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Suchel lipstick (creyón labial), shade "Chantelle" no. 205

Object/Artifact

Swivel-type lipstick with a black molded-plastic push-on cap and base and a white molded-plastic barrel. Closed, the tube reads as a plain glossy black cylinder. Open, the white barrel rises from the black base, holding a nude tan-brown bullet (used, rounded, with minor surface pitting/spotting) seated in a white collar; light rust-colored speckling and a small pink residue mark are present on the upper white barrel. The base bears a printed label, transcribed as "CHANTELLE 205 / Suchel."

Suchel lipstick (creyón labial), shade "Chantelle" no. 205 Suchel lipstick (creyón labial), shade "Chantelle" no. 205 Suchel lipstick (creyón labial), shade "Chantelle" no. 205 - Image 2 Suchel lipstick (creyón labial), shade "Chantelle" no. 205 - Image 2
Suchel lipstick (creyón labial), shade "Chantelle" no. 205 - Image 2

2025.1.360

Belonged to Gertrudis Caraballo Gálvez

"Creyón labial" is the Cuban term for lipstick. Suchel — the Empresa de Perfumería y Jabonería Suchel (lineage from the Empresa Consolidada de Jabonería y Perfumería, 1961; "Suchel Fragancias" from 1966) — was the dominant state producer of Cuban perfumery and cosmetics. Here "Suchel" is the maker and "Chantelle" the shade name (numbered 205); the use of a French-style shade name reflects a loosening of the "cubanization" of foreign names policy.

The Cabrera Arús family collection

Gertrudis Caraballo Gálvez collecition

2025.1

Suchel

Manufacturer: Suchel — Empresa de Perfumería y Jabonería Suchel, Cuba — per the holder's label transcription. Shade: "Chantelle," no. 205. Designer not identified. Date: circa 1980s; tentative. Edge-of-range note: plain "Suchel" marking points to the pre-1990 state enterprise (rather than the 1990 mixed-capital Suchel Camacho), keeping it within the collection period; if it proves to be a post-1990 Suchel Camacho product, it would sit at/just past the 1990 upper bound.

Label

bottom

CHANTELLE 205 Suchel

read as shade name "Chantelle," shade no. 205, maker "Suchel."

Diameter: 1.8 Height: 7.3

7.3 cm

1.8 cm

Cap (black plastic); barrel (white plastic), white inner collar;,swivel mechanism, and base (black plastic); lipstick bullet (product).

Plastic

Molded plastic (black cap/base; white barrel and collar); lipstick mass (wax/oil/pigment).

Fair

Gertrudis Caraballo Gálvez

owner

Havana

Cuba

Caribbean

Central America

use