I found this charming La Bara face powder box at a compact collectors convention held in Las Vegas in the late 1990s. There was little interest in cosmetics ephemera at that time, at least at the ...

If you browse through the makeup community of TikTok, YouTube, or Instagram long enough, you'll eventually stumble upon the wonderful world of vintage beauty collectors. Cosmetic packaging is one of ...

The exquisite Duska face powder box (c. 1928) is one of the first I ever acquired. I had seen a photo of it in a book on collecting ladies’ compacts, so when I found it years later at a vintage ...

Powder boxes were often sent by men as a token of love to the women they admired. Aside from tea and sweets, compacts were also given as gifts to friends and relatives. One chapter from Chinese ...

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"A young woman sits in front a mirror. The reflection of her fairy face in the mirror and flowers around her add beauty and radiance to each other." This is from the poem Pu Sa Man by Wen Tingyun, a ...