To have no idea what my hair type is???

[Chocwocdoodah]

Ok blatantly posting here for traffic...

Until I my late teens, I had curly hair. Which I loved. It's lost its curl as I've got older and is mostly wavy with a bit of curl now. It goes through phases throughout the year from quite straight to fairly curly - mostly really shit in winter when it can be flat and static, probably due to central heating and cold weather. I went through a phase where I could wash it, put serum in when soaking wet, leave it to dry and it would have bounce and light curl.

At the moment it is lifeless, static and straight. I hate it. It's always shiny and never tangly but it's just so lifeless with no body/wave at all. I've tried moisturising shampoos, lightweight ones so as not to weigh it down, tried washing every other day (instead of every day) but on the 2nd day it looks dry in the morning then starts looking greasy by the end of the day. I've also tried a no sulphate shampoo (Cantu) which weirdly leaves it feeling stripped.

So what should I be doing/using to get some bounce and wave back??? Do I need lots of moisture/just a little??? All ideas welcome!!

Thanks Muncheys. So maybe something for fine hair or volumising as theyll be lightweight formulas?

What happened when your hair changed? Did you move, by any chance? My hair is wavy/frizzy with a tendency to go flat and lank but when it's really clean it's curly and bouncy and lovely.

But I cannot manage to get it really clean in hard water no matter what I do, the only thing that kind of works is ph balanced shampoos like Lush Cynthia Sylvia Stout.

I'm not sure. It changes every few months so it's really hard to work it out. But yes hard water definitely doesn't help and makes it flatter and lanker.