914 and 1012 and 1014 respectively afford an enlarged contact surface on the applicator portion for application to the skin in that way relatively large regions of the skin can be simultaneously smoothed in or the cosmetic preparation thereon can be distributed the narrower structures on the respective end flattened portions 916 1016 are suitable for finer contours fig1 shows a further embodiment of an applicator portion with bristle like structural elements the individual bristles are of a diameter of 0 35 mm and a height above the applicator portion surface of 0 8 mm the applicator surface portion is moreover subdivided into u2018 macroscopic u2019 structures within which are arranged differing numbers of bristles with a uniform packing density between the individual macroscopic regions there are gaps in which there are no structural elements in addition on its end in opposite relationship to the connecting part that applicator portion has a surface which is inclined relative to the longitudinal axis and which permits particularly good ergonomic handling when distributing cosmetic preparations with the applicator pencil set in an inclined position what is common to all the illustrated embodiments of applicator portions is that in comparison with for example flocked applicators they involve only a slight increase in surface area that is to say they have a structural surface which is smaller in relation to the base surface of the applicator portion whereby the risk of microbial contamination even after the first use is reduced also the coverage entrainment capability the holding volume and the holding force.