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Tessica Brown and her glue hair (screenshot)
Photo: im_d_ollady / Tik Tok
The 40-year-old American Tessica Brown gained enormous fame on social media for a short time when she reported a dramatic mishap on TikTok: because she ran out of hairspray, she had used a Gorilla Glue spray adhesive.
That was in January.
After that, she suffered from the consequences for weeks - the hair, scalp and glue had become inseparable.
In her distress and looking for help, the woman from Louisiana described the drama in a video and published it: "Bad, bad, bad idea," she said close to tears.
“My hair has been looking this way for about a month.
I didn't choose that. ”More than 30 million people saw their call for help on TikTok, countless more on Instagram and Twitter.
Tessica Brown was showered with sympathetic but also critical comments.
And she received a lot of advice - from oil to apple cider vinegar to acetone.
But none of it helped.
As if the braid was getting tighter
This week, a plastic surgeon from Los Angeles was able to put an end to the misfortune by treating the woman's scalp for several hours with a self-made solvent.
It was "a great relief," Brown said in an interview afterwards and described how it came about.
When she wanted to get ready in a hurry and her hairspray ran out, she looked for a replacement and discovered the bottle with the "Gorilla Glue Adhesive Spray".
It is a polyurethane adhesive, actually intended for wood, metal, ceramic or glass.
Tessica Brown thought nothing of it.
Or just that she would just wash it off again when she got home that night.
Which didn't work then.
Instead, it felt like her braid was getting tighter and tighter.
Eventually she went to the emergency room, where the nurses started an acetone treatment.
"It burned until my heart beat so fast we had to stop," she said.
A nurse told her that the treatment would take up to 20 hours.
She should continue it at home with the help of her mother and sisters.
But even this method brought little progress.
The surgeon finally offered to treat her for free.
As he told the US tabloid magazine "TMZ", he prepared a means of dissolving the polyurethane from a medical adhesive remover, aloe vera, olive oil and a little acetone and first tested it on an artificial skull with real hair.
He then gave the patient a light anesthetic.
The application "went well." Tessica Brown was lucky not to have suffered any serious scalp damage, apart from some irritation from her previous attempts at chemical treatment.
She should now have other scalp treatments to keep her hair from falling out.
When asked by the New York Times, a spokeswoman for Gorilla Glue did not want to comment on whether, in view of Tessica Brown's experience, it was necessary to put “hair” on the list of prohibited uses of Gorilla Glue Adhesive Spray.
She said the company was glad Ms. Brown received treatment and "we hope she is fine."
She'd have better worn a hat
The 40-year-old who works in childcare would have liked to save herself this experience.
If she could turn back time again, she would have been better off wearing a hat on the day it happened, she said, according to media reports.
She probably regretted her video on social media a little.
She was not prepared for the reactions she received.
Because of their mishap, their children were also mocked at school.
On the other hand: "If I hadn't posted it, the stuff would still be on my head."
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