Pro tip: I stopped pushing a full skin fade on a guy with a cowlick after he showed me a photo at the shop in Reno
I used to fight cowlicks with clippers and product and pure stubbornness. Then a guy sat in my chair last month with a spot in the back that shoots straight up, and I started getting ready to take it all the way down like always. He pulled out his phone and showed me a picture of himself from 2019, same haircut, and said the grow-out had him looking like a dandelion for six weeks. He asked me to leave him an inch back there and blend it in softer instead. I did it, and honestly the cut looked better than my usual version. It made me admit that a fade is only clean if it actually works with the hair you're standing behind. Now I ask first when I see that swirl. How do you all handle cowlicks, do you cut around them or just push through?