Small helps. But small and black on the side of your head is still a dot, and someone always clocks it.

Matched to my skin, it stopped reading as an object. My roommate didn't notice for three days, and we share a bathroom.

Seven shades, Light Bisque through Deep Espresso. You pick yours the way you pick foundation.

So that was the first thing I tested. Most buds are simply too big to sit in a small ear. They perch, and gravity does the rest. This one is small enough to settle in. I ran the last stretch to class, took the lecture hall stairs two at a time, pulled my hoodie over my head. Nothing moved.

Nine pairs had me believing my ears were the problem. They weren't.

Tip buds stretch the canal. Half an hour in there's a dull ache. Then it's out, back in, out, back in, through a two-hour lecture.

These press on nothing. I put them in walking to my 9am and remembered them at dinner.

The case comes in your shade too, so nothing in your hand gives it away either. It rides in the front pocket of my backpack next to my ID. And the bud is half the size of the ones you're picturing — it clears a tragus, a daith, a stack of helix studs, and it doesn't fight the arm of my glasses. Two tip sizes in the box, and the smaller one is already on it.

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