The very first time that I ever had extensions was in 2020, and at the beginning of that year I had the best plan laid out. It was going to be the best year ever, right? I always start the year that way. I don't know about you, but a few months in, obviously, that changed very, very quickly, and it went from being this super awesome opportunistic year to a disaster, right?
So then, fast forward a few months. I'm feeling extremely disconnected from myself and really frustrated just with everything. I was going through multiple really big life changes that year and I felt very alone and very disconnected and lacking direction.
I was like 24 years old at the time, and everything that I had wanted to accomplish was suddenly up in the air because of the pandemic, and that was something I'd never been through before, as most of you hadn't either.
And it was a turnkey moment for me. I decided to try extensions because I wanted to feel better about myself. I had been practicing extensions on clients for years at that point. I think I'd been doing them for about three years, and so I was like, okay, it's time to give them a try.
I hadn't done it up until that point for multiple reasons, but the biggest one was my hair was too heavy. It was really short and I was curly and there were not a lot of curly extension products on the market at the time and so that had really kept me from trying them. I wore my hair curly just about every day and so but I really wanted to try them. I mean I put them into people's other people's hair all the time so I really wanted to join the bandwagon. I loved watching my clients reactions to how they felt with extensions and it made me want to try them also.
So I had an amazing extension artist put my extensions in and they were super comfortable. They matched my hair color gray. She did an awesome job blending them, and I hated them.
I hated how heavy. I felt like they were really heavy. I had a lot of extensions in my hair at the time. Way more than what I typically put in most of my clients, but I have a lot of hair, so I needed a lot of hair, and I hated how long they were. I just felt like I was. I had I got 22-inch extensions, and I'm 4 foot 11, so that is very, very long, and I was like super overwhelmed, which then overwhelming part of it is pretty normal. You're getting used to something new, right, so I figured with some time, I would adjust, and I would end up liking them. I never really did.
About five weeks in, I got sick with COVID, of all things, and the last thing I was dying, I just wanted to take them out. So here I am an extension artist. This is all I want to do, and I put them in my own head, and I hate them, so I know what?
Fast forward about a year.
The dust has settled. I decided to try this again. And this time, I went in very open-minded and ready to embrace the situation for what it was, which is something new, something new to adjust to.
I really loved my client's reaction. So I really wanted to join in on, you know, the excitement and the satisfaction of hair extensions, so I got a new set put in, and I loved them this time. They made me feel Fresh and like revived. I felt more like myself but a newer, better version of myself, a more adult version that I don't know. I felt a lot more secure, and even now, I wear them regularly for the better part of the last two years.
I've had extensions in More than I haven't had them in so they've been such a game changer for me and I think they'll be a game changer for you going into choosing
Choosing to invest in yourself is a commitment. However, we, as moms, tend to choose to invest in everybody else but ourselves. What you end up doing is doing everybody a disservice because you cannot pour from an empty cup.
Not that hair extensions are the answer per se , but my ultimate goal is to make one woman feel like herself again, to feel confident like she maybe never has or hasn't a long time ago.
I want you to feel that Powering, you know, the top-of-the-world feeling that you get when you feel like your best self, and therefore, you can live your best life, right?
And then you can be that person that you need to be for everybody else on day-to-day: the wife, the partner, the friend, the mom, all the many hats that we wear in you know, a single day.
You can do it with confidence and security. Because you love yourself, and hair extensions could be a key piece for that. How we feel about ourselves trickles into everything that we do, and it's super important to me to help impact your life in a positive way, and I can do that through hair extensions.
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