| 14/02/2021 – 19:24 (GMT-4)
Tessica Brown, a 40-year-old woman living in Louisiana, USA, went viral this week after posting on social media a video about her tragic case: she was wearing a month without being able to comb her hair after spraying her hair with a high-strength Gorilla Glue adhesive spray.
The woman acknowledged that she had a “bad idea” after running out of her usual hairspray, and decided to fix her hairstyle with glue. Then her hair was stuck in the sticker until she was forced to go to the hospital.
On February 4, Brown posted on Instagram that her hair had been stuck in the hairstyle shown in the video, for a month. Immediately his post was made viral and to date exceeds 75,000 visits.
“I had no more hairspray Got2B, so I used this one, gorilla glue spray, bad idea, my hair doesn’t move, I washed my hair 15 times and it doesn’t move,” she explained .
Two days later, on February 6, he reported that he had to go to St. John’s Hospital. Bernard in Chalmette, Louisiana, to have the sticker removed. There he spent 22 hours in the emergency room, where doctors and nurses used acetone and sterilized water to loosen the adhesive, a procedure that burned his scalp and did not loosen his hairstyle.
Her video caught the attention of many celebrities who offered her help.
Among them, the singer’s hairdresser Beyoncé, Neal Farinah, who offered to help her recover, and the Los Angeles plastic surgeon Screwdriver Michael, Who proposed to do a free surgery to remove the glue from the scalp.
On February 10, Brown – then renamed “Gorilla Glue Girl” – arrived in this California city to undergo surgery, which was a success, according to the medical center where she was hospitalized.
Before entering the operating room, Brown signed up for an account on the GoFundMe platform to raise $ 1,500 for his surgery.
the New York Post reported that by Thursday, Feb. 11, he had already raised more than $ 20,000, which he will now donate to a foundation that supports people going through a situation similar to the one he lived through.
After her bitter experience, the woman is investigating the possibility of asking the company for stickers alleging that the labels of her products are misleading.
The company in charge of the Gorilla Glue spray issued a statement via Instagram about the facts to Brown, emphasizing that the spray sticker says on its warning label that “you should not contact eyes, skin or clothing “.
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