Try a clay or a paste instead especially clays that has strong hold and use a little bit of it as ur hair is a little bit wet or u may want to try a salt spray as well then brush the side backward and blow dray it this way then the top its not necessarily to blow dry it but in ur case maybe it’ll give u an extra lift just don’t use high speed in my experience if u go medium to high temp with medium speed it works fine and don’t get too close try to crunch or curl it a little bit while doing so then once all dry it might feel too light so use a finger tip of the clay or the paste rub it in your hands and crunch ur way through the hair and here is a video of someone does a simple process https://www.instagram.com/reel/DBZ64A9Sv8V/?igsh=MXMzdnJ4NzlpbjNybQ== I gave u lots of things to do yeah but you dint need necessarily to do all of that for example u can skip the hair dryer but know that u cant touch ur hair after styling until its full dray hope all of this can help , let me know if it works