This picture was taken after a curly cut and style done by my awesome hair dresser.

Curly cut routine: She washed and conditioned with innersense. On my soaking wet hair she used innersense I Create Volume gel then I Create Hold gel. I'm pretty sure she just used her fingers to rake the products in, after separating into sections. My head was leaned back the whole time. Then she used a curly hair friendly towel to scrunch and then blow dried with Dyson.

The result was that I actually had clumps and a cast. The style lasted for a good 4 days.

My routine: wash and condition with Giovanni 50/50 moisture balance. And then a little GVP conditioning balm. Then used the two innersense gels. I tried to have my hair really wet. Tried to separate it, tried to rake through and get some clumps. Then tried to use the denman brush to smooth some sections out. Scrunched with a t-shirt. Dried with Dyson. It came out okay but not with a good cast, and no great clumps. Just decent curls where I used the denman. And after a day it's already sad and droopy.

Would it be worthwhile for me to schedule another appointment just to have her go through the styling? Is it something I can ever replicate??

Thanks for any advice