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.
In the central part of the counter I’ve spotted a bottle of Kiehl’s 
There are other products around the washbasin, among which a small bottle of L’Occitane Verveine 
Ruth spills the content of her bag on a coffee table, because she wants to make PJ up. She uses one cosmetic in particular – the NARS lipstick.
The sticker bearing the name of the shade on the bottom of the lipstick tube is hard to read, but it’s not difficult to guess it.
In 1998/1999, when the film was produced, there weren’t many red shades in the NARS collection. Five years before, François Nars first marketed his lipsticks to Barneys: the small collection included two reds – Red Lizard (full-powered red) and 
Annabelle is not doing her make-up but there are a NARS lipstick and 
Sofia Coppola’s 
World Wide Aura 
