Is Pomade a necessary product to achieve the look? It's not that I'm not willing to get a can of pomade, but having a greasy hair isn't exactly what I want. I'm also a bit curious as to whether hair wax can achieve the shape of pompadour. I don't necessarily want a shiny look, I'd style my hair in such a way that the hair is neat and it has the shape, don't wanna really have the problem of several strands of hair popping here and there.

On a scale of 1 to 10, how necessary is pomade?
1.Disagree, with effort, people can go with any hairstyle they want, as long as they're happy. Not saying I look good with the hair though, lol. Just figured I pointed it out.

2. Currently, I use hair wax and hairspray to style my hair. I do not mean pomade, pomades are an entirely different product that I mentioned.

That sounds great. Do you know where can I find water based pomades within KL? Just curious, how important is blow drying for pompadours? And when you said osis, were you talking about Schwarzkopf's Osis hairspray? I'm planning to use the Silhouette hair spray. And also very curious about this, but does using pomade enable you to style the back of your hair more easily? I notice a key point in my hair is that whenever I style my hair, the back of my hair tends to fall first, followed by the front, I am not sure if its because the roots of my back hair were not properly styled or the wax were not sufficient enough. Does pomade solve this problem? And do you use a comb for your hair styling procedure?

What's the outcome like mixing a water-based and petroleum-based pomade? Sorry I'm asking too much, I'm glad I found someone who can give serious advice lol. Not even the guides on the web help. Would definitely love to ask you for some hands on help in styling hair.

Just curious cause you had one line that got me inquisitive. Isn't pompadour essentially the same as slick back, only that you create a pomp after slicking your hair all the way back? And I'm also pretty curious about how you mix both products. Do you combine them together or you apply one particular pomade for the back of the hair and the other for the front?

Kindly enlighten me as I am rather poor with hair grooming products, lol.

Thanks man. Fact is I'm already having an undercut hairstyle, but will definitely be patient in perfecting the art of pomp .
By the back of my hair, I mean the part where the front hair extends to the back, the back part doesn't usually hold as well as the front and I'm not sure if it's because I did not apply sufficient wax to the back part or simply because the wax never really got to the back. What it means is that when I apply my wax, I assume huge portion of the wax is applied only the front area because wax is so sticky, sometimes I get so frustrated and give up trying to comb through my hair with the wax on my hand. It gets tedious for me to coat every strand of hair with wax. Sometimes, I use a small amount of wax and apply to the front, then another amount for back and sides, it didn't help either. For some reason, the roots at the back of my hair still feels soft even after applying wax, I guess this suggests that I apply insufficient wax or that the way I styled my hair made it so that the wax didn't reach the roots of my hair.  I hope I'm talking some sense here, lol. That's why I came to the forum asking for help.

In regards to Pomade, I have no specific brands. I'd just like a pomade with a consistency like wax, somewhat dry and not greasy and more importantly, holds well and ensures your hair is neat and not have strands of hair popping out here and there. The whole reason why I avoided pomade was because I knew there was grease involved and my scalp naturally releases it's own grease when I sweat so you can imagine how greasy it'll be when I combine petroleum based pomade. I'm just gonna assume suavecito's pomades are grease based? But would be happy if I could find water based pomades.

I'm not particularly concerned about shine as I've said, the shape and volume means more to me hahahaha. I actually had a friend who successfully styled his pomp without using anything but a hair dryer and hair spray. I'd show you his picture if I could but not in public lol, but omg that pomp made me envious. I tried asking him for advice but he definitely didn't seem interested in sharing details. Do you offer hands-on kind of tutorial for your friends who asked how did you style your hair? If it's not too much, I'd definitely like to ask you to teach me, maybe you can pinpoint my mistakes. That is, if you're comfortable, then I'll pm you.

But thanks. So far, you're the only guy with genocide who has extensively spoke about styling pompadours seriously to me. Definitely thankful for that. You have no idea how much this hairstyle bothered me, lol. #firstworldproblems HAHAHAHA.
Don't worry, I don't swing the ways of ah bengs and ah lians. Do you?

Haha, thanks. Will definitely checking on water-based pomades. How much would a can of pomade cost on average? Just curious as well, is thin and soft hair good? Rarely meet guys with soft hair. You're the second person I know who has soft hair. I am somewhat proud and unproud about it lol.

60-70 is kinda reasonable for pomades I guess. Especially because Pomades are not as famous anymore according to most hair stylist. My Redken clay wax cost about RM 55, now I feel so cheated and conned. If I switch to pomades, I'd feel so bad that I splurged rm 50 on another clay dull cause my wax is finishing soon.

. I just washed my hair and I can feel the grease on my hair still. I mixed both as suggested by most of you all. I bought two cans of grease pomades cause that guy was saying how I need grease pomades if I want it to last all day.

But now I regretted. I think I wanna sell off the grease pomades cause Grease ain't what I like. Any takers? RM 60 cause one can is new and the other can I just take a bit to use only. I just bought them on Thursday.

Omg. Whaaat. No wonder, I applied conditioner to wet hair -.- Nahh, not RM 60 for 2 cans. RM 60 for the new can, and I don't know RM 60 for the other can that I used once? I just wanna get rid of the product. If someone can offer me a price that was similar to the one when I bought my pomades, I'm okay with it. I think my scalp is super sensitive to the grease cause it's trying to adapt, making some areas of my scalp itchy -.-

Right now, I'm trying to experiment with bigger pomps. I want my pomps to be bigger and slightly a bit distributed, not too neat cause it made my hair look so awkward.

You want the grease pomades? I seriously wanna give it away. Should have bought 4 cans of water pomades instead.

Noooo, I want bigger pomps ... But I hate using Grease man. I just tried using water based with a bit of  wax, it didn't help. I was disappointed.

Hmm.. let me explain how I recently achieved my pomps. When I fiddled around with ways to have a pomp, this is what I normally do..

After shower..

-Spray quite an amount of hairspray to roots to gain volume.
-Apply wax/pomade and style.
-Use comb to readjust hair to look neat.
-Pomp achieved.
-Spray more hairspray to increase hold

Maybe my hair is getting longer so it's harder to style, or maybe because its the fact that I applied some spray conditioner to my hair last night that it didn't quite work out.

The thing about using wax or pomps to style my hair is that when using wax to style my hair, the pomp is a more evenly distributed pomp to give it that very casual look, just think of a pomp that isn't too neatly combed, but the shape is still there.

For pomades however, it gets too neat for me to the point where I need to use my hands to kind mess it up a bit. Hard to explain, but I can show you some pictures to let you know what I mean.

Sadly with wax, my pomp falls after 5 minutes of standing, probably because the wax isn't strong enough to hold. But with pomade, I tried mixing water and grease yesterday, the results was very nice. It held very well for hours at the expense of an itchy scalp and very greasy that I don't like.

Too much hair product lol. All could be achived with 1 suitable grease pomade. All the time ure setting ur hair can go to washing ur hair. Well, not really since most greasers dont wash their hair and sleep with the grease still on their hair and the only time they wash it is when it needed to be wash.
Same goes here for me. The build up is what makes the hold even better.

This is the kind of pomp I'm looking for but the pomades made it too neat to be that form. I'm thinking of going back to wax. What do you think? Also, have you heard about Hanz De Fuko wax products?

Oh this are my new collections

i guess u never tried schimere before right?

that thing is the hardest thing to wash off period!

oh and that lockheart is a collab with gonzo malaysia. i find the super slick is awesome! and the heavy hold? yeah u can do a very high pomp with that...

I just wanna use a wax that has good hold and does well in humid country. Seems like you have a tendency to get products that are hard to wash off lol.

Btw, tell me more about this Hdf Quicksand product. Getting so frustrated that I'm spending so much money on a hairstyle -.-