Lipstips

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Statement

Carole Jackson wrote, in her book "Color Me Beautiful" that 'the discovery of lipstick as a teenage girl changed my life'. This slit scroll book, housed in a lipstick tube, includes dozens of observations about the history, manufacture and general qualities of lipstick.


The cloth covered box housing the tube is coated on the outside with red wax. A mirror inside the box has Jackson's words handwritten in red.

Text and sources

ad copy from various women's magazines

collections of

Miniature Book Society, University of Colorado, Yale University, University of Tulsa, University of Dever, University of Southern California, University of California Los Angeles, Univrsity of Washington, University of Pittsburge, various private collections.