Meghan Markle recently talked about some hair struggles during the pandemic via PEOPLE.
The Duchess of Sussex recently opened up about how she tried to maintain her dark locks while the world was in quarantine in 2020 during the April 22nd episode of her Confessions of a Female Founder with Meghan podcast.
Meghan spoke with businesswoman and hair colorist Kadi Lee. She 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, the hair dye didn’t translate when it came time for Meghan to apply the look to her own tresses.
“Instead, it was this very inky, almost Elvira-esque black hair,” the mother of two 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.”
The two women became close friends, with Meghan going on to share that her and Harry’s two children — Prince Archie, 5, and Princess Lilibet, 3 — refer to her as “Auntie Kadi.”
“I mean, our kids love Auntie Kadi,” the With Love, Meghan star said. “It’s my favorite when they run out to your car. It’s like, ‘Kadi!’ “
Meghan, who has spoken in the past about her experience as a biracial woman, also opened 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.”
