US 5,971,351 AGranted

Apparatus and method for blending and fabricating personalized lipstick

OwnerMary Swaabinventor

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Abstract

An apparatus and method for custom blending and fabricating lipstick to the specific demands of individual customers. The present invention provides a kit which enables a user to blend various pigments to arrive at a very specific shade, and then blend the desired shade with a specific base to result in a desired consistency of lipstick, and which also allows the blended bases and pigments to be heated to a liquefied form and poured into a mold for hardening. Upon cooling and hardening, a conventional lipstick case can be attached to the lipstick for removal from the mold and use by the customer. The present invention therefore not only allows a user to quickly attain the specific shade and consistency of lipstick desired, but also eliminates the time consuming and unsatisfactory process of visiting multiple stores having expansive inventories of variously shaded and textured lipsticks.

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Dependent claims

A kit for custom blending lipstick to a desired shade, texture, and content, and fabricating the blended lipstick into a extendible lipstick case, the kit being adapted for use with means for heating, the kit comprising:

a plurality of pigments adapted to be blended together to create a particular lipstick shade;
a plurality of bases adapted to be blended with the pigments to provide a particular lipstick texture and consistency;
graduation means for measuring pre-determined quantities of the pigments and bases;
a blending sheet adapted to allow measured quantities of pigments and bases to be mixed thereon to the desired blend, the desired blend adapted to be heated by the heating means into liquefied form;
a mold adapted to receive the desired blend in liquefied form, the mold adapted to extract heat from the liquefied desired blend until the desired blend hardens;
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at least one extendible lipstick case adapted to house the hardened lipstick and allow the lipstick to be extended therefrom and retracted therein.

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