Hard where? I’m still tense here. As well as the relationship between black women and our hair, the situation involving our good sister Tessica Brown (also known as Gorilla Glue Girl, as she was unofficially nicknamed on social media) and her terrible hair catastrophe that went viral last week too increased in complexity.
Stiff where? Rigid here: woman uses gorilla glue to straighten her hair and now I’m in tatters
Last week, we talked about Brown’s unfortunate circumstance involving his hair and the Gorilla Glue spray permanent adhesive (not intended for hair). If you somehow missed this story, allow me to summarize for you in the simplest way that you can. Essentially, Miss Brown ran out of a hair product and thought that a completely different product would end up giving her the same effect. The good news? Yes. The bad news? The product she used was not made for hair. Like, at all. Because of this fact, Brown has consequently been stuck in the same hairstyle for about a month, with the rest of Twitterverse now heavily invested in its journey to find a solution. Well, today it looks like we have an update.
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Via TikTok from Brown, the Louisiana teacher, reportedly 40, apparently went to the hospital over the weekend to see what could be done with her hair. Photos posted on her official Instagram, which has now accumulated more than 600,000 followers, show Brown lying on a hospital bed with remnants of what appear to be cotton swabs still stuck in her hair, suggesting that any treatment the hospital staff tried to give her, unfortunately it didn’t work. In a conversation with Roz & Mocha from Kiss 92.5 FM, Brown reported his painful experience, saying:
“When I got to the emergency room, when I got to bed, they got nail polish remover, salt water and started at the back because I told her it wasn’t much spray on the back. When she [the healthcare worker] started, started to burn, she took the saline water and tried to cool. It burned so much that my heart started beating very fast. She told me that it looked like she could do this, but it will take at least 20 hours. I asked them can I go home? At least I’ll be home and I’ll be comfortable instead of lying in a hospital bed trying to get everything out. “So that’s what she did. Brown’s sister ended up trying to use wipes of acetone and salt water to get rid of the glue, but the pain was unbearable for either of them to continue.
Since the original video appeared, Brown has set up a GoFundMe and there has been talk of it exploring its legal options, since Gorilla Glue does not specifically warn against using hair. Gorilla Glue also issued an official statement on Brown’s riddle, as well as the fact that its label clearly warns against use on skin, clothing or eyes (probably never imagining that they would need to add hair to that list), and posted on social media , saying in a tweet:
“We are very sorry to hear of the unfortunate incident that Miss. Brown experimented with using our spray patch on his hair. We are happy to see in your recent video that Miss. Brown received medical treatment from her local medical center and we wish her the best. “
We are very sorry to hear about the unfortunate incident that Miss. Brown experimented with using our spray patch on his hair. We are happy to see in your recent video that Miss. Brown received medical treatment from her local medical center and we wish her well. pic.twitter.com/SoCvwxdrGc
– Gorilla Glue (@GorillaGlue) February 8, 2021
And all the welps at Welpington went on well. We hope that Miss. Brown finds the help she so badly needs.