Rimmel
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Rimmel is a cosmetics brand, now owned by Coty, Inc.
Coty, Inc.
Coty, Inc. is the world's largest fragrance company, founded in 1904. It is also a beauty products manufacturer whose main businesses are fragrances , followed by color cosmetics , toiletries and skin care...

. The House of Rimmel was originally founded by Eugene Rimmel
Eugene Rimmel
Eugene Rimmel was a French perfumer and businessman responsible for manufacturing and marketing some of the earliest commercially made cosmetics.-Building:...

 in 1834 in Regent Street, London
London
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, UK.

Rimmel produces make-up products, and is currently one of the world's most popular make-up producers.

Rimmel's motto is Get the London Look.

In the past, Rimmel was modeled by ITV's Holly Willoughby
Holly Willoughby
Holly Marie Willoughby is an English television presenter and model, known for her work in presenting children's TV and entertainment shows. In her early career she modelled underwear and went on to present CD:UK...

.

The current face of Rimmel is Kate Moss
Kate Moss
Kate Moss is an English model. Moss is known for her waifish figure and popularising the heroin chic look in the 1990s. She is also known for her controversial private life, high profile relationships, party lifestyle, and drug use. Moss changed the look of modelling and started a global debate on...

, alongside Sophie Ellis-Bextor
Sophie Ellis-Bextor
Sophie Michelle Ellis-Bextor is an English singer, songwriter, model and occasional DJ. She first came to prominence in the late 1990s, as the lead singer of the indie rock band Theaudience. After the group disbanded, Ellis-Bextor went solo, achieving widespread success in the early 2000s...

, Lily Cole
Lily Cole
Lily Luahana Cole is an English model and actress. Cole's modelling career was launched by a chance encounter with Benjamin Hart in Soho, London when she was 14....

, and Ayumi Hamasaki
Ayumi Hamasaki
is a Japanese singer-songwriter, record producer, model, lyricist, and actress. Also called "Ayu" by her fans, Hamasaki has been dubbed the "Empress of Pop" because of her popularity and widespread influence in Japan and throughout Asia. Born and raised in Fukuoka, she moved to Tokyo at fourteen to...

. It was announced in October 2009 that Jerry Hall
Jerry Hall
Jerry Faye Hall is an American model and actress, also known for her long-term relationship with Mick Jagger, with whom she had four children.-Early life:...

, Mick Jagger
Mick Jagger
Sir Michael Philip "Mick" Jagger is an English musician, singer and songwriter, best known as the lead vocalist and a founding member of The Rolling Stones....

's daughter Georgia May Jagger and Canadian supermodel Coco Rocha
Coco Rocha
Coco Rocha is a Canadian fashion model.- Personal life :Rocha was born in Toronto, Ontario, and moved to Richmond and attended McRoberts secondary school, British Columbia at a very young age. Her family is in the airline industry. Her mother, Juanita, is a flight attendant and her father, Trevor...

 were set to join to the line up of Rimmel London spokeswomen. Within days of Rocha's first campaign release, Rimmel announced that they had signed Zooey Deschanel
Zooey Deschanel
Zooey Claire Deschanel is an American actress, musician, and singer-songwriter. In 1999, Deschanel made her film debut in Mumford, followed by her breakout role as young protagonist William Miller's troubled older sister Anita in Cameron Crowe's 2000 semi-autobiographical film Almost Famous...

, Solange Knowles
Solange Knowles
Solange Piaget Knowles , who performs under the mononym Solange, is an American singer-songwriter, actress, model, dancer, and DJ. Knowles was born and raised in Houston, Texas along with her older sister singer Beyoncé, a former member of R&B group Destiny's Child...

 and Alejandra Ramos Munoz would help the brand launch into the global marketplace.

Ads featuring Jagger and Moss were banned from British magazines and television after the Advertising Standards Authority found them to be misleading. The ads used false lashes.

Rimmel products are available in pharmacies and supermarkets in the UK, France
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, Germany
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, Italy
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, Austria
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, Denmark
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, Poland
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, Portugal
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, Czech Republic
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, Malaysia, Japan
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, China
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, Australia
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, Netherlands
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, Norway
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, Slovakia
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, Latvia
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, Lithuania
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, Ukraine
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, Spain
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, Estonia
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, Belgium
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, Russia
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, Belarus
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, Korea
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, Canada
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 and United States
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