It's funny to see how pomade are influenced by their geographical origins. Not in the obvious way of their names, logos, or whatever. Instead, in what they focus on and how they approach their products. We typically see extremely good design work from New York, California, and a few of the major cities with good taste. This is one is from Brooklyn, and once again, we see some damn good design work from New York.
This is a craft pomade. We mainly support two types of pomade here on The Pomp: craft and homebrewed pomades. The former encompasses the latter, but the difference is that the term craft pomades includes those small batch pomades made in labs but commissioned by independent owners. For example, some craft brewers are Admiral Supply Co., The Daimon Barber No.1, and BYRD. Homebrewers are those who cook up their pomade out of a household or more generally, do not commission their small-scale manufacturing to the third-party cosmetic lab. The rest of the pomade companies that do not fall into these groups are the large companies such as Dax Hair Care, Murray's, Cool Grease by Fine Cosmetics, and Baxter of California. In colloquial terms, if their operation is small-scale enough to actually run out of stock, then they might be a craft pomade company.
Let's get on with the review. This is Tough & Tumble Original Matte Lava Pomade.