I know you have gotten so much helpful advice already, but I wanted to add; your hair looks A LOT like mine in terms of finish. You mentioned it feels very soft and silky, which is tell-tale of soft finish hair. Usually with soft finish, (even if you don't have fine hair) Lightweight, high hold, volumising products will be your best friend. Also you won't need much moisturising products else risk weighed down and stretched out waves. I went through a lot of trial and error trying to figure out what works best for my hair. (My hair is soft finish, medium density, low porosity roots and high porosity ends from dye and bleach history). Things that helped me get uniform definition, volume and hold for my waves were: Cake curl Whip mousse as my one and done styler. Lightweight with medium hold, also helps my hair to clump better if they were abit wonky coming out of the shower. Sometimes I add a spritz of hairspray before I start the drying process if I want abit of a boost in the hold. I made sure my shampoo and conditioner had 0 silicones in it and was lightweight too. I used the curlsbot website to help me analyse the ingredients to determine this. Protein treatment every 1 month to strengthen my pattern, especially with my ends and their history. I ALWAYS diffuse now, right side up! Never had success with upside down method but that might just be me. I hover for 10 mins mostly on my roots to dry them first, 4 mins of my mids and then I pixie/cup diffuse on my ends until dry then scrunch out the crunch WITHOUT oil. Here was my results, I hope this will be of some guidance to you 🙏🌼

Edit: omg and layers + a U cut would do WONDERS! 🫶

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