Debt Instrument, Alternate Term, Period Prior To Maturity Of Other Debt Instrument

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Debt Issuance Costs and Expenses

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Line Of Credit Facility, Amount By Which Available Liquidity Does Not Exceed Principal Amount of Other Debt

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Line Of Credit Facility, Covenant Terms, Consolidated Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio

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Line Of Credit Facility, Covenant Terms, Liquidity

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Line Of Credit Facility, Covenant Terms, Liquidity, Percentage Of Maximum Availability

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Line Of Credit Facility, Covenant Terms, Liquidity Threshold, Consecutive Business Days

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Line Of Credit Facility, Equity Of First Tier Foreign Subsidiaries In Excess Of Voting Equity Interests

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Line Of Credit Facility, Number of Exercise Cure Rights In Any Four Quarter Period

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Line Of Credit Facility, Number of Exercise Cure Rights, Maximum

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Line of Credit Facility, Borrowing Base Calculation, Percentage Of Eligible Accounts Receivable

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Line of Credit Facility, Borrowing Base Calculation, Qualified Restricted Cash Cap

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Line of Credit Facility, Maximum Borrowing Capacity, Potential Increase

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Percentage points added to the reference rate to compute the variable rate on the debt instrument.

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Contractual interest rate for funds borrowed, under the debt agreement.

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-Name Accounting Standards Codification
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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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Period of time between issuance and maturity of debt instrument, in PnYnMnDTnHnMnS' format, for example, 'P1Y5M13D' represents the reported fact of one year, five months, and thirteen days.

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Amount, before accumulated amortization, of debt issuance costs. Includes, but is not limited to, legal, accounting, underwriting, printing, and registration costs.

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-Publisher FASB
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-Topic 835
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Reflects the difference between the fair value of payments made to legally extinguish a debt and its carrying value at that time. This item excludes the write-off of amounts previously capitalized as debt issuance costs.

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- Definition

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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The fee, expressed as a percentage of the line of credit facility, for available but unused credit capacity under the credit facility.

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LONG-TERM DEBT - 2016 Revolving Credit Facility (Details)		12 Months Ended
	Sep. 07, 2016 USD ($) exercise_cure_right	Dec. 31, 2017	Dec. 31, 2016 USD ($)	Dec. 31, 2013
2016 Revolving Credit Facility \| Revlon Consumer Products Corporation
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Debt term	5 years	5 years
Debt alternate term, period from maturity of other debt		91 days
2016 Revolving Credit Facility \| Revolving Credit Facility \| Revlon Consumer Products Corporation
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Maximum borrowing capacity	$ 400,000,000.0
Maximum borrowing capacity, potential increase	$ 50,000,000.0
Borrowing base calculation, percentage of eligible accounts receivable	85.00%
Borrowing base calculation, qualified restricted cash cap	$ 75,000,000.0
Amount by which available liquidity does not exceed principal amount of other debt	$ 200,000,000.0
Equity of first tier foreign subsidiaries in excess of voting equity interests	65.00%
Unused capacity commitment fee percentage	0.25%
Covenant terms, liquidity	$ 35,000,000.0
Covenant terms, percentage of maximum	10.00%
Covenant terms, consolidated fixed charge coverage ratio	100.00%
Covenant terms, liquidity threshold, consecutive business days	20 days
Number of exercise cure rights in any four quarter period \| exercise_cure_right	2
Number of exercise cure rights during term \| exercise_cure_right	5
Debt issuance costs - capitalized and expensed			$ 5,700,000
Debt issuance costs capitalized			5,600,000
Debt issuance costs expensed			$ 100,000
2016 Revolving Credit Facility \| Sublimit, letters of credit [Member] \| Revlon Consumer Products Corporation
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Maximum borrowing capacity	$ 100,000,000.0
2016 Revolving Credit Facility \| Sublimit, swing line loans [Member] \| Revlon Consumer Products Corporation
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Maximum borrowing capacity	$ 70,000,000.0
5.75% Senior Notes [Member]
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Stated interest rate		5.75%		5.75%
Alternate base rate [Member] \| Average excess availability, threshold one [Member] \| 2016 Revolving Credit Facility \| Revolving Credit Facility \| Revlon Consumer Products Corporation
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Basis spread on variable interest rate	0.25%
Alternate base rate [Member] \| Average excess availability, threshold two [Member] \| 2016 Revolving Credit Facility \| Revolving Credit Facility \| Revlon Consumer Products Corporation
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Basis spread on variable interest rate	0.50%
Alternate base rate [Member] \| Average excess availability, threshold three [Member] \| 2016 Revolving Credit Facility \| Revolving Credit Facility \| Revlon Consumer Products Corporation
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Basis spread on variable interest rate	0.75%
Eurocurrency [Member] \| Average excess availability, threshold one [Member] \| 2016 Revolving Credit Facility \| Revolving Credit Facility \| Revlon Consumer Products Corporation
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Basis spread on variable interest rate	1.25%
Eurocurrency [Member] \| Average excess availability, threshold two [Member] \| 2016 Revolving Credit Facility \| Revolving Credit Facility \| Revlon Consumer Products Corporation
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Basis spread on variable interest rate	1.50%
Eurocurrency [Member] \| Average excess availability, threshold three [Member] \| 2016 Revolving Credit Facility \| Revolving Credit Facility \| Revlon Consumer Products Corporation
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Basis spread on variable interest rate	1.75%