This is Why Kate Middleton Likes to Wear Hairnets
David Craig When you think of Kate Middleton, you think of perfect hair. She rarely has a single strand out of place and never has her hair styled looking anything less than impossibly bouncy. But it's because she has a trick up her sleeve, or rather, a trick on her bun: a hairnet. The inexpensive hair accessory is actually the ideal tool to keep a neat royal bun looking, well, neat and royal.
The internet was abuzz this morning when it was discovered that Middleton wore a hairnet at the June 10 Buckingham Palace flypast to mark the 100th birthday celebrations of the Royal Air Force. Only when you use CSI-level zoom can you spot the net—and that's exactly the intention.
A hairnet can keep a low updo in place for several days since it doesn't allow the hair to droop or unravel. This isn't the first time Middleton has won one: she was spotted back in October 2016 wearing a barely detectable net over a neat chignon.
It's entirely possible that Middleton kept the same hairstyle she wore to her son Louis's Christening on Monday to the event on Tuesday. As a busy mother and royal, she probably doesn't have time to sit with a glam squad for hours each day. A hairnet comes in handy since it allows her to keep an updo in place overnight and throughout a busy day.
You can shop packs of hairnets on Amazon for less than $7 on Amazon, if you too want to steal a beauty secret from the royals.
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Jenna Rosenstein is the Beauty Director at Harper's BAZAAR across both print and digital. While attending NYU, she held internships at Women’s Wear Daily, Bloomingdale’s, Harper’s BAZAAR, and Allure, the latter of which she parlayed into her first job as the Beauty Assistant. She left Allure three years later as the Senior Beauty Editor. She spent a few months at Refinery29 overseeing branded content in the same title, before finally landing back at BAZAAR to manage all beauty content. When she's not testing every lipstick known to mankind, getting zapped by new lasers, or interviewing experts and celebrities, you can find Rosenstein at home in New Jersey with her son, husband, and black cat named Maddie.
