My hair is thick, pleasantly wavy, and does what it is told. If it gets cut "wrong" I don't mind because it is forgiving and the waves cover some wrongness and it doesn't look as bad as it could. However, sleeping on it can cause a need for "water" to tame it a bit as it tries to flip sideways around the ears, darn ears getting in the way! But wetting it and then recombing, etc. will get it to behave again. So, I just wash/wet it in my morning shower. It gets a bit unruly as it grows out (the flipping sideways) and is much better longer when it can be pulled back but I haven't done that for 5-10 years as it's a pain to grow out and I'm getting too old for it to be that long. I quit coloring it for the same reasons, I don't mind the white/gray hair and there's still plenty of brown on top; most of the white is underneath or wings on the side where it looks distinguished LOL, I wish.