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Meghan Markle and Lady D, or when eyeliner becomes a communication weapon

Curiosity to the stars for the interview given to Oprah, the queen of the American talk show, dto Meghan Markle and Prince Harry, already given for “shocking”. While a preview of the conversation is available on YouTube, you have to wait Sunday 7 March for the full broadcast, with a two-hour prime-time special scheduled on CBS which – we can put our hand on fire – will be very popular. In the meantime, we want to focus on a detail noted by the journalists of “Glamor USA“: The eye makeup with eyeliner by Meghan Markle in this uncensored chat.

Intense and dramatic, it remembers in all respects the eye makeup with eyeliner (in that case blue) of Lady D, when in 1995 he released the famous interview with the journalist Martin Bashir of the BBC, upsetting public opinion (and the royal family) with his candid phrase “There were three of us in that marriage”.

POWER EYELINER, WHEN EYE MAKEUP BECOMES A SECRET WEAPON
In the preview of the interview, Harry names his mother Diana: “I can’t even imagine how difficult it must have been for her to go through this process alone,” she comments, referring to Diana Spencer’s moment of truth, when in the mid-nineties she asked for separation from her husband Charles, who was in love with another woman. , breaking a great taboo for the royal family. “It was incredibly hard for us too, but at least we were together and we could support each other “. Sitting next to Harry, the splendid Meghan Markle, with a diamond-encrusted bracelet on her wrist, inherited from Lady D, her belly rounded by sweet expectation. The make-up focus is completely on the gaze, while the lips are naked, hydrated with a transparent lip balm. In the frames of the interview we see the camera approaching the eyes bordered by one often stretch of black eyeliner. And that’s where the déjà-vu effect kicks in, bringing us back to Lady D’s interview in ’95 and her equally intense eye makeup. On the other hand, as the psychologist Elena Welcome, «Highlighting the gaze on the occasion of a sort of official moment of truth like this undoubtedly has a high symbolic value. It is always said that the eyes are the mirror of the soul, and in fact it is so ».

MEGHAN MARKLE, RITORNO AL BEAUTY LOOK PRE-BUCKINGHAM PALACE
Not only that: in pre-court times, when she was still an actress, Meghan Markle loved intense eye makeup and often chose the smokey eye as her look day and night. Then, after the Royal Wedding, she began to opt for more and more often neutral beauty looks devoted to naturalness. The fact that for this important interview, carried out many miles from Buckingham Palace, Meghan has returned to her origins, seems to coincide with a personal rebirth, in the name of freedom.

In gallery, Some of unforgettable makeup looks by Lady D and Meghan Markle. United by a beauty free from the dictates of the Court and destined to last.

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