What do the 2022 Earth Shot Prize Awards in Boston, Massachusetts and my 2011 form classroom at an all girls' school in Essex all have in common? The It Girl's combover almost reaching her ear, that's what.
The Princess of Wales attended the awards night for the environmental prize, founded by her husband Prince William and national treasure David Attenborough, during the couple's visit to Boston. The star studded awards took place this weekend and Kate surprised us with her deep combover side part on the green carpet.
Kate's 2022 take is decidedly more elegant and glamorous than the ones that dominated a decade of 00s hair. Though, how could it not be given the 00s version often involved not brushing your hair for months to achieve the perfect XL matted look.
Channelling Old Hollywood, Kate's glossy, liquid brown movie star waves were paired with a green dress, rented from platform luxury rental company Hurr, and emerald jewellery formerly belonging to Princess Diana.
Having tied her rental look to the environmental purpose of the evening, she and Wills took to Instagram after the event to congratulate the winners with a video, writing in the caption; "Introducing your 2022 #EarthshotPrize Winners!! The Prize celebrates groundbreaking solutions to help repair our planet and tonight we have done just that. Congratulations to all the Winners and Finalists of this year’s awards."
But of course we couldn't discuss the Y2K nostalgia of the the deep side-part without tracking down a snap of baby Kate back in 2005 with her mum, rocking the parting at the time.
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Long live Y2K.
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Elena Chabo is Cosmopolitan UK's former beauty writer, working on everything from buzzy celeb news and trending beauty, to sincere first-person reviews and engaging video content for social media. She also creates meatier features and expert-led how-to guides, for print and online. Her passion for Black beauty, textured hair, and the ways beauty interacts with culture, society, identity and relationships, quickly took over her writing career and led her into beauty journalism. Following an MA in Magazine Journalism in 2017, she cut her teeth across various roles at Stylist Magazine, before taking on a Digital Writer role at Good Housekeeping. It was here that beauty took centre stage and she launched and ran the site's first stand-alone beauty section. Remaining at Hearst, she joined the Cosmo beauty team in 2022. Find her on LinkedIn.
