In this Pedro’s Pointer video/article, we break down the dreaded cowlick hair and how to hopefully fix and get rid of a cowlick in your hair. And, if you can’t get rid of it, we provide tips then on at least how to manage it! Show
What is a Cowlick you ask? It’s that one or few little hair strands who are totally stubborn and keeping you from having Bueno Hair! Cowlick hairs are those hairs who have a mind of their own sticking out and just don’t want to listen to your styling aid or desired hair style...While there might not be a perfect answer to solve this problem, here’s our hopefully helpful advice tips on how to get rid of cowlick: 1. Try a different hair style. No, you don't have to go crazy to something wildly different, but maybe a slightly different hair look/direction will tame that bad boy down. 2. Grow your hair out is one of the best ways to make a cowlick go bye-bye. This act will help weigh down the cowlick a bit and make it blend in too so it’s not as noticeable. 3. Try a strong high hold pomade like Pete & Pedro Power Pomade and flood the area with the pomade to hold it down. That normally does the trick. A cowlick’s got nothing on a strong pomade!
4. Master the hair dryer. Hair dryers can do magical things for disappearing cowlicks by blowing your hair in the same or opposite direction depending on what you want. Just don’t get the hair dryer to close to your head as that can destroy your fragile hair. At the end of the day, embrace your cowlick hair style (at least you’re not bald right?!) and cowlick and work with it, don't fight it. And, let's be honest, spicy senoritas can think they are a bit cute too! You Might Also Want To Check Out: Why You Need To Use Sea Salt Spray Best Men's Hairstyle For Your Face Shape Top Tips & Advice For Applying Fragrance
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If you’ve got a cowlick (you know, the swirls or bumps in your hair—usually around your hairline—that like to pop up like flyaways), you already know that cowlicks do what they want despite what you want. And that leaves you with two choices: (1) You can either embrace yours, since they’re totally normal and natural or (2) you can try to style it to make it a little less noticeable. And although you can’t ever fully get rid of a cowlick, you can style around it to at least temporarily fix it. To help you figure out how, we turned to hairstylist and cofounder of IGK Hair Care Chase Kusero for all the best tips. Ahead, everything you need to know about how to make your cowlicks do less. This content is imported from {embed-name}. You may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site. What causes a cowlick?Your parents might’ve told you your cowlicks are the result of a cow licking your head growing up (hey, it kinda looks like it, so I wouldn’t blame you if you believed them), but in reality, cowlicks are mostly passed down through genetics, but Kusero says they can pop up after an injury or surgery on the head, which could also cause hair to grow differently. So how do you know if you have a cowlick? Kusero says to look for hair that grows in a swoop pattern or a clockwise circle, kinda like a wave. Cowlicks are especially common in the front hairline area and the crown of your head, and although they can occur in all hair types and textures, they’re most noticeable and prevalent in curly-to-straight hair types. Can you get rid of a cowlick?You can’t get rid of a cowlick permanently, but you can temporarily hide it, smooth it, or disguise it. Since your cowlick is the result of your actual hair growth, no amount of brushing, combing, “training” your hair, or whatever will change that forever, but with a one-two punch of the right products and styling techniques, you can get that sucker to calm down a little. How do you hide a cowlick?1. Get the right haircutAccording to Kusero, during a cut, your stylist can follow the growth pattern of the cowlick and cut in the same direction of the hair to ensure it will lay as smoothly as possible. If your cowlick happens to be in your bang area, Kusero says your stylist could lightly cut into growth to reduce some of the bulk underneath, which will allow the hair on top to lay perfectly. Just tell your stylist you want to minimize your cowlick. They’ll know what to do. 2. Smooth it down with smoothing productsOn the days when you want to wear a sleek, smooth style and you don’t want your cowlick stealing the show, grab a heat protectant, a hairspray, a hair serum, and a smoothing spray. Kusero recommends the IGK Good Behavior Spirulina Protein Smoothing Spray, which acts as a temporary smoothing keratin treatment, protects against heat damage, provides 24-hour frizz control—all things you want when smoothing out a cowlick.
3. Reshape cowlicks with a blow-dryerTake everything we learned about the right haircut for a cowlick and do the opposite when heat-styling it. Kusero says the idea here is to confuse the hair by blow-drying it in various directions. After you apply your smoothing spray and heat protectant to damp hair, blow-dry the section with low heat and use your brush move hair to the left, right, and down. Finish with a cool shot of your hair dryer to lock hair in the new direction and a little flexible hairspray and smoothing serum to control the hair without weighing it down. 4. Follow up with a flat ironIf the blow-dryer didn’t quite cut it or you need to be able to reach closer to the roots, Kusero says a thin flat iron in combination with your smoothing spray will do the trick in straightening a cowlick. 5. Use paste to tame a cowlick in your bangsBangs with cowlicks are hard to style, but not impossible. All you need is some texture paste to add a bit of grip and control. Take a little of the paste (not too much!), warm it up in your hands, and rake it through with your fingers. Use your fingertips to gently tug your bangs down to where you want them to fall. 6. Disguise it with texturizing productsSometimes the best way to get rid of a cowlick isn’t to get rid of it at all. Work with your swirls and bumps by giving the rest of your hair beachy texture and beach waves. Kusero says this texture is “perfect for cowlicks or hard-to-tame hair because it disguises the separation caused by different directional growth patterns.” To fully embrace your cowlicks, Kusero recommends products for air-drying hair, like IGK Rich Kid Coconut Oil Air Dry Styler, to promote texture and lock in the shape as the strands dry and texturizing spray or texture paste to add beachy, tousled texture and control on dry hair.
The takeaway:There’s nothing wrong with your cowlicks. They’re normal and oftentimes genetic, and with no way to permanently get rid of cowlicks, they’re also here to stay. But with the right products and styling techniques, you can blend hair that likes to do what it wants into the rest of your style or reshape it so it does whatever you want. This content is created and maintained by a third party, and imported onto this page to help users provide their email addresses. You may be able to find more information about this and similar content at piano.io |