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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?

Kake
May 8th, 2018, 03:34 PM
i think that curly and fine hair can just be a bit tricky. Mine is anyway. I'm sorry I have no good advice, but I sympathise :)

Borgessa
May 8th, 2018, 03:44 PM
I have two twin cowlicks on the back of my crown, and they drive me bonkers.. and my wispies at the side of my head, my little female sideburns STICK straight out in this fashion, never looking cute. I feel your pain, or at least understand your frustration.

lapushka
May 8th, 2018, 04:02 PM
APL for curls is still quite short. It will need to be at least BSL for this issue to start to stop happening, IMMHO. At least, that's what I think.

I have personally not heard of cowlicks being at the back of the head below ear level - is it odd for them to occur there? I have mine near the top of my head, and so does everyone I know that has them.

Maybe it's just a length issue?

tangocurl
May 8th, 2018, 04:17 PM
APL for curls is still quite short. It will need to be at least BSL for this issue to start to stop happening, IMMHO. At least, that's what I think.

I have personally not heard of cowlicks being at the back of the head below ear level - is it odd for them to occur there? I have mine near the top of my head, and so does everyone I know that has them.

Maybe it's just a length issue?

Perhaps it is. The longest my hair has ever been is BSL. I should be there again by September. It was still doing that at BSL last time I was there, I think because it was up all the time.

I’m thinking maybe milkmaid braids or low space buns might help “train” the back of my head to behave.

@Borgessa and @Kake

Thank you for commiserating with me!!

Lady Stardust
May 8th, 2018, 04:21 PM
Cowlicks can be anywhere. I didn’t realise how many I had until I had a pixie. I have cowlicks at the nape of my neck, one each side. My hair grows vertically at that point. When it’s short it pushes any hair near it out horizontally, but luckily it gets weighed down quite quickly. I had to get the underneath shaved away when I had a pixie cut. It still lies funny now that it’s longer, I don’t know if it will ever behave. I’ve also got a cowlick in my fringe.

I hope that more length will do the trick! The only way around it, I think, is to continue to dry it in the direction you want it. If you then wear it up you’ll probably have to wash it or at least wet it thoroughly again to reset.