“He shouldn’t smile at the make-up artist,” Tanner Bolt comments when he sees Nick Dunne (Ben Affleck) getting prepped for an interview with Sharon Schieber. The make-up artist is using MAC blot pressed powder on him.
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Gone Girl (2014)
Barr-Co bubble elixir and bath salts on Amy Elliott Dunne’s bath tub.
This choice is very interesting, since the movie is set in Missouri and these products are made in St. Louis, one of the most important cities of the state. Maybe it’s the film production supporting a local business, but it can also have a narrative meaning, indicating Amy’s attempt/pretense to adjust to her new life by using local beauty products.
Gone Girl (2014)
There are two bottles of Kiehl’s Creme de Corps light-weight body lotion on Amy Elliott Dunne’s dressing table.
Gone Girl (2014)
One of the most dramatic scenes of the movie sees the protagonist, Amy Elliott Dunne (Rosamund Pike), cutting her hair and dying it dark blonde. She uses a L’Oreal hairdye, which I first identified as being part of the Superior Preference line. The only odd detail is the cap of the color gel: it should be gold, but in the movie it’s black.
Later in the movie, Desi Collings (Neil Patrick Harris) takes Amy to his lake house. He buys some toiletries for her, including a box of L’Oreal Superior Preference hair dye in Natural Blonde. Ta-dah! My id was correct. The fact that the same hairdye appears twice makes sense to me. “I just want you to be you again,” he repeats, and going back to blonde is definitely a step in that direction.
Same Time, Next Year (1978)
They have been having an affair for 26 years, but George (Alan Alda) still can’t remember the name of Doris’s (Ellen Burstyn) favourite perfume. They have cheated on their partners to stay together, so it’s ironic that her perfume is Lanvin My Sin.
Io sono l’amore (2009)
There’s a Diptyque scented candle in Emma Recchi’s room. Judging from the front sticker’s lay-out, it should be Géranium Rosa.
More Diptyque candles appear later in the film – just before the final dinner party, in the kitchen and in the living room of Villa Recchi.
My Mad Fat Diary S02E06 (Not I: Part 1)
There are bottles of Britney Spears Fantasy and Tom Ford For Men on Chloe’s desk. This is another example of historical inaccuracy ! The tv show is set in the 1990s, but Britney’s perfume was launched in 2005 and Tom Ford’s in 2007.
Orange Is The New Black S02E02 (Hugs Can Be Deceiving)
Vaseline Intensive Rescue Repairing Moisture cream and petroleum jelly in Vee’s bunk.
Pretty Little Liars S01E05 (Reality Bites Me)
Aria Montgomery (Lucy Hale) is wearing MACPowerpoint eye pencil in Forever Green.
World Wide Aura 
