Anna (Emma Roberts) checks her make-up on a gold Stratton compact.
This is the second vintage sighting in this season, which is unusual because it is set in present day. I wonder if these details are leading somewhere in terms of plot or character development.
Thanks to Hillary, the lovely curator of the one and only Makeup Museum, for the id.
When Anna receives a gift basket from Hamish, we can see some interesting beauty products in it.
The two pump bottles on the left are Soap Cherie body oils – Orchid and Morning Rose.
The larger bottle is Aesop geranium leaf body cleanser.
There’s another Soap Cherie product: it’s the Magnolia body lotion.
Last, there’s a bottle of Malin+Goetz advanced renewal moisturizer.
Talia (Juliana Canfield) wears a lipstick in a beautiful red shade.
From the studded gold tube we can see it’s a vintage product.
It’s a Max Factor lipstick from the 1940s.
The brand has been endorsed by a huge number of cinema stars over the years. In the specific case of this lipstick, advertised as “the most wonderful lipstick in the world”, in 1947 it was endorsed by Lana Turner as Ginny Marshland from the film Cass Timberlane (1947) by George Sidney.
Talia gives the lipstick to Anna (Emma Roberts). Later in the episode, the protagonist wears it to attend a vernissage at her husband’s art gallery.
Although the lipstick actually worn by Talia and Anna is most definitely not the Max Factor one, I appreciate the fact that the vintage blue red shade was replicated.
Constance Langdon (Jessica Lange) is a character from Season 1 whose return in Season 8 has been much awaited and anticipated. She was “born to be a mother”, as shown by her decision to commit suicide in the Murder House, so as to spend eternity with her beloved children (who already live in the house). She gives lots of importance to appearances and to her own look, so it’s not surprising that she re-applies her lipstick before dying. The shade she’s using is a nude beige, reminiscent of the 1960s/1970s (decades in which she was young and desirable).
The gold tube is visible on a coffee table in the living room where her nephew Michael (Cody Fern) finds her lifeless. It’s a lipstick by Julie Hewett. The exact shade is hard to identify: it could be Annette, Biba, Simone or Odessa.
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