Applicator for applying a product to the eyelashes

Applicator for applying a cosmetic product to the eyelashes and/or eyebrows, having an applicator member with:

• a core made of thermoplastic material, the core having ribs extending continuously along the length of the core and defining grooves between adjacent ribs,
• a support having two metal branches extending each in one of the grooves, the two metal branches being twisted around the core after being positioned in the grooves,
• two rows of double spikes, moulded with the core before the two metal branches are twisted around the core, the double spikes of each of the two rows extending from a respective corresponding rib of the core, the two ribs from which the two rows of a plurality of double spikes extend being opposite from each other relative to a longitudinal axis of the core, the double spikes having at least two branches joining at their bases at a summit of the corresponding rib and extending in divergent directions away from said summit, for each double spike, the bases of said branches occupying on the corresponding rib a same axial position on the longitudinal axis of the core and the longitudinal axes of the two branches being contained within a same plane, perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the corresponding rib, the longitudinal axis of the ribs forming each a helical trajectory after twisting, the said same plane for the two branches of each double spike being perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the core before the two metal branches being twisted around the core and being inclined relative to the longitudinal axis of the core after the two metal branches being twisted around the core because of a change of orientation of the longitudinal axis of the ribs that changes from rectilinear longitudinal axis along the longitudinal axis of the core to the helical trajectory when the two metal branches are twisted around the core,
• at least one row of single spikes, moulded with the core before the two metal branches are twisted around the core, extending between the two rows of double spikes, the orientation of the single spikes being perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the core before and after the two metal branches are twisted around the core.