Wavy/bushy hair - Cant hold a style?

Ha

I don’t know what’s happened to my hair the last couple of years.

I *did* have really nice curls for quite a while, especially during the pandemic when I was home more and using less heat/styling etc.

I hadn’t gone back to using heat/styling products but those curls have disappeared and just left bushy hair every time I shower? I haven’t changed anything in my hair care routine / how often I wash my hair etc but I’ve noticed this year it’s progressively lost it’s curl and become gradually more bushy. The last 2-3 weeks I’ve re-resorted to straightening it because I’m so sick of it being so untamed and looking messy 😒 it’s almost to my chest but it’s been this length for quite a few years now so I don’t feel that it’s too weighed down, I go to the hairdressers regularly and have a good 6” taken off but it grows back very fast.

I can’t even style my hair into curls anymore because it just drops straight out, even if I put loads of hairspray in so I feel in a rut with it. I tried to style it for a wedding the other weekend, spent an hour with my curling wand, it looked amazing I was so pleased, tried to hold it with loads of hairspray, 20 mins later you’d never know I’d touched it 😩

Any tips on how I can revive my natural curls before I go too far down the rabbit hole with heat/products? 🙂