Hadassah Gold (Bette Midler) is the chief of staff and assistant of Dede Standish (Judith Light), the New York State senate majority leader. They are about to meet the junior senator-elect from Texas but there’s a problem: Dede has just put on a lipstick which is not her favourite.
As Hadassah confirms by reading the shade sticker at the bottom of the tube, Dede puts on Pretty Please by MAC, a pale pink pearl shade that makes her look like a corpse.
But the emergency is immediately solved: Hadassah takes the right lipstick – Politely Pink (dirty pink) – out of her bag.
She even puts it on her boss, who’s very nervous about the upcoming meeting.
Skye (Rahne Jones) has Mrs. Meyer’s Clean Day hand soap in Lavender on the sink in her kitchen.
When Peyton (Ben Platt) finally pays a visit to his former girlfriend Alice (Julia Schlaepfer), we finally get to see her bedroom (beautiful as the rest of her mansion) and her dresser. Unfortunately, it’s just a fleeting moment, but I’ve been able to identify some of the bottles sitting on it.
There are two perfumes with very distinctive bottles. The white one is Tom Ford Soleil Blanc 
There are also two Moroccanoil products: the pump bottle is the 
Astrid Sloan (Lucy Boynton) gets “abducted” while she’s home alone. On her mirrored dressing table we can see a bottle of Daisy by Marc Jacobs, a fragrance choice in tune with the sweater she’s wearing.
This white floral perfume with ozonic accord was created by Alberto Morillas and launched in 2007.
On Lauren’s dresser there are Dior Addict 
When Jonathan (Andrew McCarthy) first spots his creation, the mannequin Emmy, in the window of the department store Prince and Co., she’s surrounded by factice bottles of perfumes. Among them, there are Guerlain Shalimar, Vanderbilt by Gloria Vanderbilt and Jean-Charles Brosseau Ombre Rose.
There’s a Sinful Colors nail polish on Molly’s vanity.
On another table in her bedroom there’s a bottle of Orly nail polish in a hot pink shade.
There’s Aveeno daily moisturizing lotion on Katherine Newbury’s vanity.
Amy (Emily Hampshire) checks her make-up in the compact mirror of Chanel Les Beiges Healthy Glow 
