Dry, Damp, or Wet Setting?

For 2 months now, I have been doing primarily wngs in order to not put tension on my hair strands. Recently, I’ve been experimenting with setting my wngs on Dry, Damp, and Wet hair. For me, it makes a difference in drying time and I’m trying to figure out which will yield the best results and a faster drying time (as if there is such a thing with Low Porosity hair). Here’s what I’ve learned: Something is not adding up.

For the first 3 weeks of my process, I followed the steps in my summer hair regimen and styled on wet hair. The Results: Amazing definition, style longevity of 4 days or more but hours upon hours of wet, white, unset hair.

No matter how early I started or how much diffusing/hooded dryer time, my hair would literally take all day to dry.

After that, I tried damp setting. After conditioning, I would apply my leave in and oil. Then wait until my hair was about 80% dry before spritzing lightly and applying my styling product.

The good: I was able to diffuse for 20-30 minutes and my hair would set.
The bad: Lackluster definition, hard hair, style longevity of 2 days, 3 max.

Lastly, I tried dry setting. Same steps with damp setting except I would wait until my hair was 90-95% dry. The Results: Honestly, I tried it once and the rinsed my hair out the following day.

The Skinny: I’m still torn about damp vs. Wet styling. But I think I will be damp setting more than wet setting and dry setting never.