Lipstick Boxes
Narrow straight tuck carton sized to a standard bullet, with an optional foam or board collar. Minimum 250 units.
Per unit, ex works, for stock board with full colour print on the outside and matte lamination. Includes the dieline and one digital proof. Kraft board, heavier calipers, window patching, foil and inserts change the rate — those specs are quoted on request.
Any size, no tooling charge
Stock dies cut to your inside dimensions, so a custom footprint costs the same as a catalogue size.
Dieline and blank sample free
You approve a layered dieline and, on request, hold an unprinted box before the run.
Priced in one business day
Send the spec and a specialist comes back with a firm number, including a cheaper construction if one fits.
What lipstick boxes is, and when it is the right call
A lipstick box is a tall, narrow carton where the tolerances matter more than anything printed on it. At 18 to 22 mm across, a millimetre of slack lets the bullet rattle and a millimetre of squeeze makes it impossible to remove without pulling the cap. We die-cut to the actual component, not to a nominal size.
Board caliper drives how the pack feels at that scale. 18pt is the practical minimum; below it a narrow carton bows in the hand and reads cheap on a counter where the customer is holding four of them at once. A board collar or foam plug holds the bullet upright and adds very little cost.
Litho printed with foil, emboss and soft-touch all available — narrow panels take foil especially well because the whole face catches light at once. Minimum 250 units, seven to ten working days. Buyers arriving from cosmetic packaging usually compare it with straight tuck end boxes; in format terms it is a tuck boxes product, so tuck end boxes is the closest alternative. Where the budget allows, two piece rigid boxes is the upgrade.
Buyers often compare this against straight tuck end boxes and reverse tuck end boxes, and every tuck carton we make sits on the tuck boxes page. Specified most often for cosmetic and beauty packaging. Shop Tuck Boxes quotes this carton in any size you need, with a free dieline and an unprinted blank sample before you commit.
Specification
- Category
- Cosmetic Packaging
- Stock sizes
- 0.75 x 0.75 x 3.5 in | 1 x 1 x 4 in | 1.25 x 1.25 x 4.5 in | 1.5 x 1.5 x 5 in
- Boards
- SBS 14–24pt, natural kraft, white kraft, recycled CRB
- Offset or digital, up to 6 colours plus spot
- Finishes
- Matte or gloss lamination, soft touch, spot UV, foil, emboss
- Add-ons
- Window patch, foil, emboss, board insert, hang hole
- Lead time
- 10–14 business days from artwork approval
- Ships
- Flat, banded, palletised
- SKU
- BX-TUC-009
Notes from the floor
Board weight decides more than the product category does. Most boxes we are asked to quote are specified one step heavier than they need to be, and that shows up on every unit.
Where a product sits near the limit of a construction, ask for both options to be quoted. The difference is usually a cent or two a unit and the decision becomes obvious.
Send the product dimensions and weight. Our structural team will name the construction that fits — including when it is a cheaper one than this.
Ask a structural engineerFrom dieline to pallet in four stages
Everything you can specify on this die
Questions about this product
Artwork, tolerances, board weights and minimums. Anything else, a specialist will answer on the phone in a minute.
Ask about this productYes, and that is most of our work. Give inside dimensions in inches, or the product measurements, and we work the box back from it. Any footprint inside the die family is cut at stock pricing with no tooling charge.
A print-ready PDF or packaged AI file placed on our dieline, CMYK, fonts outlined, 1/8" bleed. Name any Pantone in the file and we match it on press rather than converting it.
From 100 units on rigid and tuck styles, 250 to 500 on litho-printed cartons and bags. The minimum for this product is in the short description at the top of the page.
Ten to fourteen business days from artwork approval, plus transit. Foil, lamination and inserts add two to four days.
Always. A digital proof against your dieline, and on request a printed proof on the actual board before the run.
An unprinted box in your exact size and board, posted within three business days. No card, no obligation.
Also available in these constructions
Hold the box before you order 5,000 of them.
Shop Tuck Boxes will post an unprinted box in your exact size and board within three business days. No card, no obligation.