The TuLIP Tool began to bloom while Karen was driving through Gilbert, Arizona on a sweltering afternoon. She reached into her designer purse fumbling toward the bottom searching for her pink lip gloss. Without hesitation, like she's done many times before, she grabbed the circular tube of colorful gloss and was met with a goopy mess from the leaking product. Usually, Karen would grab a tissue, if she happened to have one, or just try to juggle the sticky lip gloss thinking later to clean the container - and her purse, if the stains would come off -and then put it into a plastic baggie until the baggie would become impossible to carry around because it, too, would 'mysteriously' become covered in leaking lip gloss, eventually. Along with the leaking gloss as a problem... for the first time... I wondered... Why? I unscrewed the cap revealing the gloss wand and took a closer look at the contact point-the flange-between the wand and the rest of the tube and saw a simple physics explanation: gravity was contributing to the goopiness. Then came the inspiration for The TuLIP Tool. Instead of dealing with the after-effect of leaking lip gloss tubes, and tossing costly make-up prematurely, why not develop a product that permanently captures the leakiness before you even know it's there; The TuLIP Tool went from a visionary moment with two friends, to a tangible solution after many attempts with a home version of a 3-D printer and other resources into a product that resembles a tu'lip' - the obvious choice for 'lip' gloss. Simply slide The TuLIP Tool - custom-fitted for the most popular glosses - to just below the seam of your favorite gloss and never think about, or deal, with leaking lip gloss EVER AGAIN!  SMILE because you can TOSS YOUR GLOSS WITH CONFIDENCE because you are THE BOSS OF YOUR GLOSS!