tangocurl
May 8th, 2018, 08:23 AM
Ok....like the post title says, the hair on the back of my head from ear-level down is full of cowlicks.
My hair is a mixture of slight wave at the crown with loose ringlets wherever it is shorter. I have a fairly blunt hemline, so that means the underside layers of my hair are wavier and curlier. And I've tried addressing this problem in the past by having layers cut to make the top curl up, but that doesn't really work and then just leaves my hair feeling too thin.
Basically, my hair is not curly at the root from the ears up, but it is wavy at the root from the ears down. Updos make it worse, because when I pull out a bun when after letting it dry that way, or sleeping with it up in a "pineapple," or just wearing a bun all day, the hair on the lower/back of my head, from my scalp, literally sticks out horizontally out into the air behind my head for about 3-4", and then the length falls down. The front and top half of my hair does not do this.
It's not cute at all.
Sometimes I try to avoid this by drying my hair in low segmented pigtails, letting the ends of the pigtails fall in front of my shoulders. This flattens out the hair in the problem area. But, as soon as I wear my hair up again the next day, I re-set my hair in this strange position.
And this, friends, is the single most annoying aspect of my hair. I really thought it would stop doing this when I got to APL, and I'm actually a bit past there now when wet/stretched, but oh no! I think it is exacerbated by all the updos I wear. Even before LHC, I have been a hair-up person most of my adult life. I think like training a part, I've trained the back/underside of my hair to stick up instead of falling down.
Does anyone have any suggestions? Anyone else with this same problem?
My hair is a mixture of slight wave at the crown with loose ringlets wherever it is shorter. I have a fairly blunt hemline, so that means the underside layers of my hair are wavier and curlier. And I've tried addressing this problem in the past by having layers cut to make the top curl up, but that doesn't really work and then just leaves my hair feeling too thin.
Basically, my hair is not curly at the root from the ears up, but it is wavy at the root from the ears down. Updos make it worse, because when I pull out a bun when after letting it dry that way, or sleeping with it up in a "pineapple," or just wearing a bun all day, the hair on the lower/back of my head, from my scalp, literally sticks out horizontally out into the air behind my head for about 3-4", and then the length falls down. The front and top half of my hair does not do this.
It's not cute at all.
Sometimes I try to avoid this by drying my hair in low segmented pigtails, letting the ends of the pigtails fall in front of my shoulders. This flattens out the hair in the problem area. But, as soon as I wear my hair up again the next day, I re-set my hair in this strange position.
And this, friends, is the single most annoying aspect of my hair. I really thought it would stop doing this when I got to APL, and I'm actually a bit past there now when wet/stretched, but oh no! I think it is exacerbated by all the updos I wear. Even before LHC, I have been a hair-up person most of my adult life. I think like training a part, I've trained the back/underside of my hair to stick up instead of falling down.
Does anyone have any suggestions? Anyone else with this same problem?