How To Use Cremo Hair Paste

For this series, we're standing on with a review of the Cremo Pilus Styling Thickening Paste. If you lot remember recently, we also looked at their Shine Pomade. This time, we're going to the opposite end of the spectrum. Like the pomade, this ane advertises a high agree, but instead of a loftier shine, this i offers a low shine/matte finish.

Correct at present, I'm undecided if I volition exercise a straight run-through of entire product lines for this serial. I may bounce around and revisit some Cremo products after, but for now, we're going to keep on with this line. Their Thickening Paste seems to be everywhere these days. I see it at Walmart and Target plenty; too equally a few drugstores and supermarkets in my area. At virtually $13-15 for a 4oz jar of production, you could phone call that a good bargain for a shop-bought production, compared to brands like American Crew charging mode more for less.

At present, remember, I'm not really expecting most drugstore products to exist anything game-changing or on par with the higher-quality homebrews out there. I am judging these mass-market place products with lower expectations.

Commencement Impressions

Packaging and Presentation: 3/5. The Thickening Paste comes in a 4oz amber plastic jar. Information technology matches the same exact design scheme as the other stylers in the Cremo line, but this one features a bold royal blueish hue.

Scent: iv/5. The scent on the Thickening Paste is actually pretty nice. Information technology smells somewhat similar to the Shine Pomade, simply in that location'southward something that differentiates it that I can't quite put my finger on. Either fashion, at that place'southward a fresh leather notation that comes through a full general fresh trunk wash-type profile. It'south enjoyable.

Awarding

Consistency: 3/5. For a paste, I would expect the consistency to be creamier. A solid 90% of all pastes that I've used in the past are smooth and lotion-like. This 1 is far thicker, and there's a notable corporeality of wax in it.

Application: 3/5. You will definitely feel a bit of tug and pull when applying, but it's not nearly as discomforting as some other products out there.

Performance

Control: iii/v. Every time I try to use the Thickening Paste, I'm kind of left with a feeling of "what is this production trying to accomplish?". It'south non notably stiff, information technology doesn't practice anything to really "thicken" my hair, and there'southward nil that delivers any high amount of command. Really, nosotros're left with more of a medium-holding styling product that keeps a low sheen and reigns in an overall shape decently enough for a time. If you've used other paste products in the past, this one does non feel like ane. Information technology feels more like a thicker foam than it does a paste. Information technology has none of the dryness, grip, or volume of a traditional paste-type of product.

Hold: 2/five. Advertises a high hold, but this is definitely a medium.

Endurance: 2/5. As you lot tin can expect, the endurance with the Cremo Thickening Paste leaves a lot to be desired. I utilise this product in the forenoon, I can normally get to most lunchtime with at least one restyle forth the way before things start to get problematic.

Shine: ii/5. It advertises a "low shine," which it definitely has. If this production were matte, I would consider it a improve product. Because it's not strong or glutinous enough to provide a solid hold, having a true matte finish would accept made it more palatable. In that location's simply a bit too much polish to keep it looking as clean equally it could be when there are enough of other matte finish products adjacent to it on store shelves.

Texture: two/5. Coarse, notwithstanding clean-looking, but the artful appeal of the texture is defeated completely by the shine.

Dryness/Greasiness: v/5. One thing the paste does well is information technology feels very smooth and clean in the pilus. You can run your fingers through information technology all day, for better or worse.

Restyling: 3/5. You can go an overall shape together, but don't expect a complete restoration of your initial await to exist possible. Look to lose volume too.

Rinsing: v/5. A footling warm water should take the production out of your pilus completely. The hair will non feel stale out or damaged in any way after.

Final Verdict for Cremo Thickening Paste: three.08/5

If this production were marketed as a medium, the Cremo Thickening Paste would have probably received a higher score. However, we deal in reality hither. The production is not a "loftier" hold. It is a medium. There is a depression smoothen to it, as advertised, just information technology actually should accept been matte. Judging by how much more this product is than some other contemporaries like Axe and Sometime Spice, you lot would think that it would at to the lowest degree perform somewhat better than those others, but alas, information technology doesn't. You lot're left with a product that is sort of in a weird limbo betwixt cream pomade and paste, but it fails to make a stiff impression in either direction – judging by drugstore standards.

If you want a jar, you lot can probably find it at a Walmart, Target, or Walgreens near you.