Chaunte V.: A story of sisterhood, stress, and hair health.

Growing up alongside 3 sisters, hair was part of the fabric of girlhood for Chaunte. “It was very Little Women,” she says. “Each of us had completely different hair.” Spending time getting ready together was essential to their connection. “It’s part of our culture,” she says. “Hair is part of that feminine experience that you have with your sisters.”

For years, Chaunte was known for her rope-like braids that had become part of how she moved through the world. “I always got compliments on how thick it was and how wavy it was,” she says. “It was part of my identity.” Furthermore, good hair is essential to Chaunte’s job. As a photographer, “I work in a visual industry, so I care about my hair looking good when I'm on set,” she says. 

Chaunte’s hair started to shed; she’d been seeing more in the shower drain and in her brush. “I noticed my hair started looking thinner and my braids were not looking as thick as they used to be,” Chaunte says. “It was just coming out in ways I had never experienced before.” 

The change in her external appearance affected her on the inside, too. “It was me no longer recognizing who I was and how I moved through the world,” she says. “I knew that I wanted to do something about it,” she says.

The context behind the shift was deeply personal. Chaunte's mother had passed away 2 years earlier, right around the time the hair thinning and shedding began. 

Stress is a key root cause of hair thinning. The stress hormone cortisol signals hair follicles to prematurely shift out of the hair growth phase, accelerating the time it takes for hair to shed. Over time, stress can also disrupt hormones and nutrient absorption needed for hair growth. 

Chaunte’s sisters had also been experiencing increased shedding around the same time, but at first, they all hid it. Chaunte says. “There was a sensitivity and an embarrassment in that, that none of us wanted to talk about.” 

“Stress is a part of our life,” says Chaunte. “It's never going to go away. Taking original Nutrafol Women is a way for me to handle those stresses and not see so much hair shedding.”

Chaunte heard about Nutrafol on social media, and she decided to try Nutrafol Women (original formula), a daily hair growth supplement physician-formulated for women with standardized vitamins, minerals, and natural ingredients to target key root causes of thinning such as stress, lifestyle triggers, and nutritional gaps for faster-growing, thicker, fuller, stronger hair.^1,2

Soon after, she began to notice changes. Her baby hairs started growing out.“It's done wonders for my hair,” Chaunte says. “I feel it looks much thicker. I can put it into braids or a ponytail.” 

Chaunte wasn’t the only one to notice. “I was on set and someone said to me, ‘Your hair is so long,’” she says. “Someone at the gym even asked if hair was a wig because it's so dense.”

Chaunte says incorporating Nutrafol Women* into her routine has been simple. “It’s a routine that’s very easy.”

Before Nutrafol, she was spending a lot more time on her daily routine, pulling her hair back into a bun to hide the thinning. Now, she says, she doesn’t have to do a “15-step hair regimen” to get the results she’s looking for. “Now I can just comfortably go through my day-to-day with a much shorter hair routine in the morning.” Plus, she can feel confident wearing her hair down, the style she prefers. 

For Chaunte, the bigger shift is about agency. She changed her approach, and the approach changed everything else. “I chose to take Nutrafol to create the change I was looking for,” she says. “And I'm really grateful that I did.”