![]() If you have a big master bathroom, that’s the most obvious spot, says Rotondi. ![]() The first and most important task is setting aside designated space for your glam area. Henson gave her Instagram followers, welcoming them into her full-service home salon-or the one Laura Harrier recently granted Architectural Digest, showing off her own pink-themed glam space with vintage deadstock wallpaper and a Deco-style Italian mirror? “At first I thought I was making an office,” the actress told the publication, “but this was actually more practical.” Who can forget the glam room tour Taraji P. (Jean Harlow famously had a lucky mirror in her glam room that she made sure to glance at before walking out the door.) New Hollywood has followed suit. It’s a concept that was heartily embraced by Old Hollywood too, says Helms, detailing the over-the-top beautifying quarters of actresses such as Marlene Dietrich, Joan Crawford, and Mae West, who enjoyed the comforts of luxurious dressing rooms on set and came to expect the same at home. Centuries even, according to fashion and cultural historian Laura McLaws Helms, who cites Marie Antoinette’s pièce des bains, which was added to her petit appartement de la reine at Versailles in 1781 and featured a lace-curtained copper bath, silk daybed, and well-appointed vanity where she might have had her signature face mask (a blend of cognac, dry milk powder, lemon juice, and egg white) applied. The clan Kardashian Jenner is arguably responsible for the “glam room” trend-and the term itself, which was coined by designer Martyn Bullard, who has dreamed up such spaces for Kylie, Khloé, and Kris-but the concept dates back many years. “I designed an entirely pink onyx glam room for a particular client incorporating the exact mirrors, beauty products, and top-of-the-line equipment as her favorite Beverly Hills salon.” Even the seating was customized for the client’s height, she elaborates. Such personalized primping spaces have become ubiquitous of late, she continues. A Los Angeles–based interior designer, Rotondi had just completed work on America’s priciest home, a $350 million, seven-acre modernist oasis in Bel Air with 42 bathrooms, 21 bedrooms, a 30-car garage-and a full-service salon. Only one week until we Make America Glam Again.“I receive more requests for in-home glam rooms than almost any other type of personalized space,” Kathryn Rotondi revealed on a call earlier this spring. “Melania wants a room with the most perfect lighting scenario, which will make our jobs as a creative team that much more efficient, since great lighting can make or break any look,” adds Bryl. For instance: Obama added a basketball court, Nixon added a bowling alley, and Ford built an outdoor swimming pool, so having a designated room for hair and makeup isn’t actually that far-fetched. ![]() ![]() While a preservation committee oversees any changes to the White House’s public spaces or historic guest suites, residents have always been allowed to add personal touches to their private living quarters and elsewhere around the property. “There will absolutely be a room designated for hair, makeup, and wardrobe,” Bryl told Us Weekly, adding that it takes “about one hour and 15 minutes of uninterrupted focus” to complete Melania’s beauty look. If things go as planned, high-school students of the future can look forward to touring such historic spaces as the Lincoln Bedroom, the Roosevelt Room, and, of course, the Melania Trump Glam Room. Donald Trump is moving into the White House in just a few days, and according to Melania’s longtime makeup artist Nicole Bryl, the pair has got some pretty extensive decorating changes in mind.
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