Tessica Brown has lost her hair, and now she is trying to revive it.
Louisiana woman Tessica Brown, who made headlines earlier this year for using Gorilla Glue as hairspray, is again losing her hair after a disastrous dye job caused it to fall out. Brown, who said she thought her hair was strong enough to dye, has undergone stem cell therapy to revive it.
The 39-year-old mother of five told The New York Post of the procedure. “I’m just praying that it works,” the greater New Orleans-area native said of the process, which went down on Wednesday at the La Fue Hair Clinic in Pasadena, Calif.
Brown found herself in another hair situation earlier this month after she tried to conceal some gray hairs with dye but ended up burning her scalp and losing her luscious locks. She has documented a side effect in a now-viral TikTok video.
A representative for Brown, Gina Rodriguez, told The Post that the chemicals used to remove the glue from Brown’s hair this year interacted with the dye, causing her mane to melt.
In order to revive Brown’s hair, La Fue hair specialist Jacques Abrahamian employed a combination of platelet-rich plasma and stem cell therapy, services that could cost $4,000 to $6,000.
During a phone call with The Post on Wednesday, Jacques said, “PRP uses her own growth factors and platelets found in her blood that heals and rejuvenates the follicles. The other procedure is stem cell therapy, the king when it comes to natural healing and repair.”
According to Jacques, the treatment will “promote new hair growth and expand the life cycle of the existing hairs that she has,” helping Brown have some of her hair’s former density back. Jacques also added that the therapy’s growth-accelerating benefits should be effective in about six to nine months.
“Nothing that’s gonna happen overnight, but the shedding should stop real soon,” a hopeful Brown told The Post.
However, the “Gorilla Glue girl” will have to be patient for almost a year before she can dye her hair again. By that time, Jacque recommends that Brown use an “organic hair dye” that does not contain paraphenylenediamine, a chemical substance widely used as a permanent hair dye, which he said caused Brown’s initial allergic reaction.
The journey to recovery has not been easy for Brown, who went viral in February after applying Gorilla Glue to her hair and sharing the result on social media.
The Gorilla Glue wouldn’t come out of Brown’s hair no matter how much she tried to wash it, and she was afraid of losing it entirely. Fortunately, celebrity plastic surgeon Dr. Michael Obeng caught wind of Brown’s sticky situation and rescued her hair via a lengthy operation in February this year.
