My curly hair refuses to listen to me: The curls aren't even, they're frizzy, and they're not all properly formed

Recently watched a 3A/3B curly haired girl do her routine. When she applied her curl cream and scrunched, she got a good # of curls of fairly even size, and scrunching did NOT add any frizz

For me, however, when I apply my leave-in + gel and scrunch, I get

a) Various different sized curls: some very tiny, some very large, some very tiny ones connected to very large ones. It looks a bit odd

b) When I scrunch, I can literally SEE the frizz even when my hair is wet. This gets worse as it dries

Current Routine: Wash my hair. Around 5-7 minutes later, apply Function of Beauty leave in conditioner (throughout my hair except roots and start scrunching). Then add some Not Your Mother's curly hair gel and continue to scrunch. Finger coil the front pieces