To think Kate Middleton needs to hire a make up artist

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Does she still do her own make up?

It's awful. She either needs lessons or just hire an expert.

I find it hard to be impartial regarding the royal family as I am anti-monarchy, but that aside I have no more interest in studying her technique of applying cosmetics than I do of Mrs Nobody on my street.

However, all the fawning and rushing to defend KM just because she married a royal always makes me laugh/vomit slightly.

Also how’s it any different from the I ❤️ Tom Hardy threads (hes a God) & a poster saying “ugh he’s rank”?

SHAME ON HER!

SHE SHOULD KNOW BETTER!!!

THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT! PREGNANT WOMEN NEED TO LOOK THE BEST THEY CAN AT ALL TIMES!! THEY SHOULD LOOK PERFECT NO MATTER WHO THEY ARE!

WHAT IF SOMEONE SAW HER NATURAL FACE? WHAT IF A MAN HAD TO SEE A WOMAN'S SKIN ?

STE UP YOUR GAME KATE

I'm not defending her because shes royal at all. Just saying bitchy comments from women judging the skills of her makeup as if they really know any better and would have any idea about makeup technique especially for the circumstances she is in i.e. constantly photographed, zoom lenses, crazy situations where makeup needs to stay in place despite being hot/bothered/on the move/lenses up to your face with hot lights shining on you- is just ridiculous.

You're off your rocker. She looks great.

The Countess of Wessex. Now there’s a lovely woman. Remember the Fake Sheik scandal? She compared herself to Diana as in, “the public have put me on the plinth vacated by Diana”. She wishes. Her and her husband are not popular and they truly do Fuck all for the money they get. To say she dresses well.... who really cares?

JeffsNewAngle

Yeah, she could ditch the blusher line, and the heavy eyeliner, but she probably won’t.

Who else gets stuck in a style rut after having kids?
I know I did when mine were tiny, and I was on maternity leave and wasn't being photographed all the time. Granted I didn’t have someone in to do my hair. I was lucky if I could grab time to rinse the shampoo out properly.

I think she’ll get her makeup mojo back when her skin is post pregnancy.

During pregnancies my skin broke out and then went really dry - nothing looked good except an expensive moisturizer I got as a sample- creme de la mer I think it was called. For those few weeks I had the “glow” the rest of the time I was a spotty and haggard crone

Cut her some slack, she’ll get the “glow” when her skin settles down/ or the baby’s born. It looks like it’s dry at the moment, and makeup can make you look very powered and lined if you apply it in the same way as pre pregnancy.

She probably just needs a better moisturizer tbh.
(not that I’ve given much thought to it, ha)

This post is chock-full of jealousy. That can be the only explanation why some of you are busily trying to say she looks awful, basically.
She looks fabulous. Always.

I’m with you BadTasteFlump.

A professor of mine once quipped - people with low intellect talk about people, the ones with moderate intellect discuss events and ones blessed with high intellect, ideas.

He - or whoever made that pronouncement, in the first place - was spot on.

Can you work out which category you fit into, OP?

Why does anyone still refer to the Duchess of Cambridge as 'Kate Middleton' seven years after she married?

Because they want to put her down as a common commoner who got lucky, no better than the likes of us and 'keep her in her place', that's why.

I'm not the slightest bit interested in the royals but calling the DoC 'Kate Middleton' is rude, wrong and its only function is to signal the writer's rudeness.

eolian

How about if we stopped thinking that anyone being the best version of themself was to do with their appearance?

So, so agree! This x a billion. I'm really struggling to get the message across to my eldest DD (7) that what someone looks like is completely unrelated to virtue/vice because there are so many messages that we should care excessively at all times about how we look.

The only thing I admire about the younger royals is their fairly dogged focus on mental health charities, I do think they've raised the profile and acceptability of talking about mental health.

What I find depressing is how many posters are keen to defend "royalty" but how they seem to disappear on any thread against Victoria Beckham, Jordan, Kim Kardashian or any other woman.

Fucking hell. The women don't have to be the classic 'beauties'. I've even defended Theresa May when people criticise her looks and I've never voted Tory in my life. We do exist Shasta I can assure you. Incidentally I am no royalist either. I simply marvel at why women's looks and fashion are so avidly under the microscope when their male counterparts doing exactly the same 'job' mostly escape without comment.

If you have an issue with their politics, talk about policy. If you disagree with the monarchy then campaign for a referendum.

SukiTheDog I’m not discussing her personality or work ethic though. Their fashion does matter, hence why the showcase British designers, clothes they wear sell out, etc. It’s publicity that fashion houses cannot buy.

Are Wills or Kate popular? Im the same age as them & don’t have much interest in the Royal family.

not really, it's more to ensure that the Middleton family stays very much in the public eye and Pippa can sell her books and whatever she is selling these days.

It's a brand, like anything else.

Incidentally, I did have to check but the Duchess of Cambridge's name is Catherine Mountbatten-Windsor.

I hear 'Kate Middleton' I see bosom-hoiking snide-eyed fishwife (with apologies to all the perfectly nice large-bosomed seafood processing women of the world).

orignalfoogirl
" being a good person, using your position to make the world a better place and raising great children you chose to have is being the best version of yourself and as far as I can see, she is doing that."

This

What I find depressing is how many posters are keen to defend "royalty" but how they seem to disappear on any thread against Victoria Beckham, Jordan, Kim Kardashian or any other woman.

I don't really look at threads about people I have little interest in (such as all of those mentored above), but if I did and saw that kind of thing spoken about I would say exactly the same. I have said similar about Nicola Sturgeon in threads that I do go on to, when people start with that crap.

If I don't see it I can't comment on it.

I'm not the slightest bit interested in the royals but calling the DoC 'Kate Middleton' is rude, wrong and its only function is to signal the writer's rudeness.

No it's not. It's who she is. Birth names are increasingly being used for women. Possibly encouraged by later marriages?

It's not as though KM even has a simple married name. That HRH, DoC business is a big old mouthful.

I hear 'Kate Middleton' I see bosom-hoiking snide-eyed fishwife (with apologies to all the perfectly nice large-bosomed seafood processing women of the world).

Why? Its what she was called for years, and the fact that you had to actually check what her name is now goes to show its not common knowledge. Everyone knows who people are speaking about when they say Kate Middleton, it's not insulting, it was her name.

Ihear 'Kate Middleton' I see bosom-hoiking snide-eyed fishwife (with apologies to all the perfectly nice large-bosomed seafood processing women of the world).

Sorry? What do you mean?

Another vote for "so sick of this superficial bitchy shit".

I normally don't follow the news about the royalty but her photo from Sweden was on my FB newsfeed and I thought OMG, she looks like Sandra Bullock. Not sure if anyone else saw the resemblance .

Oh for Christ sake, she's not a show pony, she's not a model, she's not an ambassador for Dior, she why the fuck does she need to have professional make up? Prince William looks a fucking state, but that's ok is it? He's allowed to be balding and buck toothed, but god forbid his wife looks like a normal human too....

I'm confused about the name thing.

So if she's called Kate that's somehow an insult, because it evokes images a fishwife?

How nice, I'll let my daughter know.