Chaniece
Hairqare lab is NOT for Black hair, so save your money
Updated as I joined the 500 dollar a year program "Hairqare Lab": I wouldn't invest in the Hairqare Lab if you have really thick curly hair (especially Afro-textured hair). I wouldn't say it's worth the almost 500 dollars at all. There is very little support, and I am assuming they have a very small team that cannot handle all of the questions that everyone has, which leaves you feeling like you are talking to a blank wall because a lot of the other community members are not active enough or are not knowledgable enough to help on a lot of the topics either. (I thought just MAYBE this would be better on the paid end. It is not. If you scroll through the questions, A LOT are left unanswered because there is only one woman going through them and I guess she checks the forums once or twice a week). I think for the price to be worth it, either customer service should be more active, or they need some type of live Q&A session at least once a month. Additionally, on top of the yearly subscription fee there are video modules that try to upsell you on their other "99 dollar" e-books, which I wasn't a big fan of. I was surprised even their "2 week meal plan for hair" was 99 dollars. That seems like way too much money even if you are trying to save time, esp since you can find meal plans created by dietitians online for free or probably even just throw your needs into ChatGPT and have it create something for you. Either way, I would say if you have afro-textured hair, just save your money. The 14 day challenge is worth it to learn more about exploring homemade product options for your hair, learning about silicones and sulfates, learning about good products that work for your hair but after that... I hopped onto YouTube and within a few seconds I found women with all the important information that you really need when taking care of black hair (the importance of detangling, how to prevent water damage, hair porosity, pre-poo, stretching the hair to prevent tangles, diet/water/exercise/stress etc). My background is I have been taking care of my hair since 2006 and got it to grow out long (used to barely pass my shoulders when straight) and it just stalled around waist-length (stretched), so I didn't come into this challenge completely clueless, which is probably part of my disappointment. But I have to rate a 3 because after following some of the advice I did a split-end check and for the first time it seems my split ends have gotten WORSE. So yea...don't follow advice from non-black people about black hair. I will be taking some of the information I did learn and combining it with the more helpful info on YouTube, but I would say overall the information that was helpful I wouldn't have spent more than 100 dollars on.




