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Disclosure Day (2026)

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Margaret (Emily Blunt) is getting ready for work by sitting at her dressing table, on which we can see several products.

The lip product she’s applying is Pat Mc Grath Labs Lip Fetish Divinyl lip shine. She will wear it throughout the film.

On the left side of the table there’s a bottle of Bobbi Brown Weightless Skin foundation.

On the right side of the table there are some Glossier products —Lash Slick mascara and Cloud Paint seamless cheek colour.

When the camera moves, other two products can be seen. The jar with black cap is Bobbi Brown hydrating face cream, and the bottle with black stopper (just behind the light ring stand) is a Byredo fragrance.

When Margaret reaches her workplace (she serves as a weather reporter and meteorologist for the Kansas City news station KCXE), we can see another bottle of Bobbi Brown liquid foundation on a dressing table, along with a Bobbi Brown compact powder blush.

A few moments back, when she unexpectedly starts talking Korean, we can see the make-up artists hand her a tube of the Pat McGrath lip shine seen at the beginning of the film.

Thanks to Femto Fitz for submitting this post.

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Desperately Seeking Susan (1985)

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Bottles of Lancôme cleanser and toner can be seen in Roberta’s bathroom. I’m not sure if the Bi-Facil makeup remover (blue liquid) and Tonique Confort rehydrating toner (pink liquid) were available in the 1980s, but these two bottles with grey caps and white lettering, which launched in the late 1960s, are definitely from Lancôme skincare line.

A few moments before, when Susan (Madonna) and Gary (Mark Blum) walk in the bathroom, we can see several bottles on a small tray on the right.

Among them, the romantic floral pattern which characterises the packaging of Cacharel Anaïs Anaïs, a delicate white floral fragrance created by Roger Pellegrino, Robert Gonnon, Paul Leger and Raymond Chaillan, and launched in 1978. I can see Susan wearing it — an element of romanticism in her unfulfilled suburban life.

This post was first published on July 20th, 2014, but I have decided to update it thanks to the help of Daniel Roldán, who spotted the bottle of Anaïs Anaïs. I have watched this film lots of times, yet this specific bottle has always evaded me.

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An Unmarried Woman (1978)

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There’s a Lancôme skincare item on Erica’s bedside table. It’s unclear whether it’s a make-up remover or a toner. As a matter of fact, this specific bottle — white with grey graphics and lettering — was used for several products.

Thanks to my friend Jennifer for submitting this post.

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Dead Ringers (1988)

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Beverly Mantle (Jeremy Irons) is often shown in his bathroom. The scene in which he opens a mirrored cabinet gives us the chance to see what’s in it, besides medicines and medications.

On the second shelf from the top there’s a can of Barbasol shaving cream.

On the third shelf from the top there’s a Borsalino product. The eau de toilette and ancillary products are featured throughout the film. In this specific case, I can’t decide if it’s a small can of deodorant or of shaving cream.

On the bottom shelf there’s a jar of Noxzema greaseless and medicated skin cream.

Later in the film, the presence of Borsalino products gets more prominent.

In the screencap above we can see the eau de toilette. This chypre fragrance was launched in 1984.

There’s also a can of shaving cream.

This screencap has been discussed in fragrance forums since forever. The Borsalino bottle has always been identified as the eau de toilette, but I can finally say it’s not!

It’s a black glass bottle containing Borsalino shower gel. The bottle that holds the eau de toilette is brown and made of clear glass, so it is definitely not that one.

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Taking Care of Business (1990)

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Debbie Lipton (Anne De Salvo) works at the Chanel beauty counter at I. Magnin luxury department store in Los Angeles. She may be loud and very chatty with her former high school classmate Spencer (one of the protagonists), but she looks very classy and professional at her workplace.

Besides her lovely Chanel black-and-white outfit, she’s surrounded by a beautiful selection of skincare, cosmetics and fragrances by the French maison.

Behind Debbie there’s a Chanel skincare counter. It’s impossible to tell what those glass bottles contained, but I’m pretty sure one of them was Lotion Douce (shown above in a 1978 advert).

Hard not to notice the huge factice bottle of Chanel Coco eau de toilette, an amber/warm spicy fragrance by Jacques Polge launched in 1984. The advert above, starring Inès de la Fressange, was released in 1989.

Right in front of Coco there’s a bottle of Chanel No. 5, the classic floral aldehyde fragrance by Ernest Beaux launched in 1921.

The white pump bottles are body lotion/body emulsion testers. Hard to tell what fragrance these were ancillary products of.

The atomisers in front of the pump bottles contained No. 22 (white atomiser) and No. 19 (steel grey atomiser). No. 22, a white floral fragrance by Ernest Beaux, was originally launched in 1922; on the other hand, No. 19, a green floral fragrance by Henri Robert, was launched in 1970.

A different angle reveals another factice – a massive black glossy case of Chanel Lift Sérum, an anti-aging product launched in the late 1970s.

There are also several black boxes, possibly containing compacts. Moreover, just below the oval mirror on the right there’s a Les 4 Ombres eyeshadow palette.

Debbie has helped Spencer (Charles Grodin) with his misadventures; before getting his privileged life back, he gives her a dalmatian puppy as a thank-you gift. I’m sure Debbie and the puppy will become best friends in no time.

Behind Spencer and Jimmy (Jim Belushi) there’s an interesting Christian Dior product. The front label is not fully visible, but I managed to identify this white pump bottle as part of the Capture skincare line, shown above in a promotional card from 1987.

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Whoever Slew Auntie Roo? (1971)

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A jar of Pond’s dry skin cream can be seen on the vanity of the protagonist (Shelley Winters).

Thanks to Alessandra for submitting this post.

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The Holiday (2006)

30 Dec 2025 Born Unicorn Leave a comment

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Among the skincare products that Amanda takes to England there is Chanel Précision Rectifiance Intense retexturizing line correcting fluid.

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She loves Kiehl’s products: on the glass shelf we can see a tube of intensive treatment and moisturizer for dry or callused areas, a bottle of Creme de Corps body lotion and a cucumber bath and shower liquid body cleanser.