There’s a can of Aquanet unscented super-hold hairspray on Bobby’s dressing table. The silver-ish bottle on its left reminds me of Halston perfume, which would be really appropriate, since Bobby has just done a beautiful performance in drag as Liza Minnelli, one of the most famous Halstonettes.
There’s Ban roll-on deodorant in Sam’s bathroom.
Debbie (Betty Gilpin) keeps VO5 Crystal Clear hairspray and a jar of Noxzema skin cream on her dressing table.
The Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling are having a minute of silence in their dressing room, just before their debut at the Fan-Tan Casino in Las Vegas: they are commemorating the explosion of the NASA space shuttle Challenger, which happened on January 28th, 1986.
On one of the tables in the room there’s a bottle of Clairol Final Net hairspray.
There’s Rayette Aquanet hairspray on Gwen Verdon’s dressing table. In this scene she’s holding a tube of Maybelline Great Lash mascara.
Thanks to my friend Kit for the id.
The scene where Carol (Angela Bassett) gets a drastic hair make-over thanks to Erin (Heidi Gardner) takes place at a real NYC’s Lower East Side salon, the Fringe. So it’s quite obvious to see the salon’s own haircare line (Fringe & Friends, launched in 2007) on display, along with the ubiquitous Mason & Pearson brush.
Helen (Felicity Huffman) retouches her make-up using a MAC compact as a mirror.
All the dancers of the Corny Collins Show, a popular Baltimore teenage dance show, use tons of hairspray to keep their hairdos fluffy and bouffant. Their product of choice is Rayette Aqua Net.
There are several products on a glass shelf in Emma and Dexter’s bathroom. From left to right:
A pump bottle of Molton Brown liquid hand wash in Rosé Granati
Kiehl’s Original Musk Blend No. 1 eau de toilette
L’Occitane L’Occitan shower gel
The after-shave lotion of Chanel Allure Homme
Ariane (Bulle Ogier) is a dominatrix who falls in love with Olivier (Gérard Depardieu), a thief. She lives in an elegant apartment and has an expensive lifestyle. In her bathroom, for example, we can see a flacon montre by Guerlain.
From the black front sticker [1] it’s easy to tell what cologne the bottle contains: it’s Liu. Originally created by Jacques Guerlain and launched in 1929, it was marketed as cologne in 1956.
Later in the film, another flacon montre can be seen in Ariane’s bedroom. The black sticker tells us again this is Liu. In front of it there’s another perfume bottle: it’s Karl Lagerfeld Chloé.
The Betty Busse creation, launched in 1975, is presented in the signature bottle topped by a couple of calla lilies. This apparently unusual choice (can you think of a dominatrix wearing such a delicate white floral fragrance?) has an explanation: Karl Lagerfeld designed the costumes for the film, so he didn’t miss the chance to advertise his most recent perfume with a cameo.
In the closing credits it’s clearly stated that Bulle Ogier wore Chloé.
[1] The screencap is not HD, so I’m not 100% sure the front sticker is black. It looks kind of purplish, right? If it actually were purplish, the fragrance would be Jicky.
Thanks to reveur_etc for the Chloé id.
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