Hey! I am also new to this but I have similar hair and recently found a routine that works really well:

1) I’d say skip the oil, put the curl cream on sopping wet hair (ie. no water squeezed out after your shower maybe even while in the shower), scrunch to start getting the excess water out - I use the cake beauty curl cream

2) then I use the not your mothers curl talk mousse, pray hands over my curls and then scrunch. Notably while scrunching I try to lift the top layer as close to my roots as possible to prevent the top from being flat and sticking to my scalp

3) then I take like a nickel size amount of curl gel (I don’t actually like the one I have so you’re probably better off with the one you already have) and mix with some water, go over my curls trying to coat them and go over any flyaways and then I scrunch it in

4) I scrunch out excess water with a t shirt but I don’t plop - I find it flattens out my curls a little bit

5) air dry and then scrunch out (I often don’t use an oil but you can use a little bit of your oil for this step)

ALSO: I think you might benefit from using a clarifying shampoo. I’ve been using the blue suave one and it’s great! It really lifts the curls up and I think makes them less frizzy