Mom Boss Monday: Diana with Rodan + Fields

My Experience with Rodan + Fields

Hi Little Prince Leopold readers! My name is Diana Bray, I’m Ayana’s sister’s, sister in

law (confused?), and Ayana was gracious enough to allow me to guest post about my

experience with Rodan + Fields, and decision to become a consultant. I know what

you’re thinking – another person who’s going to be posting on social media about

products I’m not interested in, and bragging about any income they earn. However, that

is not what I’m envisioning!

Let me back up a bit and explain how I heard about R + F and why I decided to try it.

I may have seen a couple random blog posts about Rodan + Fields in the past, but the

only one that really made me pay attention was Colleen Nichols from The Lunchbox

Diaries. She seemed authentic and not someone who would waste her time. Not to

mention her results were impressive! But having seen estimates of the cost

(~$200/regimen which lasts 2 months) I pretty much wrote it off. My mindset was, sure

I’d love to try it, but even if I loved it I wouldn’t want to continually pay that much for

skincare. And if I wasn’t prepared to commit to it, then what was the point in trying it.

At that time, I really didn’t know my main skin concern. Gradually over time I had

accumulated dark marks and freckles on my skin, but I also thought the darker ones

were acne scars. When I took pictures without makeup my skin didn’t look clear or

even, but I didn’t have pimples or acne per se. I also had fairly large pores on my

cheeks. Not to mention I was interested in beginning an anti-aging regimen (hello 30),

but I really didn’t know how to target all of those concerns. I couldn’t find many

resources on pairing over the counter products for targeting those concerns, and it was

too overwhelming to try to research on my own, especially with the fairly high risk that

they wouldn’t work.

Months past, and I continued paying about $120 for another skincare line (Simone

France, which lasted me about 3-4 months) that I liked well enough, but I stopped

seeing real improvements in my skin. My skin felt nice after I exfoliated, but its

unevenness/texture remained the same. Finally, when that ran out at the end of summer

I told myself I either needed to stop buying $100+ skincare, and either switch to

inexpensive products, or invest in a dermatology appointment to get their

recommendation.

However, given the fact my insurance wouldn’t cover a cosmetic dermatology

appointment, not to mention the products that they prescribe, I thought for sure I was

talking about hundreds of dollars worth of expenses. That’s when I started seriously

considering trying Rodan + Fields. First, when I looked up the regimen’s, the

before/after pictures I looked up online for Reverse seemed to address the dark spot

issue I was having, which really intrigued me because before seeing those I couldn’t

envision what I wanted my skincare to do. I also loved that they had a 60 day money

back guarantee, and I had read blog reviews which seemed to verify it truly was no-

hassle. The two factors that took me the longest to reconcile was the ongoing cost, as

well as the fact that R+F was a multi-level marketing (MLM) company…aka what I

considered a pyramid scheme. Honestly, if I could have bought R+F over the counter,

anonymously, I would have tried it a long time ago, but my negative stigma against MLM

companies held me back.