Why I became a Product Junkie?

A product junkie is a person who keeps buying different hair products for their hair. I became a product junkie for a number of reasons.
1.  I became a product junkie because I did not know what my hair needed. 
2. I see people on the internet, blogs, hair forums, youtube, and friends that said this product work for them so I would go out and buy what they use. 
3. I was on numerous bandwagons like aphogee, dominican products, monistat, megatek, shapleys MTG, relaxer stretching, natural oils, ayurveda powders, sulfur challenge, castor oil challenge, cowash challenge, no shampoo method . . . You name it I was on every bandwagon.
4. I became a product junkie because products were on sale. 

I finally realize that a lot of the products I was using is not really working for my hair.  With all these products I was using I didn't see the results everyone was raving about. I wasn't focusing on the fact that everybody hair grows at a different rate.  It get me mad when I would not get the same results so I would keep going from one bandwagon to another to try to attain the results people were getting. Don't get me wrong, my hair grew a lot but I still had problems with extreme breakage, moisture problems, protein problems, detangling . . . 
I don't believe it takes having  80, 100, 120 products at once to have healthy hair! Because as of two weeks ago I had over 120 products for my hair. How sad? 
I am starting to understand what works for somebody else hair is not guaranteed to work for my hair. So there is no reason for my to run out and buy that particular product. I need to focus on what my hair needs for example protein, moisture . . . 
I will now do extensive research and only purchase sample sizes or the smallest size of products if I'm going to try anything new. And I will not have piles and piles of different shampoos, conditioners, treatments . . . when in actuality I'm not giving a product a chance to work for my hair because every wash I'm using something different and when I moisturize it is a different moisturizer.
The big draw back from this is that when something is affecting my hair in a negative way I don't really know what it is because I'm constantly using different products. 


Being a product junkie sucks!

Product Junkie Rehab update #1

Feb 24, 2012 I have counted all my hair products and I have over 120 hair products. This is is absolutely ridiculous! I had a mini beauty supply store at my house!

I feel like I only find 2 products that will absolutely be in my staple. It's sad that out of 120 products I have only  2 that will not live without. Don't get me wrong there are some stuff that I really like, but I think there is better out there. I feel like a lot of the products I have are just o.k and do not make my hair the way I want it to.
 So I came up with a game plan of curing my hair product addiction.
My plan is to use up a lot of my products, give some away and not buy anymore products until May 2012. I will only buy 5 products the max that I absolutely need. 


Today I went to the salvation army to inquire about a homeless shelter to give a way some of my products. I also let the lady know that some of them were used. She told me where the shelter was and I didn't know where it was so she took the box of hair products from me and will deliver it to the shelter because the salvation army is partner with the homeless shelter. So I gave 25 hair products to the homeless shelter and I gave away 12 other products to two of my friends.

So far I have gotten 37 products off my hands and I am still using up stash. I will update in another month and a half about all the products I have used up. I am on my way to be a recovered product junkie :)

NuNAAT

I have these two products in my hair product stash. My hair goal for now is to use up all my products and to cure my product junkie problem. 

For a good deep conditioner I mix these two products together and apply it to my dry hair  for a deep condition treatment. I go under the dryer for 30 minutes, then wash and condition and then air dry. Both products have a thick consistency and when applied to my hair make it feel soft. I notice that the first time I used both of them I have extremely less hair breakage. These both leave my hair extremely soft and I would definitely repurchase these products again once I cure my product junkism. 

*Just documenting what works for me so in the future I can always repurchase if my hair starts acting up.