About hair quality

• Supreme class Goat

  The best quality goat hair among all kinds. It offers high capacity of retaining powder, delicate smoothness and moderate firmness, thus producing a splendid touch on the skin. Its coloration is also excellent, capable of leading to very attractive results. Used mostly for powder types, such as powder, cheek, highlight and eye shadow brushes.

• High class Goat

  Good quality goat hair second only to the Supreme class. Excellent coloring and powder retaining, sufficient firmness and a wonderful touch on the skin. Used mostly for powder types, such as powder, cheek, highlight and eye shadow brushes.

• Blue Squirrel

  Long hair with thin, soft tips, boasting elasticity and firmness offer a marvelous touch on the skin you have ever experienced. Its soft coloration is something that the only Blue Squirrel can offer. This extremely valuable hair is used mostly for powder types, such as powder, cheek, highlight and eye shadow brushes.

• Pine Squirrel

  Extremely thin and delicate hair tips, but sturdy and firm roots.
  Its gentle touch on the skin and excellent coloring make it especially useful for eye shadow, cheek and highlight brushes.

• Kolinsky

  Kolinsky belongs to the Weasel category. Its hair tips, however, are longer than those of Weasel, and thus being able to offer a very pleasant touch on the skin and high firmness; it is used for eye shadow brushes. This highly valuable material is also often utilized for nail-type brushes, due to its high controllability .

• Weasel

  Extremely high firmness, excels in coloring and powder retention. It can be used for any texture, such as powder type, liquid type or cream type brushes, making it usable in a wide variety of tools, from eye shadow brushes to lip brushes and concealers.

• Cat

  Spherical shaped hair, soft and very easy to control, with superb coloration.
  Cat hair is short, used mainly for shadow type brushes, but also very pricy: as it requires advanced techniques and skills to produce, it is not widely used.

• Raccoon Dog

  Long, thin and sturdy hair with the firmness on the tips. Its stability makes it especially suitable for concealers, liquid foundation and other liquid type brushes. We take advantage of such traits to use it also for mascara, eyebrow and powder puffs.

• Horse

  The quality of horsehair highly depends on the part of the horse.
  The hair from the horse body normally has equal thickness from the root to the tip, with well balanced softness and firmness, perfect for cheek and eye shadow brushes.

• Water Badger

  It has strong firmness, but at he same time is extremely delicate, highly stable and suitable for eyebrow brushes.

• Badger

  Thicker and firmer than the Water counterpart, but lacks stability on the tips. Often used for eyebrow brushes.

• Artificial Hair (PBT)

  Ueda Bisyodo’s research team enables to blend multiple processed artificial hairs, which are alternative to cuticles, to create brushes that are almost same as natural hair brushes.