Curly hair routine help

I have 2a/2b fine, high porosity hair and just recently started doing a routine. If I let dry normally with no routine, it just dries mostly straight with some wave near the nape of the neck.

I've only tried once previously to get it to curl/wave up with products and it was just a mess drying. I used Lush's Super Milk conditioning hair primer, small amount of Garnier Fructis Curl Air Dry Cream, and Aussie Sprunch Mousse. I scrunched all of the product in while my hair was the wettest it could be.

I then diffused on low heat low air.

My hair always ends up looking limp and straight on the outside and only will look curly/wavy if I do a half up hairdo.