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hi,
I'm growing my hair out long, but my bangs have some serious "cowlick" "flyaway" problems. Does this normally go away once my bangs are long enough to hang down or is there any remedy for this?
depends on the type of hair you have, but generally, when your hair gets long enough to have some weight to it, the weight allows for it to lay down and lessen the fly-away problem that so many of us go through while growing it out. just give it time, and you will enjoy!
this is the exact reason why I started to grow my hair out. Mine has a real mind of it's own when it's short, so it looks really odd, like I slept on it, and never combed it. With it long, it has enough weight to hold it down in a decent style
HI
Cowlicks are curls or waves trying to happen. Let it grow.
James
Normally, hair grows in a clockwise direction around the crown of the head. Hair at the front hairline generally points from the left side of the face to the right. The extremely fine hair on the forehead is oriented up the face, like in other animals. A cowlick happens when this pattern extends beyond the hairline into the hair of the crown. Emerging hairs point more toward the back of the head.
If you grow your hair long enough, you will naturally be keeping it behind your head anyway. No cowlick problems this way.
That is, if you are a Caucasian, like me. For Asians, hair usually grows in a counter-clockwise or anti-clockwise direction around the crown of the head, so that the hair in front goes from right to left.
Interesting. I'd never heard that. I will have to pay attention now. Another thing I find interesting about hair is where the whorls are. There is a theorem in topology that states that if you take a sphere and populate it with hairs (we'll call it that for the sake of this discussion) such that the hairs are tangent to the sphere (kind of like on our heads), if the sphere is completely covered so that the hairs are locally parallel, there must be at least two whorls, or a peak and spot around which all hairs face away. Heads approximate spheres, so this theorem applies to heads as well. That's why you get a whorl at the back of the head. I've seen a couple people with two or even three whorls on the back of their head.
Whorls appear on other parts of the body as well. For example, my chest hairs form two whorls, one clockwise, and one anti-clockwise, about 4 inches above my nipples.
Oh, there's one other pattern I forgot. To make describing easier, imaging hair are pointed toward the center from east and west, and away from the center, to the north and south. I have this pattern in the center of my chest. I've also seen men with whorls on th backs of their shoulders. Rodesian Ridgeback dogs have a "cowlick" on the part of a dog's back that sticks up when they are perturbed.
Well, I'm getting carried away now....
Pole and anti-pole.
Yeah, i have a double cowlick at the crown and thinking of getting plastic surgical correction.