| Label | Value |
|---|---|
| Product Name | Heart-Shape Beauty Gift Box |
| Outer Dimensions | 287 × 242 × 88.5 mm |
| Gross Weight | 307.2 g |
| Structure | Lid + Base (two-piece rigid box, telescoping) |
| Lid Board | 157 gsm coated duplex + 1,200 gsm double-grey |
| Base Board | 157 gsm coated duplex + 1,200 gsm double-grey |
| Surface Finish | 1-colour print + soft-touch matte lamination + rose-gold glitter screen print + V-score + die-cut + hand assembly |
| Shape | Heart silhouette (custom die-cut) |
| FSC Certified | Yes — available on request |
| MOQ | 1000 pcs |
| Sample Lead Time | One week after design confirmation |
| Production Lead Time | 25–30 working days after sample approval |
| Customisation | Size / colour / finish / insert / print |
| PPWR Compliance | Compliance document available on request |
Unlike a standard folding carton, a beauty gift box uses a structural board core — typically 1,000–1,200 gsm double-grey — wrapped in a printed paper outer.
The result holds its shape, survives courier transit, and opens cleanly every time.
Topvisio is a beauty gift box manufacturer based in Dongguan, Guangdong, China, supplying brands in Europe, the US, and the Middle East. These beauty gift boxes can be supplied with FSC certification, ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 documentation, and for brands shipping into the EU, material composition and packaging-weight data required under the EU Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR).
The heart-shape box shown here was produced for a Valentine's Day fragrance launch.
It is 287 × 242 × 88.5 mm, weighs 307.2 g finished, and ships flat-packed in production batches from 1,000 pieces.
If you need a beauty gift box with a non-standard shape, a specific Pantone colour, or a surface finish that makes the unboxing feel worth filming — this page covers how we build them, what drives cost, and what to send us to get a sample in 7 days.
Irregular and hand-assembled structures have a monthly production capacity of up to 200,000 units.
The duplex takes ink well and holds lamination without lifting.
The double-grey gives the walls enough stiffness to resist side-crush loading above 15 kg — relevant when retail staff stack six units high.
The surface treatment on this box runs in sequence:
1-colour offset print → soft-touch matte lamination → rose-gold glitter screen print → V-score → die-cut → hand assembly.
Each step happens in order and cannot be reversed.
The soft-touch lamination goes on before the glitter, not after, because the matte surface gives the glitter particles something to grip.
Apply the lamination after the glitter and the particles sit proud of the surface — they shed.
The glitter zone is printed through an 80-mesh screen in a single pass.
We use a rose-gold suspension with particle size under 150 microns.
Peel-strength testing at 40°C shows ≥2.5 N/cm after 48 hours, which covers high-humidity markets including Southeast Asia and the Gulf.
The brand name reverses out in white within the glitter zone.
This is not a foil stamp applied over the glitter — it is a masked area in the screen print itself.
Registration tolerance is ±0.3 mm.
You will not see a ghost outline around the letters.
each other within ±0.5 mm or the lid does not sit flat.
Getting this right requires a custom creasing matrix built specifically for the die.
Budget suppliers use a generic matrix and sand the fit by hand.
We don't — we build the matrix to the box and check the fit on a jig.
The jig is the other thing worth explaining.
After the lid and base are assembled with adhesive, each unit sits in a 287 × 242 mm forming jig for 20 minutes before the adhesive sets.
Without the jig, the curved walls pull slightly inward as the adhesive dries and the fit becomes loose.
Reject rate with the jig: under 0.8%.
Paper deformation is a risk on any glued rigid box.
Water-based adhesive introduces moisture into the board stack.
On a large panel — anything over 180 × 180 mm — that moisture causes the outer paper to lift or wrinkle at the edges within 24–48 hours if not controlled.
We use a low-moisture reactive PVA and run every glued panel through a heated press at 55°C for 90 seconds.
The surface stays flat.
Reduce the structural layer from 1,200 gsm to 1,000 gsm double-grey.
The dimensional fit stays within tolerance.
The difference appears under repeated side-crush loading above 10 kg — a risk for retail stacking, not for direct-to-consumer shipping.
Replace the screen-printed rose-gold glitter with a fine-grain metallic ink printed in the same zone.
Cost reduction is approximately 8–12% per unit.
The trade-off is real: screen-printed glitter reflects light at multiple angles simultaneously; metallic ink has one fixed reflection angle.
Place them side by side and the difference is obvious.
On a retail shelf, alone, less so.
We do not recommend removing the soft-touch lamination.
It is the first thing a buyer touches.
The saving is under USD 0.04 per unit.
The loss — a beauty gift box that feels like a regular box — is not worth it.
packaging for the first time.
A magnetic box has a hinged lid with magnets at the front edge.
It opens with one hand and photographs well for unboxing content.
A beauty gift box — lid-and-base — requires two hands to open, which slows the unboxing slightly but gives the reveal more ceremony.
For fragrance and premium skincare, that ceremony is part of the product experience.
A magnetic box in the same board specification costs 15–25% more per unit than a beauty gift box of equivalent size.
The hinge, magnet, and additional assembly steps account for the difference.
If budget is a constraint and the product does not require one-hand opening, a rigid beauty gift box is the better choice.
Magnetic boxes are almost always rectangular.
A beauty gift box can be die-cut into a heart, arch, hexagon, or oval — giving the packaging a silhouette that a magnetic box cannot replicate without very high tooling cost.
We hold five standard shaped dies in-house: heart, hexagon, arch-top, pillow-lid, and oval.
The heart die used for this beauty gift box produces a 287 × 242 mm footprint, which fits a 100 ml fragrance bottle and two 30 ml vials side by side.
Custom shapes start at USD 280 one-time tooling.
For interior depths above 100 mm, the base structure requires a revised wall calculation — send us your product dimensions and we confirm feasibility in two working days.
The base colour is matched to any Pantone Solid Coated reference.
Glitter options include gold, silver, champagne, black, and holographic.
Soft-touch lamination is standard.
Gloss lamination is available but shows fingerprints on curved panels and is generally not recommended for heart-shaped boxes.
Hot foil or cold foil stamping can replace the screen-print logo when a sharper metallic edge is required.
The beauty gift box ships without an insert.
The interior is plain pink paper, clean and ready for customer-specified inserts.
Common add-ons include:
Sample lead time for any interior configuration is one week after design confirmation.
Standard print uses one offset colour.
Full CMYK printing is available with a small additional cost per unit.
Hot stamping in gold, silver, rose gold, or holographic foil can replace the screen-print logo where a tactile brand mark is preferred.
Debossing is possible on the flat base panels.
The curved notch sections of the heart-shaped lid cannot take a clean deboss because the paper may buckle at the curve radius.
The heart shape does not need an explanation — it communicates the occasion from across a display table, and it does not need a ribbon or outer sleeve to read as a gift.
Subscription box services order the beauty gift box for quarterly editions.
The rigid structure survives standard courier transit without a corrugated shipper in most configurations, which cuts secondary packaging cost and reduces the total shipment weight.
Fragrance houses supplying Middle Eastern retail request jewel-tone colourways — deep burgundy, midnight navy, and bottle green — with gold hot-stamp branding and a ribbon lift-tab on the base.
All colour variants within the same die share a single production run as long as the board specification remains the same.
White-label brands that need packaging distinctly different from competitors find a shaped beauty gift box does more work per dollar than a bespoke magnetic box.
The shape differentiation is in the die, which is a one-time tooling cost.
The unit cost from run to run stays flat, making it an efficient way to create visual distinction without increasing long-term packaging costs.
A beauty gift box is a two-piece rigid packaging structure — lid and base — used to present cosmetic, skincare, or fragrance products.
It differs from a folding carton in that it uses a thick structural board core wrapped in printed paper, which gives it a fixed shape and a substantially heavier, more premium feel.
The term covers a range of shapes; the most common in the cosmetic market are rectangular, heart, and arch-top.
The minimum order quantity is 500 pieces per colour variant.
Two colourways sharing the same die can run in the same batch — each colourway still requires a minimum of 500 pieces.
Samples are produced within one week of design confirmation.
The sample fee is refundable against a first bulk order over 1,000 pieces.
Sample production takes one week after design confirmation.
Bulk production requires 25–30 working days after sample approval.
If you need the beauty gift box for a seasonal window — Valentine's Day, Christmas, or a product launch — confirm your deadline before placing the sample order and we will advise whether the timeline is achievable.
Not under normal conditions.
The screen-printed glitter is bonded to the matte-laminated surface and sealed with a clear lacquer coat.
In ISTA 2A drop testing, particle loss is under 3%.
For high-humidity markets or long sea-freight routes, we recommend a single poly-bag per box inside the master carton.
The lid and base — paperboard only — go into standard paper recycling once any EVA foam insert is removed.
The board we use carries FSC Chain of Custody certification.
A full material declaration document is available on request; EU retailers subject to the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation increasingly require this before listing new suppliers.
Send us an AI, PDF, or EPS file at 300 dpi or higher.
For the glitter screen print, provide a separate spot colour layer marking the glitter zone and a knockout layer for any reversed-out text.
If you do not have a dieline yet, our team produces one within 24 hours of receiving your interior product dimensions.
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