Celeste (Nicole Kidman) is getting ready to go to court to fight her custody battle. She’s the only character in the show who’s consistently shown while putting make-up on. I think this is not coincidental: since S01 she’s shown as a trophy wife, a beautiful woman whose only task – according to her abusive husband – is staying beautiful and decorative. By showing her often applying make-up it’s like make-up is the gate through which she can reach her own self, but at the same time it’s a tool she uses to hide her real self, the battered and abused woman who stayed in a violent relationship for her children’s sake.
Among the products in her bathroom there are
Wet n Wild eye make-up remover
Chanel Perfection Lumière Velvet foundation


Charlotte Tilbury Magic foundation
Charlotte Tilbury Cheek to Chic blusher

The lipstick she uses is by NARS.

Batiste dry shampoo
Mrs. Meyer’s
Glossier Wowder










The lipstick Desna (Niecy Nash) wears in the opening scene of the episode is by MAC.
Angel (Indya Moore) starts her modeling career as face of the Wet ‘n Wild spring 1990 collection. Her pictures are on the shop display and on products too! Even if the brand launched in 1979, the items seen in this episode are from current collections, not from the 1990s. From left to right there are:
Silk Finish
Glassy Gloss lip gels
Megalast nail polishes
Two types of eyeshadow palette – the classic 8-pan palette and the Coloricon 6-pan ones
Last, Coloricon single eyeshadows.


Celeste is doing her make-up: she applies MAC Studio Fix


Renata Klein (Laura Dern) is being photographed for a Women in Power magazine editorial. She’s posing in her beautiful house and wearing a red lamè dress to show she loves and is proud of her social position. The lipgloss a make-up artist applies on her is from the Enamoured




The most important ball of the year is about to start and Elektra (Dominique Jackson) retouches Blanca’s make-up by using Maybelline Great Lash