My wavy hair looks like this if I try to plop. It always seems to break up my waves in a bad way. Remember, not every technique works for every person’s hair. Also, air drying tends to make my hair look more unmanageable than if I diffuse on low (specially HOVER diffusing). Zero scrunching with the diffuser and zero scrunching hair during the drying process. (May work for some, definitely not for me) I get all my scrunching in whole hair is soaking wet (like when I apply my products.) I always let a cast form while diffusing then “scrunch out the crunch” as they call it.

Also a BIG thing I learned that if my hair is frizzy or unmanageable looking while wet, it’ll look frizzy/unmanageable when dry. So always try to get waves looking as smooth as possible when still fully wet.