Regarding the outfit, I loved the skirt and the shoes....the top not so much.
Regarding Meghan's hair...when she does these messy buns I am thinking she is doing them herself with no stylist. Maybe on the way to the event in the car? Like the initial plan was to wear it out and straight and because of the wind and rain she put her hair up?
Evolving door...when you mention chemicals..I assume you are referring to constant hair drying and/or hot curling irons. I don't think Meghan perms her hair. But yes I can imagine that the constant washing, drying and heat on her hair could have damaged it while working on Suits. That why a lot of women of color who are in the entertainment industry were weaves, wigs, and hair pieces. Think Beyonce, Viola Davis, Queen Latifah, etc.
Like Meghan...its going to take a while for her hair to adjust. I know it sounds silly but my fellow women (of all races but specifically woman such as myself who are African American)...it is possible for your hair to have a mind of is own when it comes to different temperatures. I am originally from the DC area and would wear my hair out 9 to 12 months of the year. During the hot summer months, it was back in a bun with a lot of gel. I now live in SE Alaska (Juneau to be exact) and we get more rain than Seattle! And now I wear a bun with a lot of gel six months out of the year.
I think once Meghan gets into her groove with her engagements, her styled and her hair will make the necessary adjustments. I imagine her hair had a big adjustment from California to Toronto and now to England.
No, not blowdryers or hair strightners. Meghan hair is naturally kinky (or very curly), unless she uses a strightner everyday or other day, she most likely - for many years now I would assume as she seems to keep during holidays too according to pics- does a long term straightening (there’s many names to it, Japanese, Brazilian, Keratin, so forth).
in order to cause the hair to pretty much “die”(mainly because hair is already dead) and lose all natural volume and shape a chemical (whose name in English escapes me) is used.
It pretty much demadges the hair, hence why you have to take extra special care and love to your hair.
I have seen horror stories about this being done wrongly, you can literally lose batches of hair, falling off, leaving parts of your head with bald patches. Not pleasant or pretty.
The good part about it is that you don’t have to use blowdryers and heat straighteners because the hair is always straight.
Bad part: you killed your hair.
When done over a long period of time, like when oxidizing your hair to turn it blond, it could and often does ruin your natural curls. So even if she’s stopped using those chemicals her roots may be far too demadged, so any new sections will not look as her original hair did. She’s may end up with a far less curly hair. It to mention it can take months if not years for her roots to repair any damage done to them- if at all.
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Frankly, I think Meghan's more relaxed style is part preference and part necessity to match Harry.
The bulkiness around the waist was not really the coat’s fault and there really wasn’t a way to get around it. The coat was a belted coat, and it should’ve accentuated the waist but for the dress underneath. She wore a dress with a bow on the side in the front. And in that case, any coat is going show bulkiness at the waist unless she went out there without a coat, which wasn’t going to happen in London in November.
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