Making
Peace With the Price of Healthy, Great Looking Hair
May 18, 2013
I just
spent $250 on my own hair products. This may give you sticker shock
( I would fully understand if it did). Did I eagerly spend the
money....not exactly. Was I smiling when I clicked "process payment
now"....no not really. But I do accept that success begets greater
expense.
When my hair was much
shorter 1oz or 2 oz of product went a long way. But my hair goal
was for longer hair (Goal 1 was chin level, goal 2 was shoulder
level, goal 3 was below shoulder level and my current goal is mid
way between my shoulder and elbow). As I have achieved my
goals I havehad to increase the purchase sizes of my orders
(i.e buying 64 oz of product at a time) because it simply
takes more Aubrey
Organics GPB Conditioner or Curlisto Deep Therapy
Masque to treat my now longer hair. So when you think about it it's
kind of a luxury dilemma to have (welcome to Zoe Saldana's world).
I estimate that I will spend about $1000 on Curlisto Deep Therapy
Masque alone this year (okay less if I catch a few sales like I
just did today but there won't be a sale every time I run out of
it). And believe it or not I am making peace with that $1000
expense. Why? Because I saw what life (i.e my hair) was like when I
went a few months without budgeting that expense in. My hair didn't
do all the things I like for it to do - hold my curl definition as
long, resist breakage, have shine etc. There are other products in
that category where when I omit then from my routine - a hair
rebellion takes place which is no fun for me and I doubt my hair is
having much fun either.....struggle ensues, grooming time
increases.
We all have our thresholds
as far as what we are willing to pay to maintain healthy, great
looking hair - it is different for everyone. But once you know what
your hair really requires to do it's thing healthily - making peace
with that dollar amount for those products is really a pretty good
idea.
