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US Patent No. 11,612,550 B2 (Toru Kina); Shiseido Company, Tokyo, Japan, has patented a method for decorating a solid cosmetic. It entails bringing a lower surface of a printing plate into contact with a decorating powder composition and holding the solid cosmetic on the lower surface of the printing plate while the decorating powder composition remains in a powder state, the decorating powder composition comprising a glossy pearl agent which has been surface-treated with a silane compound or a silazane compound; bringing the lower surface of the printing plate into contact with the solid cosmetic; and transferring the decorating powder composition to a surface of the solid cosmetic for decoration.