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It features a custom art ledge that emulates a headboard, set against the backdrop of a large pearl essence tile that has a three-dimensional look.

"They were also making cosmetic glitter from the colourful slime off the back of the scales, it's called pearl essence. There were three pearl essence factories here," says Chris Bartlett, a commercial fishing specialist with the University of Maine who moved to the area in the late 1980s.

“The lipstick I used has pigment in it but also a pearl essence. And it kind of blends in with the foundation, which makes it all very natural. It becomes one with the skin.”

Historically, flakes of fish scales obtained primarily from herring have been added to nail polishes to give them a shimmer known as "pearl essence."