Category Archives: skincare in tv shows

Euphoria S01E01 (Pilot)

In the first part of the episode there’s a sequence showing several medicine cabinets from the several houses Rue and her family have lived in. There are many medicines, of course, but some beauty products and toiletries, too. In the screencap above, for example, we can see Hask Kalahari melon oil color protection deep conditioner.

In another cabinet there are Mitchum 48-hour protection stick deodorant, Aquaphor healing ointment and Gilchrist & Soames English Herb soap in Chamomile.

Big Little Lies S02E06 (The Bad Mother)

Celeste (Nicole Kidman) is getting ready to go to court to fight her custody battle. She’s the only character in the show who’s consistently shown while putting make-up on. I think this is not coincidental: since S01 she’s shown as a trophy wife, a beautiful woman whose only task – according to her abusive husband – is staying beautiful and decorative. By showing her often applying make-up it’s like make-up is the gate through which she can reach her own self, but at the same time it’s a tool she uses to hide her real self, the battered and abused woman who stayed in a violent relationship for her children’s sake.

Among the products in her bathroom there are

Wet n Wild eye make-up remover

Chanel Perfection Lumière Velvet foundation

Charlotte Tilbury Magic foundationCharlotte Tilbury Cheek to Chic blusher

The lipstick she uses is by NARS.

Sharp Objects S01E03 (Fix)

sharpobjects_s01e03_bornunicorn (1)Adora Crellin (Patricia Clarkson) gets bandaged by her husband Alan after cutting her hand with rose thorns while gardening. Interesting objects can be seen on her vanity.

laliqueclairefontaineflacon_bornunicornThe perfume bottle with red stopper is a Lalique creation – Clairefontaine. The stopper reproduces lily of the valley stalks.

laprairieskincare_bornunicornThe blue bottle and jar with silver caps sitting in the middle of the table are La Prairie skincare products.

sharpobjects_s01e03_bornunicorn (2)laliqueanemonesflacon_bornunicornThere’s another Lalique bottle: it’s Les Anemones, featuring a frosted double-flower stopper and long dauber stem.

Stranger Things S02E04 (Will the Wise)

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There are several toiletries in Will’s bathroom: among them, an Avon bath oil and a Pond’s cream jar on the window sill. A couple of words on the Avon bottle: it’s impossible to know what Skin So Soft scented oil it contains, because the same bottle was used for different scents (Elusive, Bird of Paradise, To a Wild Rose and more).

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headandshoulders1980_bornunicornBy the bath there two shampoos – Head & Shoulders and Revlon HDR, both in their 1980s bottles.