# Gorilla Glue in hair = bad, bad, bad idea **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 9, 2021, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gorilla-glue-in-hair-bad-bad-bad-idea/932557 "2021-02-09T20:46:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2021, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gorilla-glue-in-hair-bad-bad-bad-idea/932557/81 "2021-02-11T12:45:51Z")
I found the CBS interview with Dr Obeng. The procedure took 3 hours. He’s helping this lady for free. ❤ [https://www.kctv5.com/plastic-surgeon-removes-gorilla-glue-from-womans-hair-after-viral-mishap/article\_b08bd01c-82ef-576a-81d9-4e9ebcab82e7.html](https://www.kctv5.com/plastic-surgeon-removes-gorilla-glue-from-womans-hair-after-viral-mishap/article_b08bd01c-82ef-576a-81d9-4e9ebcab82e7.html) ---
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2021, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gorilla-glue-in-hair-bad-bad-bad-idea/932557/82 "2021-02-11T13:31:47Z")
I can’t help thinking the law suit lies with the regulatory body that allowed a hair product to be called ‘glue’. Keep in mind tax dollars support a large body to regulate this very kind of thing. Large staff, secure jobs, great benefits, etc. At the very least I would expect them to require the wording be, ‘hair glue’, not JUST glue. I think you could make a case they dropped the ball. I’m so glad they helped her, and she’ll be alright. Her hair was very long and beautiful before this, and she had to chop her pony tail right off. ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2021, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gorilla-glue-in-hair-bad-bad-bad-idea/932557/83 "2021-02-11T13:47:45Z")
> [@puzzlegal](#): > > > [@k9bfriender](#): > > > > I have a friend that uses super glue for closing small cuts and wounds > > Oh, and i bought a product that calls itself “liquid skin” and is designed to close small wounds. Hurts like hell to apply, but works pretty well. I’m pretty sure it’s just super glue with some extra solvent to make it easier to spread. It’s especially good for that annoying paper cut that keeps catching on things and getting pulled open. Be aware that super glue will cover any infection-causing dirt under it. So be sure you clean the wound thoroughly before applying the Liquid Skin. ---
**Author:** ![tricoteuse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tricoteuse/32/4334_2.png) [@tricoteuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tricoteuse)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2021, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gorilla-glue-in-hair-bad-bad-bad-idea/932557/84 "2021-02-11T14:02:25Z")
> [@elbows](#): > > I can’t help thinking the law suit lies with the regulatory body that allowed a hair product to be called ‘glue’. Keep in mind tax dollars support a large body to regulate this very kind of thing. Large staff, secure jobs, great benefits, etc. At the very least I would expect them to require the wording be, ‘hair glue’, not JUST glue. I think you could make a case they dropped the ball. I looked up a picture of the spiking glue and it says STYLING spiking glue and the instructions are about how to use it in your hair. Up until now one of them being in the hair care aisle and the other being in the hardware aisle has been enough to keep someone from making a stupid mistake. Someday her hair will be long and beautiful again and hopefully she’ll stop and think before acting on another one of her bright ideas. Gorilla Glue will probably put some kind of “do not use on skin or hair” disclaimer on its products going forward. I will always be grateful that the worst thing I ever had to wash out of my hair was bird poop. ---
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2021, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gorilla-glue-in-hair-bad-bad-bad-idea/932557/85 "2021-02-11T18:09:31Z")
Hey, the phrase “bad, bad, bad” is ® to Beck. Didn’t you know that? ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2021, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gorilla-glue-in-hair-bad-bad-bad-idea/932557/86 "2021-02-11T19:05:14Z")
Tell that to Tessica Brown. From the link: > [@](#): > > Bad, bad, bad idea. ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2021, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gorilla-glue-in-hair-bad-bad-bad-idea/932557/87 "2021-02-11T20:18:20Z")
I’m glad the lady got the help she needed. Hey, we’ve all made dumb mistakes. Sometimes, those mistakes have hurt us. The difference is that we didn’t have our dumb mistake plastered all over over social media for bullies to attack us. I hope she can now retreat back into obscurity and get on with her life. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2021, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gorilla-glue-in-hair-bad-bad-bad-idea/932557/88 "2021-02-11T21:06:51Z")
It didn’t take long for the gorilla glue challenge. The stupidity just gets worse. > **[Gorilla Glue challenge sends Louisiana man Len Martin to the ER](https://nypost.com/2021/02/11/gorilla-glue-challenge-sends-louisiana-man-len-martin-to-er/)** > > A Louisiana man who thought “Gorilla Glue Girl” Tessica Brown was “lying” ended up in the emergency room himself after he applied the powerful adhesive to his lip. Len Marti… ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2021, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gorilla-glue-in-hair-bad-bad-bad-idea/932557/89 "2021-02-11T21:17:02Z")
Yeah, OK, THAT guy is a dumbass. At least Ms. Brown from her first TikTok video was telling people it was a bad idea, a bad mistake, and don’t do it, learn from her mistake. She was NOT issuing on some sort of “challenge”. THIS idiot… 🙄 ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2021, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gorilla-glue-in-hair-bad-bad-bad-idea/932557/90 "2021-02-11T21:24:39Z")
> [@Broomstick](#): > > …telling people it was a bad idea, a bad mistake, and don’t do it, learn from her mistake. She was NOT issuing on some sort of “challenge”. To any self-respecting adolescent child, surely “don’t do it” is the standard way to issue a challenge. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2021, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gorilla-glue-in-hair-bad-bad-bad-idea/932557/91 "2021-02-11T21:48:12Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > It didn’t take long for the gorilla glue challenge. The stupidity just gets worse. > > [Gorilla Glue challenge sends Louisiana man Len Martin to ER](https://nypost.com/2021/02/11/gorilla-glue-challenge-sends-louisiana-man-len-martin-to-er/) What is the deal with people from Louisiana? ---
**Author:** ![DPRK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4491bb/32.png) [@DPRK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPRK)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2021, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gorilla-glue-in-hair-bad-bad-bad-idea/932557/92 "2021-02-11T21:51:57Z")
So how DO you take off polyurethane at room temperature and without poisoning the patient (too much)? It seems horribly irresponsible, if true, that the victims were randomly doused with acetone in the emergency room, which naturally did nothing but irritate their skin. E.g dimethylformamide is already a “2” on the toxicity diamond. ---
**Author:** ![Si\_Amigo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/si_amigo/32/2877_2.png) [@Si\_Amigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Si_Amigo)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2021, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gorilla-glue-in-hair-bad-bad-bad-idea/932557/93 "2021-02-11T21:55:34Z")
Not sure if I saw this here but I couldn’t help but think about this guy waxing his head of hair. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/d3LMMqhzy4s/maxresdefault.jpg "Guy Gets A Really Painful Head Wax..") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3LMMqhzy4s) ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2021, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gorilla-glue-in-hair-bad-bad-bad-idea/932557/94 "2021-02-11T22:01:12Z")
> [@Riemann](#): > > > [@Broomstick](#): > > > > …telling people it was a bad idea, a bad mistake, and don’t do it, learn from her mistake. She was NOT issuing on some sort of “challenge”. > > To any self-respecting adolescent child, surely “don’t do it” is the standard way to issue a challenge. Dude in that video hadn’t been adolescent for years. ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2021, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gorilla-glue-in-hair-bad-bad-bad-idea/932557/95 "2021-02-11T22:08:16Z")
> [@DPRK](#): > > So how DO you take off polyurethane at room temperature and without poisoning the patient (too much)? It seems horribly irresponsible, if true, that the victims were randomly doused with acetone in the emergency room, which naturally did nothing but irritate their skin. E.g dimethylformamide is already a “2” on the toxicity diamond. Ask the plastic surgeon in LA who actually did the job. Although I note from the video posted on line that Ms. Brown was 1) sedated 2) had an oxygen cannula 3) had some sort of covering over her eyes during the procedure. It also seemed that some effort was being made to keep the solvent on the lady’s hair and minimize how much it touched her skin, with a LOT of flushing the area with water. As we have seen in this thread, the notion that Gorilla Glue (any of their adhesives) is the same a Crazy Glue is a common notion even if untrue. Acetone will act as a de-bonding agent for Crazy Glue/cyanoacrylate cement. If the ER folks think that Gorilla Glue=cyanoacrylate or for some other reason think that’s what got into someone’s hair it’s not an unreasonable substance to use. Except that the stuff in Ms. Brown’s hair wasn’t cyanoacrylate. Frankly, I’m somewhat amazed the lady retained as much hair as she did after the procedure. ---
**Author:** ![Seanette](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/seanette/32/9139_2.png) [@Seanette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seanette)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2021, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gorilla-glue-in-hair-bad-bad-bad-idea/932557/96 "2021-02-12T03:28:56Z")
> [@Broomstick](#): > > Dude in that video hadn’t been adolescent for years. In body, an adult. In mind and judgement, maybe not so much. ---
**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2021, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gorilla-glue-in-hair-bad-bad-bad-idea/932557/97 "2021-02-12T17:30:21Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > “The procedure will be to dissolve the polyurethane, which is what Gorilla Glue is made out of.” Doc, for the love of all that’s good in the world, tell us how to dissolve polyurethane adhesive! Asking for everyone who’s ever gotten an accidental blob or smear of the stuff on them. ---
**Author:** ![Briny\_Deep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/briny_deep/32/17188_2.png) [@Briny\_Deep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Briny_Deep)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2021, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gorilla-glue-in-hair-bad-bad-bad-idea/932557/98 "2021-02-12T17:44:34Z")
“Hair glue” is totally a thing, and not just the Got2b Glued brand. Of course it’s a little dumb to apply to your hair any random glues you may have lying around the house, but the case makes me wonder if glue manufacturers from Elmer’s on down are, even now, working on their new “Not for Hair” disclaimer labels. [https://www.amazon.com/hair-glue/s?k=hair+glue](https://www.amazon.com/hair-glue/s?k=hair+glue) ---
**Author:** ![yarblek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/71e660/32.png) [@yarblek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yarblek)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2021, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gorilla-glue-in-hair-bad-bad-bad-idea/932557/99 "2021-02-12T18:04:18Z")
The idea that she was going to or is planning to sue the makers of Gorilla Glue is not true according to her. > **[Gorilla Glue Girl denies claims she’s filing a lawsuit against the Gorilla...](https://www.revolt.tv/article/2021-02-10/60042/gorilla-glue-girl-denies-claims-shes-filing-a-lawsuit-against-the-gorilla-glue-company/)** > > “I don’t know where all of this is coming from,” Brown said in a recent interview. > [@](#): > > Tessica Brown has no plans on filing a lawsuit against the Gorilla Glue company, despite recent reports. > > Earlier this week, TMZ announced the Louisiana woman hired an attorney and was thinking about taking legal action against the adhesive company. The report said she took issue with the product labels which failed to explicitly warn against usage on hair. Brown, however, claims the rumors are false. > > “No, I’ve never ever said that,” she said during an interview with “Entertainhment Tonight.” “Again, I don’t know where all of this is coming from. Because at this point, everybody is saying it.” She is almost certainly getting shit for this way out of proportion to what she actually deserves. She regrets posting the video in the first place. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2021, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gorilla-glue-in-hair-bad-bad-bad-idea/932557/100 "2021-02-12T18:11:33Z")
True, but the plastic surgeon who helped her probably would not have become aware of her situation without the publicity. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gorilla-glue-in-hair-bad-bad-bad-idea/932557.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gorilla-glue-in-hair-bad-bad-bad-idea/932557.md?page=6)