Fisticuffs Pomade by Grave Before Shave

Fisticuffs is a pomade coming to from the US from the bunch that goes under the name “Grave Before Shave”.  Under this moniker, they offer a wide range of beard oils and other beard care products. their labeling is particularly original and memorable.  The Fisticuffs pomade labeling is pretty original as you can see.  IRead more

REUZEL’s Extreme Hold Matte Pomade

Holland’s Finest Pomade “REUZEL” continuing on their expansion path has launched a new pomade!!!  The Extreme Hold Matte Pomade.  Every time our favorites Barbers in Rotterdam pump something out, there is reason to get excited – if not at the very least, curious. Since my spiritual conversion to pomade and shaving like its 1918, IRead more

Seppo’s Automotive Super Grip Pomade

The past few days  have been intensely humid here in Ottawa.  Thus making pomade testing somewhat of a challenge.  Challenging, but not impossible!   And bottom line, these very hot and humid days are the “new climate reality” so testing hair fixative in “real” conditions is pretty much what we want. The pomade under testRead more

NAFTA a thing of the past! Expect to pay more for US made shaving supplies

Everyone has an opinion on NAFTA and what it means to them.  From my understanding, it opened the door for Canadian supplier to provide needed goods to the US.  For our American neighbor it was an economical way of purchasing raw material, goods and so on from a trusted-friend-State.  Nobody was loosing work!  In fact,Read more

BluMaan – For the animal in your hair

A brand that is certainly getting a lot of exposure on Youtube is BluMaan.  If you ever searched for men’s hair grooming or styling, you have for sure seen the fun and energetic BluMaan himself; Joe. BluMaan currently offers 3 hair styling products.  I say currently because they are in the process of launching aRead more

King Brown Cream Pomade – The snake strikes again!

As part of the King Brown product line, I had one last jar of pomade to try out; the Cream Pomade.  This is identified as a Light Hold product.  Over time, I have learnt to look for specific key words like “strong hold” on hair fixative to manage my unruly mope. As such, a productRead more

Mortal Sin by American Pomade

Today we are trying out the water based pomade option from our friends at American Pomade.  Making a water based pomade was a pretty big deal for these convinced Greasers and they gave this product an appropriate name: Mortal Sin.  As you will see when visiting their site,  American Pomade lives and breath the wholeRead more

Lockhart’s Anti-Gravity

The Lockhart’s brand name is one that comes up frequently when looking for hair pomades.  In fact it has been coming up in my searches ever since I started the Style4men.ca project.  Unfortunately, I had not been able to get a hold a jar until now.  I was initially interested in their water based ProfessionalRead more

A third hit single from Railcar – Supreme Hold Pomade

Today we explore the Supreme Hold pomade from Railcar fine Goods.  The Railcar pomade had first caught my attention almost two years ago and it had taken me some time to manage to get a jar. This was there regular hold, red pomade.  Oh man, what a treat that stuff is!  The texture of theRead more

Triumph and Disaster – Beautiful vintage-chic packaging

As part of my regular search for new products, the name Triumph & Disaster has come up a number of times in the past year or so.  The presentation and packaging of this brand is vintage-chic perfection.  The brand name “Triumph & Disaster” is equally original and appealing as it conveys situations all of usRead more