Bash Howard (Chris Lowell), heir to the Howard Foods business empire and producer of GLOW, is one of my favourite characters of the show, so a scene set in his bathroom was very much welcomed by yours truly, who couldn’t wait to take a look at his beauty products.
First on the left of the marble top, there’s a bottle of Ralph Lauren Polo, the aromatic fragrance created in 1978 by Carlos Benaim. No surprises here: Bash is a flamboyant ring announcer and commentator, but he’s very conservative when it comes to appearances. A relatively traditional eau de toilette like Polo suits his character.

His hairstyle is very distinctive and trendy, so it’s obvious there are lots of styling products. There are two bottles of Vitalis hair tonic and an array of L’Oreal Studio Line items (hairspray, two mousses and gel). The choice of using Studio Line is excellent: this hairstyling line was very popular in the 1980s! I liked using Gelling Curls.


The two hairsprays on Debbie’s dressing table are VO5 Crystal Clear and Aquanet Super Hold (old lettering).
The yellow jar near the hairspray cans is





Debbie (Betty Gilpin) keeps VO5 Crystal Clear hairspray and a jar of Noxzema skin cream on her dressing table.

The Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling are having a minute of silence in their dressing room, just before their debut at the Fan-Tan Casino in Las Vegas: they are commemorating the explosion of the NASA space shuttle Challenger, which happened on January 28th, 1986.
On one of the tables in the room there’s a bottle of Clairol Final Net


There’s Rayette Aquanet hairspray on Gwen Verdon’s dressing table. In this scene she’s holding a tube of Maybelline Great Lash mascara.

In the first part of the episode there’s a sequence showing several medicine cabinets from the several houses Rue and her family have lived in. There are many medicines, of course, but some beauty products and toiletries, too. In the screencap above, for example, we can see Hask Kalahari melon oil color protection 


In another cabinet there are Mitchum 48-hour protection

Batiste dry shampoo
Mrs. Meyer’s
Glossier Wowder








