Cosmetic composition

A topical composition for application to a human integument comprising an effective amount of a film-forming copolymer of one or more olefins and one or more cycloolefins, and a vehicle suitable for topical use, wherein said film-forming copolymer has less than 1% crystallinity by weight and is liquid at room temperature, and wherein said one or more cycloolefins consist essentially of a cycloolefin-of formula (I):

• wherein,
• X is selected from —O—, —S —, —N(RN)2—, —C(O)—, —C(R*)2—, —C(R*)2C(R*)2—, —C(R*)2—O—, —C(R*)2—N(RN)2—, —C(O)C(R*)2—, —C(O)—O—, —C(O)—N(RN)2—;
• Ra and Rb are each independently selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, halogen, C1-C6 alkyl, C1-C6 alkenyl, C1-C6 alkynyl, aryl, cyano, and —C(O)OR*;
• R1, R2, R3, and R4 are each independently selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, halogen, hydroxyl, cyano, vinyl, —N(RN)2, —C(O)OR*, —C(O)N(RN)2, —S(O)2R*, or a C1-C16 hydrocarbon selected from alkyl, haloalkyl, hydroxyalkyl, alkenyl, alkynyl, allyl, aryl, aryl-alkyl, and alkyl-aryl;
• wherein any one of R1 or R2 or any one of any one of R3 or R4 may be absent in which case the remaining substituent of R1 and R2 or of R3 and R4 forms a double bond with the ring carbon atom to which it is attached to form an alkylidene substituent;
• and wherein any of R1, R2, R3, and R4 may together form additional ring systems having from three to eight atoms in the ring;
• R5 and R6 are each independently selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, halogen, methyl, ethyl, propyl, butyl;
• vinyl, allyl, and butenyl;
• and
• RN and R* are, independently at each occurrence, selected from hydrogen or a C1-C16 alkyl, alkenyl, alkynyl, aryl, aryl-alkyl, or alkyl-aryl group;
• and wherein any one or more of RN and R* may, together with another of RN or R*, form additional ring systems having from three to six ring atoms.