Zen, look up "lipstick palettes" on Sephora or Ulta. I don't know what shades you're looking for, but check it out: [link]
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Thanks, Strix. A couple of those look like flat tubes, but it's hard to tell. The palettes, I've never used, do you have to use a lip brush? I don't think that would work, being as convenience is the main thing here. I'd lose the little brush.
Most palettes have little brushes. Are you looking for something to fit in a pocket or in a tiny purse?
Tiny purse, or big wallet. That's why it needs to be flat. IME, lipsticks/lipbalms in pockets melt.
I wish my intestines would recover. Sigh.
I'm sorry it's been so rough, Ginger.
Zen, I keep looking but all the palettes I see have brushes, and the small lippies are too big for a small purse. Maybe a lip pencil and tiny tube of balm/gloss?
I will keep looking!
Ginger, I'm sorry your intestines are giving you grief! I wish calmness for your gut, tout de suite.
Zen, your best bet would probably be one of the velvet matte lip pencils by NARS. [link]
My wallet can hold a Burt's Bees balm at the very bottom and I can put a lip pencil (Wet & Wild #666, the pencil of the beast) in too. The tube has to be the very bottom though. And it's admittedly tight.
I am sorry you are in still in distress, Ginger. That is just sucktastic.
Zen, your best bet would probably be one of the velvet matte lip pencils by NARS.
Oooh, could I match MAC's Del Rio with that, I wonder. Because that is my OTLipColor. Apart from the pencil of the beast.