The purpose of present invention is to provide cosmetic products that are superior in richness and copiousness, have no stringiness, and are excellent in freshness, spreadability and stickiness.Provided is a cosmetic comprising the following components (a) and (b): (a) Polyacrylic acid or salt thereof, or poly (2-acrylamido-2-methylpropane sulfonic acid) or salt thereof which has a weight average molecular weight of 500,000 to 8,000,000 and is linear, the string length (after a round disc approximately 1 cm in diameter was lightly and uniformly in contact with the surface of the solution, the container is lowered at a speed of 5 mm/sec, and the distance by which the container is lowered until the stringing of the solution breaks) at room temperature made into a 1% by mass solution is 10 mm or less(b) Micro gel obtained by breaking a gel comprising a crosslinkable water-swellable polymer having a crosslink density of 0.01 to 1 mol%, or a hydrophilic compound having a gelling ability.本發明提供一種化妝料，其係具有優異的豐富感及韻味感，無拉絲性，清新感及伸展性優良、且無黏稠性的程度也優異。一種化妝料，係含有下述成分(a)及(b)；(a)聚丙烯酸或其鹽，或聚(2-丙烯醯胺-2-甲基丙烷磺酸)或其鹽，其等之重量平均分子量為50萬至800萬，為直鏈狀，且製成1質量%溶液時在室溫下的拉絲長(該溶液的表面與直徑約1cm的圓型圓盤均勻地輕輕接觸後，以5mm/秒的速度將前述容器下降，至該溶液的拉絲斷裂時前述容器下降的距離)在10mm以下，(b)微凝膠，係將由交聯密度在0.01至1莫耳%的交聯型水膨潤性聚合物或具有凝膠化能力的親水性化合物所成的凝膠加以破碎而得。
