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How Do The Royals Look So Polished?

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KnackeredSheep · 06/05/2023 19:02

Watching the Coronation today and couldn’t help but notice that all the royals just look so well polished.

Camilla looked glowing and healthy, but pictures of her from her first marriage, she looked like a fairly average lady of her age.

Same with Kate. She has always had good bone structure, nice hair etc, but since she married into the Royal family she just looks great.

I eat well, exercise, have a good skin care routine, drink lots of water - all the things you’d think would help but I can’t imagine ever looking as well polished as any royal.

What is their secret? Is it as simple as hair and make up done for them, or am I missing something?

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Theunamedcat · 06/05/2023 19:03

A few million to spend is what your missing

ThePoshUns · 06/05/2023 19:04

Money

Clariana · 06/05/2023 19:05

£££££

NoSquirrels · 06/05/2023 19:05

Money? A lifestyle where there’s minimal stress - all the mundane day to day shit taken care of?

Mustardandchickensandwiches · 06/05/2023 19:05

Hair dressers, makeup artists, beauticians, stylists and personal shoppers.

EatTheDamnCake · 06/05/2023 19:05

Yep. It'll be the limitless cash I'd say

35965a · 06/05/2023 19:05

Moneyyyyyyyy

Newusernameaug · 06/05/2023 19:06

Adrenechrome

KnackeredSheep · 06/05/2023 19:06

I’d love a few million in the bank! But what are they spending money on? What are they buying? Is is certain products, paying people to do hair and make up or is it just stress free life knowing that the nanny will take the kids to school and they haven’t got to put up with annoying colleagues for 7 hours a day?!

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BarelyLiterate · 06/05/2023 19:07

You mean apart from lives of leisure, frequent holidays, access to the best diets, the best health & fitness facilities & training money can buy, limitless clothing & grooming budgets and dozens of flunkies to make them look good?

NoSquirrels · 06/05/2023 19:07

Also, people on hand to literally ‘polish’ you - none of them needed to iron their frock or struggle with their blow dry or shine their shoes or worry about booking the taxi or round up the kids or or or …

Tinkeytonkoldfruit · 06/05/2023 19:08

Team of nutritionists, chefs and nutritionists, stylists, hairdressers, skin care specialists, personal trainers, make up artists, nannies (to look after their kids so their not knackered) and a shit ton of money. A bit like other celebrities a big part of their actual job is to look 'polished'.

LadyKenya · 06/05/2023 19:09

Mustardandchickensandwiches · 06/05/2023 19:05

Hair dressers, makeup artists, beauticians, stylists and personal shoppers.

As well as nannies, personal trainers, a dietitian, and chefs. There is so much at their disposal that all helps. They have the resources to pay for it all.

LadyKenya · 06/05/2023 19:10

Oh @Tinkeytonkoldfruit beat me to it!😁

Sudeko · 06/05/2023 19:10

There were pap picture of Sophie leaving her hairdressers a few weeks ago looking less-than-polished. She looked great today though. It's money and effort (well, the effort to turn up to appointments, I'm sure the thinking side of it is all delegated).

TellHimDirectlyInDetail · 06/05/2023 19:11

They'll each have their own massage therapist, personal trainer, dermatologist, chiropractor, physiotherapist, beautician, dietician, nutritionist etc. And not just a standard one but the most qualified and luxurious in the whole world.

NoSquirrels · 06/05/2023 19:11

You ‘eat well, exercise, have a good skin care routine, drink lots of water’ - but presumably you have to plan the menu, do the shopping and prep the food, rather than a nutritionist, a housekeeper and a chef doing the grunt work. You exercise when you make time - not whenever you feel like it, with a top personal trainer. They’re not doing the shit the rest of us have to do to, because they can pay not to.

Begsthequestion · 06/05/2023 19:12

Lives of unearned luxury and leisure I would guess.

LadyKenya · 06/05/2023 19:12

They really would just look like regular, everyday people without all of that help imo.

Sudeko · 06/05/2023 19:13

Yes. no going out for a run in public once the kids are in bed or negotiating with DH to mind the kids for an hour while you put an app workout on. Everything slots beautifully into place without a second thought.

LadyKenya · 06/05/2023 19:14

Also there is a lot to be said for wearing clothes that fit well. So tailor made clothes could make someone look a million dollars.

Marchintospring · 06/05/2023 19:14

Loads of people have access to those sorts of things and don’t look polished though. Loads of photos of the rich and famous looking skanky as they get out of cabs or going shopping.
In addition every item they wear is judged as is every thing they do. I think it’s more that they always have to make an effort. Literally part of the job.

RandomMess · 06/05/2023 19:15

Imagine being fed delicious healthy meals all day every day with no thought or work involved!

Having the the time to exercise everyday at a reasonable time.

WithIcePlease · 06/05/2023 19:15

It's a quality that it is hard to pinpoint I think.
At a local festival, I was looking at the crowd by a tea tent when a woman appeared that almost seemed to have an aura/halo effect. Wearing a flowery tea dress - nothing that special - but for some reason she looked like a different species from everyone else milling about. I then realised it was Sophie Ellis Bextor.

Still no clue what it was that made her stand out so much.

I think they are taught some secret!

Sudeko · 06/05/2023 19:16

You mean like following the teachings of Mesmer?