Find Your Product By Hair Type

Most men buy the wrong product because they buy what looked good on someone else’s head. Start here instead. Find your hair, get the short answer, and ask your barber to confirm it next time you’re in.

Fine or thinning hair

Your enemy is weight and shine. Anything heavy drags fine hair flat, and anything glossy separates it into strands and shows more scalp — the exact opposite of what you want.

Avoid: high-shine gels. They will make thin hair look thinner.

Thick or coarse hair

You need something with the muscle to hold it, and you can carry shine without looking greasy.

Wavy hair

You have movement already — the job is defining it without going crisp.

Curly or coily hair

You want definition that survives the day, which means you need something that actually grips.

Worth saying plainly: no curl cream creates curl. If your hair is straight, these define nothing.

Going grey

One specific trap here, and it catches a lot of men.

Oily hair that goes flat by lunchtime

Two rules: hair must be bone dry when you apply it, and it needs shampoo to come out — water alone will not do it. Use a clarifying wash about once a week.

Beards

The order that works: wash, then foam or oil to condition, then balm if you need control. Foam goes on a towel-dried beard, balm goes on a dry one — that is the mix-up we correct most often.

Supplements

This page is our opinion from behind the chair, not a sales sheet. If the right answer is that you do not need anything, we will tell you that too — ask whoever cuts you.