The top picture is beautiful!! I wish my hair would do that.
I have bi-textural hair

curly on the top half of my head and straight on the bottom half... even my hair is indecisive. I just have to keep the underneath cut an inch or two shorter or it looks funny. It was straight when I was a child... maybe someday it will get around to being all curly. I do try to follow the curly girl method.