I tried Kate Middleton’s hairdresser and this is the result

Am I sitting in the same chair that Kate Middleton sat in? Who knows … I’m from Richard Warda rather special hairdressing salon, which can boast a clientele not only VIP, but even Royal. Despite the impeccable confidentiality on the subject of customers, Richard Ward’s team has often been associated with gifts, indeed divine, hair look of the Duchess of Cambridge, including her wedding day tiara hairstyle.

Nestled in posh (posh) Duke of York Square, in the exclusive London neighborhood of Chelsea, the salon extends over two floors and is not quite a small and intimate boutique, but is indeed one of the largest independent hairdressing salons in the world. Europe.

The only location in Sloane Square has approximately 90 employees who work in multiple rooms – that of washing, color, styling and cutting -, and in various rooms where other beauty treatments are carried out – from nails to massages. , to acupuncture.

To my surprise, I even see a real bar / restaurant inside the hall. “Often our clients come in here in the morning and leave in the evening, like new after having had multiple treatments, so they take a lunch break in here,” explains an apprentice as he leads me through the hall of wonders.

Among the customers of the salon, in addition to Kate, Mary of Denmark and Princess Olympia of Greece

First, I do a consultation with the star hairdresser who will take care of my hair and my makeover: Cristiano Basciu, Richard Ward’s artistic directoras well as hairdresser for many princesses and VIPs – from Mary of Denmark, to Caroline of Monaco, to Duran Duran to Victoria’s Secret Angel Taylor Hill.

Cristiano, Sardinian by birth but Londoner by adoption, has worked at Richard Ward for over 26 years, enough to tell me my cut is boring and flat – as a nunto be exact – and to advise me on a scaling with curtain bangs, and a soft wave crease, because “defined curls have gone out of fashion”, she specifies.

I rely on his vision (because when I happen to go to a hairdresser where a trim costs 260 euros?) And, after a wash in the washing room and a pleasant nape massage, I go back to the chair for the cut – on this chair Marie-Chantal of Greece will have sat, perhaps?

Zac-zac, my hair is carefully thinned and styled by Cristiano, which makes the classic even cut I had more gritty, giving an unprecedented volume to my hair. What do you think?

Shortening hair is, alas, never an easy thing, but I like the result and it is very beautiful even once Chelsea Blow Dry has vanished. Thanks to the wise scissors of Cristiano, hairdresser of the princesses, and inevitable specialist in hairstyles with tiara. «The tiaras are very heavy, and you need a particular technique to create the hooks in the hair», explains Cristiano.

And I already imagine myself adorned with a precious chaplet, while, looking out from Buckingham Palace I greet the crowd with the white glove, but then I realize that the bachelors of the Royal Family have already been taken, and for George and Louis there is still to wait a lot’…

Kate Middleton, never out of place, who knows when to show off the standard bun