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So you got yourself a new E-Cig. What’s the most inexpensive way to dress it up? Personalize it? Even improve your vaping experience? Add a drip tip, of course!

Drip tips are, to me, fascinating. There are so many shapes and sizes and colors and materials that it can just boggle the mind. Not to mention that they are fun to use and inexpensive to collect! Vapor4Life was cool enough to send me some free so I could show them off and tell you about them in this review!

Firstly, I should explain what a drip tip actually is. A drip tip is a comfortable little tip that fits snugly into the atomizer end of an e-cig. Their history actually started long ago when smoking an e-cig was done with just a bare atomizer with a cartridge tip inserted. These cartridges had a small amount of filler material in them that you saturated with your e-juice and, when it was inserted into an atomizer, the filler wicked a little juice into the atomizer allowing you to vape. Think of this as a very early version of a cartomizer, in 2 pieces, with way less filler material. The issue with this is that it really didn’t hold much e-juice and if you let it get dry, you could easily get a burnt taste. Many people would drip their e-juice into the tip often to keep things moist and working well. Eventually, this evolved into using the whole setup without any filler at all. You would drip a few drops into the tip and is would just run right into the atomizer, then you would drip some more and vape some more, etc. and so on. That “drip tip” was the mouthpiece, and although it took on additional function and refinement, the name stuck.

Today, many people still vape by dripping, using their drip tips directly on top of an atomizer, but you are much more likely to see them attached and being used as a mouthpiece on a cartomizer, clearomizer or tank and if you are using only Vapor4Life gear, that’s what you are doing. A note here on usage is that I have seen many new vapers who assumed that they somehow put this tip on their cartomizer or tank and drip their e-juice into it to fill it. Do not do this. You will simply flood your device. They are not “fill tips” 🙂

On to the review! Vapor4Life sells a nice variety of drip tips in various styles, colors and materials. What they sent me, and what you see in the included pics is a set of Ming Vase tips, a set of Swirl tips, a Stainless Ming, a Chrome tip and a black Kalabash (the one that looks like a chess pawn). They also carry Ribbon style tips, which are the same shape as the Swirl tips, but are clear with a ribbon of color swirled through them. They all appear to be very well made with no uncomfortable sharp edges or burrs or anything of the sort. They fit well in all my tanks and cartomizers and are comfortable on my lips and a really good looking accessory, in my opinion. I was never really a fan of having that hard carto in my mouth, and using a drip tip makes all the difference in the world, and, apart from that, the aesthetics can be practical as well. Imagine having *gasp* more than 1 e-cig ready to go (yes, always have a backup) and they look identical. Pop on different colored drip tips and you now know which e-cig in your pocket has the peanut butter and which one has the menthol! What could be better or easier than that? As far as the different shapes, they all feel a little different on your lips, so that is more of a personal preference thing. My preference is the feel of the Mings, but then again, that’s just me.

Any way you look at it, if you haven’t yet tried a drip tip, you need to. And not just one, several. Get ’em in different colors and styles and see what you like best. For little more than $5 a piece, you can afford to have a little fun here, and there is nothing wrong with a little fun once in a while.