8 months journey update (Month 1 vs month 8)
21m. I was extremely consistent from month 1 to month 6, which is when I saw the most progress. I think it was in month 3 when I tried to grow something that could actually be called a beard.
No dermatamping. During the initial period, I was only consistent with minox twice a day.
For the last 2 months, I've applied minox maybe 10 days out of the whole 2 months. I just got a bit lazy and more or less always forgot to apply it. But my beard still seems to have stayed the same. No beard loss was noted.
I'm planning to restart applying minox consistently again as I still have certain spots (especially the cheek to mustache area) which I feel still have baby hairs.
P.S. My face looks a bit lean as I lost a bunch of weight by following a strength training plan and also by being in a caloric deficit. I'm not sure if this helps, but during this time my protein intake was super high (over 140g per day). Again, I'm not sure if this helped with the beard progress, but I've read hair is basically protein so thought of mentioning it here.