How do you treat your curly hair?

Sorry to everyone who doesn’t have curly hair, you can disregard this question. :( (Unless you have your own insight!)

I’ve heard many different things from hair dressers about how I shouldn’t wash my hair everyday, sometimes condition without shampooing first, use so and so product, never use so and so product, etc etc etc.

So, to everyone here with curly hair, how do you treat your’s and keep it behaving?! I generally flat iron my hair a lot, and then create my own curls (as shown in my avatar), but it takes an hour to flat iron my hair, which seems a waste of time….

And a second question would be, how do you style your’s?

(Description of my curls: Thick, somewhat tight ringlets, stubborn.) Thanks. :)