Years ago, on about Day 3 of the Stylelife 30 Day Challenge, I hit a roadblock. It says you should buy a new wardrobe and go to the dentist and have them whiten your teeth. I have always been embarrassed about my teeth, I have one dark front upper tooth that I almost lost in an accident, I'm lucky to have it at all. And overall my teeth are dingy from too much coffee and smoking. So I never really smiled, to avoid showing my teeth.

Rising to The Challenge was dispiriting. I spent almost a thousand dollars at dentists trying to get that tooth fixed. I had painful root canal and they drilled it open and put bleach inside the tooth then months later, another root canal to take the bleach out. It didn't change much. After all that money, and months of work, I had almost no results. I was poor and could barely afford the dentist, and for that kind of money, I could have bought a whole new wardrobe.

In those days, tooth whitening was expensive and was only done by dentists. That was only a few years ago. But recently I bought a package of whitening strips. Holy shit, after only 3 or 4 times, my teeth were visibly whiter, even my bad tooth. I can't believe that for a few bucks, I'm getting better results than my dentist. Whitening strips are a revolutionary invention.

Now don't go crazy, your teeth should not be pure white, that will look unnatural. But if you have stained teeth, you should go buy some whitening strips and try them out. I can't believe it took me this long to try them.