A striped round box can be seen in Maria Callas’ medicine cabinet.
Later in the film, we get a beautiful shot from above which shows the box contains face powder.
It’s Polvo Chela, an Argentinian cosmetic from the 1920s.
Maria (2024)
Category Archives: cosmetics in movies
The Room Next Door (2024)
The lipstick that Martha (Tilda Swinton) is wearing is Velvet Ribbon, a classic pillar-box red shade from the True Velvet line of lip colours by Lisa Eldridge.
The Substance (2024)
The concealer Elizabeth (Demi Moore) uses is Magic Away by Charlotte Tilbury.
The Substance (2024)
The lipstick that Sue (Margaret Qualley) wears is by Charlotte Tilbury.
Not sure the collection this shade is from. The metal tube looks pink in the screencaps, which should point towards the K.I.S.S.I.N.G. pink shades, but the lipstick is red. As a matter of fact, Tilbury red lipsticks are usually housed in a golden or in a red tube.
Female Perversions (1996)
After going through a dark red lipstick phase, Eve (Tilda Swinton) opts for a neutral shade.
She uses the mirror of a 1940s fan-shaped Elgin black lacquered powder compact to apply her lipstick. The compact is decorated with gold flowers inlaid in the top.
The lipstick she uses is by MAC (old packaging).
Maxxxine (2024)
Maxxxine (Mia Goth) is getting ready to shoot a porn film. There are lots of cosmetics and skincare on her dressing table.
The hairspray she uses is Aquanet super-hold hairspray.
On the table is visible Maybelline Great Lash mascara, too.
Maxxxine (2024)
Maxxine (Mia Goth) is getting ready for a night out.
The eyeshadow she uses is Estee Lauder pressed satin duo.
Nina Wu (2019)
Nina (Ke-Xi Wu) is on the set of the film she’s been cast for. After a difficult scene, actors take a break and Nina’s make-up is retouched.
The make-up artist hands her a black compact (by Bobbi Brown) and retouches her scarlet lip colour, which happens to be Lip Maestro by Giorgio Armani.
On the other hand, the hair stylist sprays some more hairspray (L’Oreal Elnett) to keep her sleep updo in place.
Rising Sun (1993)
Cheryl Lynn (Tatjana Patitz) is sitting in front of a very busy vanity.
The heart-shaped bottle in front of her is Escada Margaretha Ley, a white floral fragrance created by Michel Almairac and launched in 1990.
On the right side of the table there’s a nail polish bottle with white cap by Clarins.
More Clarins products can be seen, in boxed form, behind the standing mirror. Too bad I couldn’t find any pictures of this rose-printed packaging. I remember it was used for lipsticks and probably for compact foundations, too.
Talking about foundations, the bottle without cap we can see in front of the standing mirror is MAC face and body foundation.
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Female Perversions (1996)
Eve (Tilda Swinton) goes shopping for make-up at a NARS counter.
In the glass cabinet several bottles of liquid foundation and eye-shadow compacts can be seen.
In the screencap above the proportions are a bit tricky, so I can’t decide if the compacts contain single or duo eye-shadows. I remember single eye-shadows in the old rubberised packaging were really tiny, while the duo eye-shadow compact had the same size as the blush compacts. Probably these are duos.
Eve is fascinated by the lipstick worn by the sales assistant and she asks to try it on.
This film was released in 1996, two years after François Nars launched his lipstick in 12 shades at the beauty counter of Barneys New York. The darkest of these shades were Scarlet Empress and Shanghai Express, so it’s reasonable to assume the exact shade featured in the film is one of the two.
My knowledge as a former NARS-issist, though, makes me think of yet another dark shade of red – Fire Down Below. I haven’t found any information about the year in which it was first launched. If it happened between 1994 and 1996, this could be another option for the lipstick seen in the film.
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