Thomas Pembridge (Malcolm McDowell) wears a MAC Powerpoint eye pencil.
Later in the episode, Cynthia (Saffron Burrows) notices he’s wearing it.
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Pretty Little Liars S05E18 (Oh What Hard Luck Stories They All Hand Me)
There are a tube of Maybelline Great Lash mascara and a bottle of L’Oreal Paris EverCurl Hydracharge leave-in cream on Aria’s desk.
I usually don’t write about medicines/vitamin capsules, but my friend Jennifer, who identified L’Oreal cream for me, told me the jar next to it contains Rainbow Light certified organic women’s multivitamin vegetarian capsules. I guess Aria needs them to keep up with school and all the complicated adventures in her life.
House of Cards S01E06
The dressing table of Claire Underwood (Robin Wright) is pretty busy. We can find several interesting fragrances and make-up items on it.
The ones I have identified are Tocca Bianca (a sparkling scent with bottom notes of musk and sugar), Chloé Chloé (created by Betty Busse and launched in 1975) and Penhaligon’s Cornubia (a vampy white floral scent created by Nathalie Lawson in 1991).
The make-up items include a MAC 150 blush brush and Studio Fix powder foundation.
There are two NARS lipglosses, too. I’m pretty sure one is Albatross (old packaging), while the other could be Guyane or Vent Salé (new packaging).
How to Get Away with Murder S01E10 (Hello Raskolnikov)
Annalise Keating’s dressing table is always worth a careful look because there’s often something interesting on it. In the opening scene of this episode she puts some NARS blush on and picks a Tom Ford black-case lipstick, even if she ends up wearing a different lipstick.
The title of this episode refers to Rodion Romanovič Raskol’nikov, the protagonist of Fëdor Dostoevskij’s Crime and Punishment (1866): he kills a pawnbroker and her sister; he gets away with the double murder until he decides to admit the crime. Could it be a hint to what will happen next in the tv show?
American Horror Story S04E13 (Curtain Call)
In the season finale Elsa Mars (Jessica Lange) has finally become a Hollywood household name, but her make-up habits haven’t changed: she keeps using the same products she used back in Jupiter, Florida. In this scene she’s filming a commercial for Campfire Gold instant coffee, but she doesn’t like her script. On her dressing table we can see some items spotted in other episodes.
There’s a Bésame cake mascara.
There’s also a lipstick by the same brand. The shades used on this character are Cherry Red and Red Hot Red.
There’s a red pot of cream rouge, a product which can be used on lips and cheeks.
The white pot with the red lid is the Brightening Violet powder, a translucent powder which brightens any skin tone.
The season finale aired yesterday but I know I’ll miss it. Sure, it had some serious WTH moments; I didn’t agree with some choices (poor Maggie), but I thoroughly enjoyed the last episodes. Needless to say, I’m looking forward to learning more about the 5th season.
American Horror Story S04E13 (Curtain Call)
Dandy Mott (Finn Wittrock) is now the owner of Elsa Mars’ freak show and, as such, gets ready for his “performing” debut… The spoiled boy definitely has a talent but it will turn against him. This scene is very interesting because it echoes a similar scene from the 5th episode (Pink Cupcakes). In both scenes, the owners of the freak show are putting their make-up on: they are using almost the same products, and some shots (the one where they apply some lipstick) are the same, as a mirror image.
There’s a Bésame cake mascara, which Dandy uses on the inner waterline.
Then there’s a Signature powder compact.
And then the omnipresent gold bullet-shaped lipstick. Dandy uses a nude shade, Champagne, creamy beige with a slight sheen.
How to Get Away with Murder S01E01 (Pilot)
Agent Carter S01E03 (Time And Tide)
There are two interesting make-up items on Peggy Carter’s dressing table.
The large gold box is Chen Yu Cloud Silk cake make-up refill, a compact foundation. I’ve always known this brand for its super–glamourous advertisement campaigns and for its nail polishes, but I had no idea it made regular make-up, too. Furthermore, I had no idea it’s still in the business.
On the Cloud Silk compact there’s a smaller box whose lid reads “Dorothy Perkins”, a name which is still present on the market as a clothing brand. Back in the 1940s it produced make-up items, too. I don’t know exactly what the round box in the screencap above contained, but I guess it was rouge or face powder.
American Horror Story S04E11 (Magical Thinking)
A gold bullet-shaped lipstick on Elsa Mars’s dressing table means one thing only: Bésame Cosmetics!
Several products from the American brand have been featured in Freakshow so far: a lipstick and a cream rouge pot on the Tattler twins’ dressing table; a mascara, a powder compact and a lipstick on Elsa’s dressing table; mascara and lipstick again at a drugstore. The lip colours have been extensively used in the show, as well. Now that only two episodes are left, I hope we will be given more eye candy from the vintage-inspired company.
Pretty Little Liars S01E05 (Reality Bites Me)
Aria Montgomery (Lucy Hale) is wearing MACPowerpoint eye pencil in Forever Green.
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