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"Fantasía" iridescent eye shadow (sombra en polvo iridiscente), shade "Azul" (blue)

Object/Artifact

Pressed-powder iridescent blue eye shadow in a small round translucent-blue molded-plastic compact with a hinged, tabbed lid; the lid bears the silver Fantasía rose emblem above "FANTASIA," and the compact base carries a circular paper label. The compact is housed in its original square cardboard box: one side is printed with the geometric Fantasía rose (a stylized rose in black, red, and gold with stem and leaf) and the diagonal legend "SOMBRA PARA LOS OJOS / FANTASIA / IRIDISCENTE"; the reverse carries promotional copy, a die-cut circular window revealing the inside, and "HECHO EN CUBA" beneath the maker's monogram. The box is toned, soiled, and stained with blue and red/pink (product migration; the red is inconsistent with a blue shadow and may derive from a co-stored cosmetic), with bumped edges.

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"Fantasía" iridescent eye shadow (sombra en polvo iridiscente), shade "Azul" (blue) - Image 2 "Fantasía" iridescent eye shadow (sombra en polvo iridiscente), shade "Azul" (blue) - Image 3 "Fantasía" iridescent eye shadow (sombra en polvo iridiscente), shade "Azul" (blue) - Image 4

2025.1.365

Belonged to Gertrudis Caraballo Gálvez

"Sombra para los ojos" is eye shadow. This is the pressed-powder ("polvo compacto") format of the sombra para los ojos iridiscente Fantasía, which Cuba Material's catalog lists in 9 powder shades (plus a 10-shade metal-cased version). "Azul" is the blue shade — the very one Cuba Material readers recall (one commenter calling the blue shadow dreadful yet admitting to wearing it). The Fantasía rose appears here in both its forms — a colorful geometric rose on the box and a silver line-drawn rose on the compact — confirming the rose as the Fantasía emblem seen on the metal eye-shadow cap and lipstick cap elsewhere in this series. Manufacture is marked "Hecho en Cuba" with the recurring interlocked monogram (the Suchel/state-enterprise maker's device).

The Cabrera Arús family collection

Gertrudis Caraballo Gálvez collecition

2025.1

MINIL

20th Century

Cuba

Caribbean

Central America

Fantasía

Manufacturer: Suchel — Empresa de Perfumería y Jabonería Suchel, Cuba — tentative as to the specific enterprise but well supported; "Hecho en Cuba" and the Fantasía brand are confirmed on the object, and the monogram matches the Suchel-line maker's mark. Designer of the rose graphic not identified. Date: circa 1970s–1980s; tentative.

Inscription

box bottom

Adorne su mirada, realzando la expresión de sus ojos con un toque de sombra, sutilmente difuminada sobre sus párpados. Hecho en Cuba

Spanish

Adorn your gaze, enhancing your eyes' expression with a touch of eyeshadow, subtely blending on your eyelids. Made in Cuba

Inscription

box top

Sombra para los ojos FANTASíA iridiscente

Spanish

Iridescent eyeshadow FANTASÏA

Inscription

case

FANTASIA

Spanish

FANTASIA

Note

box bottom

2.00

sales price: 2 pesos

Box lid: "SOMBRA PARA LOS OJOS / FANTASIA / IRIDISCENTE" with the geometric Fantasía rose. Box reverse: "Adorne su mirada, realzando la expresión de sus ojos con un toque de sombra, sutilmente difuminada sobre sus párpados," with a product window and "HECHO EN CUBA" beneath the interlocked monogram. Compact lid: silver Fantasía rose + "FANTASIA." Compact base label: "SOMBRA EN POLVO IRIDISCENTE / FANTASIA / AZUL / HECHO EN CUBA," with the interlocked monogram.

Eyeshadow container - Diameter: 4.7 Height: 1.3; Box - Length: 5 Width: 5 Height: 1.6

1.3 cm

4.7 cm

Outer cardboard box; round translucent-blue plastic compact (hinged tabbed lid with silver rose) + base paper label; pressed eye-shadow cake (blue).

Cardboard

Plastic

Cardboard with lithographed paper (box); translucent blue molded plastic (compact); printed paper (base label); pressed eye-shadow powder (talc/binder/iridescent pigment).

Fair

Gertrudis Caraballo Gálvez

owner

MINIL

production

Havana

Cuba

Caribbean

Central America

use