Joan holloway

Are you totally obsessed with Mad Men like I am? I just can't get over how beautiful the women always look. I'm totally digging the retro makeup (like in this how-to), so you can imagine how excited I was to find out what products are actually used on set! Now I just need to master one of these retro hairstyles and find the perfect 60s dress, any suggestions?

According to Lana Horochowski, Mad Men Makeup Department Head, these are the products she uses to give the ladies their stunning looks:

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As a redhead, I’ve often been told I resemble, well, anyone else who also happens to have red — or even reddish — hair. When I had a pixie cut, people told me all the time I looked like a young Mia Farrow from “Rosemary’s Baby,” and before that, when my hair was longer, I always got compared to Lauren Ambrose from “Six Feet Under.” About two years ago people started telling me I looked like a character on a new series called “Mad Men.” I’d never seen the show, but a friend soon emailed me a picture of Joan Holloway and wrote “Your doppelganger!” in the subject line. I had to admit — we did kind of look a little alike.

A few months after that, I actually met a “Mad Men” cast member at our mutual friends’ Superbowl party and he even made a comment about how much I resembled his co-star, Christina Hendricks (something my husband likes to bring up as often as possible). It wasn’t until several months later when I finally rented the first season of the show that I really understood what a compliment it was to be compared to the incomparable Joan Holloway. She’s a vixen! A sex symbol! A goddess in tailored office-wear! If people like the way she looks, and they think I look like her, that can’t be a bad thing, right? Almost immediately, I started feeling more confident about myself.