You ever sit back and just think? Like, REALLY think!! Drink in your surroundings, your life up to this point and how exactly you got where you are, kinda thing…??!
Never in a million years did I think I’d be slinging shampoo. No, but really…. the journey here is surreal and bizarre!!? I had a REALLY good job. One I LOVED!! I never struggled getting out of bed for it and the people I worked with were amazing. My boss understood me and we just flowed.
3 years ago was the beginning of my IVF journey. We had been trying for over a year and I had already done 6 months of Clomid and it was wreaking havoc on my hair and skin. My hair felt like hay! It was dry and brittle and was starting to fall out. No amount of hot oil treatments or expensive shampoo could tame this mane.
I’m a Leo, my hair is my crown so when it was off, I felt off. I know that sounds vain, but it was true. I ALWAYS struggled with my hair. Its curly (like spiral curly) so it was a process to get it looking nice every day. I’d shower, blow-dry in sections, straighten, THEN take a curling iron to it to polish off the look. I had the routine down pat and I knew how to make it look awesome. When that started to go out the window I felt insecure. My hair was starting to match how I felt inside. The fertility drugs were taking their toll and I was starting to feel defeated all around. That journey alone was hard enough, I didn’t need hair issues on top of that.
My old roommate started posting on Facebook about this “magic shampoo”. Truth be told I was skeptical. I used a VERY good salon brand and I had a graveyard of products under the bathroom sink already. I think every girl can relate…. you try new stuff and meh… you wind up keeping them for gawd knows what reason??!!! Maybe we think we’ll use them up later, or they would be good for the spare bathroom…?? Either way, I could prob cash that graveyard in for a few hundred dollars worth of half-used bottles that were just sitting there!! Ugh…
I finally messaged her. She told me about all these fabulous stories where her and her friends washed their hair and it was magically amazing. Uhhhh…okay?! Ye-ah right! I thought she was exaggerating (insert the eye roll here). I’m a hard cookie to crack and this stuff you buy online cannot be THAT good. But she kept posting. Before and afters, text messages from more clients talking about how wonderful their hair was…. 1 month of watching these posts I cracked and messaged her. She told me to jump on board and get a further discount by selling it because I prob had a few friends who could use it and why not get my shampoo for free at least? Made sense to me!!
I logged on, clicked the button and boom. I was a “Market Partner”. I had INSTANT buyers remorse!! I thought oh my gawd… maybe I should call and cancel my order?! I should have just signed up as a VIP. I overspent. $#it!! Every excuse NOT to do this came to mind and i wanted to return it so bad!!! Every day till that packaged arrived I felt like I made a mistake. Maybe it was my skepticism, or the fact that I was buying a house the very next month – EVERY penny counted!!! Shoot…. that was more towards the down payment and here I was being reckless.
Well, let me be 100% honest with you here… this shampoo was not magically amazing for me. I had a rough go. It took me about 4 months to REALLY love it. You see, hair issues are an indication that something internal is going on. Digestion issues, hormones, poor nutrition, stress, medications, dehydration, lack of certain vitamins (just to name a few) all lead to hair problems. 6 months of clomid was rearing its ugly head and my digestive system was off. All the excess hormones I had taken was combating whatever effect this shampoo was trying to fix. This wasn’t going to be THAT simple for me….
And then one day it was like “POOF”…. here is your new hair!! It was less wirey, super shiny and felt smooth. I no longer had to pass the straightener through it 3 times to get it looking flat and smooth. At this point my IVF journey was just getting started and the drugs continued, but I think back now and wonder what my hair would be like if I didn’t use this hair-line. I’m really not sure if I would still have hair on my head today??!! Yet-alone long, shiny, beautiful hair!! I honestly get compliments on it daily (well when I leave the house and comb it – that is!) LOL
These drugs are not out of my system just yet, and my hormones still need to level out from this pregnancy, but I know the best is still yet to come. Now THAT excites me!!!!!!!
It REALLY is confidence in a bottle. It’s more than “just” shampoo…
My Life. My Journey. 
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