Tessica Brown, the TikToker who went viral for smearing her hair in Gorilla Glue, has revealed the real reason why she used the tacky substance: she had to slip her mane perfectly into place for a date.
In early January, Brown had plans to hang out at a lake near her sister’s house with her fiancé Dewitt and was in a hurry to get out of the house, she told The Post on Wednesday during an interview on Zoom.
“We left, so I mean, I was going to spray the Got2B glue and air was coming out … so now I’m looking around all over the house, I need to find something you know for these bugs,” Brown, 40, told me. .
“We went on it more so I know I couldn’t handle those flies, it wouldn’t work, not sit on the lake.”
Brown said she “ ran into the kitchen, ran past the fridge, ” and sitting on top was the quick fix she thought would set her hair – a can of sprayable Gorilla Glue.
“I’m like you know what? I can use this and as soon as I get home I can take it off, you know, it was off,” she continued.
“That didn’t happen.”
She sprayed the glue into her hair and then, as part of her normal routine, blow-dried the industrial glue, which adhered it to her scalp, and flew out the door thinking everything was fine.
After a blissful afternoon by the lake with her boyfriend, Brown came home to shower and realized the sticky situation she was in now.
“Listen, it didn’t come out, the water was dripping off like it was a shower curtain. It was a bad thing, ”Brown recalled.
“I was scared to even call my mom, I haven’t called my mom in a week.”
At first she thought she would try again the next day and then it would come true.
“I kept saying I’m not going to panic yet,” she said.
But as the days passed and her hair got completely stuck, she realized she had a problem with her hands and eventually admitted to calling her mom and asking for help.
“She was here in about two seconds,” laughed Brown.
“We even tried cooking oil, we tried every oil in the store.”
All the while, Brown was in pain.
“The ponytail I had, it was like someone was tightening it up every day. It felt like there were red ants on the inside, I can’t get under it, “Brown said.
“I didn’t sleep, I didn’t eat, everything tried to get this off my head, I lost between 10 and 15 pounds,” she continued.
[I thought] that I would lose all my hair, get scalp damage and not be able to grow it back. ”
Luckily, renowned plastic surgeon Dr. Micheal Obeng smelled of Brown’s hairy condition and managed to save her locks during an hour-long procedure in Beverly Hills last week.
Fortunately, Brown says she is still engaged, despite being stuck in the tricky situation.
She was told not to put anything in her hair for the next six weeks, but said she plans to keep things simple once she’s fully healed.
“I’m going to rock this natural look or a wig.”