The Great Hair Product Graveyard 🪦 · Rinoure Natural Hair Education

18d (edited) • MELANIN-RICH SKIN EDUCATION ⚠️

The Great Hair Product Graveyard 🪦

Let me tell you about my friend Keisha. Beautiful. Smart. Melanin poppin'. ✨ Type 4c hair that could defy gravity on a good day and the laws of physics on a bad one. 🌀

Keisha's bathroom looked like a product graveyard. I'm talking:

14 half-used curl creams (none of them worked) 🧴
9 edge controls (her edges said "no thank you") 🚫
23 oils (because if one oil is good, 23 is better, right?) 🫒
A leave-in conditioner from 2019 that she SWEARS she'll finish 📅
And my personal favorite: a $47 "miracle" butter that smelled like someone's basement had an identity crisis 💀

Every time I visited, there was a NEW product. A new brand. A new influencer who promised THIS one was different. 📦

"Girl, this one is specifically for Type 4 hair!" she'd say, holding up a jar like it was the Holy Grail. 🏆

Two weeks later? Same jar. Same problem. Different disappointment. 😤

One day I asked her: "Keisha... have you ever stopped to think that maybe it's not about finding the RIGHT product... but understanding what your hair actually NEEDS first?" 🤔

Cue the dramatic pause ⏸️

"What do you mean?" she asked, side-eyeing me like I'd just suggested she cut it all off. 👀

"Like... do you even know if your hair needs moisture or protein right now? Do you know what's causing the breakage? Are you just throwing products at problems you haven't even diagnosed?" 💧

Y'all. The LOOK on her face. 😳

She got quiet. Then she hit me with: "So you're telling me I've been out here buying solutions to problems I don't even understand?"

BINGO. 🎯

Here's the thing, Melaninaires: Most of us are Keisha. 💁🏾‍♀️

We're not lazy. We're not careless. We're just trying to fix things without actually understanding what we're looking at. 🔍

So we end up:

Buying actives for skin barriers that are already compromised 🧴
Layering protein on hair that's begging for moisture 💧
Following routines made for someone else's biology 🧬
And wondering why nothing sticks 🤷🏾‍♀️

It's not a product problem. It's an interpretation problem. 🧠

Most people don't fail because they didn't try hard enough. They fail because they skipped the clarity phase and jumped straight into solutions. ⏭️

That's why I built the Clarity Continuum. Not to tell you what to buy—but to help you understand what your hair and skin are actually communicating before you change anything. 💡

Because once you understand the pattern, the decisions get quieter. Cheaper. Smarter. 🎯

No more product graveyards. No more "maybe this one will work." 🚫

Just context first. ✅

If this story felt uncomfortably familiar... you're not alone. And you're not behind. 💎

👇🏾 Drop a 🪦 if you've got a product graveyard of your own AND tell me—what's the oldest product currently sitting in your bathroom? Let's see who's been holding onto that 2019 leave-in! 😂

3 comments