Cowlicks are absolutely evil and I'm so jealous of people without them haha

I thought I was going bald lol for like 2 years and it was just a cowlick on the back of my head I’d never noticed pushing my hair the opposite way I wanted it to (like you mentioned) making it look like I was thinning in one strange line. This is the best video on Cowlicks ever made. Thank you for helping me with my extreme ocd hair issues. This was great!

Honestly thank you, that last bit of advice was just what I needed to hear 💙

Really great video, Andrew, thanks. I was forced to learn so much about hair when it came wanting to style my own because I have a very tricky head of hair to cut and style. I have a double crown and straight hair with multiple partings, and I had a slick back hair cut for many years which i only recently changed. But I was able to learn so much about hair simply because of how tricky my hair is to style. Your videos helped so much with that.

That was terrific on both the level of styling and in terms of being happy with what I have. Thanks

This video is so darn good. The nails in wood example is great! I can’t express how much I enjoy this video and the information it provides!

I love this video. It's so positive, informative, easy to understand, and sensitively created. God bless you. 🙏💖

one of the best videos on hairstyling i have ever seen. no joke

that last bit helped more than u can imagine

Great video and nice technique. You can tell from the way you hold your shears and comb that you love what you do 😀

I don’t actually mind my cowlicks from a looks perspective cause they add a bit of volume to my fine hair. My issue is literally how they feel to my hand and how the make my hair feel. I get anxious BFRBs (body focused repetitive behaviors) and one of mine is not being able to tolerate the way my cowlick separates my hair and how it feels to my hand. My cowlicks in the back result in me fussing with them for HOURS uncontrollably because I just can’t stand that they exist. My hands will start to hurt from messing with them and I get so frustrated at times I just wanna rip my hair out from that spot. I regret shaving my head only because growing my hair long again has just brought to my awareness what a sensory nightmare my hair is. So I’m trying to reduce my cowlicks so I can literally reduce my mental distress and the physical discomfort of my focus on them. This video was really helpful, thank you! At least I understand them now.

You explained it in the most simplest of the ways. Kudos!

Thank you! This was very helpful, I have long hair and a very strong cowlick that I've managed my whole life... now dealing with a little boy who has a cowlick on the hairline and in his crown I've been unsure about how to cut it. Looking forward to continuing to grow his hair a little longer in those areas to get a bit more control :)

Cowlick is such a cute word!!! In German we just call them "whirl". My husband has about 4 cowlicks on the back of his head and is very frustrated 🙈 He basically styles his hair just wildly to cover up the cowlicks with their different directions!

Great video Andrew...! Keep going...! Please make an information video on the guide to daily hair styling routine...

Brooooooooo. You are the cowlick whisperer. Thank you so much for this.

Amazing! And the ending was spot on

Amazing, thanks Andrew. Make video related hair fall reducing

I have a cowlick, this will help a lot, thank you Andrew, Andrew.

so weird. i didnt have cowlicks until one summer when I was 12 I shaved my head down to a 1. When it grew back cowlicks everywhere. I've been maintaining for over 20 years but its probably because I never let my hair get long enough to be able to style it again. I guess one thing about covid is I have it longer than ever and I can style it like I used to.

What an excellent explanation. Thank you!!

Thanks for posting so many videos! Really enjoying it while under quarantine and not being able to cut myself

Those s little dummy heads are so adorable!! I hear braces in your voice.

That wasn’t just helpful but insightful thank you 🙏

3:56 let’s stop for a moment to appreciate the fact he had to go to some DIY store for a board with nails in it. At least 2 people died making that board. it’s a sacrifice.

I have one at the crown _and_ right at the front. What the hell did I do in a past life to deserve that?

As a hairdresser in a home for seniors it was always so hard with the men.. I always cut with the worl.

I want this man to evaluate my natural fall and recommend a style. Money's no object at this point lol

Awesome awesome awesome 👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 very helpful andrew 🙏🏻 thank you Keep doing your good work like you always do 🤗🤗🤗😊

Helpful video. I can see I need to grow my bangs longer. I have a quiff haircut and the bangs want to go back instead of vertical. Going back looks terrible from a profile viewpoint.

You have explained it really nicely

Back in the day when I move my hand in my hair my hand went to the left Now it goes right... From me forcing it to go right

Most of the examples shown are around the back of the head. For me, i have a cowlick in the front side, when my hair is short, it forms a triangle shape and i got made fun of a lot during my childhood. Growing up once my hair gets longer, its not as visible.

deadset most annoying thing, but this video definitely helped out 👌🏾

I have one in the back that causes my hair to part off center to the right side of my head no matter what. I can try to slick it back and only one side will. Literally no hair style works

I mainly cut kids hair and deal with interesting growth patterns. Parents ask me all the time "will it go away as he grows!!" I have to educate parents every day on explaining this is where his hair wants to live, you cant force it the opposite way. Having two swirls on each side in the front hline is the trickiest for boys and most like it short. The bones in the nape can also be a challenge and cause a flare when a person is upright, chin down it lays. Unless the hair is long you have to do a tight taper. Thanks for posting this video. So much education on this subject that should be taught in schools. Thank you!

good video. i am female who prefers short hair, has THICK hair, cowlick, and hair at crown that grows straight out!! i very recently just decided to embrace it and i cut it (myself for now lol) very short at crown and i embrace the sticking out!

Super helpful - thank you!

My hair grows in one massive clockwise swirl. It looks like a galaxy from above.

Nicely presented.....informative and organic...Thanks.

What about forward growing hair on the sides? Is there a way to train it to go down? I have forward growing hair on my left side but on my right side my hair goes down. Also is there a way to fix a hairline? I don’t have a straight hairline more of an “M” but it isn’t necessarily a widows peak

Hi! I have a friend that has 2 cowlicks on his head. Haven’t found any videos on it. If you come across a client with 2, I’d love to see a video on how you cut it!

I finally get it! So we'll explained. Thank you.

I have a cowlick and people think I’m balding but I said to them it’s my cowlick

My hair fell out at the crown, grew back with a “cow lick” “ double crown” so different for me, also my hair gets super sensitive

Very well made video helped a lot and I just subbed

Very nice video!

What a great video.

My man Andrew here is the hair philosopher

This was very helpfull. Thank you

My HERO!

Occasionally I have a 50’s inspired hard-part, but goes against my calyx. But it looks weird unless I grow it longer. So should I then be actually going towards the natural way my hair falls (w/two calyxes, 1 in back, one up front)?

I hate When Clients have 2 right next to eachother going opposite directions Yet wanting a sleek neat, short style😂

There’s no getting rid of cow licks unless you dump gel on ur head if I comp my hair over my cow lick it hurts

this was extremely helpful

very educative video! liked!

can I use a down perm on my cowlick?

Thank you so much 😭♥️

My cowlick in the corner of my forehead and it’s not good it makes my hair not stylable… have crazy curly hair and my hair grown kind of backwards in the hairline so I can’t have bangs and have a bigger forehead and it is a huge problem

i have 2 crowns reveresed from eachother, cowlick at my part, 2 at the back and then 2 more random ones on the top of my head. absolutely miserable.

My hair swirl is on the right and the navel direction is to the right too, where should I comb?

Girl who just shaved her head and like- this helps so much

What if we didn’t have cow licks? What would our hair be like?

I have 3.. one at crown. Two in front.. did have ppl recommend me to style the front like a fan. But in the end.. i dont style my hair.. hair is growing like deer's horn

Thanks so much! I was worried I was balding on the vertex, but seeing your video it looks like a cowlick.. its even smaller than some of your models in video, so probably normal my stress level just went down x100

you used to have a video on this topic many years ago, did you delete it? there was some great info in it aswell

That explains my nappy hair. I thought I had wavy hair lol

I have 4 cowlicks one back one at the fornt and one right back to the one front and a at my left I hate my hair i just want to have long hair but i cant

Yeah but I got 2 in the front so that's a big problem , I wish I could only have 1 in the back tho

1:53 that is EXACTLY how my hair is

Imagine not having one but two 😭 got blessed with a double crown… And thanks for this video, thought I was going bald but in reality it’s just my cowlick, they are scary bastards 😅

thankyou so much !!

What do you do when the hair on the top of your head is too thin to ever even think of trying to cover the cowlicks? I have about 4 or 5 of them - it's a nightmare. There's one we refer to as the epicenter - looks like an explosion and right below that is the great divide- where the hair on either side of this split, that takes up the entire back side of my head, grows in opposite directions!! Ugh

1:53 Thats my hair but i have alot shorter The back of my heads hair want to lay right But in the front most of it wants to grow left ITS A NIGHTMARE.

Are you in Dallas, Tx?

I've never gotten a cowlick but this time I got one why???? 😭

I have 2 whirls that grow in different directions 😩 I’m so tired of it

2:12 Classic cowlick hero origin story

I hate my cowlick. My friends think I’m balding it’s so annoying

I have the cowlick in the middle should I go for the middle part?

Can a cowlick appear randomly

My cowlick is at the crown of my head just off to one side and is so big, it looks more like a bald spot. I wear my hair in a very short pixie, so trying to cover it is near impossible, but this is the style I want. No part of the cowlick sticks up, it looks more like the eye of a hurricane. There is another one just opposite the big one, but is not so noticeable. I also have thinner hair which just adds to the problem since there isn’t much there to cover it. I’ve just learned to live with it.

I thought I was going bald, cus everyone was saying I had a bald spot but I didn’t know abt this until now

My hair grows straight on top and on the sides it grows out I hate my hair It's the only thing on my body I would change in a heartbeat.

I have a cowlick and now it makes sense why every time I get a haircut, they stuff it up. I've also been told by one barber that my hair is hard to cut (compared to most people) but they weren't able to explain why

Damn I rlly thought I was going bald at 24 ( Both grandparents on both sides passed away with full heads of hair) why did did no one tell me abt this smh. No receding or thinning just noticed it a few months ago and was rlly confused until family told me I always had that.

I've had a cowlick since a teen im 25 and still looks the same no change whatsoever yet still hate how I look on the cameras from the stores cause it looks bad lmao

I have 2 cowlicks and it always sticks up

Omg my cowlick goes anti clockwise... does this make me an Xman now?

@andrewdoeshair I never understood the direct correlation between the cowlick and sectioning. If you were to do a horseshoe section. Would you always consider the colicky and section based off splitting that?

We're just like Abyssinian guinea pigs!

I have a ton my hair looks like I haven’t brushed it

My whole head is a cowlick 🙁

I have a cowlick it makes few hairs fall in my face while the others stay where they are, man they are annoying

man my cowlicks are so bad and grouped on the back of my head ive looked like im balding since the 3rd grade. one of my biggest insecurities and idk what to do about it.

3:24 I have this someone help

Having big or thin cowlick is unfortunate, but having MPH while also having this kind of cowlick is a CURSE….😤😭

my daughter has 4 head whorls. 3 at the top and 1 in front. I don't know why that much😅

Doctor: It's a girl! Andrew: It's a counterclockwise whorl!

I just want to know whether i have cowlick or am i going balddd