Meghan Markle has opened up about how she attempted to maintain her dark locks while the world was in quarantine back in 2020. During the April 22 episode of her new Confessions of a Female Founder with Meghan podcast, Markle revealed that box hair dye left her looking like ‘Elvira’ during the pandemic.
Markle discussed the relatable memory with Kadi Lee, her friend and co-owner of hair salon Highbrow Hippie in Venice, California. Markle shared how she came to meet Lee amid the pandemic through hair stylist Serge Normant.
“He and I became friends after he did my hair for my wedding,” Meghan said of her 2018 royal wedding to Prince Harry. “So my family had just moved to California. We were staying in our friend’s home. And because it was the pandemic, I kept ordering boxed hair dye. And I thought, ‘I’m gonna look just like she does on the box.'”
However, that’s not exactly how things turned out.
“Instead, it was this very inky, almost Elvira-esque black hair,” Markle recalled. “And I texted Serge, and he said, ‘You need to see Kadi.’ And you came over. I mean, we were masked and all the things. It was such an interesting time, but I remember that day so well.”
After that the pair developed a close friendship, and haven’t looked back. and the pair, who have since developed a close friendship, haven’t looked back. Markle went on to share that her and Harry’s two children — 5-year-old Prince Archie, and 3-year-old Princess Lilibet, — refer to her as “Auntie Kadi.”
“I mean, our kids love Auntie Kadi,” the With Love, Meghan star said. “It’s my favourite when they run out to your car. It’s like, ‘Kadi!’”
Markle also opened up on the podcast about her struggles to maintain her hair during her college years.
“When I was at Northwestern, and I moved into Kappa — our sorority there — I don’t even think they made plug-in flat irons at the time,” she shared. “If they did, I didn’t know where they were because I had the little stove with the flat iron that would go in and have a paper towel on the side.”
“And I remember most of the girls in the sorority who were not Black saying, ‘What’s that smell? Is hair burning?’ “ she added. “And it was just what you would do to figure out how to grapple with this texture of hair.”
In an essay in 2015 for Elle, Markle reflected on being biracial.
“While my mixed heritage may have created a grey area surrounding my self-identification, keeping me with a foot on both sides of the fence, I have come to embrace that,” Markle wrote in the magazine. “To say who I am, to share where I’m from, to voice my pride in being a strong, confident mixed-race woman. That when asked to choose my ethnicity in a questionnaire as in my seventh grade class, or these days to check ‘Other’, I simply say: ‘Sorry, world, this is not Lost and I am not one of The Others. I am enough exactly as I am.’ ”
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