Boy, Gorilla Glue is just the viral gift that keeps on giving, isn't it?
We all know the story of Tessica Brown, a woman who used Gorilla Glue as hairspray and wound up catching the world's attention for it. Well, a salon owner in Texas says he's been purposefully using the glue on his clients for years.
Huh?
I'll keep this short: Tessica posted a TikTok informing her followers that she used Gorilla Glue adhesive spray as hairspray, and deeply regretted it.
A surgeon eventually rescued her hair from its glue death trap, and now she is glue-free.
He showed himself reacting to her predicament. The TikTok garnered 78,000+ views, which is pretty average for Eric — he has over 420,000 followers after all.
"So, I've been using Gorilla Glue in people's hair for years, but this is the only way you should ever use it," he explained in his now-viral TikTok.
"At the end of a sew-in, I'll take the threads and knot them together, take a tiny dot of gorilla glue, blow dry, cut that, and that knot is going nowhere."
"But don't put this on your actual hair, k?"
Okay, note to self: Do not use Gorilla Glue in hair. There was never a danger of me doing that, but you never know.
People went nuts for his video, flooding the comments with discussions about glue, debating how different races approach hair, and dunking on Eric for his method.
Professional hairstylists agreed and disagreed with Eric, resulting in them fighting with both each other and random TikTok commenters. I love the internet. None of this matters, but, goodness, do people love to get heated about it.
I mean, it isn't new to glue in hair extensions, it's just that people usually use, you know, hair glue. Glue for hair. However, if Eric has been making Gorilla Glue work for years, then it's pretty clear he knows what he's doing.
I mean, it has to be annoying to be lectured by people who don't know what they're talking about. However, the trained hairstylists who objected are fully within their rights, in my opinion.
M is right — the normal method is to knot the hair at the base to keep everything together. However, they were wrong about not doing a knot, because Eric does do one!
Eric makes a knot, then GLUES the knot to make sure it stays together. Meg was kind enough to explain that, as well as to let everyone know it's a braided weft sew-in. Thank you, Meg!
THANK YOU. He's not gluing the hair, he's gluing the threads he used to knot the hair.
Having said that: Not all people know threads are involved, so Eric definitely could have explained that better.
He posted a slow zoom of his glue just hanging out at his station at his salon. You gotta respect a man who knows how to take a joke.
So... What would you do if your stylist used glue on you?
I am happy to report that she is glue-free! Plastic surgeon Michael Obeng volunteered to help her with her hair, and actually created a solution that dissolved the glue over the course of a four-hour procedure!
