Tessica Brown: ‘Gorilla Glue girl’ gets stem cell therapy to save her scalp
The 'Gorilla Glue Girl' who recently reported losing her locks in clumps after applying a bunch of chemicals to change her hair color is now hoping to revive her hair with stem cell therapy.
Tessica Brown, 40, of Louisiana, first grabbed headlines after she used Gorilla Glue adhesive instead of her regular hairspray and couldn't wash it out. Now, following a botched dye job that caused her hair to fall, she has undergone stem cell therapy hoping to salvage her scalp. MEAWW previously reported how Brown got 17 marriage proposals and had invited Porsha Williams to her wedding. We also reported on her line of merchandise, named 'Bonded for life', after she went viral.
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Brown underwent the procedure on Wednesday, December 8, at the La Fue Hair Clinic in Pasadena, California. “I’m just praying that it works,” she told the New York Post. Her representative Gina Rodriguez said the chemicals used to remove the glue from her hair this year "interacted with the dye, causing her mane to melt." La Fue hair specialist Jacques Abrahamian offered to save her hair by using a combination of platelet-rich plasma and stem cell therapy, services that reportedly cost anywhere from $4,000 to $6,000.
“PRP uses her own growth factors and platelets found in her blood that heals and rejuvenates the follicles,” Abrahamian told The Post. “The other procedure is stem cell therapy, the king when it comes to natural healing and repair.” The hair expert added, “We mix the PRP and the stem cells, and we inject it using a very fine needle to the areas that have been damaged.”
Aside from decreasing shedding, Abrahamian said the treatment will “promote new hair growth and expand the life cycle of the existing hairs that she has," thus helping regain some density. According to the hair specialist, the therapy's benefits would be visible in around six to nine months. “Nothing that’s gonna happen overnight, but the shedding should stop real soon,” Brown told The Post. While the “Gorilla Glue girl” will have to wait several months before dyeing her hair again, Abrahamian has also recommended an “organic hair dye” that does not contain paraphenylenediamine, a common compound in conventional hair dyes which is said to have caused Brown’s initial allergic reaction.
Brown shot to prominence after she revealed that she had used the industry-grade adhesive on her scalp as she was in a rush and running out of her usual hairspray. She was shocked when she realized the glue wouldn't wash out and hardened onto her scalp instead. She tried everything from oils to rubbing alcohol to try to get the glue off her head and was ultimately rescued by Dr Michael Obeng, who performed the $12,500 procedure for free.
Following the successful hair rescue surgery, Brown set her sights on Hollywood and even secured a full-time agent. She signed up with Gitoni, an agency that represents celebrities including Blac Chyna, Lamar Odom and Tommy Lee, and provides product placement, marketing, celebrity management, and casting for scripted and reality television, The New York Post previously reported.
