original sound – AvaniĪfter the first round of trying to remove the glue at home, Reyes reaches out to her followers and viewers to help out via GoFundMe. “I’m thinking about starting a GoFundMe page. I used coconut oil for like half an hour, and then I just washed my hair, and there’s still Gorilla Glue on my head.” Overall, her hair looks slightly different from the original video but still remains a solid slab of pink hair on her head. The next video Reyes posts after the visit to the emergency room shows her in the shower appearing to shampoo her hair while the song Gorilla by Bruno Mars plays in the background as a tribute to her situation.Īfter this, a new video with how her hair looks and results of this attempt come forward. Or, you can shave your hair.” At Home Remedies-Trial and Error Her career highs? Interviewing Cate Blanchett and winning a Jasmine Award for the deeply personal feature Cancer Stole My Mother’s Scent.Reyes continues with that the only suggestion given was that she “should apply either olive oil/tea tree oil or coconut oil on your hair to attempt to remove the glue. So if she really likes something, you can trust that she has reached that opinion by vetting it against everything else she’s ever tried. She’s a discerning beauty shopper and knows it can be confusing trying to navigate what’s hype and what really works.
She loves jumping on the latest internet-breaking beauty news, dissecting the best red carpet looks, and having the crème de la crème of dermatologists, make-up artists, and hairstylists on speed dial so she can tap them for the best advice. Beauty journalism allowed her to marry up her first-class degree in English Literature and Language (she’s a stickler for grammar and a self-confessed ingredients geek) with a passion for make-up and skincare, photography, and catwalk trends. She has recently gone freelance and alongside My Imperfect Life, she has written for titles including ELLE UK, ELLE Canada, Buro 247, Harper's Bazaar Arabia, Vogue Scandinavia, and ES Magazine. For the past four years, she was the Senior Beauty Editor at Marie Claire, having previously worked in the role of Beauty Editor at both Stylist and Cosmopolitan. He added: "Nothing that’s gonna happen overnight, but the shedding should stop real soon."įiona Embleton is a multi-award-winning beauty editor who has tested over 10,000 products in her 10 years + of writing and shooting beauty stories. La Fue hair specialist, Jacques Abrahamian said that the treatment will help: "promote new hair growth and expand the life cycle of the existing hairs that she has." The Post has also reported that Tessica has now undergone stem cell therapy to help save her hair at the La Fue Hair Clinic in Pasadena, California. Talking to the New York Post (opens in new tab), Tessica's representative Gina Rodriguez claimed that the chemicals used to remove the Gorilla glue interacted with the dye, causing her hair to melt off. I thought my hair was strong enough to for chemicals ?#tessicabrown #mahair #helpmyhairplease #fyp #imoverit ♬ original sound - Tessica Brown (opens in new tab) Tessica applied the dye to her hair, but while she was washing it out her hair started to come out in clumps! She was left with exposed scalp and elasticated hair that just breaks off when she tried to comb through her hair. She wrote in the caption: "I thought my hair was strong enough to for chemicals"-can you see where this is going? Taking to TikTok, she shared to users that she had started to spot some grey hairs, and like many of us, had wanted to cover them with hair dye. What's happened to Tessica Brown's hair ?Īfter having an absolute nightmare with her hair at the beginning of this year, after putting Gorilla Glue instead of hairspray onto her locks-Tessica is not out of the woods yet. Sadly for Tessica, this wasn't the end of her hair saga, and she was in for yet another hair mishap.
Lesson learnt: if it's not meant to be put in your hair don't try to create a new beauty hack by sticking it in your hair.
Obeng reportedly provided the service pro bono. As you can imagine, Tessica's scalp is extremely sensitive right now and will need some time to recover."Īnd while the removal was estimated to cost around $12,500, Dr. Rodriguez said: "She is currently resting and healing from the ordeal. Michael Obeng (opens in new tab)was able to successfully "remove all of the Gorilla Glue out of her hair." Tessica's manager, Gina Rodriguez, told Entertainment Tonight (opens in new tab)that plastic surgeon Dr. Thankfully now, according to several reports, Tessica had the surgery to have the adhesive removed from her scalp.