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 ...

I found the Radio Girl face powder box at a compact collectors convention in Las Vegas—it was one of the first items I acquired when I began to collect vintage cosmetics ephemera nearly 20 years ago.

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 ...

The oldest-known Chinese women's compacts appeared during the Warring States Period (475-221 BC). They were simple and plain. It wasn't until the Tang and Song dynasties, that compacts came to be more ...