Slim printed cartons for bullet lipsticks, liquid lip tubes and lip sets, cut in SBS to the size of your tube. We print the shade colors as close to true as we can get them, and you can add foil or spot UV or embossing. Singles, multi-shade sets, display trays. Small runs are fine and US ground shipping is free.
Your time is very important to us so we have kept it short.
Tiny box, big job. It’s about an inch wide and three inches tall, yet it has to show off the shade and the brand while a heavy metal tube sits inside it, and our custom lipstick boxes manage that as a slim folding carton that stands up on a beauty counter or slips into an online makeup order without getting bent.
Who orders these from us? Indie beauty brands, mostly, plus makeup artists who’ve started their own line and private label cosmetic outfits, and the odd salon stocking a retail shelf. Nearly all of them launch with four or five shades and want twenty eventually, so we plan the box to grow with the range.
Measure the tube. Seriously, with the cap on. There’s a rough size chart in our lipstick box dimensions guide.
A normal bullet tube is somewhere around 0.8 to 0.9 inches across and about 3 inches tall, but once you get into magnetic caps or square tubes or the skinny ones, those numbers move around a lot, so send us the real measurements and we’ll leave just a whisker of clearance, because a tight box scrapes the tube every time it comes out and a loose one lets a metal tube rattle (and nothing makes a pricey lipstick feel cheap faster than that rattle).
Style? Reverse tuck end, nearly always, opening at both ends. Narrow tube? We’d drop a little insert in the base to keep it centered. If you need numbers, our standard cosmetic box sizes guide has the usual lipstick and lip product dimensions.
Beauty brands sweat over this part, and they’re right to, since if the swatch on the carton looks brick red but the lipstick inside is a cool berry you’re going to get returns. Screens and paperboard just don’t show color the same way. So if accuracy matters to you, get a physical sample, and we’ll go through your files for the color settings that tend to drift once they hit the press.
What works is one design with a different color per shade. Same logo, same layout, same fonts on every box, and only the swatch band or the bottom panel changes, which means a shopper spots your brand from across the counter and then finds her shade in a couple of seconds.
On a box this small the little touches count. Our favorite, honestly, is still gold foil on matte black, it’s a classic for a reason, though soft-touch feels gorgeous when someone picks it up and spot UV over a pattern catches the light nicely. Embossing the name? You feel it under your thumb. Holographic foil we’d keep for the younger, more playful lines.
Sets are a different build. For three to six tubes side by side we’d do a two-piece box or a tray and sleeve with an insert, which makes a lovely gift. For gloss and liquid lip lines, our custom lip gloss boxes can match your lipstick design, and lip kit boxes hold a liner and lipstick together. Selling at a register? A cosmetic display box keeps a row of shades upright.
We set up the dielines and the artwork free, send you a digital proof, and make a physical sample if you ask. Minimums are often around 50 boxes depending on style, and yes, you can split that run across shades. It’s 10 to 12 business days after approval, and ground shipping in the USA is free. There’s more in our cosmetic boxes range.
Yep. Same layout, different shade band or panel color, and with digital printing a handful of shade versions in one order is no big deal.
We’d say SBS paperboard, somewhere around 14 to 18 pt. Small text and shade colors come out sharp on it, and it’s stiff enough that a metal tube won’t dent it.
Sure, a slightly wider carton with an insert holds both side by side. Or have a look at our lip kit boxes.
Plenty of customers order this alongside custom printed makeup packaging boxes, custom mascara boxes, custom press on nail boxes and custom printed lip balm packaging boxes wholesale. More styles are in cosmetic boxes, and cosmetic box sizes covers the common sizes.
