A Front Top Cowlick Hairstyle

Print this articleCowlick is an area of hair that fails to grow in the same direction as the rest of the hair. With a cowlick hairstyle, your hair sticks out, or lies to the side, so that it is not flat like the rest of your hair. This can be a bother since you can find it a challenge to style. There are some corrective methods or styles you can use.

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Calm your cowlick bangs. Grow your cowlicks long enough to give them weight. Wash your hair with shampoo to remove any chemicals or dirt it may have. Dry it with a brush, beginning with the cowlicks at your forehead. Apply pastes, pomades or hairspray to direct your hair. Stroke the brush in one direction five to 10 times with a round brush or a vent to weight down the frontal cowlicks. Switch and brush the hair in the opposite direction.

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Level your cowlicks. Cut your frontal hair, leaving a spot where the cowlick is a little longer. Wash it with shampoo and dry it with a blow dryer. Your hair will bounce back once it is dry. Direct the hair in the opposite direction of the way the cowlick grows out using a round brush. Blow dry your hair in that direction at close range. Spray your hair with hair spray to make it stay.

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Straighten your frontal hair. Level your hair with a hair straightener in the direction you want it to go. Apply a heat spray or conditioning spray to your hair to prevent it from being damaged by the heat of the straightener. Repeat this for five or seven days to completely tame your cowlicks to go in the direction of the rest of your hair.

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Style your hair with hot rollers. Wash your hair with shampoo. Pick a section of the cowlick with your fingers and comb it smooth. Spray it with hairspray. Twist the section and wrap it on the roller to give it a spiral look. Take out the rollers once they have cooled and spray your hair with a hairspray. Turn your head upside down and run your fingers through your hair.

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Turn your cowlick under. Wash your hair with shampoo. Dry your hair almost to 70 percent using a blow dryer. Finish drying your hair using a rounded vent brush or round brush. Spray the ends of your frontal hair with hairspray while the brush is in a turned under position in your cowlicks. Aim the blow dryer at your cowlicks for about 15 seconds. Allow your hair to cool for about five to 10 seconds and then remove the brush.

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Thin out the cowlick. Comb the cowlicks in different directions to determine the way they should go. Snip off some of the hair using a thinning shear to decrease the bulk of the cowlick closer to the scalp. Avoid texturizing or thinning out the cowlick too much since you have to keep it heavy to easily lay down. Blend it in with the rest of the hair by feathering it out using the shears.

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Cut the cowlicks shorter than the rest of your hair. Wash it with warm water and then dry it with a towel or a blow dryer. Apply hair gel, pastes, pomades or hairspray to direct your hair.

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