Leeloo’s Instant Makeup Applicator -When Do You Get One?
Greetings Nerd Legion! Welcome back to Everything is Possible. Where we take something from your favorite stories and find out how feasible it is in the real world.
The movie The Fifth Element is a beautiful, outrageously colorful world full of incredible sci-fi gadgets. There’s flying cars, the device that creates Leeloo, spaceships, and even a microwave that creates whatever food you want to eat. There’s also the instant makeup applicator — a device that makeup lovers everywhere saw and wanted on the spot.
If you’re not familiar with the scene, here’s a clip (it’s near the very end, sorry about the random music). Leeloo holds a Chanel makeup applicator to her face and presto! her make up is perfectly done.
The instant make up applicator has appeared in a lot of different places, not just The Fifth Element. There’s the Jetsons, where Jane Jetson can’t bear the thought of letting her friend Gloria see her without her make up, so she rushes to the closet and grabs her morning mask — an instantly applied version of her favorite makeup…
