they shouyld loosen up also backcombing is notorios for loosening up even falling apart completelyalso u are using that mango lime gel that is a moisturizing gel for african hair that will only speed up the unravelingsweat wont hurt or help all that much sea salt sprays help somewhatand u should expect the backcomb to not really do much good at all and it will just dread naturaly when that loosen enough..u maybe lucky tho and it wont fall apart but backcombing has to loosen in order to dread if it didnt loosen it would always just be silly backcombed hair not dreads
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