I have a 2a/b hairtype and when I want my hair to be curly I have found a very simple method to curl my hair and the curls last until I wash them (usually after 2 days).

I wash my hair and while it's still damp, I take a little bit of mousse and work it through my hair. Then I scrunch it with my hand, grabbing a handful of hair from the ends and scrunching it up to the roots. Then I leave it until it dries naturally, when I might want to finger comb it to separate the curls. When your hair is long and flowing, the curls look amazing and what I usually do it just pin a little bit up from the front as a casual style. Then if I want it to look really great, I take a barrette and gather some hair from behind my ears and pin it up as high as possible. This makes the curls look really big and amazing as they tumble down  !

The only problem I used to have is sleeping with my curls, because in the morning they would be quite flat. To solve this problem, I spray my hair with some water and I scrunch my hair, then I pin it up (into typically three big sections). Since it is out of my way I can take a bath and get ready, and when I take off the pins the curls are just as perfect as the day before! Then you can fingercomb it and style whatever way you want.

I've had bad luck with mousse in the past since it has become hard and made my hair look wet, but my new mousse is really good. I use L'Oreal Studio FX Invisi Mousse (normal strength). It makes my curls look really natural, and it looks as if my hair has been professionally done! It keeps the hair soft as well 

I don't know how well this will work if your hair isn't wavy. My mother has straight hair, and when she does this it doesn't last for as long as when I do it, but it still works. It might help to pin up the scrunched sections on the first day if your hair is straight or doesn't curl easily.

Please wear you hair curly one day for me...No curls for me....Poor...Poor...Me.  Okay I'm over it!

Ginny

Leia

I know that what ever we have for hair we want what others have....I love my long straight hair 99.9% of the time ....No kids I'm a few months shy of turning 40 and my husband I decided before we got married that we were not going to have kids.  Both of my in-laws are blind and my younger sister has down's syndrom.  It is okay though we get to spend more time spoiling our friends kids!!!!!

We get to be the aunt and uncle you hate getting your kids back from (SPOILED is only the beginning with us)!!!!

My husband has hair that curls.....When his hair gets long enough to start curling I get out the clippers and off it comes....no curls for me no curls for him either!!!!
I know it sounds kind of strange but it works for us...

ginny

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We ever want what we can´t have...I would really love to get big hair again  Think your hair must be stunning, dear Leia.

My hair is thankful I can sleep with hair unbraided and it will neither tangle nor lose its curls...when I do braid it, the curls will be as you can see on the pic.

I don't mean thinning it in that sense! There is a special kind of cut you can ask your stylist to do where you cut into the hair instead of just at the bottom. It gives more volume to the hair somehow but also makes it lie flatter. I will get this done once the layers have grown out.

wasab,
Maybe it would help if you could tell us what you are using for shampoo and conditioners.  Do you use any leave-in type products?  Do you brush and/or comb your hair?  What kind of brush or comb do you use?  How long is your hair? 

Are there products or techniques that you have used that have not worked?

I would think that using a leave-in conditioner might help moisturize the hair and allow it to relax a bit giving you more waves instead of tight curls.