[1] A makeover cost between $25–$60, depending on the package of choice, and included a full hair updo, nail polish, and makeup.
In addition to playing dress-up for the day, Club Libby Lu VIPs (Very Important Princesses) were guided by their Club Counselors over to various sites including a "potion bar" where a VIP could make their own lotion, perfume, fairy dust, or lip gloss, and a Pooch Parlor, where the guests could own stuffed animals of their choice.
[3] Two former Club Libby Lu customers, Priscilla Ceballos of Garland, Texas and her then-6-year-old daughter Alexis Menjivar, made national headlines in late December 2007 when Ceballos forced Alexis to write a fake essay about her father named Jonathon Menjivar as part of a contest held by the company where the winner would receive a Grand Prize of four tickets to a Hannah Montana concert in Albany, New York.
While Alexis was getting a makeover in preparation for the concert at the Club Libby Lu store in Garland, reporter Byron Harris of ABC affiliate WFAA in Dallas went to the store as part of an investigation for the station and informed Ceballos that there was no man by that name who had ever served in the military or died in Iraq.
[5][6] In early November 2008, parent company Saks Incorporated announced that due to the dismal state of the economy they would be closing all 98 locations.