my first nanogen experience

[30_going_on_60]

I was very excited to try this out as I had read so many great reviews. I took the plunge and ordered some. I could not have been anymore disappointed. Whereas dermatch allows for some subtlety this crap just made massive clumps of sawdust on my head...and it felt like saw dust...and came off as easily as sawdust. It would have been spotted and rubbed off within seconds of leaving the house. It looked so bad a stranger would do it.....of course I'd never leave the house looking like that. Too much of it comes out of the shaker despite my best efforts to have it come out slow, and it never goes where it's supposed to. It usually clings to the areas where my hair is fine accentuating the bald spots much more. My intentions were to subtlety cover the bald spots but if I'm lucky enough to get the sawdust to land there it turns it into nw0 super scalp with no scalp visible whatsoever meaning in order to make it look like I'm not using anything I'd have to cover my entire head. At that point I'd be better off buying a $5 Halloween wig. Now I spent a lot of money on this failure and will try again. I'm thinking of covering up the top of the shaker with plastic wrap and poking small pin holes to make it come out more sparsely....I also haven't used the spray which might help. I have 0 expectations at this point. Is there something g painfully obvious I'm missing like shaking the can vigorously before starting? Is there any way at all to make it look not so perfect? I've held it about 6 inches above my head and gently flicked it as a cloud went into the air and then I tried to have it land on my head. Any tips or advice? I have extremely short hair.

 

[Vinton Harper]

I was very excited to try this out as I had read so many great reviews. I took the plunge and ordered some. I could not have been anymore disappointed. Whereas dermatch allows for some subtlety this crap just made massive clumps of sawdust on my head...and it felt like saw dust...and came off as easily as sawdust. It would have been spotted and rubbed off within seconds of leaving the house. It looked so bad a stranger would do it.....of course I'd never leave the house looking like that. Too much of it comes out of the shaker despite my best efforts to have it come out slow, and it never goes where it's supposed to. It usually clings to the areas where my hair is fine accentuating the bald spots much more. My intentions were to subtlety cover the bald spots but if I'm lucky enough to get the sawdust to land there it turns it into nw0 super scalp with no scalp visible whatsoever meaning in order to make it look like I'm not using anything I'd have to cover my entire head. At that point I'd be better off buying a $5 Halloween wig. Now I spent a lot of money on this failure and will try again. I'm thinking of covering up the top of the shaker with plastic wrap and poking small pin holes to make it come out more sparsely....I also haven't used the spray which might help. I have 0 expectations at this point. Is there something g painfully obvious I'm missing like shaking the can vigorously before starting? Is there any way at all to make it look not so perfect? I've held it about 6 inches above my head and gently flicked it as a cloud went into the air and then I tried to have it land on my head. Any tips or advice? I have extremely short hair.

I had the same problem with Nanogen. For something so pricey you'd think they'd make it work better. But yeah, there is definitely something wrong with their shaker bottles or they changed their formula, because I used Nanogen a long time ago and didn't have the "clump" problem(just a problem with it falling off too easily), but then years later when I decided to try it again it came out in clumps, and it still didn't stay too well on my head besides, even with hairspray.

I don't know if there is anything you can do about it. It does sound like a spray maximizer(from the people who make Toppik concealers) might help you in getting the fibers where you want them. I used one for a long time. Well, actually I had two of them, one of the new single pump sprayers, and one of the older ones that look like a perfume sprayer.
I don't think you can attach one to a Nanogen bottle, but if you have an old Toppik bottle you can just pour it in there. I did that with my Hairsoreal fibers. Works pretty good. I don't know how the Nanogen fibers would work in it or if they are too fine and wouldn't work right, but who knows.

If it doesn't work well with Nanogen fibers, just get a bottle of Toppik or Hairsoreal(the only two kinds of fibers I've used that I know work), at much less cost than Nanogen anyway, and give it a try. Good luck!