Michelle (Emma Stone) is getting ready to film a video for her company. Her make-up artist applies Chanel Baume Essentiel multi-use glow stick on her.
Bugonia (2025)
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Eleanor the Great (2025)
Eleanor (June Squibb) is 94 years old and is back in New York, after living many years in Florida. Adjusting to city life is not easy, but going out and keeping active will help her make new friends. I love that she still takes care of herself by getting manicures and pedicures, and by applying make-up whenever she goes out.
In the scene above, set in her grandson’s bedroom (temporarily her own bedroom), we can see a tube of L’Oreal Age Perfect BB Cover hydrating serum.
Later in the film, on the same desk seen previously, a drop bottle of Ilia super serum skin tint makes its appearance.
A Normal Woman (2025)
Erika (Gisella Anastasia) is a make-up artist who’s in charge of taking care of Liliana (Widyawati) before her much-anticipated birthday party. It’s unclear when the events are set, but it’s interesting to notice how her professional kit includes products from some years ago.
The first item I noticed is Make Up For Ever Ultra HD foundation. Erika owns it in different shades.
There’s also a Bobbi Brown Luxe lip color.
This is a limited edition of Make Up For Ever Rouge Artist Intense lipstick. The Moulin Rouge collection was launched in fall 2010.
Another lip product of the same brand is Ultra HD lip booster.
Erika clearly loves working with Make Up For Ever products: her kit includes the pressed powder and the Duo Mat matte powder foundation.
La baie des anges (1963)
Jackie (Jeanne Moreau) has finally reached Monte Carlo, where she’s ready to take the local casino by storm. We’ve seen that a massive bottle of Weil Antilope sits on her bathroom shelf, but what’s on her vanity?
On the right side of the table there’s a tin can of Max Factor Primitif talc. This was an ancillary product of a chypre floral fragrance launched in 1956.
There are several make-up items, too. Their packaging is quite basic, but among them I couldn’t miss another product by Max Factor – the Pan-Stik foundation.
Materialists (2025)
Lucy (Dakota Johnson) is getting ready to go to work. The MAC lip pencil she uses is possibly Spice.
The MAC brush she’s using to apply blush is possibly the 150S.
À ma sœur! (2001)
The lipstick in a dusty pink shade that Elena (Roxane Mesquida) wears is by Chanel.
Anatomie de l’enfer (2004)
The Man (Rocco Siffredi) picks up a lipstick from the bathroom of the Woman – a scene that gives us a chance to see what’s on the shelf above the washbasin.
There’s a gorgeous golden refillable canister by Guerlain and a black glossy compact by Chanel. In both cases it’s impossible to know what fragrance/product they contained.
The red lipstick he takes from the shelf is from the fictional brand The Tools.
There’s also a bottle of Christian Dior nail polish, shown above in an ad from the spring 2000 collection starring Kristina Semenovskaya.
I am pretty sure the other nail polish bottle (the one with two golden bands on the stopper) is by Maybelline, but I couldn’t find any online evidence of it.
Bagnomaria (1999)
Mara (Manuela Arcuri) is holding a blue compact which, to my 1990s mind, screams Christian Dior.
Effets d’Ombre is a compact that includes five powder eye-shadows.
We can see it in a 1992 advert, when Dior was in the talented hands of the Italian designer Gianfranco Ferré, who replaced Marc Bohan and worked for the maison from 1989 to 1996.
Thanks to Alessandra for submitting this post.
The Last Showgirl (2024)
Despite the constant off-focus quality that characterises most of the scenes set in the dressing room of the Razzle Dazzle revue show, some clearer shots give us the chance to see what products sit on the vanities of the showgirls. Not surprisingly, some of them are vintage items, a detail that reinforces the strong divide between past and present analysed in the film.
The white tin bottle is Nestlé Egyptian Henna neutral natural conditioner.
The round tin box is a classic – Max Factor theatrical face powder.
Later in the film we can see a can of Kenra volume hairspray (not a vintage product).
Coty Airspun loose face powder in the round cardboard box is another classic.
L’enfer (1994)
The peach lipstick Nelly (Emmanuelle Béart) wears is from the Lipchrome collection by Ultima II.
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