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A Celebrity Stylist's Honest Hair Journey

By Maegan Campbell |
A Celebrity Stylist's Honest Hair Journey

Maegan Campbell has spent 15 years in fashion, from New York Fashion Week to luxury houses and consulting for emerging brands. Along the way, she developed an instinct for what's real versus what's simply well-packaged. Ironically, the one thing she couldn't figure out for years was her own hair.

Dense, frizzy, oily in some places and dry in others, with what she calls an "Irish curl," curly in the back but never consistent throughout. She styled it constantly, colored it often, and still never felt like she had what she'd consider good hair. For someone whose entire job is helping other women feel their best, it's the kind of thing most people would never guess she was quietly dealing with herself.

Maegan's work sits at an unusual intersection: part business strategy, part stylist. Whether she's helping an emerging brand find its footing or dressing someone for a red carpet, it comes down to the same thing: staying ahead of what's next without losing sight of quality. She's there for her clients the same way, from a version of themselves they haven't quite settled into yet to the one that finally clicks in the mirror.

That click is something she's witnessed more times than she can count, and it's still the part of the job she loves most. Everyone carries some kind of insecurity, she says, but there's a specific, unmatched feeling in watching a client see themselves fully for a moment and feel mentally untouchable. It's not really about the clothes. It's about someone finally letting the outside match how they've wanted to feel inside all along, and Maegan has built a career on helping people get there. Her own philosophy is simple: why waste a moment being your own harshest critic, when you could just be happy in your own skin and dress like you mean it. Whenever a client hesitates over being too dressed up for wherever they're headed, she tells them the same thing: “Babe, you're wearing it to your life.”

She sees hair every day as part of that same intimate work, and she'll tell you it says something before a woman ever opens her mouth. When someone is losing a little of her natural shine, quite literally, you can see it. So when her own hair started feeling like it wasn't behaving, no amount of styling could talk her out of noticing.

She'd seen Danielle Bernstein's hair journey online for a while before she tried anything herself. Something about it felt more real and different from the usual noise in the supplement space. As someone who's vegan, gluten free, and sensitive enough to see changes in her skin and nails almost overnight depending on what she eats, she's particular about what she puts into her body. What mattered to her was that it felt clean, tested, physician-formulated, and vetted by real women she trusted, not another product riding hype.

She started taking Wellbel during a growth phase, shortly after cutting her hair, mostly out of curiosity. Within the first month of consistent use, she noticed her texture starting to shift. Not long after, people started commenting on her hair. The fullness kept building from there, and about a year later, she found herself working as a hair model for one of the largest hair brands in the world.

What convinced her Wellbel was different from everything else was watching real women share their own results, unfiltered, without the polish of a paid partnership. There is hype, she says, and there are lasting results, and the results speak for themselves.

The shift wasn't just about seeing hair growth or shine. Her hair finally started behaving, taking product the way it was supposed to, holding a style through a full day instead of changing shape by the afternoon. That reliability gave her something she didn't expect: the confidence to wear it down more, to stop fighting it, to let it just be part of how she shows up in a room. For Maegan, volume was never just about the blowout. It's the version of her that finally has the bounce back, in her hair and in the way she carries herself.

It also reinforced something she'd already started learning about her own body that year, that what shows up in the mirror is often connected to what's happening beneath the surface. For her, that meant discovering food sensitivities she hadn't known about and watching her skin change once she adjusted her diet. Her own hair health became one more reminder that lasting change tends to start from the inside, and that supporting hair health is rarely about one product alone.

If there's one thing Maegan wants other women to take from her story, it's simple. Stop comparing yourself to everyone else, and do what actually makes you happy. Pick one day a week to do something kind for yourself, whatever that looks like for you. And if you're the kind of person who researches everything before trying something new, her advice is almost too straightforward: at some point, the only way to really know is to try it for yourself.

Individual experiences with any hair journey can vary, and Maegan's timeline reflects her own experience.

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Maegan Campbell
Maegan Campbell is a fashion executive, celebrity stylist, and brand consultant with 15+ years of experience. She has styled celebrities including Bebe Rexha and Shay Mitchell and now helps fashion, beauty, and hair brands grow through celebrity, editorial, and retail partnerships.