10 Celebrities Who Have Overcome the Tyranny of the Cowlick

Blake Lively — (Image credit: Getty Images)

Is there really a stigma around cowlicks? (Because I'm not sure I've got anything else growing on my head...) For those times when your part just won't lie flat or your bangs start spiraling off in a 72 wonky directions, open up this gallery and gaze upon the faces of 10 celebrities who've taken what nature gave them–AKA interesting hairlines—and made it work.

Anne Hathaway

Most people, like Annie here, have them near their foreheads, which can look super cute and swoopy.

Megan Fox

Megan Fox's is a very tasteful little wave.

Lauren Conrad

See? Double cowlicks are nothing not to smile about. (Though the perfectly coiffed Conrad usually flatirons them smooth. Sorry.)

Kristen Stewart

Usually, K-Stew does the exaggerated, half-of-my-hair-flipped-over-the-the-way thing, but when she does go for a more natural part, you can see how the roots grow in opposite directions. No biggie.

Kate Bosworth

A very elegant, blown-out cowlick.

Lindsay Lohan

LiLo has to contend with one that lies along her widow's peak, but it just looks like a cool, zig-zaggy parting.

Blake Lively

Baby Blake Lively! With a baby cowlick! If you want to smooth yours out (no hate, people—just options), start with wet hair, and blow-dry in the direction you want it to fall. Once it's dry but still hot, bobby-pin it to your head and let cool.

Claudia Schiffer

A supermodel with a cowlick. Hmm? Hmm? *makes finger guns*

Candice Swanepoel

Well-managed. That is all.

Madonna

Of course Madonna's frame her face symmetrically. Of course.

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Chelsea Peng is a writer and editor who was formerly the assistant editor at Marie Claire. She's also worked for The Strategist and Refinery29, and is a graduate of Northwestern University. On her tombstone, she would like a GIF of herself that's better than the one that already exists on the Internet and a free fro-yo machine. Besides frozen dairy products, she's into pirates, carbs, Balzac, and snacking so hard she has to go lie down.