There’s a bottle of Johnson’s Baby powder in Ray’s bedroom.
Stranger Things S02E07 (The Lost Sister)
Maila Nurmi’s Dressing Room (1950s)
The Finnish-born Maila Nurmi became famous in the United States as Vampira, the first horror tv host. Protagonist of the Vampira Show in 1954/1955, she also starred in Plan 9 from Outer Space (1959) by Ed Wood.
The idea for her character was born in 1953 when she attended the Bal Caribe Masquerade in a costume inspired by Morticia Addams. Her characterization was also influenced by the Dragon Lady from the comic strip Terry and the Pirates and the evil queen from Disney’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937).
In the picture above, shot in her dressing room, Nurmi was applying a foundation stick, the now iconic Pan Stik by Max Factor. Her trademark bat sunglasses can be seen, too.
Stranger Things S02E06 (The Spy)
Steve (Joe Keery) and Dustin (Gaten Matarazzo) are about to fight against an alien creature, but in the meantime they’re chatting about girls and… hair. Steve finally shares the routine behind his lovely hairstyle.
The first name he drops is Fabergé Organics, a haircare line on the market in the 1970s and 1980s.
He’s consistent, because he uses shampoo and conditioner from the same line.
Bomb dropped! Let’s be honest: the Farrah Fawcett spray, not the Organics shampoo and conditioner, is his secret beauty weapon.
After all, no wonder the line of haircare products that Fabergé launched in the late 1970s was this popular: the “Angel” it was named after was hugely famous for her beauty and her trademark feathered hairstyle.
Stranger Things S02E04 (Will the Wise)
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).
By the bath there two shampoos – Head & Shoulders and Revlon HDR, both in their 1980s bottles.
Stranger Things S02E02 (Treat or Trick, Freak)
There’s Avon Iron Horse shaving mug in a bathroom at Tina’s house.
Stranger Things S02E01 (MADMAX)
There’s a bar of Ivory soap in Will’s bathroom.
Stranger Things S02E01 (MADMAX)
There’s an Avon cologne in the bathroom at Barb’s house. It’s unclear what cologne it is, since Avon used the same bottle (the thimble one, in this case) for different scents. Elusive, Bird of Paradise and Charisma colognes were all sold in this golden stopper bottle.
Thanks to my friend Jennifer for the id.
Leni Riefenstahl (1988)
The German-born photographer took this picture in 1988 for Vanity Fair. Leni Riefenstahl was a German photographer and film director who had a strategic role during Nazism: she directed Triumph des Willens and Olympia in the 1930s, extremely effective and innovative propaganda films. Said to be part of Hitler’s inner circle, she was never charged nor associated with war crimes.
In this portrait, taken when she was 86 years old, she was holding a beautiful metal compact by Guerlain.
It’s a vintage piece, probably a limited edition from the 1970s. It’s made of metal and has the trademark double Gs decorating the front. It’s quite thick and rounded, in comparison to today’s compacts, which tend to be very thin.
Room 104 S01E06 (Voyeurs)
The Housekeeper (Dendrie Taylor) finds a lipstick in Room 104. The sticker on the bottom of the rose gold fluted case says the shade is Bitter Love, but it’s actually Love Bite, a bright warm red shade by Charlotte Tilbury.
The Girl (Sarah Hay), who embodies the Housekeeper’s young self, uses the same lipstick.
Greed (2009)
In 2009 Roman Polanski directed the (fake) commercial for a (fake) perfume: Greed by Francesco Vezzoli. Michelle Williams and Natalie Portman are the stars of the short movie as two women literally fighting for Greed.
The centre of the art installation held at the Gagosian Gallery in Rome was the “perfume that doesn’t exist”, whose bottle has a peculiar story. Vezzoli took inspiration from Belle Haleine: Eau de Voilette, the fake perfume created by Marcel Duchamp in 1921 using a Rigaud perfume bottle. Duchamp appeared on the perfume bottle label as Rrose Sélavy, photographed by Man Ray and Vezzoli did the same, photographed by Francesco Scavullo.
The advertising campaign featured portraits of famous female artists made of inkjet, wool, cotton, metallic embroidery and custom jewelry on brocade. Among them, Eva Hesse, Lee Miller, Frida Kahlo, Niki de Saint Phalle, Tamara de Lempicka and Georgia O’Keeffe.
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