Judith (Jurnee Smollett-Bell) uses a Beauty Blender sponge.
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The Women (2008)
There’s a Jo Malone home candle in Mary’s kitchen.
Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001)
There’s a jar of Vaseline petroleum jelly in Hedwig’s trailer. You can first see it in the Wig in a Box number.
It can also be seen later in the movie, when Tommy (Michael Pitt) meets Hedwig (John Cameron Mitchell) in her trailer.
Scream Queens (2015)
In a promo for the upcoming tv series by Ryan Murphy, Chanel Oberlin (Emma Roberts) puts on a MAC lipstick and uses a knife as a mirror. In the first picture the lipstick looks red, but the colour on Chanel’s lips is actually pink. It could be Pink Poodle, even if Chanel’s shade looks darker and a bit frostier.
Une femme est une femme (1961)
Angela (Anna Karina) and Alfred Lubitsch (Jean-Paul Belmondo) smoke a cigarette sitting in front of a window where Lancôme and Elizabeth Arden neon signs can be seen.
What’s Your Number? (2011)
There’s a Sephora Sculpting Disk palette on Daisy Darling’s dressing table.
Hannibal S01E05 (Coquilles)
Dr. Hannibal Lecter has a talent for identifying what perfumes people wear. The jailed version of the character in Jonathan Demme’s The Silence of the Lambs detects Evyan White Shoulders body lotion and Nina Ricci L’air du temps on Clarice Starling, while his bon vivant version (Mads Mikkelsen) in the tv show by Bryan Fuller smells “something with a ship on the bottle” on Will Graham (Hugh Dancy). Smelling someone and commenting on his/her perfume is a very intimate action; when it comes from a jailed serial killer or from your psychiatrist, it becomes an intrusion into your privacy.
The after-shave Will wears is obviously the classic Old Spice, which Hannibal loathes (this opinion is reinforced in an episode from the second season). Hannibal says he should introduce Will to a “finer after-shave”, which makes me wonder what after-shave he wears and what he would suggest Will to wear. Any thoughts?
Mr. Brooks (2007)
There are GP Deva L’Infinité skin rejuvenation treatment lotion and La Sagesse hair and scalp care bland, plus Deborah Lippmann Hard Rock base coat, on Detective Tracy Atwood’s bed-side table.
Neve (2013)
Signora Santini (Angela Pagano) is painting her nails with a coral nail polish by OPI. It’s hard to tell the exact shade used in the film, but Conga-Line Coral, from the South Beach spring/summer 2009 collection, could be a good guess.
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
This is one of the most famous scenes from the Jonathan Demme film – the first time in which Clarice Starling (Jodie Foster) and Dr. Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins) meet. His reaction to her presence is eerie: there’s a thick perspex surface separating them, but he is able to detect, through the holes in the perspex, what she smells like. He smells “Evyan skin cream”; he also realizes she sometimes wears Nina Ricci L’air du temps, “but not today”.
Let’s focus on the first product – a body lotion – for a moment: by “Evyan” I believe Dr. Lecter is referring to the American brand’s most famous perfume, White Shoulders. Originally launched in 1945, it is a triumph of white flowers: it includes notes of gardenia, jasmine, lily of the valley, orange flower and tuberose.
The second reference is pretty clear: Clarice sometimes wears the iconic perfume by Nina Ricci, created by Francis Fabron and released in 1948, a symbol of innocence (see the beautiful doves on the stopper). Among its middle notes, we can find jasmine and gardenia, so can we assume Clarice loves white floral perfumes?
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