Line Of Credit Facility, Calculated Borrowing Base

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Percentage Of Annual Excess Cash Flow For Pre Payment Of Loan

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Amount, before unamortized (discount) premium and debt issuance costs, of long-term debt. Includes, but is not limited to, notes payable, bonds payable, commercial loans, mortgage loans, convertible debt, subordinated debt and other types of debt.

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-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 210
-SubTopic 10
-Section S99
-Paragraph 1
-Subparagraph (SX 210.5-02(22))
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-Name Accounting Standards Codification
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Contractual interest rate for funds borrowed, under the debt agreement.

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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

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The carrying value as of the balance sheet date of the current and noncurrent portions of long-term obligations drawn from a line of credit, which is a bank's commitment to make loans up to a specific amount. Examples of items that might be included in the application of this element may consist of letters of credit, standby letters of credit, and revolving credit arrangements, under which borrowings can be made up to a maximum amount as of any point in time conditional on satisfaction of specified terms before, as of and after the date of drawdowns on the line. Includes short-term obligations that would normally be classified as current liabilities but for which (a) postbalance sheet date issuance of a long term obligation to refinance the short term obligation on a long term basis, or (b) the enterprise has entered into a financing agreement that clearly permits the enterprise to refinance the short-term obligation on a long term basis and the following conditions are met (1) the agreement does not expire within 1 year and is not cancelable by the lender except for violation of an objectively determinable provision, (2) no violation exists at the BS date, and (3) the lender has entered into the financing agreement is expected to be financially capable of honoring the agreement.

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Maximum borrowing capacity under the credit facility without consideration of any current restrictions on the amount that could be borrowed or the amounts currently outstanding under the facility.

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Amount of borrowing capacity currently available under the credit facility (current borrowing capacity less the amount of borrowings outstanding).

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Amount of long-term debt payable, sinking fund requirements, and other securities issued that are redeemable by holder at fixed or determinable prices and dates maturing in the next fiscal year following the latest fiscal year. Excludes interim and annual periods when interim periods are reported on a rolling approach, from latest balance sheet date.

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-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 235
-SubTopic 10
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-Paragraph 3
-Subparagraph (SX 210.12-04.(a))
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The cash outflow during the period from the repayment of aggregate short-term and long-term debt. Excludes payment of capital lease obligations.

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LONG-TERM DEBT - Excess Cash Flow Payment and Covenants (Details) - USD ($)	Sep. 07, 2016	Feb. 29, 2016	Sep. 30, 2016	Aug. 04, 2016	Dec. 31, 2015
2011 Term Loan due 2017 [Member]
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Repayment of debt	$ 651,400,000
Aggregate principal amount outstanding	651,400,000
Maximum borrowing capacity					$ 675,000,000.0
Acquisition Term Loan due 2019 [Member]
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Repayment of debt	658,600,000
Aggregate principal amount outstanding	658,600,000
Maximum borrowing capacity					$ 700,000,000.0
6.25% Senior Notes due 2024 [Member]
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Stated interest rate			6.25%		6.25%
5 3/4% Senior Notes due 2021 [Member]
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Aggregate principal amount outstanding			$ 500,000,000
Stated interest rate			5.75%		5.75%
Revlon Consumer Products Corporation [Member] \| Amended Term Loan Facility [Member]
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Repayment of debt		$ 23,200,000
Percentage of excess cash flow, as defined		50.00%
Revlon Consumer Products Corporation [Member] \| 2011 Term Loan due 2017 [Member]
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Repayment of debt		$ 11,500,000
Aggregate principal amount outstanding		651,400,000
Revlon Consumer Products Corporation [Member] \| Acquisition Term Loan due 2019 [Member]
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Repayment of debt		11,700,000
Scheduled principal payments		$ 6,800,000			$ 6,900,000
Revlon Consumer Products Corporation [Member] \| 2016 Term Loan due 2023 [Member]
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Amount outstanding			$ 1,800,000,000
Maximum borrowing capacity	1,800,000,000.0
Revlon Consumer Products Corporation [Member] \| 6.25% Senior Notes due 2024 [Member]
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Stated interest rate				6.25%
Revolving credit facility [Member] \| Revlon Consumer Products Corporation [Member] \| 2016 Revolving Credit Facility due 2021 [Member]
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Amount outstanding			65,400,000
Maximum borrowing capacity	400,000,000.0
Calculated borrowing base	300,000,000
Remaining borrowing capacity			207,900,000
Sublimit, letters of credit [Member] \| Revlon Consumer Products Corporation [Member] \| 2016 Revolving Credit Facility due 2021 [Member]
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Amount outstanding			10,500,000
Maximum borrowing capacity	$ 100,000,000.0
Outstanding checks [Member] \| Revlon Consumer Products Corporation [Member] \| 2016 Revolving Credit Facility due 2021 [Member]
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Amount outstanding			$ 16,200,000