Just like Us, Meghan Markle relied on at-home beauty fixes during the pandemic shut down — and no, her attempts to do it herself didn’t go well, either.
“Because it was the pandemic, I kept ordering boxed hair dye,” Meghan, 43, recalled during the Tuesday, April 22, episode of her “Confessions of a Female Founder” podcast. “I thought, ‘I’m going to look just like she does on the box.’”
The Duchess of Sussex revealed that wasn’t the case. “Instead, it was this very inky, almost Elvira-esq black hair,” she said with a laugh. “I had texted [stylist to the stars] Serge [Normant] and he said, you have to see Kadi.” (Elvira, a.k.a. the mistress of the dark, is famous in the horror world for her long, jet-black hair that is teased at the top.)
Meghan shared the relatable hair fail while remembering how she first met Highbrow Hippie founder Kadi Lee in 2020. She recalled turning to stylist Normant to find Lee, who had just opened her salon in Los Angeles when the world shut down amid the pandemic.
“It was very much 2020,” Meghan said of the time period, noting, “I remember that day so well.”
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Lee couldn’t agree more, saying the day she arrived to fix Meghan’s hair — wearing full masks for protection — is “so vivid” in her mind. Lee recalled getting a “big bear hug” from both Meghan and her husband, Prince Harry.
While Meghan admitted her 2020 hair color wasn’t ideal, makeup artist Daniel Martin exclusively told Us Weekly that the duchess is “so good” at doing her own hair and makeup when she’s out on the road.
He pointed to her looks during her May 2024 Nigeria tour as proof. “I feel like when I’m not with her, she has more room to play,” Martin, who did Meghan’s royal wedding glam, exclusively told Us at the time.
The professional stylist explained, “I think that’s the fun thing when you see her, like, she’s in Nigeria right now” to celebrate the Invictus Games’ 10th anniversary. “It’s just her. There’s no stylist, there’s no hairdresser,” Martin added. “She’s doing everything herself and she’s so good at it.”
Meghan’s relaxed and natural beauty looks and love of doing her hair date back to her early years — as does her passion for creating something herself.
In fact, Meghan revealed earlier this month that her foray into the business world came when she was just 11 and she made her own scrunchies from leftover fabric pieces.
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“I’d buy the remnants of fabric from the fabric store and elastics and use my little home sewing machine to make scrunchies and sell them,” Meghan told Fortune in an interview published on April 8.
The As Ever founder previously talked about her early business acumen in a 2021 appearance at The New York Times DealBook Online Summit, remembering when she sold her homemade scrunchies for “five bucks.”
“I remember the feeling of knowing that I had done something,” Meghan said during the event. “I had invested in myself and done this labor and been compensated for it. There’s a sense of pride that comes from that.”
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