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The tale of Tessica Brown and the Gorilla Glue continues. According to her Instagram, she checked into an emergency room on February 7, where she sought medical treatment for her still-hardened hair and scalp. There, she received acetone wipes and water, which her sister Juanita was later shown using in attempts to soak off the glue at their home in a YouTube video. Tessica appears to be in a significant amount of pain in the clip.
The Brown sisters have also created a GoFundMe campaign to help with Tessica’s medical expenses and recovery. As of this post’s publish time, they have raised $7,823, well above their goal of $1,500.
Look, we all know how hard it is to get hair to stay in its place. Even with the strongest-hold gel, you might still find a few stray hairs out of place once a couple of hours pass. But when a TikTok user by the name of Tessica Brown ran out of her go-to hairspray, she took grooming to unprecedented levels by trading Got 2b Glued Blasting Freezing Spray with Gorilla Spray Adhesive — yes, the brand of glue formulated to hold pieces of wood together. As she demonstrated in a video, the glue left her slicked-back ponytail a seemingly permanent fixture on her head. Unsurprisingly, it’s quickly making the rounds across TikTok and Twitter.
“When I do my hair, I like to finish it off with the Got 2b Glued spray just to keep it in place — well, I didn’t have any more Glued spray so I used this, Gorilla Glue spray,” Brown says in the video. She pats, rubs, and ruffles the hair on the top of her head, but it shows no signs of budging under the cast of the glue. “Bad, bad, bad idea. Y’all, look, my hair, it don’t move. You hear what I’m telling you? It don’t move.”
She goes on to say that she’s washed her hair at least 15 times with no progress whatsoever. In another video clip posted shortly after the first, she slathers it with shampoo to no response. As if she were polishing a bowling ball, she wipes the shampoo off to reveal her unchanged, still-hardened hair beneath.