Housekeeping note: Can we change the thread title to reflect that it is about both Lillee and Laur?
Personally, I think the primary focus needs to be on Laur (at least for now). As the "momager," she's the main driver behind Lillee's push for beauty guru-dom. Plus, Lillee's only 18, still lives with her mom and is, as far as we can tell, still dependent upon her. There's some really unhealthy enmeshment going on there, in which Laur is the one in control. So until we know how much of Lillee's cringiness is actually done at Laur's instigation, and how much is due to her being an actual cow herself (rather than a teenager who doesn't know any better yet), I think we should treat Laur as the main cow.
There's a reason this thread originated in the Margaret Palermo thread, after all; Venus was once thought to be a lolcow until she finally left Margo, and in the aftermath everybody got to see just what a controlling, batshit Narcissist Mags was, and how Venus' shitty behavior online was actually Margo posting under her name. I think a similar dynamic is at work here.
Should Lillee turn out to be just as bad as her crazycakes mother, totally independent of her? Yeah, she'll deserve lolcow status, and the thread title can change accordingly. But until then, I'm in favor of cutting the kid some slack.
Are these people fucking schizophrenics?
Mom's got to be one of the Cluster Bs (either Borderliner or Narcissist), because so many of our attention-grabby, self-aggrandizing cows are. Serve that up with a heaping plate of stupid, and you get someone like Laur (or Jonathan Yaniv, Russell Greer, Chantal Sarault, et. al.). Cluster B personality disorders, low intelligence, and lack of education makes for some of our best cows.