Buying vintage can be a smart way to reuse timeless items and live sustainably. But as one woman recently learned, it can also be a unique way of connecting with the past and the people who came ...

Before I began collecting vintage cosmetics ephemera, I collected compacts and vanity cases, and this Raquel case is one of my favorites because I am obsessed with silhouettes. Silhouettes are ...

Kya deLongchamps examines the beautiful history contained in a vintage compact. When a girl reached 16 in the 1950s, a pretty powder compact with a spring-loaded powder-plate and inset mirror was ...

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 ...