Kate Middleton

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Does anyone like the way she dresses, or is she generally classed as quite boring on here?

I saw a photo of Queen Noor the other day and she appears to have had work done on her beautiful face. What a shame.
Perhaps I'm wrong and it was just a bad photo.

She may have had botox, not sure about the nose job. Her face looks different from when she first started going out with William - but she was a teenager then. I think she must be very strict with her diet though, and in the end that might mean she ages prematurely - never a good thing to be a size 6 at 35 when you were a size 8/10 at your slimmest as a teenager. Two friends of mine, including one who has had botox, have limited their diets to 1,500 calories a day for years, and I think it caught up with them in their mid 40s. She doesn't have to look quite that slim, it would be nice to think that she has enough of a support network not to feel she has look a certain way weight wise - surely that's only if you make money based on your looks; i.e. models and some Hollywood celebs. Surely she's about more than that. Would like to think so.

Her hair in that second picture looks like a good blow dry when you have naturally very thick hair. It's longer than in the first picture anyway. Her hairstylist may well put 'pieces' in it when she has an updo, but I think when she has it down and in general it is all her own hair and this is different to extensions.

It looks really good long, and heaven save us from the 'funky bob', that doesn't suit everyone and can be pretty aging and frumpy in itself.

Her nose looks the same, she has just lost puppy fat in her face from her teens.

It's fine and fun to mull over her outfits and style etc, but trying to go 'aha'! and spot flaws in the facade, or to say 'she'd be pretty if...' is not very pleasant.

I think she's a very attractive woman, dresses well and looks lovely. Gawd bless 'er

I think she looks great, I really like her style.

From the look of the hair extension photos she has those 'secret' ones that are just worn temporarily and fixed in place with a hairband.

When I compare photos of me when I was 17 compared to today, my nose looks bigger then than it does now. Ditto my brother. So I don't think she has had a nose job.

I really like her. I don't always like her outfits but she always looks lovely, classy, chic etc. I do think it would be fascinating to see what she looked like if someone gave her a makeover: more modern hair style, different eye makeup.

I know someone who works for a firm that did work on her house in Norfolk - he said she was utterly beautiful in the flesh!

Re the funky bob, I do agree there's such a thing as a terrible bob or a bob that doesn't suit. If she went shorter she would need a good hairdresser (which I'm sure she has!) to advise her on what would look good.

She always looks amazing when she has her hair "up", so I think she should keep a longer style but I do wish she'd cut off about 4 inches.

It's difficult when you have thick hair,especially when wavy/frizzy, mine is the same type of hair as hers and is a disaster anytime it goes above the shoulder, heavy around the face and looking like a character out of Pigeon Street. I always grow it back.

Her fantastic hairdressers won't be there every day, and wavy hair is much easier with a bit of weight to it.

I also think that, while she is very pretty, her face isn't going to suit all hairstyles and I think she knows it.

I've got hair like KM's and I'm sure it's not extensions. It's fine but there's a lot of it. It also has a wave so easy enough to create body at the roots. Plus my hair was even thicker after I gave birth which I'm sure her's will have been too

I agree re: not cutting above shoulder length. It needs weight. Plus short layers are the work of the devil

I think short hair would look crap on her too. I need the weight in my hair to stop it looking like Crystal Tips

Yes - I look like a triangle

Plus, I'm sure this very un-PC but my DH likes long hair. Maybe William does too.

There are a lot of styles in between her current uber long locks and a 'funky bob'!

If I was her I'd lob about 5 inches off the hair so it's still just below her shoulders.

This is me with a bob. She's always had it long, it's how she likes it. I've always had mine long, not everyone's bothered about changing 'styles', I'm quite happy with mine as it is, sure it'll get shorter and blonder as I get older. There's time for that. Let her have it long and loose while she can, I'm sure one day it'll get set in concrete like the Queen's and there'll be nothing to talk about

There does seem to be a thing about her hair though, a very persistent 'get it cut' crowd, it's a bit biblical.

Among my friends, practically everyone went from long hair to a manageable bob type after getting married and then shorter still after having kids. Obviously it's practical, and looks nice, but it's also nice to see people who don't do this. My hair has always been independent of marital status and attempts to tame it

Just a there's a persistent 'Oh wow, I love her hair so much' crowd.

Not everyone who thinks she needs a haircut is advising a bob.

I don't love it, it's her hair and it's fine. She 'needs' a hair cut? Says who? No one tells me I 'need' one, I do as I please as I'm sure everyone else does.

Did Diana have people saying she should grow hers, I wonder?

To be fair, there aren't many styles between what she's got and 'bob', that's would be noticeably different anyway. She has gone periods with it shorter and it doesn't look vastly different. No one ever notices bastard DH when I get a hair cut, even when I've had three or four inches off, long is long.

Well let's see now. Perhaps people who say 'she'd look better with shorter hair' think she needs a haircut?

I don't think anyone is sending carrier pigeons to Kensington Palace with notes attached saying 'sort your hair out' it's just S&B chatterings about a celebrity's hair.

I think her hair is amazing. Yes sometimes it could do with a bit more imagination, but its always lush.

At least she always forks out for a hairdresser for appearances unlike Sophie Wessex who can well afford it but always has a sad little ponytail.

Sophie has such a great figure and has really stepped up her game with her clothes......and then there's this disheartening ponytail topping it all off.

Actually Princess Di's hair is an interesting example. I think it's much rarer now for women in the public eye to have short hair and it's much rarer among teens for example. (Though there are some US celebs who do it.) It seems to me like "Pretty girls/women have long hair" is much more of a deeply ingrained message now than it was in the 80s. So I suppose part of me wants to see her do something refreshing and different and be a trendsetter.

There's no reason why she should and she obviously has a job in which she's required to look and behave pretty conservatively.

I can't see much change in her from the photos of when she was a teen other than what you would expect - slimmer nose due to loss of facial fat, has lost puppy fat in her twenties and maintaining a slim figure now.

Also her sisters hair isn't nec a good indicator of what her natural hair is like, my sisters hair is thick and poker straight while mine is thin and quite wavy.

In the pics of her with the hair out that looks like extensions - it just looks like she's pulled all her hair forward around her shoulders, not extensions

I like her style though she hasn't evolved it too much since her early twenties it seems. She is playing is safe but still looks lovely most of the time

Do people lose weight from their nose?

Yes they do Mitzy- look at Prince William's nose, it has become quite bony and you can now see Prince Phillip in him and Prince Harry.

KM has fab hair but I prefer it when she ties it back for formal occasions - its so irritating watching her fiddle with it when she has it down.

I agree with the comments about her shoes - new ones in nice colours would really help lift her outfits.

Her evening wear is usually spot on. Daytime outfits not as successful - I loved how she looked on the hospital steps after Prince George's birth, much more natural and young looking. She looked much older this time round with that horrible print dress (the style is fine - but yellow buttercups?), heavy make up and groomed hair.

Another thing that she messes up is wearing skirts that blow up, flashing her bare bum

Totally agree Neither. She looked lovely after giving birth to George. So fresh and natural.

I hated the buttercups too!!

I think she and Prince William have really nice faces. I can imagine they're a happy couple and a good match (and well done to the monarchy establishment for not insisting he marry some princess or titled girl - I suppose they saw with his parents how that goes when it doesn't work). I really liked the clip of him taking Prince George to the hospital because it was clear Prince William is a hands-on father from the way they were together.

Lots of people look down on the royal family for behaving in a middle class way, but as a middle class random I wholeheartedly approve I think the being super thin and conservatively dressed thing comes with the territory. Can you imagine the stick the poor woman would get if she were a bit more like me, a squashy 12-14? Everyone would be saying what a shame it was that she couldn't make the effort, talking about the obesity epidemic etc etc.

Speaking of which, I really ought to make the effort as well

I like them. It might be because they're both our age, my excellent husband has lost his hair in the same pattern and I admire conservative styles of dress (!), but I can imagine that they are nice, well-intentioned people with a serious job to do. Well done them, and sooner then than me!

Her hair just looks well-looked after, and frequently blow dried.

She may have extensions of course, none of us will ever really know. But none of the pictures on this thread show or prove it. One of the before/afters up thread barely looked any different.

I have thick, coarse hair that is naturally full of air, but it can also look quite flat sometimes. When it was long and blow dried it was positive voluminous.

You just can't compare university days Kate with modern Kate. A team of professionals sorting you out goes a long, long, long, long way.