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 ...

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 are searching for a skincare item that can lift up your face, without making it look loaded with makeup, a face powder or a compact powder is the one you ought to get. Taking into account how ...

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 ...