One unfortunate bleaching incident after another left my hair weak and unmanageable, with a new career looming in my future I set off to Royal Pair Salon to find Candace Post. Coming highly recommended from a friend and confidant, Candace seemed an expert in her field and went right to work when I got there. After a short discussion and a few polite suggestions, she seemed completely confident and capable of turning the mess Id made into something beautiful.

You know the feeling when you leave a salon and the style you are walking away with just.doesnt.feel.right? When you wake up the next day and wonder if youll ever find the right cut? Throw all of that out the window. Candace took all my hair anxiety away, gave me a kickass cut and color and I left feeling like nothing short of a million bucks. It takes a real artist to be able to do what she did and I dont see myself trusting anyone else to chop my locks again.

Thank you Candace!


Royal Pair-
800 E 6th Ave
Denver, CO 80218
(303) 698-4444

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Standing 5 foot 9 inches, Ive always been one of the tallest women in my peer group, a fact I enjoyed until I found myself as also one of the largest. Weighing at one point, over 200 pounds, I knew that I was in trouble.  My family suffered from my inactivity and my body was a wreck. I was winded walking up the stairs and wrestling with my three young boys became not only difficult, but impossible. I was dying and I was going to leave my family with a very large casket bill and a huge hole to dig. How did marijuana help me lose over sixty pounds and get into the best shape of my life? Let me explain. Dealing with the pain of an autoimmune disease left undiagnosed, I was prescribed massive amounts of narcotics and antidepressants. On top of those, they added large doses of mood stabilizers of every flavor. Uppers. Downers. Numbers. Zingers. The hard stuff. The klonipins and the xanax and anything else the doctor could think of. Pretty soon, I was addicted and dependent on these medications to simply live through a day with tolerable pain. It never went away, no matter how many 750mg Vicodin I took in a day, which was sometimes upwards of ten or more. To look back on all of this, makes my stomach turn. To know Ive spent so many years poisoning my body uselessly, is frightening and I worry daily when those years will catch up to me. I found myself on no less than eleven mood altering medications a day, all of which included a little disclaimer from the doctor who said “Some people gain weight on this, so watch what you eat.” Sure, a pound here or a pound there is one thing, but when you stack 11 drugs atop each other and each of them is going to make you gain five pounds or so…. You get the point. I was fat. I was unhappy and I was in an amazing amount of pain. This dark time in my life also brought out the worst in me, as depression often does. Suicide seemed the only option for me and though I am not proud of my behavior at the time, I am thrilled I made it through and am much stronger for it. So how did marijuana help me do it? First, medicinal marijuana allowed me to stop the mood altering medications and start living a life free from the haze of them. The eleven medications that gave me constant worry, constant doctors appointments, hospital visits and stress are all a thing of the past. The narcotic pain medications that notoriously cause weight gain were removed from my diet and I no longer feel like I am living my life six feet under water.Kicking the dope was hard, but I had an amazing support group and Baby Daddy was there the whole way through. Medicinal Marijuana saved my life and changed my body. I certainly have to worry about the stuff I eat, since marijuana often causes the enjoyable side effect of the “munchies.” The chance of overdosing on oreos remains high, but I am no longer risking my life and health for the opportunity to live pain free. Sure, it may not do the same for you, but marijuana is much safer and much healthier for your body than opiates and narcotics.

Make the right choice and go all-natural.

Tell me, How has marijuana helped you?

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