Even his grizzled hair slanted forward in a stiff cowlick over his forehead, and his face bristled sharply with his gray beard.
The cowlick where his hair parted kept a stubborn wisp of brown hair in rebellion, and it shook amusingly when he spoke earnestly or laughed.
The person addressed swung back the rebellious cowlick from his forehead, as if to clear his thinking faculties from a load while he considered the grave question.
Their features matched and both had the same scar or cowlick at the top of their forehead.
Both men and women have cowlicks, which can be covered by longer hair so the whorl is not visible.
There are several methods of taming an unruly cowlick.
The most common site of a human cowlick is in the crown, but they can show up anywhere.
One theory is that a cowlick stems from a circular arrangement of the collagen fibers in the cranial fascia of the area of the cowlick.
