Confessions of a product Junkie

Hey Curl Hey!!

So you know that moment when your realize you have way too many products and you're just like " ugh I have a problem" You just admitted that you are a product junkie. Admittence is the first step to recovery right? Not really. I realized, admitted and accepted it a long time ago, but that helped nothing. In fact it may have made things worse . I bought every new product I saw a YouTube guru use and tried every homemade recipe I could find. My closet was just full or natural hair stuff. When you first go natural it's hard not to become a product junkie because you are in search of the products that work great for your hair. In order to prevent having a closet full of products I tried to commit to using up all of my products before I bought new ones. That didn't work. I mean what is the point in doing that if the products dont work for you. Your hair just ends up looking like poop until you used up all the products. I refused to throw all of the extra products away, so I decided to start giving all of my extra products away. Thankfully my roommate is also natural and gladly accepts the products I don't want. Being able to get rid of my extra products only made my product junkie-ism worse. I now had a way to get rid of my products and I always have room for new ones. With all of those products and home recipes to try out there what is a curly girl to do? It's an expensive habit, and since I'm just a poor college student I either needed a miracle or some incredible self control to prevent using up all of my money on products. One day on one wonderful afternoon while perusing natural hair forums I found something called Curlkit and another similar company called curl box. It was like the clouds opened and angels began to sing. Each box comes with 5-8 samples or products from different natural hair care lines for only $20 a month ( it's a monthly subscription) . Many of them not even in stores. I quickly subscribed to both. Curlbox was more of a hassle to get on to due to their limited time to subscribe on one day of the month. Curlkit was a breeze to sign up for though. Eventually after a few months of being dissatisfied with curlbox (both the products and the owner) I unsubscribed though . I am still with Curlkit though and I love it! It gets better and better every month! It's great because I get to feed my inner product junkie and I don't have to break the bank. The things in the box are worth more than $20 so it's really a great deal. So my advice to any frugal product junkie is just subscribe to a box. There all kinds of them out there whether you want natural hair products or makeup just Google it! You might be surprised at what all you could subscribe to.