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One woman’s makeup mishap is blossoming into a viral sensation, just in time for the holidays.
November 21, 2025
By: Lianna Albrizio
Associate Editor
A makeup mishap has turned a happy accident (and profit!) for Karen Johnson and her girl posse, T Murray and Janet Gilliland.
Three months after the beauty entrepreneurs put their heads together to invent a “sanity saving” solution following a lip gloss application fail in Johnson’s car this past summer, the “hot mess” has turned a hot commodity with The TuLip Tool.
The trusty, patent-pending flower-shaped attachment made of food-grade silicone is designed to fit traditional-sized lip glosses in three classic shapes: circular, square and pentagonal (think Fenty Beauty’s Gloss Bomb Universal Lip Luminizer). The goal is to prevent spillage and spare women from the dread of soiling their expensive handbags. The tool has beauty lovers and CBS buzzing.
“I have believed in this product from the moment I had this genius time of saying, ‘we can solve this,’” Johnson told HAPPI. “We as gloss lovers don’t have to put up with the problem anymore. We can solve it with gravity. I can toss my gloss with confidence.”
The TuLIP Tool had been enjoying direct-to-consumer success on thetuliptool.com, but most recently, it has caught the attention of The Donna Drake Show. A segment featuring the TuLIP Tool will air on Nov. 29 on CBS as the perfect stocking stuffer this holiday season. Johnson said Drake appreciated the uniqueness of the invention, a beauty tool she’s never seen before.
More than the frustration of lip gloss spillage, the TuLIP Tool also works to address the sticky situation of cosmetic waste.
Johnson told Happi that in consulting with her rocket-scientist husband, she ascertained that based on annual sales of lip gloss tubes at $3.6 billion, there is a loss of 58 million ounces of gloss due to the gravitational effect when the wand or squeezeable action causes the excess liquid to settle on the container’s flange and leak even after the cap is re-tightened.
“Gravity outwits every lip gloss customer,” she said.
In addition to television appearances, the makers of the TuLIP Tool are also in talks with major retailers, Starboard Cruises and hotel chains to sell the tool.
Florida’s The House of Wu has tapped the tool for VIP swag bags for a fashion show in January and it was also entered into the 2026 Certa Clean Awards. Out of hundreds of new products, the TuLIP Tool made it to the winner’s circle as No. 10.
“I have always had just an explosive feeling about the product… it really has become a labor of love,” said Johnson.
Watch The TuLIP Tool on The Donna Drake Show here:
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