In a promo for the upcoming tv series by Ryan Murphy, Chanel Oberlin (Emma Roberts) puts on a MAC lipstick and uses a knife as a mirror. In the first picture the lipstick looks red, but the colour on Chanel’s lips is actually pink. It could be Pink Poodle, even if Chanel’s shade looks darker and a bit frostier.
Diana Trout (Miriam Shor) is a business woman with an expensive taste for clothes and fashion accessories (especially Louboutin shoes and Judith Leiber limited-edition bags); no wonder she uses high-end make-up products.
In this scene we can see her putting on Dior Rouge Dior lipstick in a red shade and using the mirror of a Dior compact.
The lipstick is a neutral/cool shade of red, so it could be Cannage, 999 or Rouge Massaï.
Lynne Reed (Brianna Brown) is a consort of Prince Farid Bin Abbud (Amir Arison) of Saudi Arabia. In this episode, she’s in Washington D.C., interviewing young women for the Prince’s harem. This is just a disguise, because she’s actually a CIA informant. As such, she meets Carrie Mathison (Claire Danes) at a spa. In this scene, you can see two beautiful Guerlain Meteorites Voyage compacts.
Miranda (Cynthia Nixon) puts a MAC lipstick on while getting ready to go out on a date.
There’s a tube of Maybelline Great Lash mascara on Lyla’s dressing table.
Thomas Pembridge (Malcolm McDowell) wears a MAC Powerpoint eye pencil.
Later in the episode, Cynthia (Saffron Burrows) notices he’s wearing it.
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.
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).
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?
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.
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