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After the four-hour treatment, Brown burst into tears when she was able to run her fingers through her hair for the first time in over a month, TMZ reports.
“How does it feel to feel your hair again,” she is asked. “Now I wish I had waited to cut my ponytail. But it is over. Finally over ”, says Brown.
Tessica Brown sprayed the super glue on her head to give her hairstyle the finishing touch after her own hairspray ran out. The stuff, however, is intended for gluing materials such as wood, cardboard or laminate. When she sprayed glue on her hair she never thought she was stuck with that same hairstyle for now.
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An attempt to remove the glue with acetone only made things worse. Brown was so desperate that she even considered taking legal action against the manufacturer of Gorilla Glue because the packaging didn’t say the stuff couldn’t be used as a hair product. She thought, she said earlier, that she ‘could wash the stuff out again’.
She posted her entire story on social media and that yielded a lifesaver. Plastic surgeon Michael Obeng offered to help her and perform the surgery, which should normally cost $ 12,500, for free.
“At first I thought it was a joke when my office called and asked, ‘Hey, can you remove Gorilla Glue from someone’s skull,'” Obeng tells TMZ. “Of course I said yes,” said Obeng.
Obeng used a medical glue remover combined with aloe vera, olive oil and acetone to break down the polyurethane, the main ingredient in the glue.
“We are happy that Miss Brown received treatment and we hope she is doing well,” said Melanie Blumental, of Gorilla Glue, in an email to The Post.
Before going to Dr. Obeng, Brown had cut her long ponytail and was preparing to wear wigs for the rest of her life. Brown is relieved she won’t need it now.
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