C Red 17), lutein, quinizarine green (CTFA: D&C Green 6), alizurol purple SS (CTFA: D&C Violet 2), Sudan Brown, D&C Yellow 1 1, D&C Orange 5, quinoline yellow, curcumin, and carotenoid derivatives such as lycopene, beta-carotene, bixin or capsanthin, and mixtures thereof. The colouring polymers are generally copolymers based on at least two different monomers, at least one of which is a monomeric organic dye. Such polymeric dyes are known to those skilled in the art. Reference may be made, for example, to the following documents: US-5 032 670; US-4 999 418; US-5 106 942; US-5 030 708; US-5 102 980; US-5 043 376; US-5 104 913; US-5 281 659; US-5 194 463; US-4 804 719; WO 92/07913 or EP 1 048 282.

The printing may use several different inks, especially inks of different colours.

The printing may use at least three, especially at least four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven or twelve cosmetic inks of different colours.

The printing may use only colouring inks that produce primary colours. As a variant, the printing uses both colouring inks that produce primary colours and at least one ink that produces a non-primary colour.

In one variant, the printing may use colouring inks that produce black and/or white.

The printing of the ink may be three-colour or four-colour printing. The pattern obtained by printing may comprise several areas of different colours. As a variant, the pattern obtained by printing is a flat tint.

The pattern formed by the cosmetic ink printed on the transfer surface may be of any type.

The pattern may reproduce the appearance of relief and/or colour heterogeneities of the skin, for example freckles or a mole.

The pattern formed by the colouring ink borne by the transfer surface may be coloured when observed under white light in the visible region (400 nm - 800 nm). As a variant, the pattern is colourless under white light in the visible region, but may appear coloured when submitted to a chemical and/or energy stimulus, such as exposure to UV (365 nm - 400 nm), for example when the colouring ink contains a photochromic or fluorescent dyestuff.

The colouring ink obtained by printing may be deposited in the form of raster spots and/or of raster lines, so as to form a halftone image, for example a monochromatic or polychromatic image.

The pattern formed by the colouring ink printed on the transfer surface may be of any type.

The pattern may reproduce the appearance of relief and/or colour heterogeneities of the skin, for example freckles or a mole.

The colouring ink may be liquid at the time of printing and may have, for example, a viscosity ranging from 1 mPa.s to 500 mPa.s and preferably from 1 mPa.s to 300 mPa.s at 25°C.

The viscosity of an ink of the invention may be measured according to any process known to those skilled in the art, and especially according to the following conventional process. At 25°C using a Rheomat 180 viscometer, equipped with a spindle rotating at 200 rpm, a person skilled in the art can select the spindle for measuring the viscosity from the spindles Ml, M2, M3 and M4 on the basis of his general knowledge, so as to be able to perform the measurement.

Advantageously, the colouring ink is not entirely dry on the substrate when it is applied to the keratin materials. The colouring ink may be in fluid form when it is applied to the keratin materials.

The colouring ink may be in emulsion form.

The ink may be pulverulent at the time of printing.

When the ink is in the form of a cosmetic toner, this toner may comprise, besides a colouring agent, a compound for controlling the electrical charge, a particular additional filler, a lubricant, a wax and/or a binder.

Preferably, the particles of the toner have a mean size of between 1 and 16 μπι. The toner comprises, for example, pigments with a particle size of between 1 and 10 μπι.

All or part of the colouring ink borne by the transfer surface may be applied by transfer to the keratin materials. In one embodiment example, at least 25% by mass, especially 50%, especially 75%) and especially substantially all of the coat of colouring ink initially present on the transfer surface is applied by transfer to the keratin materials.

In one embodiment example, the application of the colouring ink is performed by application with pressure of the transfer surface onto the keratin materials.

Substrate

In one embodiment example, the substrate used in the invention comprises at least one translucent or transparent area.

The translucent or transparent area allows a user to see through the substrate and thus to visualize more easily the surface to be made up and/or treated before transferring the cosmetic ink. The presence of a translucent or transparent area thus advantageously contributes towards facilitating the production of a precise makeup result on the keratin materials.

The translucent or transparent area of the substrate can be totally or partly superposed with the coat of cosmetic ink, and especially may overlap it.

The coat of cosmetic ink may be superposed in its entirety on the translucent or transparent area of the substrate. As a variant, only part of the coat of cosmetic ink is superposed on the transparent area of the substrate.

The substrate may be made of a transparent or translucent material. In this case, the translucent or transparent area extends over the entire surface of the substrate.

The substrate may comprise a material in sheet form, especially a transparent material.

The substrate is preferentially based on a non-absorbent material, for example a plastic film. The substrate is advantageously non-porous, at least on the face intended to receive the print.

The transfer surface may retain the cosmetic ink by capillary action. The transfer surface may or may not be planar.

In one embodiment example, the substrate comprises an indication regarding the nature of the keratin materials intended to be made up with the cosmetic ink. This indication may be printed with the same ink or otherwise as that intended to be transferred.

The transfer surface of the substrate may be defined by all or part of: the outer surface of an applicator roller, the surface of an applicator pad, an element in sheet form, a patch, the surface of a porous foam, especially a sponge or a wipe, a coarse brush, a fine brush or a flocked tip.

The transfer surface is defined, for example, by all or part of the surface of a deformable sheet mounted on the surface of an applicator roller.

The transfer surface may be elastically deformable. Thus, in a first configuration, the transfer surface may be flat, and, in a second configuration, the transfer surface may be incurved, for example so as to take the shape of the keratin materials to be made up.

In one embodiment example, the transfer surface is detachable from a part of the substrate.

The substrate may be reusable.

In one embodiment example according to the invention, the process also comprises a step of finishing the makeup obtained on the keratin materials, for example so as to attenuate the demarcations between a made-up area and an area not made up. The finishing of the makeup obtained may comprise a step of spreading the colouring ink to produce shading-off, for example.

According to another aspect, a subject of the invention is a kit for performing the process according to the invention as described previously, comprising:

a makeup device having a transfer surface and a coat of at least one cosmetic colouring ink borne by the transfer surface, obtained by printing using at least one digital printer,

a cosmetic composition comprising at least one oil, the composition being contained in a packaging assembly.

The composition packaging assembly is, in a known manner, any packaging that is suitable for storing cosmetic compositions (especially a bottle, tube, spray bottle or aerosol bottle).

The kit may comprise one case for containing both the device and the composition. Description of the figures

The invention may be understood more clearly on reading the following description and on examining the attached drawing, in which:

- Figure 1 shows an example of a makeup device used in a process according to the invention,

- Figure 2 is a section along II-II of the makeup device of Figure 1,

- Figures 3 to 6 represent different steps of an example of a makeup process according to the invention,

- Figure 7 shows an example of a transfer makeup result produced according to the invention, and

- Figure 8 shows a kit according to the invention.

Figures 1 and 2 show a makeup device 1 comprising a substrate 2 whose front side defines a transfer surface 3. The device 1 may, as illustrated, have only one face defining the transfer surface 3, bearing a coat 4 of at least one cosmetic colouring ink according to the invention.

In one variant, not shown, two transfer surfaces 3 are defined by the two opposite faces of the substrate 2. In this case, these surfaces may bear coats of different cosmetic colouring inks, these coats possibly differing by their colour, the nature of the colouring inks borne and/or by the patterns formed.

In the device 1 illustrated in Figures 1 and 2, the coat of colouring ink 4 borne by the transfer surface 3 was deposited by printing using a digital printer, which deposits the ink dots in correspondence with the pixels of an image to be reproduced, for example in the form of rasters.

The coat of colouring ink 4 may form any type of pattern, for example in the form of two butterflies as illustrated.

Preferably, the substrate 2 has at least one non-opaque area 5, which is preferably transparent or translucent, and which may totally or partly be superposed with the coat of colouring ink 4. The transparent area 5 allows the user to see through the substrate 2 and thus to visualize the surface to be made up through the device 1 when this device is superposed on the said surface. All of the coat of ink 4 may, as illustrated, be superposed on the transparent area 5. In one variant, not shown, only part of the coat of ink is superposed on the transparent area 5.

The substrate 2 may be made of a transparent material. The transparent area 5 then extends over the entire surface of the substrate 2.

The substrate 2 may bear an indication 7, for example a print, which gives information regarding a recommended positioning for the makeup, or the nature of the keratin materials intended to be made up with the colouring ink 4, or the like, and may also provide information regarding the colour and/or pattern reference. Indication 7 illustrates, for example at a reduced scale, "right side" on the deposited pattern and "wrong side" on the substrate 2.

The pattern may be monochromatic or, better still, polychromatic. In this case, the coat of ink 4 may comprise several cosmetic inks that are locally juxtaposed at the microscopic scale, depending on the colour to be reproduced. The resolution of the printed pattern defined by the coat 4 may be between 16 dpi and 1600 dpi.

The coat of ink 4 may comprise several successive deposits of ink at the same place, so as to increase the amount of ink deposited on the substrate. The density of cosmetic ink dry matter of the coat 4 ranges, for example, from 0.01 mg/cm ² to 100 mg/cm ² , or even from 0.1 mg/cm ² to 10 mg/cm ² , better still from 0.2 mg/cm ² to 10 mg/cm ² , in particular from 0.2 mg/cm ² to 5 mg/cm ² .

The substrate 2 is preferably made of a flexible material. As a variant, the substrate 2 is made of a rigid or semi-rigid material.

All or part of the area of the transfer surface 3 superposed on the coat 4 is preferably smooth and has a roughness of less than or equal to 1 mm, especially between Ι μπι and 100 μπι and preferably less than or equal to 50 μπι. The roughness is measured using a roughness meter, the tip of which has a radius of curvature of 10 mm, and the force of which, applied to the material to be characterized, is 6 raN.

Figures 3 to 6 schematically show various steps of an example of a makeup process according to the invention for making up an area of keratin materials P, in this case the lips. As shown in Figure 3, prior to transferring the ink of the coat 4, the area P is covered with a base coating 6 to prepare the area P and to facilitate the transfer of the cosmetic ink. In this example, the coating 6 is colourless.

Next, as illustrated in Figure 4, the device 1 is brought close to the area P to be made up, so as to place the coat of colouring ink 4 in contact with the area P to be made up, and the user then applies a pressure allowing the ink 4 to be transferred onto the area P to be made up. During the contact with the keratin materials, the substrate 2 is preferably not moved sideways so as not to affect the appearance of the transferred pattern.

The pattern transferred onto the keratin materials corresponds to the pattern formed by the coat of colouring ink 4 when it is present on the substrate 2 (i.e. when it has not yet been transferred onto the keratin materials to be made up).

In one example, not shown, the process also comprises a step of finishing the makeup result obtained on the keratin materials.

Figure 8 shows an embodiment example of a kit 30 for performing the process according to the invention. This kit comprises, in the same case, a plurality of devices 1 as described previously, each differing by the nature or form of the substrate 2 and/or by the pattern formed by the coat 4, especially its shape and/or its colour. The assembly also comprises a packaging assembly 50 containing a composition C comprising an oil, this composition being capable of forming a base coating 6 on the area P of the keratin materials to be made up.

The case may be leaktight so as to prevent the inks from drying out. The case may be made with means for preventing contact of the inks with a surface other than the transfer surface, so as to reduce the risk of premature transfer. For example, the case comprises a thermoformed shell whose wall extends at a distance from the areas of the substrate that are covered with inks.

Examples

Four inks corresponding to the formulations given in the table below were Yellow I Magenta I Cyan I Black I

Dye 1% 1% 1% 1%

Isopropanol 8% 8% 8% 8%

Ethanol 10% 10% 10% 10%

Water qs 100% qs 100% qs 100% qs 100%

These compositions are placed in Canon printer cartridges, and then used with a Canon Pixma IP 100 inkjet printer, which is requested to print a makeup pattern produced with the PowerPoint® software, for example. The printing is performed on a transparent plastic sheet for a commercial printer (smooth side).

Example 1 (in the case of the skin)

This example corresponds to Figure 7.

A single-colour pattern is produced by printing a coat of cosmetic ink 4 onto a substrate 2 in the form of a transparent plastic printer sheet using a digital printer.

This sheet is left for four days before use.

A coating 6 is produced on an area P of skin of an arm, with a foundation whose composition is described below.

Foundation composition

Ingredients (weight %)

Magnesium sulfate 1.50

Distearyldimethylammonium- modified hectorite (Bentone 38 VCG 1

from Elementis)

Titanium dioxide 21.20

Iron oxides 3.8

Sodium carboxymethylcellulose

0.50

(Blanose® 7M8SF from Ashland)

Cyclopentasiloxane 15.30 Polyglyceryl-4 isostearate cetyl

PEG/PPG- 10/1 hexyl laurate (Abil 9

WE 09 from Evonik Goldschmidt)

Polydimethylsiloxane (viscosity: 5

cSt) (Xiameter PMX-200 Silicone 6.60

Fluid 5 cs from Dow Corning)

Glycerol 5

Pentylene glycol 3

Water qs 100

The plastic sheet covered with the coat of ink is then placed on the arm, and the plastic sheet is then removed.

Transfer of the pattern with partial integration onto the applied foundation is noted.

It is observed on the plastic sheet that the step of transferring the ink has not removed the foundation from the skin.

The same experiment is performed on the other arm, without prior application of foundation. No transfer is obtained.

Example 2 (in the case of the lips)

This example corresponds to Figures 1 to 6.

A makeup device 1 is produced by printing a coat 4 of cosmetic ink forming two butterfly- shaped multi-coloured patterns onto a transfer surface 3 of a plastic sheet.

Lip gloss composition:

Chemical name (weight %)

Hydrophilic fumed silica

3.5

(Aerosil 200 from Evonik Degussa)

Pigments 0.3

Castor oil 14.6

Beeswax 2.7

Polyester of hydrogenated castor oil and of

19.2

dilinoleic acid dimer (Risocast DA-L from Kokyu Alcohol

Kogyo)

Shea butter

12

(Lipex Sheasoft from Aarhuskarlshamn)

Shea butter

12

(Lipex Shea from Aarhuskarlshamn)

Fragrance 0.4

Hydrogenated polyester of dilinoleic acid

and of butanediol 35.3

(Viscoplast 14436 H from Biosynthis)

A coating 6 is applied to the lips using a gloss having the composition described above, and the transfer surface is then placed on.

When the sheet is removed, it is observed that the two patterns are transferred onto the lips, with the colour and shape details corresponding to the starting patterns.

The expression "comprising a" should be understood as being synonymous with "comprising at least one".

The expression "between... and..." or "ranging from... to..." should be understood as including the limits.