These are my personal experiences with the best hair styling products on the market.. Based in Melbourne, Australia my reviews will be limited to the products which are available in my region.
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So I revisited this paste and decided to write down my thoughts. Since its been a month after my last cut, I find it hard to find a product that would remain slick for long enough to achieve the style I want. I have to say, this paste impresses for for what it can do while I’m beginning to experience the difficulties in achieving a style that comes with my current hair length.
First of all, it remains slick while I’m styling allowing me to manipulate the hair for a longer duration. Secondly, once the product dries it gives my hair some pretty decent hold, matte finish and surprisingly soft.
This is my current go-to for a dry look at a medium hair length, although it doesn’t have great softening ingredients like coconut oil or mango butter, I just add basically any hair oil before blow drying and it does the trick in softening my hair prior to styling.
Appication/breakdown: Extremely creamy breakdown. Application process is easy, but the product dries quick developing grip when its dry.
Finish: Truly matte.
Slick: 3/5 slick-ability before it dries.
Hold: Dry products tend not to have great hold but I would classify this one as a lightweight medium-firm hold. Not bad for a dry paste. However, you will find that the endurance on this is pretty bad because it does leave your hair once it’s dried out. If you are the type of person who like their products to remain present in your hair, don’t get this product, seriously, it under performs terribly in this regard.
Scent: Honestly one of the worst parts of this otherwise great paste. The scent smells like chemicals, but luckily its not strong at all.
Application/breakdown: Cement Clay scoops out fairly easy but thick. It breaks down tough like Nostalgic Clay. There is a little bit of tug and pull once applied but nothing that will tear out stands of hair (a lot easier to apply than Hard Muk).
Finish: Cement Clay features a natural Matte finish with a low sheen.
Stylability: It is very easy to style with Cement Clay. It grips the hair yet remaining soft enough to move your fingers through (much easier than Hard Muk was, but more difficult than purple Gatsby).
Hold: The hold is great, it remains in your hair for the whole day. It doesn’t soften up noticeably like Nostalgic Clay does, barely at all in fact.
Scent: Classic Layrite vanilla scent which is undetectable once in your hair.
Overall: This is a solid product, very reliable and fairly easy to work with. I can see it being someone’s daily considering the price and amount you get. I would repurchase it when I run out.
Application/breakdown: Hard Muk scoops out really tough, especially in winter. Applying it in hair you will be met with a ton of grip and tug sometimes making it difficult to get the product all the way down to the roots. I like to part the hair where it is lacking, and apply more emulsified product at the part to ensure my hair is fully covered.
Finish: Hard Muk features a natural matte finish and I love it the look, not too matte yet no shine.
Hold: Hard Muk has a great hold, remaining lightweight yet still maintaining its shape. Its hold and look is similar to purple Gatsby, although purple Gatsby is far easier to apply.
Scent: The official scent is citrus orange, doesn’t smell like orange to me but it is one of the better scents.
Washability: Hard Muk washes out so easy with only water.
Overall: I really like Hard Muk. I’ve yet to try another product from Muk but this one has already impressed me. I’ll be looking purchse the purple Muk to try out. The only downside to me is its difficulty in application.
Being more of a premium budget purchase I expect this one to perform better than your average drugstore brands (Moosehead, Taft, Headgear, etc…) and it certainly does.
Application/breakdown: Little to no effort to scoop this one out of its plastic jar. Emulsifying it, it breaks down easily and turns into a layer of white in your hands. It’s grippy and dry upon contact with hair.
Finish: Due to its dryness, this one finishes Matte but may leave thin hair looking a little dishevelled. This is due to the flyaways the product can and will cause.
Hold: Fantastic hold because it is so lightweight. But because of this, flyaways are normally present when I style with it, with little slickness.
Scent: I think its an all seasons appropriate scent, even for the workplace. Its very subtle once in your hair. Top: Grapefruit, Coriander and Basil. Heart: Cardamom, Ginger and Orange Blossom. Base: Cedar wood, Ambergris and Tobacco.
Overall: Not a bad product. I would use it for laid-back occasions or at the gym, because I prefer slick hairstyles when I’m out. With that being said, I would not be looking to repurchase this.
Gatsby was the only product I used for 3-4 years throughout my high school when I first started using hair styling products. Purple Gatsby was my go-to for when my hair started growing out, though its not the perfect product its pretty close, and for the price too.
Application/Breakdown: Gatsby Wild Shake is surprisingly creamy, but it applies and grips rapidly so be careful with the amount. I would recommend going in with two finger scoops if your hair is anything longer than Sterling Malory Archer’s (yes he’s a cartoon but you get the picture). I do not recommend getting this for shorter hairstyles, for shorter hairstyles go for the Pink Gatsby.
Finish: I would consider this more of a natural shine like most of its products. The only truly matte finish from the Gatsby line of offering is Grunge Mat.
Hold: The hold is simply magical for straight thin-but-dense hair like mine, and reminds me of water-based pomades. Its a firm/medium hold, the hold is firm though it isn’t as light in the hair as a matte paste.
Washability: One of the products downsides is its difficulty in washing out. Even after two consecutive rinses with shampoo in one shower session the product is still mildly present in my hair. It isn’t greasy per se, think non-oily waxy.
Scent: Pleasant green apple summer scent, nothing less nothing more.
Overall: Judging from what’s left in the jar, its obvious that I really like this product. It’s reliable and strong, and able to manage many shades of hairstyles. Wild Shake stays in my hair all day which allows for restylability (unlike clays like Nostalgic Grooming Clay which dry out and lose restylability). The moving rubber line from Gatsby are all generally more difficult to wash out with shampoo compared to your average water-based product, but the buildup can be an advantage in not having to use as much product the next day, or being able to layer it with your softer clays. I admire what Gatsby has done here and will continue to repurchase purple Gatsby for a long time.
Being my first purchase and thus endeavour into the world of premium hair styling products, my review will be limited by the fact. However, I do consider this to be a great everyday styling clay with some great ingredients, including mango butter, a handful of healthy oils including jojoba oil (cue pink panther), as well as a well-known antioxidant, vitamin E.
Application/breakdown: I recommend going in with one finger scoop at a time, due to its thickness it will encourage users to aggressively/accidentally scoop out more than required. Heavy scoops will only result in faster hardening of the product in your hair (from my experience) due to the unwanted build-up. Scoops out really thick.
Finish: It will feel dry in your hair due to the high clay content but also makes my straight thin hair feel really soft.
Hold: I would classify this as a firm/heavy, the hold is firm but the product tends to weigh down my fine hair, making it look flat at the end of the day.
Scent: The official scent is redwood and it is so addictive to me. There could be better scents out there but I am 100% satisfied with this one. It is not a striking scent, its very subtle and difficult to describe, it reminds me of warmer woody scents suitable for colder weathers.
Washability: Rinses out with shampoo, with water alone the build-up will be present but clean, not oily, more tacky and rubbery.
Overall: For me, the clay and mango butter in this product balances impressively between being dry yet soft which also turns out be be a major downside. Contact with humidity and my hair will begin to push against itself and jump out from my slickback into what resembles a makeshift umbrella, not so sexy, and not to mention even with the use of hairspray. All in all, I would continue using this product because of its nourishing properties, but mostly likely will not repurchase, instead I’ll look into other offerings from Nostalgic Grooming, and although their clay is not suited for my hair, I appreciate the effort they put into making products like this.
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