“Here’s your sign.”
I suspect when the glue comes off so will her hair and the very top layer of skin cells. Yeah, she’s going to be bald for a bit but a least all that stuff will be off her head and skin.
If it’s just that she should be OK. Her scalp will recover from the irritation and her hair will re-grow.
At this point I’m getting a little concerned that her effects to remove it are going to cause more damage. Some of the stuff she’s used already can be pretty nasty on its own.
Nobody’s the idiot in his own story,
How does this lady deal with cooking and knives and cleaning supplies and all the other potentially hazardous everyday activities? If she is really suing she should get laughed out of court. Anyone should know not to put glue in their hair. Especially Gorilla Glue, it’s known to be particularly strong. I used that to repair cracks in my vinyl truck seat, and it’s held for many years now.
There’s no denying that putting Gorilla Glue on her hair was a stupid move, period. This woman should have read the info on the can and used some common sense. But I got to wondering how someone could think glue–any kind of glue–would work as a hair product. And I’m wondering–without trying to rationalize her decision–if she hasn’t watched a bunch of those “life hack” videos that show stuff like how WD-40 can get out carpet stains or how Elmer’s glue can remove splinters. The spray product she normally used had “glue” in its name, and she may well have been thinking, well, a little glue spray would be a good “hack.” Still a stupid mistake, absolutely, but maybe a bit more understandable.
I hope she decides not to sue. She’s already got a reputation as an idiot, and suing would make her look like a malevolent idiot. She can’t blame GG for making her a laughingstock. If she hadn’t posted the video–which she did in the desperate hope someone could give her a solution–few people would have known about her dilemma.
What does she do for a living? I’m wondering how this affects her livelihood. Hopefully she’s not a hair stylist.
I can’t help but think about a T-shirt I saw in New Orleans around 1993 or 1994: ‘Louisiana. Third World and Proud of It.’
Way back in the Punk era of colorful mohawks two ways to produce a tall, stiff crest of hair was 1) leave a lot of shampoo lather in or 2) use Elmer’s glue or something similar. The chief difference being Elmer’s and its cousins are soluble in water and wash out with relative ease. So using various “products”, including a weak and water soluable glue, to stiffen a hairstyle is not unprecedented.
HOWEVER - using a construction grade glue, or any other powerful, permanent adhesive is stupid. We know that. Unfortunately, not everyone is equally sensible about these things. That is why you need a license to be a barber or a beautician - because what’s obvious to us is not obvious to all. Even the less sensible want to get their hair done.
And yes, I think the “got2bglued” product name might have misled her. Like I said, not everyone is as sensible as we would like. That’s why we warn people that “lemon-scented” dish soap is not lemonade and why we have warnings on Tide Pods and all those other warnings that seem nonsensical to us but might in fact be preventing harm to the less sensible among us.
Again, I don’t think this woman is the brightest light bulb in the marquee. Her first videos, where she actually does admit she made a mistake and actually does tell other people that this was a bad, bad, bad idea and to learn from her mistake. Yes, she was looking for answers and sympathy, but she came across to me as a frightened woman at wit’s end.
Since then… let’s see, a GoFundMe - not inherently bad, but apparently she received more money than anticipated or needed for immediate bills. I suspect someone suggested she should sue. Perhaps a lawyer contacted her rather that her seeking one out. I also here she has now hired a “manager” - did she do that because someone told her that now that she’s famous that’s what she should do? You are, after all, talking about a woman who does not seem to be the most discerning. I suspect she’s gullible and easily manipulated. I would not be surprised to later find she is being taken advantage of by people who learned she has received donated money and want some of that for themselves and see her as an easy mark.
As for what she does for a living - she’s a mother of five, which is a job in itself, runs a daycare, and apparently does something with dance.
I’m also going to ask people to read/watch things about her with a skeptical eye/ear. I’ve already seen some faked videos out there purporting to be views of her bald, post-removal scalp when in fact when I saw them she still had her ponytail attached. Not everything you’re hearing about her is true. There are a lot of vicious people out there. There are people besides her, unconnected to her, who might also see opportunity to take advantage of her. There are people passing judgement on her because of her choices of hairstyle (beyond just the glue thing), nails, make-up, contacts…
Yeah, she f***ed up. She admitted that from the first video. Hey, takes a spine to do that in public. She’d been dealing with the for a month before she did that, so no, I don’t believe she did this as a publicity stunt. I think she’s scared.
The last thing I’ve heard about her that I could determine was probably true is that she’s planning to fly to LA to see a plastic surgeon who has offered to work on the problem for her, for free. Which is awful damn nice of him. I hope he succeeds. I wish this lady luck.
Maybe she’s suing the got2bglue people and not Gorilla Glue? She might have a case, I should think!
I feel bad for her, and agree she probably struggled alone for some weeks before being desperate enough to go viral. I’m glad someone thinks they can help her.
I wonder if for the first few days she thought, ‘This stuff REALLY works!’
Why? Because the got2Bglued brand doesn’t sell bottomless cans of hairspray? She used the other one because she ran out of got2Bglued (or however it’s spelled).
I am willing to bet, though, that whether or not there is a lawsuit Gorilla Glue is going to amend its cautions to include “do not use this on your hair”.
Very much so. Crazy Glue (superglue) is cyanoacrylate. A form of cyanoacrylate has actual medical uses. I’m pretty sure my knee replacement involves cyanoacrylate. So I’m guessing that, given that it can be used inside of the body, cyanoacrylate on the skin, although inconvenient and difficult to remove, is not in and of itself harmful.
Gorilla Glue, on the other hand, is made of urethane prepolymer, diphenylmethane-diisocyanate, isomers, and homologues, and some or all of those are apparently pretty nasty.
I own a cog brush. That’s a very stiff, very narrow brush shaped like a “C,” designed for cleaning gear clusters (for example, on the rear wheel of a bicycle).
It says on it “not for oral use.”
I shudder to think what unfortunate incident caused the company’s lawyers to insist that a disclaimer about oral use be placed on the product.
I asked what she did for a living not to make a snarky joke, though in looking at my post, it certainly seems to be my intent, but because the negative publicity could cost her if she ran her own business or worked in certain fields. I hope the parents of the kids in her daycare are understanding.
I think most of us here on the SDMB are pretty savvy about things like faked videos.
I don’t blame her for getting a manager if, indeed, she did get one. (We don’t know that for a fact, right?) I don’t think she’s got lucrative deals awaiting her–those 15 minutes go by fast–but she undoubtedly is deluged with interview requests, maybe offers (possibly bogus) to do commercials, and a whole lot of other stuff. I’m sure it’s overwhelming and that she, like most of us, doesn’t know how to handle such things. If she does do ads of any kind, it seems like it’d damage her case in any lawsuit.
They shouldn’t say those things have teeth.
While it’s curing cyanoacrylate can generate a fair amount of heat. This can cause minor burns during normal use if you get sloppy (I speak from experience - I used to have to use this stuff as part of my job). When used inside the body care must be taken to avoid this, especially around delicate tissues.
But yes, certainly, once set it’s a relatively innocuous substance. It can be used in place of stitches to close wounds so pretty benign.
Gorilla Glue - not so much. It’s irritating, possibly contains carcinogens, and it’s recommended you wear gloves while using it. Of course, that might also be to avoid gluing yourself to something.
The parents of the daycare kids probably know her as a human being and not solely as some idiot on TikTok. It usually is different when you actually do know the person. (Although in some cases that may make you even MORE judgemental).
Where I got the information about her work life indicated that during the pandemic her business had been pretty much shut down, possibly because the kids are at home with the parents instead of in daycare while the parents work. But I don’t know the details.
She strikes me as the sort of person who really does need solid advice about how to handle this situation legally, medically, and in public. Unfortunately, at this point the sharks probably smell blood in the water, though.
I could, perhaps, see leveraging this into commercials of some sort, but I don’t want to see anyone take advantage of her or give her bad advice. If I was advising her (which I’m not) I’d probably suggest going to LA and getting the immediate problem dealt with, then doing her best to retreat into obscurity again. But what do I know? I’m no more qualified to hand out actual advice on this than anyone else in this thread, and possibly less than actual lawyers or managers.
Business-wise, there’s more to consider than her coming off as an idiot on TikTok. Fame or infamy, it’s hard to focus on your business when you’re getting deluged with media attention, wanted or otherwise. I’m hopeful that if she’s savvy enough to run a business, she’s savvy enough to fend off sharks. Easier said than done, I know.
I’m SHOCKED this isn’t a Becky thread.
I have a friend that uses super glue for closing small cuts and wounds.
I never tried it myself, but it is good to know that if for any reason I did, to use superglue, not gorrilla glue.
I always kinda assumed they were more or less the same thing, just different brands.
Hey, her stupidity led to other’s learning something. It’s as I always said, no one is a total waste, they can always be used as a bad example.
I’m confused. Why is she going to doctors? I would have thought the the treatment for gorilla glue gluing your hair to your scalp would be to wait until the skin and hair grew out some, and then cut it off.
Which is something that should be relatively easy to do at home. No?
Re Elmer’s glue: yeah, it softens when wet it doesn’t really dissolve once it’s set, though.
At least, a family story about my BIL is that he used Elmer’s glue to hold up his mohawk, and then had to cut it off to get the glue out of his hair. But this was held up as a funny family story, not an emergency that required medical help. And not even as an incredibly stupid thing to do, since he got the awesome mohawk he wanted, and the hair grew back.
I use both super glue and gorilla glue around the house. They are totally different. Different packaging. Look different wet. Smell different. Cure differently. Look different dry. Gorilla glue foams and expands as it cures, super glue doesn’t. Gorilla glue fills gaps and is rigid when dry. Super glue, to when properly used, is a thin film.
I’m surprised you might confuse them, and can only conclude you don’t use glue all that often. (I also have Elmer’s, two wood glues, rubber cement, shoe goo, and a couple of expoxies around the house, so maybe I use glue more than most people…)