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Also, Just Cheer Bows may have better advice, but you can heat up the back side with your blow dryer using some common sense, keep the heat moving, etc and it should soften whatever the adhesive is enough to shape it again. You can get the back side of the bow pretty damp with some hair spray and shape it and it will be in form again. I wouldn't just dump hairspray on something that the colors might bleed. Maybe try a little section on a not very noticeable part first. This is just trying to salvage your bow that you are using to compete again. I use a lighter to seal anything fraying, but again, have to keep flame way away, pay really close attention because no second chances if you burn a hole in it. Maybe I bought the wrong brand of fray check but it didn't stop anything from fraying. I said this on the parent board, too, I don't know who our gym bought our bows from, but we are only allowed to wear one practice bow (level bow, no matter which team) and it still looks as good as it did in June, still in same shape and I haven't done anything to it, but we paid 20 for practice bow and 25 for comp bow. Our gym is practice wear and practice bow at every practice, no exceptions.