Me too! However, in recent years I have outsmarted the cowlick by cutting my bangs crooked. If I want them to appear to be cut straight across, I actually cut them so they are long in the center. If I want them to sweep towards the side, I keep them long on the “flat” side and cut them short on the “cowlick”. And for the love of all that is holy, only cut bangs when your hair is bone dry!
I had one of your hairs in my soup yesterday. I pointed at it, turned to the wife and said “Look, the root of all Evel.”
She acknowledged that I was a retard.
I’ve got a cowlick at my bangs, but it’s not a really intense one, and I wear my bangs on the long side. More weight…less cowlick.
Damned cows.
hats! hats do much to tame hair and there is that aura of mystery.
Well, my mom’s working on a moustache, at least. Perhaps she’ll expand to a beard?
I hate my hair too. When I lived in Atlanta I spent all my paycheck on fabulous haircuts from dear Louie. I’ve never been happy with my hair since, ever. Got spoiled.
The jeans, tie dye, etc woulda been worn by me, silly…dressing the part to sing the song. Note that the fact that I can’t carry a tune in a pickup truck is cheerfully ignored for the purposes of this excercise. 
D’oh! Sorry. I’m hard of reading today.
I was in a hate-my-hair phase, so I went to get it cut. My hairdresser* cut it all off. Now I hate my head.
*did I just type the phrase “my hairdresser” unironically?
Mmm, I don’t know. I think Eve’s hair shot your dog just to watch it dye.
Bump because I felt this fun thread shouldn’t “die” out on a bad-punny note. 
I hope that’s OK.
So, I went to one of those “every goddam magazine in the world” stores, looking for a hair mag that might give me cutting/styling tips. They had about a dozen hair magazines, but all of them were for girls under 25 who were either in the prostitution or traveling carnival professions.
What’s a middle-aged lady to do?
It should be noted that the two are not mutually exclusive. At least in my area.
Have you looked around on line? There are some sites with pretty decent hair-do pictures.
However, as one middle-aged lady to another…I’m considering going to a high-end salon and letting someone who really knows what they’re doing diagnose my hideous mop and give me a good, custom designed cut. Then I go to my regular middle of the road girl for maintenance.
Gah! You made me go back and read it again!
An excellent idea . . . But NYC is chockful of high-end salons, and you can easily pay $300 to wind up looking like a girl under 25 either in the prostitution or traveling carnival professions. I wanna bring a photo with me and say, “I want that.”
Yeah, there’s always that chance. I know I want to try this method, but I just can’t part with that much money for a 'do that might be a 'don’t. I already spend $120 a pop for highlights. And they’re not even dramatic!
Here are some mid-length styles on mostly famous women. Some, not too fussy. Others…you’ll have to mentally extract the “touch o’ slut” to see if it would work in the real world. http://www.totalhair.net/new-hairstyles-medium/new-hairstyles-medium1.php
Too long: I’m thinking more “Cynthia Nixon in season one of Sex and the City.” Real short at the back and sides; just long enough at the top and front for some foufing.
. . . and, I repeat, keep in mind I will invariably wind up looking like this.