Selena is in her bathroom, getting ready to go and take Yolanda to the hospital. Among the lipliners on the counter there is Cork (muted golden brown) by MAC.
The lipstick she wears is a brownish pink shade by MAC.
Selena (Christian Serratos) has just arrived at her boutique to interview candidates for a sales assistant position. Yolanda (Natasha Perez) hands her a MAC lipstick.
When Selena applies it, we can see it’s a deep red shade, possibly Russian Red (intense bluish red), which she used in real life.
Selena (Christian Serratos) is sitting at her vanity and trying lipstick shades.
All the lipsticks are by MAC.
There’s also a MAC compact, containing Studio Fix powder foundation.
Selena Quintanilla (Christian Serratos) is getting ready for the Tejano Music Awards. On her dressing table there are a can of Aquanet hairspray and some red MAC lipsticks.
In the opening scene of this special episode, Rue (Zendaya) and Jules (Hunter Schafer) are reunited and happy. Jules is getting ready to go to school and Rue is watching her. On the dresser on the right, next to the lamp, there’s Schmidt’s lavender and sage deodorant.
The pink tube on the washbasin is Neutrogena oil-free pink grapefruit acne wash.
The liquid soap on the toilet tank cover is Love Beauty and Planet murumuru butter and rose liquid hand wash.
The peach pump bottle is Lime Crime Unicorn Hair color conditioner.
Last, the pink tiny box is a ColourPop limited-edition Jelly Much eyeshadow in No Rest for the Vivid.
Thanks to Stef for the Lime Crime conditioner and ColourPop eyeshadow ids.
In a promotional video for the tv show, Mildred Ratched (Sarah Paulson) puts on her make-up.
The lipstick she wears is Debutante sheer lip colour by Bèsame Cosmetics.
Her blush is one of the most famous products by the American brand – the cream rouge in a beautiful red tin decorated with golden chrysanthemums.
Dolly’s red lipstick is by Bèsame Cosmetics, possibly in Red Hot Red.
The mirror she uses to apply the lipstick is from another Bèsame product – the Mermaid Lagoon shell compact from the Peter Pan collection released in November 2018.
Thanks to Jenny for the compact id.
While in New York, Mrs. Fletcher (Angela Lansbury) is caught in a complex murder mystery featuring an unknown lipstick, a former student of hers (Elizabeth, the victim), her shady past and her fiancé, co-owner of Lila Lee, a door-to-door cosmetic company. Always willing to help with the investigation, Jessica and the local lieutenant Varick (Herb Edelman) discuss a jewel-studded lipstick case found on the crime scene, the lipstick in it and the one used to vandalise a portrait of the victim in her apartment.
The lipstick Varick is holding is pale pink, definitely not the bright orange-based red on the portrait.
Norman Amberson (Robert Culp), Elizabeth’s fiancé, confirms Jessica’s observation: the lipstick in the jewel case is Midnight Pink [1].
Later in the episode, Jessica’s nephew Grady (Michael Horton) finds a lipstick in the Lila Lee sales kit.
He thinks he’s found the one, but Jessica disagrees. The shade is not the same. “It’s a little bit too pink”, she says, and we, lipstick lovers, are furiously nodding because we know what she means.
This shade is Tangerine Glow. Still not right. But while checking the complete list of Lila Lee lipstick shades, Jessica finds a code number is missing.
She pretends to be a Lila Lee saleswoman whose customers want the lipstick with the missing code and pays a visit to Mr. Hillsdale (Fred Ponzlov), the chemist who created it.
Hillsdale’s reply sounds like a death toll: that colour has been discontinued. Lila Lee Amberson didn’t like how it looked on the rim of a white cup.
That perfect shade, “not too orangey, not too pink”, was called Tangerine Twist [2].
Here lies the solution of the mystery. The discontinued lipstick was used at a photoshoot, confiscated by Lila Lee Amberson (remember that she hated it) and passed to her brother, Elizabeth’s fiancé. At this point the murderer’s identity is clear, right?
[1] Maybelline did a bright pink lipstick with the same name. Maybe this episode served as source of inspiration.
[2] Jafra did a frost orange lipstick with the same name.
One of the first places we are introduced to in this show is Ego Death, a London bar with a prophetical name. It’s the place where the protagonist, Arabella, and her best friend Terry (Weruche Opia) often return to in an attempt to exorcise it as a negative symbol and find closure to the traumatic event the show opens with.
In this scene, Terry is retouching her make-up by applying a MAC lipstick in a nude shade.
Rock Hudson (Jake Picking) is another actor who’s getting ready to audition for a role in the upcoming film Peg. On his dressing table there are several beauty items: some of them are by Bésame Cosmetics product, but there are vintage pieces too.
There are a long-hair finishing powder brush and a lipstick by Bésame.
The large pink tin with white cap is Albolene cleansing cream. The picture above refers to the unscented version. I couldn’t find any visual evidence that the scented version is the pink one, but it could be a good guess, since this product still comes in scented and unscented versions.
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