Is there a way to stop my helmet from destroying my skin in minecraft?

I recently purchased a cool skin in minecraft. However, the skin has a head covering that, like many modern skins, has extensions on it. When I put on a helmet, these extensions are deleted, leaving my character's face as a weird flat grey blob beneath the helmet. I tried downloading a texture pack that makes armor invisible, but this just made it so you couldn't see the armor, it didn't prevent the sticking-out parts of the skin from being flattened off when the helmet is equipped. Is there ANY way to stop this from happening?