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Armyqt said:
LD, I think the Aphogee is what threw it off. Also my hair is super fine. When I put the Intense in my hair, the comb just falls through my hair. the next time u use it, try it alone, without the protein.
I have a ? for you. How often do u use the Aphogee? I thought this stuff was for people who had severe breakage?
Sounds like you're getting alot of growth quick. How much of the bitoin are u taking and how long have u been on them? I take 5mg and been using them for about 2 weeks now.
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ArmyQT I TOTALLY agree with you 100% /images/graemlins/smile.gif This is why I'm not going to throw it away and give it another go, because with the Curl free gold activator I hated it at first and not it's become my best friend. It wasn't that bad but because of the aphogee I know that i didn't get the full benefit from it.
To answer you question I haven't used the Aphogee in over 6 months. I used it because of the relaxed hair/new growth syndrome I'm experiencing right now. I checked my diary this morning and it's been approx 6 weeks since my last touch up. Can you believe I was going to go as far as April, but I can barely manage 2 months and was really trying hair to go a lot longer, but the more "pressure" I put on my hair trying to get it to behave the more damage I'm inflicting on it, especially with the brush and smoothing the hair and the hairline and the nape (which I'm very paranoid about). I've tried it all and decided today to do a touch up. I've inspected the new growth in the mirror, just so I don't touch up for the sake of it, and it needs one again. I'm not too happy about it, but in the long run I'll suffer more damage trying to get the comb through it without loads of hair coming out.
I've been back on the biotin for about 3 weeks consistently and take a minimum of 5mg a day. I do take the marine protein by elite which is about $7.00 for a month's supply (comparable ingredients to Viviscal) but right now I only seem to down one of those a day. I'm not doing anything fancy with the vitamin regimen at all because I notice when i take NOTHING or very small amounts I get better results than when I bombard my system with everything under the sun.
I think I am going to add a centrum (one a day) Supplement today and carry on with the biotin and marine protein. I also want to add MSM back again to soften the new growth so that i can go that bit longer till touch up time and also add the twinlabs again, because that was a good source of protein which I have been lacking lately. I want to find a good oil supplement to take again (maybe EPO) again which i found made my skin radiant, and also I think, made my hair feel softer too.
Sorry for the rambling girl /images/graemlins/grin.gif