Hi ya’ll!
So I wasn’t really sure where or how to share my story. Just in a quick FB post or instagram picture just didn’t feel like enough to truly share my why and my love for this product. So here we go :).

If you’re seeing this then you’ve probably heard me talk here and there about Monat. My photography mentor Sarah started using it awhile ago and keep talking about it and talking about it and then she started sharing her results and I was stunned. I really couldn’t fathom how a shampoo could change her hair the way it did….I mean look…

So needless to say she caught my attention.

So I kept looking and I kept reading and I kept googling. If you know me then you know that I a) am usually willing to try new things and b) I can be super frugal aka I can be cheap but I do believe in quality over quantity. Like I’d rather spend $100 on jeans and have 1 pair then $100 and have 5. c) I google and read reviews like its my job. I went back and forth about even trying it because I didn’t want to spend the money and I still wasn’t fully sold that it would help my hair. I mean my hair wasn’t that awful. It felt like crap but who else was touching my hair besides me? I reached out to Sarah about maybe just one product that I could start with and she was super upfront and said….You gotta just jump all in. Because you need to get all the junk off your hair. She even said something along the lines of I hate to be one of those people that says you need it all…but you need it all so that you can get your best hair.

So what was my problem? My hair just kind of changed…like a lot after I had Caiden. It became coarse and stringy and frizzy. No matter how much smoothing product I used and how high I turned my flat iron (super bad I know! and I’m certain made my issue worse) I just couldn’t get my hair to look good. Right after Caiden was born I decided to stop coloring my hair because I thought maybe that was the issue. For almost 3 years I didn’t color it at all. I bought $100’s of dollars worth of products and still nothing helped. I was embarrassed and half thought that obviously I was doing something to my hair that was making it not great. SO I hid behind my top knot and pretended like I just wanted my hair like that. I mean couldn’t step outside without my hair poofing up from the humidity and the breakage….Ugh. I genuinely have had problems finding before and after photos because my hair was always up. Always. My hair continued to fall out since Caiden was born and honestly has mostly been breakage. My hair strands were just always weak and split ends happen almost immediately after I get a cut. I literally felt I was just going to have to accept this because there was nothing I could do.

Well my friend Kelli became a Market Partner and gave me some samples to try. She assured me like Sarah that I would be hooked but I still wasn’t sold. That is until that shampoo hit my hair. I was a lucky one and it was love at first wash.

This was my first wash…air dried…

Air dried! No flat iron…no blow drying! My hair looked better then it did when I typically took at least 25 mins trying to make it look smooth everyday before the inevitable pony tail…

What happened after my second wash?? I loved it even more…

This was my day 2 hair. After working and going to the gym. I showered but didn’t wash my hair and just had to quickly comb it. Life changing ya’ll.

My hair went from being course and stringy to smooth like buttah. My hair is fuller, shiner and just overall looks healthier since I started Monat. I can easily run my fingers through my hair and I don’t look like my hair is going to fly away at any given moment. I haven’t even had a hair cut (don’t worry I’m finally going this week!) so Monat has truly changed my hair. It is sooooo good.

My “detox” that is often talked about with Monat was brief. Just a couple weeks and it wasn’t anything crazy. It was a little dry…a little greasy but then all of a sudden the shine started and my hair is just sooo manageable.

When I first purchased I jumped head first and purchased a Market Partner starter pack…

I did this because it included all the products that I wanted to try plus more for the same price. Win win. I didn’t plan to build a business with this because I’ve already tried the network marketing thing with another company and it didn’t really work out for me. It was a great company with great products but I just couldn’t keep up with all the shipping etc that I was responsible for and ultimately realized it just wasn’t for me because I wasn’t passionate about it. Monat is different because I truly believe that our hair is a HUGE part of our identity and I truly want to share

But then I decided what the heck…Monat has literally changed my life. It’s changed my confidence. I feel so much better walking out of my house everyday. I feel like I look younger and healthier and am just so proud of where my hair has already come to so decided that I absolutely had to share this with everyone. This is a product that can help you if you have hair issues or can just help you use a natural based product to keep your awesome hair that you already have. Monat can help with coarseness, thinning, limpness, hair loss and so. much. more. So much more. If you truly love every single thing about your current hair regimen then maybe Monat isn’t for you. But if you have different hair goals then what you are currently getting through your current shampoo then Monat is an incredible option.

So what do I use?

The fab 4…its my jam!

I first shampoo with the black shampoo. It doesn’t really suds and that is totally normal. My second wash is with Renew and thats all normal suddys suds and then I finish it off with the Revitalizer. The oil? Gahhhh the oil is AH-MAZ-ING. I use it on my ends after most washes. I use a drop to smooth my strands. I will do a full oil overnight treatment about once a week. I’ve used it on my skin and my husbands (he had an awful rash from insulation that went away in a couple hours after putting the oil on). I also use Monat’s masque. I only use this once every 2-3 weeks. It adds protein to your hair but like any good thing a little goes a long way! I just recently added the Intense Repair Treatment to my regimen so I’ll let you know how that goes! Monat may seem expensive at first but once you learn about it and actual compare it to other products it really isn’t. Plus its naturally based which so many products are not.

Here is Sarah’s post about Why Monat because she highlights things so well. It’s a great read.

Another before and after just because…

My hair wasn’t awful but look how much better it is! And I have not colored it either! My hair is just rid of all the gross brassiness now.

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