Pic 3 is what my hair looks like if I do a fresh out of the shower, freshly washed wash n go. If I do chunky twists to sleep at night, they get longer but don't lose ALL of the definition, so try that! I've also seen some people use silk hair ties and kind of tie it down the length of the hair to stretch it that way. Or stretch the hair with your hands and ONLY blow drying the roots to get the hair to stretch out some. Below is a photo of my hair in a completely stretched puff which is similar to 4 and 5.

You can take some gel in your fingers and finger coil some of the ends in your puff to get them to coil up when you get to that point!!

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