Lola’s dressing table at the strip club where she works is full of make-up products and beauty tools.
Her lipstick is by MAC.
There’s also a shaker of Evyan White Shoulders talcum powder, which is a quite surprising choice. The perfume counterpart was in 1945: it includes notes of gardenia, jasmine, lily of the valley, orange flower and tuberose.
Another surprising choice is Rayette Aqua Net unscented hairspray. This is the vintage version, so I wonder why it appears in a film that is clearly set nowadays.
When Lola empties her make-up case on the floor, we can see it contains several make-up items, a small can of hairspray and stickers.
Both 5-pan palettes are from the Wet n Wild Color Icon collection. One is Petalette (dark purple, pink and beige) and the other is Walking on Eggshells (different shades of brown).
In 1968 Noodles (Robert De Niro) pays a visit to Deborah (Elizabeth McGovern): she’s in her dressing room in the Broadway theatre where she’s performing as Cleopatra in a play.
Her vanity is packed with beauty products and perfumes but one specific bottle has caught my attention.
It’s the fluted bottle with black stopper of Lanvin Eau de Lanvin Arpège, one of the many versions of the historical floral/aldehyde fragrance created by Paul Vacher and Andre Fraysse and launched in 1927.
Ichraq Matar is a professional actress who plays the role of Ghofrane Chikhaoui. In the scene above she’s having her make-up done before filming a scene of the documentary.
The beautifully poetic advert for Guy Laroche Fidji can be seen on a stack of magazines. This is the 1984 version of one of the most evocative perfume adverts from that decade. “The woman is an island [1], Fidji is her perfume,” says the caption, which transfers the exotic location of the advert (supposedly the Fiji islands) to the woman who will wear the perfume (she becomes “an island”).
This warm spicy fragrance was created by Josephine Catapano and launched in 1966.
[1] Probably the copywriter who wrote the caption didn’t know about John Donne’s sonnet according to which “no man is an island, entire of itself” 😉 Or maybe they knew the poem and wanted to give it a twist.