What am I doing wrong?
Hi r/curlyhair, newbie here. Have been working on my curl routine the past month or so with mixed results. My current routine is: shampoo and conditioner once every four days or so using Pantene pro-v defined curls range, using a wide tooth comb to detangle my hair. I rinse out the conditioner then apply a curl activator (revlon style masters orbital 2) and scrunch, followed by Umberto Giannini curl whip mousse and scrunch, then microplop as I do all of this while my hair is dripping wet. I then diffuse to dry on low heat, low speed. First pic is a more recent attempt with a bit more success.
My problems are: 1) where my curls do form, they’re like ringlets, but I can’t replicate this across my entire head. Some of my hair is almost completely straight under a top layer of curls. 2) getting my curls to stay put, 3) what on earth to do to refresh my curls between washes. I sleep in a satin bonnet and wake up looking like a scarecrow with my hair all over the place. I’ve also struggling with scrunching out the crunch, it seems to remove any definition I had to begin with…
Edit: my wording might have been confusing, I meant the top layer of my hair seems to form and hold curls much better than the layer of hair underneath.