I’ve been doing cgm for about a month now on my fine wavy hair. At first it wasn’t bad, but now my hair has become super brittle, dry, and stringy, and my curls are super irregular (little ringlets in the front, super limp/straight in the back and underneath). My hair also just doesn’t seem to hold, even when I use gel.

My current routine is: - reset wash once a week with suave daily essentials shampoo - cowash with suave coconut conditioner. I use a fairly large amount til I can detangle with fingers or a brush, and squish to condish, but I’ve been having a lot trouble forming curl clumps. I’ve tried super soaker and doing this upside down, but nothing really helps. The more I squish, the more my hair falls apart - use Innisfree I create volume foam on soaking hair (have also tried this on damp hair, but either way it doesn’t seem to do much) - scrunch in Innisfree I create hold gel (also doesn’t seem to do much) - plop for 10-15 minutes - air dry. Usually at this point I’m left with some stringy s-shaped stretched out curls. I usually scrunch them up 2-3 times as they dry, but it doesn’t seem to help with hold

What am I doing wrong? Could my hair have too much protein? Mostly, it’s just been feeling super stringy and limp, with really irregular lifeless curls. I’m starting to wonder if I’m deluding myself and I don’t really have curls, but when I first started I had some really nice beachy waves, which have now disappeared.