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I'm a Hairstylist. My Own Hair Was the One Thing I Couldn't Fix.

A client complimented it and I changed the subject as fast as I could. Here's what I was actually hiding, and what it took to stop.

By Ashley Brooks, Hairstylist  · (7 min read)

A client complimented my hair last spring. "Can I ask what you use? It's beautiful."

 

I thanked her and changed the subject as fast as I could.

 

Because under the blowout I'd given myself that morning, I was hiding a bald spot the size of a quarter.

I'm a hairstylist. Hair is the one thing I'm supposed to have handled. Mine wasn't.

I Used to Think I Knew Exactly Why This Happened to Other Women

For two years before that morning, I watched this happen to client after client, all of them a few months into GLP-1.

 

I remember one specifically — I'll call her Danielle — standing behind her chair under my studio lights, watching her scalp catch the light through a part that used to be a neat, thin line. I remember thinking, almost smugly, that she probably wasn't taking care of herself the way she used to.

 

I never said it out loud. I didn't need to. It was in how automatically I'd recommend protein and biotin — a reflex, not real advice. A Band-Aid handed over without actually looking at the wound.

Then I Started GLP-1 Myself

Three months in, standing in my own bathroom, I found the exact thing I'd spent two years quietly dismissing in Danielle: hair in the sink. A part I didn't recognize. A scalp catching the light.

 

I did everything. $22 for a biotin supplement. $58 for the "clinical strength" protein powder my derm's office sells. $40 for a hair-growth vitamin with five-star reviews. I didn't skip a single day.

 

It got worse anyway.

Here's what nobody tells you about losing your hair when your entire job is doing other people's: you spend more energy hiding it than dealing with it.

The Morning Danielle Noticed First

A few weeks after the compliment I couldn't accept, Danielle caught me off guard mid-appointment. "Everything okay? Your part looks different lately."

 

The client I'd quietly judged for two years was the one who noticed before anyone else did.

 

I laughed it off, finished her color, and went home and sat in my car in the driveway for ten minutes before I could go inside.

That was the night I stopped trying random things and actually looked into what was happening.

What I Found at 2am

I found a 2014 clinical trial. Randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled — the real thing, not a marketing claim. Participants took pumpkin seed oil daily for 24 weeks.

 

The pumpkin seed oil group grew measurably more hair than the placebo group.

Then I found a second one. A 2023 study, published in a peer-reviewed dermatology journal, tested a standardized saw palmetto extract in 80 men and women with hair thinning over 16 weeks.

 

The treatment group saw hair fall drop by up to 29%, hair density increase, and a measurable drop in blood DHT levels — while the placebo group got worse.

Two separate studies, two separate ingredients, both pointing at the same thing: DHT, not nutrition.

Neither one had anything to do with protein or biotin.


Both pointed at the same hormone: DHT. Reading deeper, the mechanism clicked into place.


Estrogen acts like a shield for hair follicles — protecting them from DHT.


GLP-1 causes faster weight loss.


Fat tissue helps produce estrogen, so losing fat means estrogen drops too.


With less estrogen standing guard, DHT reaches the follicles and attacks them.


The follicles shrink a little more with every cycle — until they stop producing hair at all.

 

None of what I'd spent three months trying had anything to do with any of that.

What a Room Full of Stylists Confirmed a Few Weeks Later

Weeks later, I sat in on a continuing-education seminar I almost skipped. A dermatologist was giving a talk on hormonal hair loss trends in patients on GLP-1.

 

Halfway through, I realized she was describing exactly what I'd lived through, and exactly what I'd been watching in my own chair for two years.

 

"None of this is about nutrition," she said. "Protein and biotin don't touch DHT. That's why so many of your clients feel like nothing is working."

 

Afterward, I caught up with her by the coffee table and told her I had one more question, if she had a minute.

 

"You told the room what's happening," I said. "You didn't tell us what to actually buy."

 

She paused. Longer than a normal pause.

"I don't say that part from a stage," she said. "Not because there isn't an answer — because there is, and it's made in small batches. It already sells out every three or four weeks as it is. If I say a name in front of forty stylists, it's gone by Friday, and it won't be back for a while."

That wasn't the answer I expected. It also wasn't a no.

I told her I wasn't going to let it go.

She finally said a name: NutraEssence. Then she told me something I didn't expect. "I'm on GLP-1 too," she said. "I've dealt with exactly what you're describing. That's part of why I don't say the name from a stage."

 

The person who'd just explained this hormone shift to a room full of stylists had lived through it herself, quietly, the same as me.

What Waiting Actually Costs

Then she said the part that stuck with me most: "The longer a root stays under that pressure, the smaller and weaker it gets. Past a certain point, it stops being reversible."

 

I thought about that drive home from Danielle's appointment. How close I'd come to just waiting it out.

Every month spent guessing isn't a neutral month. It's a month those roots don't get back.

What I Actually Switched To

NutraEssence is what I switched to.

✅ 2,000mg pumpkin seed oil — the ingredient behind the 2014 clinical result above.

 

✅ 200mg saw palmetto — the ingredient behind the 2023 result above, blocking the DHT that's already circulating instead of just limiting new DHT from forming.

 

✅ No proprietary blend — every ingredient amount printed on the label.

 

✅ No fillers — nothing diluting either active ingredient.

 

✅ Third-party tested — verified, not just claimed.

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What Actually Happened, Month by Month

I want to be honest with you, because I would have wanted someone honest with me three months earlier.

Week 2: I Stopped Needing the Blowout Trick


Not because I was cured. Because there was less to hide.


Week 5: I Stopped Checking the Drain


A habit I'd had for months — glancing every morning, bracing for it. I realized one day I'd stopped without deciding to.


Month 2: Danielle Asked Me What Changed

 

"You look like yourself again," she said, mid-appointment. I told her the truth this time.


Month 4: The Compliment I Could Finally Accept


A different client, months after that first one, looked at my reflection and asked the same question. What do you use on your hair?

This time, I told her everything.

I think about Danielle's chair a lot now. Two years of quietly judging her, and she's the one who caught what I couldn't see about myself.

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What Other Women Are Saying

Karen F.  - 55

 

"My stylist told me about this after noticing my part. I had no idea GLP-1 could even do this, let alone why."

Angela W. - 68


"Started GLP-1 last year and assumed the thinning was just something I had to accept. Wish I'd known sooner."

Brittany C. - 71


"Spent months on protein and biotin before anyone mentioned the hormonal piece. A few months into NutraEssence, baby hairs along my part."

Dr Samantha R. - 62


"I've started asking every GLP-1 patient about their hair now, not waiting for them to bring it up. Wish I'd been asking two years ago."

⚠️ A Note on Availability

NutraEssence doesn't cut the dose to stretch a batch further. Cold-pressing yields less oil per batch than cheaper extraction methods, and third-party testing adds more time on top of that.


That's 8 weeks minimum per batch.


They sell out 3-4 times per year. When they're gone, there's a 6-week wait for the next batch.

 

Right now, they're down to 157 bottles.

 

What happens when these sell out:

 

❌ 6-week wait minimum for the next batch
❌ 50% price increase on restock (manufacturing costs went up)
❌ No Amazon. No stores. Only through their website.

 

They have BOGO offer running right now.

 

If you're reading this and there's still stock available, I'd grab it now.

 

If you see "SOLD OUT"—you waited too long. Get on the waitlist.

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Two Paths Forward

Path 1: You close this page.

Tonight, the same routine that's already told you it isn't enough.

 

Tomorrow, the same thing to hide before your next appointment, meeting, mirror.

 

Next week, still telling yourself it's just something GLP-1 does, without knowing why.

 

Six months from now, still changing the subject when someone compliments what's left.

Path 2: You look into what's actually causing it.

Tonight, five minutes instead of another vitamin.

 

In a couple of weeks, the shedding starts to ease.

 

In a couple of months, it feels different in your hand.

 

Six months from now, you tell someone the truth when they ask, instead of changing the subject.

I wish someone had told me this before I spent three months hiding it — the same way I used to quietly judge the women who sat in my chair.

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