American Crew Tea Tree Defining Paste is Not Good for Spiked Hair

Several weeks ago I made my regular trip to the barber shop to get my hair trimmed. Shortly before I had decided to try spiking my hair, at my wife’s suggestion. So while I was at the barbershop/salon I asked the girl who was cutting my hair if she could recommend a good hair styling product that would serve as a good spiking agent for my new hairstyle. The stylist kindly recommended a small jar of American Crew Tea Tree Defining Paste as the perfect solution to my hair spiking needs. After several days of experimenting with the American Crew Tea Tree Defining Paste, I have come to the conclusion that this product is entirely unsuited for spiking hair after all.

To put it mildly, I have extremely difficult to manage hair. When I was a small child my hair was almost curly in texture; and while it mellowed and straightened a but as I grew older, when my hair gets even the slightest bit too long it gets wavy and unmanageable. The first thing I noticed about the American Crew Tea Tree Defining Paste in my hair was that the defining paste actually worked with my hair rather than against it. While this might sound like a good thing for a product to do, it made spiking very difficult to accomplish due to the inherent waviness of my hair. The American Crew Tea Tree Defining Paste caused my hair to wave and curl rather than to straighten and spike properly. I experimented like this for several days before finally just giving up and returning to the former product I had been using: the FX Special Effects Pliable Hair Wax by Vogue International.

My very expensive ($16.95 from the salon) jar of American Crew Tea Tree Defining Paste did not go entirely to waste, however. My wife also has difficult to manage hair, and she decided to give the tiniest bit of the American Crew Tea Tree Defining Paste a try to control some of the difficult spots in her own hair. Although the defining paste proved to be inadequate for my own hair, my wife actually found that it worked rather nicely in extremely small amounts to keep some of her stray hairs where they are supposed to be. While I am glad that my $16.95 jar of American Crew Defining Paste did not go to waste, I do find it amusing that a men’s hair care product is better suited for a woman’s hair. My wife and I are known for exchanging personal care products, though, so this really did not come as a surprise to us.

In conclusion, the American Crew Tea Tree Defining Paste is supposed to be a good hair spiking agent, although my difficult hair rendered the product practically useless in this respect. If you already have relatively straight hair, then the product may be more effective. Women like my wife may find the American Crew Tea Tree Defining Paste to be useful in small quantities to keep put their rogue stray hairs, but again it probably depends primarily on your hair type and whether the defining paste is suitable for that hair type. In any case, my hunch is that you can probably find much cheaper products like the FX Special Effects Pliable Hair Wax that will do the job just as well as the American Crew Defining Paste.