The Most I've Exercised This Month, Trying Out Experimental Topical Actives

8:49 PM

For the most part, I wasn't productive for the majority of the day, but I did exercise for a couple of hours today, so that more than made up for it. I did 60 leg raises, 60 crunches, 60 side crunches, and 60 bicycle kicks today (as well as a bunch of other exercises), which are the most ab exercises I've done in a seriously long time. I don't know why I ever stopped doing ab exercises, I think they just got really painful and annoying to do.

One thing is true though, I still have never regret any time that I did these exercises. Even though the exercises can be painful, energy-draining, and annoying to do, I always feel good after doing them. It's just really hard to see any results from doing this though, you basically have to do it every day for a long time, plus have the perfect diet, for any results to be visible. The results are cumulative and only appear after many weeks. Stopping exercising completely halts or even reverses progress, especially if you eat terribly without exercising.

Fitness is really annoying because it takes a lot of hard work and a very long time for any results to show, and you have to keep doing the exercises and eat a proper diet to maintain the results. It's similar with facial topicals.

Facial topicals are things you apply directly on top of the skin. Some of these topicals are absolutely miraculous in how they work, I can't even explain it. There is also a lot of conflicting information online, even doctors, aestheticians, beauticians, dermatologists, people who are experts in the field of beauty, will say incorrect things.

Having experienced tremendous facial aging and facial damage from minoxidil, and having read through hundreds of users posts who experienced the same side effects, I can't rely on any advice from any beauty expert, because they know significantly less than me on this subject. I've even read posts where someone who suffered from this side effect and brought this topic up with their beauty expert like doctor or dermatologist, just got laughed at and dismissed. It's terrible.

I know these experts are just relying on their studies and information, and though there are many studies in-vitro (cells in petri dishes) where minoxidil would damage and age fibroblasts and collagen, they get dismissed because they're not in-vivo (real life). There's only one study which showed tremendous darkened eye circles and eye bags from minoxidil use, but it's hard to find, AI found it for me and I read through it and looked through the horrific eye bag pictures, I wasn't able to find again though through a search, but anyway, it had the worst darkened eye bag photos I've seen in my entire life.

Also, these beauty experts have a lot of stuff to contend with. They know a lot more about specific things in their craft, like about the different dermal layers and the names of the cells, and probably the skin matrix and just a lot more stuff like that, but I researched a lot more on practical skin healing and minoxidil related subjects.

So I've hired tutors before, but because I would do a decent amount of reading on whatever subject it was, honestly many times I actually knew more than them. I hired them to teach me things, but nothing they taught was new. The reason I hired tutors, was because I had an excellent experience with one named Marek, I am using his real name but I don't remember his last name, the first tutor I hired. I don't remember where I found him, but he was a genius, a brilliant programmer, seriously, this guy was a wizard.

Marek pretty much made all my other tutors afterwards look bad. I tutored other people for fun for a bit after too, and I think I was a good tutor, I learned from the genius Marek. Anyway, Marek just knew the answers to everything programming related. We would code games together, and he would teach me how to make a game engine from scratch. Insane. I don't even remember his lessons now, I'm not able to do what he taught me now, but we made different games, and everything he did was magic because everything worked so brilliantly. We added debugging mode into a game we were working on to be able to troubleshoot it better, like, that's pretty crazy.

But yeah, after Marek, I hired other tutors, and no one taught me anything new. I was so disappointed in every one. So, even though I would hire other tutors, Marek never ran out of things to teach me. I could have kept on hiring and learning from Marek, but for some reason we bifurcated, I'm not sure why.

But anyway, from that experience of knowing more than tutors, I learned that I could learn everything on my own, and become even more of an expert than other experts in any field. I've experienced it many more times in my life where I would simply do research on something, and go to an event or lesson or whatever was related to what I researched, and everything the expert said I already knew. It's like signing up for swimming lessons when you already know how to swim, they will try to teach you the basics, but you already know it all.

It's the same with beauty. It's why I didn't go see a dermatologist. It is arrogant to say, but in the past few months I have spent hundreds of hours, probably over a thousand hours, reading up on things related to beauty. I read an entire book on microneedling. I have also spent thousands of dollars on beauty related items and cosmetics, yes really, thousands of dollars. If I could take a picture of all the beauty stuff I have, it's a lot, several boxes of them, basically everything, a lot of them expensive, like I have two items that are over $300. Anyway, I have read literally thousands of posts on content related to beauty, you can probably name a cosmetic product or procedure and I have read about it or even have it.

The most interesting thing I have come across, is a product called Volufiline. This opened a whole new cosmetic rabbit hole for me, one that basically no one knows about. There are entire words and products you can do a search for on Reddit, and it would yield 0 results, it's fascinating no one knows about this stuff I recently discovered. Volufiline yields results and even YouTube videos on it, but just very few, very few people have heard about it or used it. It's something I got my hands on recently and it is working. It's fucking wizardry on how it's working.

So, this cosmetic rabbit hole I am talking about are patented and copyrighted cosmetic topical actives that have miraculous results like Volufiline, and yet no one is talking about them. There's no mention about them in basically anywhere. So I haven't tried this product yet, but I have ordered it. It's called "Actigym" and it is a topical, something you apply just directly on the skin, and it is supposed to have the opposite effect of Volufiline, it is supposed to burn fat. There's literally no videos on this product, there are no Reddit posts on this product, no results, nothing, it's unheard of, right now. It's been existing for many years already though, and there are some brief mentions of it on Reddit, but no entire post dedicated to it, no one asking or posting about it.

There are many products like Actigym and Volufiline. I've read up on some and ordered some. I ordered these from this website where you can buy direct raw ingredients used in cosmetics. I don't even know how this company exists, but it's quite amazing, there's no other service I can find like this anywhere. I can literally just order raw Actigym or raw Volufiline or raw Adifyline (another cosmetic used to build fat), or any raw vitamins or plant extracts used in cosmetics, or any raw emulsifiers, it's pretty crazy.

So Volufiline is somewhat popular, and the reviews for it are mixed. There are many people who say that it doesn't work. I can guarantee you that this shit works. People just honestly don't know how to take proper before / after photos to review their appearance changes. The lighting, angle, camera location, camera angle, everything has to be the same. It helps if you can wear the same shirt and make the same expression in the photo as well. But yeah, taking before and after photos, I can guarantee volufiline works, the people saying it doesn't, just can't see it day to day. I really can't tell either, from day to day, whether or not it does anything, but when I look at before / after photos from a week ago, it's a tremendous difference.

I uploaded a photo of my eye from a week ago on the left, and a few days of volufiline on the right. It's literally just a week of difference, and my eye became a lot puffier. I applied it there because I thought my eye was hollow, well it wasn't and it just made my eye puffy. I admit that the before photo looks better, but people say the results from volufiline are permanent. They're not really permanent, they just take many months of applying some other creams to get rid of it, so it's hard to get rid of. But I sort of like the look, because it sort of makes me look younger when looking at my overall face, I think.

This difference is really hard to notice in reality. I can barely notice this difference when I look in the mirror. Again, this is why before and after photos are important, because day to day changes are extremely hard to notice. So yes, I can attest 100%, that Volufiline works. Anyone that says it doesn't, I think is just delusional. It's the same people who say that minoxidil doesn't cause facial aging. I can literally look through the r/minoxbeards subreddit and not everyone, but most people there have skin aging and damage from minoxidil, and they are just not noticing it.

Here are some extremely prominent skin aging examples from that subreddit, keep in mind these people are "happy" with their beard progress and not noticing their facial aging and facial damage at all:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Minoxbeards/comments/1kk1dqi/4_month_progress_30m/

https://www.reddit.com/r/Minoxbeards/comments/1khru93/3_months_in_for_context_im_29_about_to_turn_30/

https://www.reddit.com/r/Minoxbeards/comments/1kknoof/3_months_update/ (this person uploaded their After photo first, and their Before photo is the second photo)

https://www.reddit.com/r/Minoxbeards/comments/1kdr57e/3month_update/

I gathered these and many more examples from a few months ago directly from the front page. Even today though, I can look right on the front page, and see the obvious skin aging from people's before and after photos, and yet if you bring up the idea of any skin aging in this subreddit, you will be downvoted and be gaslighted that it doesn't occur at all.

You have to ignore the beard and only look at their skin texture and quality, look for any color changes or deepened wrinkles or nasolabial folds, dry skin, enlarged pores. Literally all of them have significantly worse skin aging after just a few months, deeper wrinkles, deadened skin, and these people are posting happy posts about how they can grow a beard now, completely not seeing their skin aging. Incredible.

I don't want to correct them. I've already brought it up enough times, and each time I brought this subject up, I was downvoted to oblivion. The people replying to me saying there is no such thing as aging from minoxidil, receive many upvotes while I get shot down into the negatives. Are these people blind?

I don't know if I am still going through minoxidil aging damage or if I have fully recovered already. I have applied so many creams and cosmetics to my face and done so much the past few months. I think I look pretty okay now. But, I did go through a horrible nightmare for a time, and I am still not mentally okay from it. I have a hard time smiling or laughing now because I try to avoid creasing my face. When people greet me or talk to me, I give them a deadpan expression. The wrinkles and nasolabial folds I used to have still give me nightmares. The selfies I have involving them are horrific and nightmare inducing. I'm used to not making any expressions now.

But yeah, I can't wait for the Actigym and Adifyline to arrive. I'm going to try the adifyline on my face, and the actigym on my torso and thighs. Funny enough, there are two products on Amazon that use Actigym, and they have decently good reviews that the product actually works. One of them is the Power and Tone Massage Gel by DivaStuff, and it has reviews from 2015 and 2016, but nothing later. It's really incredible no one has heard of this stuff. I have no idea if it works either, there are no before / after posts of this stuff, again, practically no one has heard of it, there are no reddit posts on it, no YouTube videos on it. I'm going to try it out though. We'll see if it does anything.

Maybe the Adifyline plus Volufiline would be too much though. Maybe I should just stick with the Volufiline, already knowing that it works. We'll see though. I want to restore my buccal fat and malar fat, as well as restore fat to my nasolabial fold area, because these were destroyed through minoxidil and fasting. I only fasted because I thought that would reverse these minoxidil changes, but no that made them worse. There was no point to fasting at all. Also yeah, I know the names of the different facial areas now, and the different bones of the face, I picked up a lot of stuff reading thousands of hours of content related to beauty.

Anyway, that was my day today.