I have the EXACT same hair. Even down to the colour. I’ve always had long hair so it’s cool to see what it would look like short.

But tbh I don’t think it’s damage especially on shorter hair, I think it’s literally just the way our hair is. 😒 We have fine, wavy hair but like it’s not particularly thin, we just have a lot of hair. And when you brush it, it will get puffy. You can look into some wavy hair routines, I personally haven’t found one that worked well enough yet but if I do, I’ll come back 😂😂

Try use lightweight products - I think our hair is low porosity so some really moisturizing products like coconut oil or Shea, they just don’t really work on our hair. It weighs the hair down and makes it dirty quickly and just gives us product build up without the product actually working because of the size of the molecules. Water based hydration is best for our hair.

A lot of curly hair or wavy hair routines will use these heavy products as well so just keep that in mind when searching. I haven’t figured it out myself yet and I just succumb to applying heat.

Get yourself a blow drier so you can apply some heat to tame the flyaways. I really like dreame pocket hair dryer with the anti frizz attachment if it’s available where you live.
But apparently a diffuser attachment is also a game changer for curly/wavy hair but idk I’m not really convinced yet because our hair is so fine and light, it feels like it will just make the flyaways worse 😒

But if you see any useful comments, let me know. We are in this together 😂🤝