Today I’m reviewing Lockhart’s Fire & Brimstone Heavy Hold pomade. It comes in a 4oz tin, and sells for approximately $13.90. I purchased it on the Lockhart’s website for $8.50, as the company is currently selling out the remainder of their stock of this pomade for the year.
I applied 2 scoops of Fire & Brimstone pomade to my DRY hair. The results were less than disable. My hair looks greasy with this product in it. My hair looks terrible. I can understand why Lockart’s added a lot of oil to the product, as they wanted to make it shiny so that people will want to purchase it. But by adding so much unnecessary oil, they’ve created a real mess of a product. My hair looks greasy without any hold at all. The shine is good, but that’s the only thing good about Lockart’s Fire & Brimstone Heavy Hold pomade. At $8.50, I feel like I overpaid for this product.
In my Hollywood movie star scale, I give my hair a 2 out of 10 today. My hair looks dreadful with this pomade in it. I rate Fire & Brimstone as one of the worst waxes I've ever used, and believe me, I've used a lot of them.
This stuff was too weak for me to style my thick hair with. When I would shake my head to test the hold, my hair would come out of place immediately. This is the same problem I had when using Lockhart’s Goon Grease pomade, which is one of the reasons why I stopped using it. The stuff is too weak. Yeah, it’s shiny, but that’s not enough. I can add a topper to good heavy hold pomade if I want shine. A far better pomade in the Lockhart’s line is their Heavy Hold pomade. It’s got great hold, zero shine, and a variety of different scents. The last time I checked, you can choose from 23 different scents for Lockhart’s Heavy Hold pomade.
Fire & Brimstone Heavy Hold pomade smells like charcoal, and it has an off-putting red coloring. I looked up the ingredient for the red coloring, and it was scary to read about it. I hate putting unnecessary chemicals on my head. I don’t feel comfortable at all with the artificial coloring that Lockhart’s has added for their Fire & Brimstone pomade.
Lockhart’s Fire & Brimstone Heavy Hold is advertised as a heavy pomade with a medium shine. I think it’s more of a firm to medium hold. It’s clearly not a heavy hold.
This is a pomade that Lockhart sells yearly around Halloween for the season. It’s just a yearly thing, and I can understand why. One reason for that might be the fact that the pomade is basically a copy of their highly popular Goon Grease Heavy hold pomade, but with red coloring and a different scent.
I rate the following wax pomades as FAR superior to Lockart’s Fire & Brimstone Heavy Hold pomade:
· High Life Heavy Hold pomade
· High Life Voodoo Brew 2
· High Life Medium pomade
· Lockhart’s Heavy Hold
All in all, I consider Lockart’s Fire & Brimstone Heavy Hold as a poor product, and little more than a knockoff of their existing Goon Grease pomade. My impression is Lockhart’s took a lazy approach to creating a product by taking one of their existing pomades, Goon Grease, and gave it another name and added a different scent and red coloring. I’m not a fan of Goon Grease and I definitely dislike Lockart’s Fire & Brimstone Heavy Hold. I wouldn’t purchase it again, as there’s nothing special about it at all, period.
I can see how newbies to the pomade world would love Lockart’s Fire & Brimstone Heavy Hold, because they have very little experience at trying out other products. But for someone that is familiar with pomades, it’s hard to see anything good at all in the Lockart’s Fire & Brimstone Heavy Hold product.
