People do crazy things all the time for the sake of beauty... A few years ago, weren't we using Monistat, hanging our heads upside down to promote hair growth? Milk of magnesia as a make up primer? Reports of people using super glue to make their lashes stay in place recently? I think we just assume that we can repurpose products for the sake of beauty and for the most part it works out... we generally consider short term beauty over long term health.
It seems likely that she saw it was gorilla glue and knew that it wasn't originally meant for hair, but thought she could get away with it as a finishing product to hold her style. The entire thing is sad.
I haven't been back to this thread in a few days so I haven't read the rest of the comments. There's a difference between using an anti-fungal cream on the scalp vs an industrial strength adhesive on hair. Thats like comparing apples and oranges. It's just not the same. I have absolutely no sympathy for a 40 year old woman who decided to use GLUE spray on her hair. When she realized that she was out of hair spray, you mean to tell me that she couldn't run down to the nearest BSS, Family Dollar, Walmart, or grocery store to buy some? Or perhaps just skip a day or using spray all together?
I'm an over the road truck driver (21 years) and I'm on the road for weeks, sometimes a month or more at a time. I've wanted to retwist my hair while I'm away from home and may have realized that I dont have any loc'ing gel. I'll go to the store and buy the product that I need or wait until I have another chance to do my hair. There's no way I would use Gorilla Glue, Superglue, wood glue, JB Weld adhesive, or any other glue that I have readily available in my truck as a substitute.
I'm glad she was able to finally get that stuff out of her hair and I hope she doesn't suffer any permanent hair loss.
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