Y’all!!!!!! OMG a million thank you’s to Mr. Mike! This will be a lengthy review, OVERVIEW- Meth User ~1/2 g daily, cocaine ~1/2 g (one-time less than 7 days before test), late 30s female, squishy (a few extra lbs over ideal weight), everyday bleach blonde (every 4-6 weeks or so but was last done maybe
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Y’all!!!!!! OMG a million thank you’s to Mr. Mike! This will be a lengthy review,
OVERVIEW- Meth User ~1/2 g daily, cocaine ~1/2 g (one-time less than 7 days before test), late 30s female, squishy (a few extra lbs over ideal weight), everyday bleach blonde (every 4-6 weeks or so but was last done maybe 10-14 days prior to this), pre-employment test that I assumed would be a urine only to find out 2 days before that it would be hair!!!
Washes- 3 FULL washes, probably 3-4 Nexxus/Clean&Clear, and 4-5 more Nexxus only washes in between 2 rounds of bleach (30v & 20v), low lites (20v), and toner twice (20v).
Timeline- 24 hrs pushed back to give me only about 36 hrs from first wash til I arrived at testing!
Outcome- Pass!! Thank you so much Mike!! Worth every dime!!
So on a Monday I ordered the Nexxus plus zydot (didn’t know this was meant for thc users at the time). Received package on Tuesday afternoon. (Test was scheduled for Wednesday @1 pm) In the meantime I started looking around the website more and reading more info/reviews and thought “I’m screwed, I don’t have enough time!!!” So I just barely was able to postpone test, but only by literally hours!!! (Scheduled now for Thurs. @ 1030 am) Ok, so I procrastinated long enough and finally did my first complete wash late Tues evening. Very lengthy process, but not bad like I had anticipated- just time consuming. (I had purchased all items required while awaiting package.) My hair felt sooo freaking clean!! Ok so I planned to stay up all night doing the 15 washes as website suggested, but fell asleep!! So next was day 2 of procrastination (it’s Wed. 24 hrs til test and I’m…… ONE wash in….) :/ So I start the second wash…. Ok, again not too bad just takes a while if u are following instructions correctly. It’s now Wed evening and I’m freaking out!! I finally CALL Mike!! He was so great and spent way more time w me on the phone than I expected/required from him, y’all he was wonderful!!! However, didn’t make me feel too good about my situation!! That is not meant in a bad way!! He just kept it real with me and said “u have to get in as many washes as possible tonight, stay up all night right til ur test, but basically this is the only ‘chance’ you have…” He was right- I knew I was screwed from the beginning (due to timeline) so I had nothing else to lose basically!! Plan was to wash all night (no prob since I was still using!!) and bleach and color (add some low lites which would be my typical routine) early in the morning before test. Here comes the down side…. Sis!!! Let me tell you!!! This third wash- my scalp was beginning to burn!!! Ok…. So I’m finally feeling what I expected based on reviews… burned badly, but it’s all part of the process right??? OMG- I would later WISH I could feel this sort of pain instead of what was to come!! Due to the pain honestly it took me much longer for third wash… next thing I know it’s like 2 am… so I know I’m screwed and I just decide to wash with nexxus, apply astringent, leave in for as long as I could tolerate the burning (I kept hair wrapped in clean towel during this) and then I immediately repeated the nexxus/astringent for maybe 2-3 more washes….. I now have no time for the bleaching and actually contemplated just stopping there bc I was sorta ‘over it’ at this point…. It’s maybe 5-6 am and I just push through and start my bleaching process which I typically would do over a 2 day period but can be done in some hours…. So here we go!!! Bring on the MF-ing pain!!! Wow. Never in my life have I felt so much pain!!! I’m pretty tough I must say, I wasn’t crying, but my eyes were pouring tears without me even realizing it bc of the pain!! I started to feel queasy then very nauseous….. I absolutely Do Not recommend doing this THE WAY that I HAD to unless ur gonna lose ur kids!!! It’s brutal y’all!! So lemme wrap this up- bleached basically twice bc I couldn’t stand to leave bleach on the required time to make my hair look normal (not yellow)…. THIS IS PAINFUL, yet somehow still not the worst pain!! (First with 30v, 2nd round 20v) then I added my low lites (level 7/8 with 20v) and also toned twice with wella toner/20v (this was the real pain!! I mean by this point it was round 4&5 of using developer onto my scalp after all the hell I had already put hair through) Everything up to this point was tolerable- even the nausea and uncontrollable tears, there are no words to describe this pain. Torture. Imagine you’re down in some abandoned buildings basement duct-taped to a chair, someone asking u answers to calculus problems and u quit school in 6th grade!! So I’m just running on a hope and prayer and of course I’m late…. I arrive at testing around 1145- make up some BS about my tire, flirt with the guy and he gets me back to cut my hair…. (All while rambling about these meth users that typically come in here and judging them blah blah blah *EYE ROLL*) Now at this point my scalp was freaking oozing stuff out of it, in fact I fixed my hair curly(nappy) bc I just KNEW they would realize what I had done and see all the stuff oozing out and redness if it was just straightened (the sun exposure during the 10 ft walk from my car to inside the office was hell all over). But he cuts my hair- 5 different tiny sections (nice, Ty for not doing one huge bald spot!) evidently doesn’t notice my scalp (whew!!) and…. Through his rambling I find out…. Wait for it…. I’m literally the last person they will be using hair follicle tests on!!!! Not for the day or week, like change in policy- the very last person scheduled before they switch to swabs tomorrow!!! I couldn’t make this up if I tried!! So to wrap up the longest review ever- I started job the following morning….. been working everyday since!! I was told results would be back no later than 3 days (that following Tues) and not one word has been said and I’ve been to HR for several reasons since (they all know me by name so if there was any hold ups or issues it would’ve been addressed by now which is why I waited for this review). So in short- be cool, stay in school, take calculus and DO NOT try this at home with 36 hrs or less!! Unless… you’re a generally good person that has had some bad luck or haters and ur about to lose ur kids all because u like to have ur version of ‘coffee’ everyday, but besides that u are a productive member of society that works and pays taxes, carpools the neighborhood kids to soccer on Tuesdays, and hosts girls night once a month where y’all bake cookies for PTA and do facials with overpriced beauty products while sipping cheap wine!!
Side Notes-
*I continued to wash with the Nexxus during my bleaching. So each time I washed before the next bleach/color/tone session I used only Nexxus.
*I have short hair, not even quite to my shoulders….. I used almost 2 whole bottles of the clean&clear… In fact I even used it as last part of actually fixing my hair before the test along with my curling product. (I think it gave my hair more curl!!) I wasn’t sure how much to use, but since it is such a strong chemical I figured it may be my best shot (not discussed with Mike so not sure what his thoughts are on this).
*I have about 1/2 of my bottle of Nexxus left!! Even after ALL those washes I did, but again short hair!
*I can’t stomach the smell of original Tide to this day! Reminds me of duct tape and basements…. :/