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Tessica Brown, the Louisiana woman who went viral afterusing Gorilla Glue in place of hairspray, is dealing with another hair dilemma.
Afterundergoing surgery to remove the adhesivefrom her hair, Brown has been focused on repairing the damage and regrowing her strands using aline of haircare she developed called Forever Hair. As the hair started to grow in, Brown thought it was ready to be color-treated. But when she attempted to dye it, chunks started to fall out.
“I decided that I was going to start wearing my real hair. But when I looked at it, I had a gray hair here, a gray hair there. So me thinking that my hair is strong enough to take chemicals — dude, no, it wasn’t,” Brown said in a TikTok video.
Brown explained that after she applied the hair dye, she went in the shower and rinsed it out. That was when she started to notice the hair loss.
“As I am rinsing it out my hair is steady coming out,” Brown said as she holds up clumps of her hair that fell out. “It falls out in clumps.”
Then, she ran a comb through her hair to show how easily the hair would come off of her scalp. “Look, it’s just falling out. And I don’t even know. It’s like it’s melted. I’m over it,” Brown said, getting choked up.
Another person agreed: “Just leave it alone. Leave it natural for a while.”
“I feel bad for you, but you’ve got to give your hair a break!!!! It’s ok to let it breath! No chemicals, no heat, just let it be!!! I’m hoping it will recover quickly and you’ll give it a break 😔,” said someone else.
Tessica Brown during surgery.Rachpoot/MEGA
After going more than a monthwith Gorilla Glue shellacked to her head, Brown connected with Beverly Hills plastic surgeon Dr. Michael Obeng, who flew her out to Los Angeles and fixed her hair for free.
“So I had to look at the ingredients, the main components of Gorilla Glue,” Dr. Obeng told PEOPLE. We mixed the different components just to make sure that it will work, and also not harm the skin. You know, a lot of people can take out glue, but the question is, how can you safely take out glue, and not break skin. And as somebody with extensive background in reconstruction, I was very well versed in that."
“When she came to us, she had a lot of anxiety, and the first goal was to curb that anxiety, make her less anxious,” he said, adding that she was in a lot of pain. “Imagine what it’s like to have your scalp constantly under tension for a whole month. The hair was all matted down and stuck to the scalp, and you can’t move it, it’s like wood or glass.”
Tessica Brown.im_d_ollady/Instagram
When Brown woke up andwas able to feel her hair again, she was overcome with emotions.
“You should have seen the tears of joy when she could finally run her fingers through her hair,” Obeng said. “That young lady has been through a lot, and I’m glad that she has finally has this, and that she is finding relief, and she’s gone on to her normal life now.”
“This man is some type of miracle worker,” Brown told PEOPLE. “I’m telling you, this man is amazing.”
source: people.com
