Scully’s Makeup
Another television observation to assure you that I have no life at all. I watched the beginning of an X-Files episode (“Pusher”) and was thinking to myself that they did a great job with Gillian Andersen’s makeup in the episode. They used a prominent but not garish red for her lipstick, gave her a smooth, red-tinted patina of makeup, brownish-red eyeshadow, and they dyed her hair a few shades darker. She exuded a 1930s glamour. It was then that it occurred to me that having Andersen play a ’30s fashionable lady in “Triangle” was inspired; she fits it perfectly.
But just as I was thinking about the effectiveness of her hair color in this episode, her character speaks the line “Inducing someone to buy hair color is a little different than inducing them to drive in front of a speeding truck.” True: it doesn’t take three seasons to induce someone to drive in front of a truck.
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