How to grow thicker facial hair?

Not sure if this belongs in this section but I was wondering how to increase facial hair growth. Right now I can't grow a beard and that's not right.
I can tell it's helping a little with nofap but want it to be faster? Is it because of possible low testosterone?

 

One heard of some creams and pills bUT that's a little wild

 

It's all genetics and age. Some people won't be able to grow a full beard at any age. Most people will but the age they're able to do it at will vary - for one guy it might be 18, another guy it might be 35.

The other thing to keep in mind is that most beards grow unevenly. How long have you let your beard grow before giving up on it? Some people for example will find that they only get beard in say their goatee area for the first 3 weeks, and then after week 7 or 8 they have a full beard. Patchy beards tend to fill out over time assuming you have the genetics and are old enough for your personal genetics to be able to grow a full beard. So don't give up on your beard if it's only been a few weeks or less.

So, don't trim or cut your beard (trimming does NOT help your beard grow faster, and so is a bad idea) for at least a couple of months and re-evaluate.

If you're still not getting much growth or it's patchy and not how you like it, then you have a few choices: 1) wait and try again in a couple of years, 2) make the best of what you've got, for example if you grow fine in the moustache area but not the rest of your beard, try just growing an awesome moustache instead and shave the rest, 3) give up, or 4) minoxidil.

Minoxidil is one option for speeding up facial hair growth. Provided that you actually have hair follicles there and they just aren't growing, Minoxidil can cause them to grow. I've seen examples of people who had like 3 hairs on their chin prior to Minoxodil, and then grew completely full thick beards after minoxidil. So it is an option, and it does work.

Minoxidil does have some downsides though:

1. You have to use it for months before you'll start to see much effect from it, so it's not an overnight solution.
2. You have to use it for around a year if you don't want to lose the beard it helped you grow. If you stop applying Minoxidil before the hair goes terminal, it'll just fall out, so you can't just apply Minoxidil until your beard fills out and then stop, you need to apply it for around a year or so.
3. It can in rare cases cause you to grow hair in unusual places. Ever wanted to have to shave your forehead every day? Me neither, but for some people who use Minoxodil that's a day to day reality for them because their forehead now grows its own beard!
4. It can lower your blood pressure, and have negative interactions with certain medications. Ideally check with your doctor before using it.
5. I hear it also really dries out your skin so you'll often have lots of dead skin flakes in your beard during the entire course of the Minoxodil treatment, which.. means around a year.

I'd really like to grow a full beard, and I considered Minoxidil but the random hair sprouting up in weird places part was something I didn't particularly want to risk, so I never went down that route. Personally I kept a goatee for a while (since I was able to grow one fine, just not a full beard), and then more recently shaved it - planning to try again at a full beard in a year or two and see if I have better luck.