While Anna Carla (Jacqueline Bisset) is having her hair done, we can see a box of Keramine H hair treatment vials on the mirror shelf in front of her. This is a quintessentially Italian product which I’ve seen since forever in supermarkets and hairdresser’s.
The woman’s hairdresser is Gil Cagné, a make-up artist who worked with celebrities like Lana Turner, Ava Gardner, Virna Lisi, Bette Davis and Liza Minnelli, and became art director for Max Factor.
The fluted bottle on Mia Martini’s dressing table is a Guerlain cologne. This flacon was used for several fragrances, so it’s impossible to say what the Italian singer wore in the 1970s. I like thinking it was Shalimar.
There are several make-up products and tools on Michaela’s dresser. Among them there are Herbal Essences Tousle Me Softly Let It Loose hairspray, a Black Radiance Artisan Color baked blush and a foam applicator brush by EcoTools.
There are also a bottle of Smashbox Studio Skin liquid foundation, a tube of Yves Saint Laurent Glossy Stain lip colour and a bottle of Essie nail polish.
Thanks to Jessica in the comments who identified the Herbal Essences spray and the Smashbox foundation.
Two fragrances by Lucien Lelong can be seen on the middle shelf: the one with the metal stopper is Balalaika, the other is Taglio.
Balalaika was launched in 1939. Taglio has a more complex story: originally named N and launched in 1928, it was renamed Taglio for the American market in the early 1940s.
The compact Violet (Sanaa Lathan) uses to apply make-up in the morning is Make Up For Ever Duo Mat powder foundation.
Thanks to my friend Jennifer for the id.
Last October Kristin Scott Thomas posted this selfie on her Instagram account: it was shot in a dressing room. On the table by the mirror there’s a Diptyque box, containing Baies scented oval.
There’s a bottle of Cutex nail polish remover on Marcia Clark’s bedside table.
There are many Guerlain perfumes on the vanity table of one of Émile’s victims. From left to right:
The classic flacon abeilles contains Eau de Cologne Impériale, a cologne created by Pierre François Pascal Guerlain for Empress Eugenie in 1853.
No way to know what the flacon goutte contains here. This bottle, first launched in the 1920s, has been used for many eaux de toilette.
There’s another flacon abeilles – sans golden bees – containing an eau. The front label is not shown, so it’s impossible to say what eau this is.
The sage green disk on a flacon montre indicates its content: Chypre 53 eau de cologne. The perfume was first released in 1909, but in 1948 it was re-issued as a cologne.
The last bottle is the perfumed deodorant of Chant d’Arômes, a 1962 creation by Jean-Paul Guerlain.
Marie (Myriem Roussel) stops at a Lancôme counter to check some cosmetics. She wants to try some lipsticks: the ones on the right are standard testers, while the ones on the left look more interesting.
I personally have no memory of Lancôme stylo lipsticks, but I’ve found some evidence of their existence. The first (bad quality) picture shows the exact lipstick seen in the film, with the brown/marroon tube. It was called Stylo à Levres and was launched in the late 1970s.
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