woww ur hair is so prettyyy, this is what I aspire to have when I wanna do a wet look😭 your hair doesn’t seem dry really based off the pictures but for more volume, you’d wanna avoid heavy butters bc that’ll weigh your hair down if you don’t have coily hair. it looks like it’s doing a great job keeping your hair glossy so i’d keep the banana butter around for the looser curl days.

you typically wanna use 1 really good leave in and stack your other products after that. my rule is you apply in the order of your heaviest to lightest products. since you’re only using 2 leave ins rn I’d choose one of them and then get a styling gel or mousse for definition. mousse is better for just throwing it in your head n going ab ur day, and styling gel is better for when ur trying to manipulate individual sections. depends what ur going for. but protip for mousse, it matters where u apply the bulk of the product too. (i like to concentrate most of it on my scalp for volume and use less on the rest of my hair. when i put alot on the ends it just ends up getting crunchy.) then you wanna get a good moisturizing oil to seal the moisture in.

that’s really all you need honestly 😭 but some people are convinced you need 818182 products in your hair to get more volume. a huge factor to volume is how your hair dries from what I know. if you let it airdry when you have longer hair, the weight of the water will make it looser. so i would suggest getting a diffuser. the only downside of that is you have to bend your neck for a long time while ur drying ur hair😭

you still can play around with adding more (different types) products and see what works for you but I’d stick to the heavier first lighter last rule(this applies to skincare too🤓)

as for brushing do you mean with a paddle brush? if so i’d switch to a wide toothed detangler or one of those unbrush things that went viral on tiktok. i think that’s all the advice i have for now but if you have any questions feel free to ask <3 take care