Just a layered conventional haircut, asked for shorter layers and it bounced back.
This is coarse textured average density, I consider the curl type textbook 2c, and the color is henna.
Side view - easier to see here why I think it's wavy more than curly, the back is curlier but on both sides looser like this, and even at this length it flows down rather than up.
Really happy with this cut - this is the end of the day after work and workout and still holding up.
I’ve been going back and forth with the layers in the back, trying different things. Thankfully my stylist listens; I’ve been going to her since I was 16 so she knows I’m not going anywhere if I tell her to cut it in such a way that doesn’t work out. (I’m in my 40s now.)
Anyway, I had a theory that my waves back there are so loose that maybe letting them grow longer would allow the wave to actually wave. When they’re too short, they just slightly curl before the strand ends. It kinda worked, but I do think the weight is an issue. But I’m not gonna get a whole lot of bounce up back there either; the curl pattern just isn’t strong enough. I got it cut last week with shorter layers but I haven’t styled it yet to see how that turned out (holidays and I’m lazy lol).
I’m also recently experimenting with not using a brush during the styling process. I think it was pulling them straighter rather than putting tension on the curls like a ribbon. I’ve tried just combing and then lots and lots of scrunching and that seems to have a better effect. Anyway, the experiments continue!
Brush styling has never worked for me. I have an ancient wide tooth comb that my hair has only beaten once, it has all but one of its tines. I gave up all brushing years ago (outside of a rare blowout to wear it straight, like less often than once a year) and it improved my hair for sure.