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.

Must be

'Tear 'women' to threads' Exaggeration?! Much?!

Express negative opinion on the way a public figure looks would be a more accurate description.

I cannot believe I am not allowed to do this in your opinion! Why should I ignore? I'm discussing it on an anonymous internet chat forum. I'm hardly throwing eggs and sending hate mail

Who said you weren't allowed? I just said it was dickish behaviour.

Dickish behaviour? Really?! Because I think her makeup is dated and her look is ageing?! What an odd perception you have.

I'd say dickish behaviour was trying to police the valid opinions of others on an internet chat page but each their own eh?

She doesn't need makeup if I'm honest. She has probably wanted to travel light and perhaps only took basics. But I always think she looks lovely whatever she wears.

no-one needs makeup. Everyone is allowed out without it, although only women get bitched at for daring to do so.

Perhaps Kate doesn't like being fussed over? I can't think of anything cringier than being painted.

And if she had a make up artist, someone who be complaining about the cost and the entitlement.

Good lord what an awful thread. So what if her make up isn't 'on point'? I mean really.

So sick of women being judged and chastised for not looking perfect all the time. Don't see men being put under such scrutiny, not to anywhere near the same extent women are.

Perhaps Kate doesn't like being fussed over? I can't think of anything cringier than being painted.

Same, I can only just about tolerate a trip to the hair dressers.

Travelling light?

Are you having a laugh, Username1?

It’s not like she carries her own cases and she also has her hairdresser and her stylist traveling with her.
Hairdresser had a photo of everything she uses, so if a couple of dozens of hairbrushes and a free hairdryers covets your idea of traveling light, then that’s not it

Sorry, a few hairdryers, not free,

Women, even royal women, don't have to wear make up at all or meet a standard set by some random woman on mumsnet.

I think Kate and Meghan are bloody saints to sign up for this shit. Your every move, every word, what you wear, how you look, picked over, discussed and criticised.

No special women get bitched at for wearing make up far more than for women who don’t this thread is a marvellous example!

Pathetic thread.

Hardly, Curtains.

Saints don't generally live their lives in unimaginable privilege.

And sorry, I did miscount the hairdryers, there was one in the photo, three pairs of curling irons though.

This thread shows one of the reasons that feminism will struggle to win.

As long as women demand perfect make-up, ideal weight and looking fabulous women with a public profile then their female children will always be under pressure to look good and conform to societal standards of beauty. Women are pushing other women down and young girls are learning that.

She looks genuinely happy at the moment. She's dignified and hasn't put a foot wrong. And she's not Kate Middleton. We don't call Sophie Wessex 'Sophie Rhys-Jones'.
HTH

You only need to read the shite magazines like Closer to read this kind of thing done by women to other women. It leads to poor souls like Lauren Goodger and her many procedures.

This thread shows one of the reasons that feminism will struggle to win.

maybe, but more because of the usual double standard. It's accepted to write that David Beckham new hairstyle is ridiculous, but if someone comments on Kate's make-up, it's seen as a vicious attack against the "sisterhood" whatever that is

David Beckham is not a sister.

God forbid she might look less than perfect occasionally.

Put your fucking claws away.

Unless your name is Pippa, Kate is not a sister either.

Plenty of replies telling people their choice of clothing is ugly/dated/awful on S&B - everyday. It's called honest opinion. If it didn't matter how KM looked, why all the money and effort? Purely for us to pour adulation and nothing else?

The clue as to why Style and Beauty comments are fine is in the word 'replies'. People there have asked if the dress makes their bum look fat, or whatever.

KM has not asked.

Millions of women put money and effort into making themselves look good. It is not an invitation to anyone else to comment.

If I go out wearing a nice dress and heels, with my face made up and my hair done it is not an open invitation to you or anyone else on this thread, or to passing yobs in vans, or builders with not enough to do on a building site to comment. Me going out with my usual resting bitch face is not an invitation to anyone else to tell me to 'Smile darling,' either.

DakotaWest, let me clarify, David Beckham is a man. How he looks is not and will not ever be a factor that is used against him.

Not sure how much of that will matter since your obtuseness on the word 'sister' indicates to me that you reject the notion that women as a class owe other women the favour of not behaving like men toward them.