Skip to main content Currently Reading She used Gorilla Glue as hairspray. After 15 washes and a trip to the ER, it still won't budge. Lateshia Beachum, The Washington Post Feb. 8, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail Tessica Brown made a terrible mistake. She was out of her favorite hair spray and substituted with Gorilla Spray Adhesive - from the Gorilla Glue company, which makes heavy-duty adhesives for bonding metal, ceramics and stone. Her hair has been in the same slicked-down style for about a month. Brown, 40, exploded into Internet fame last week when she posted her saga to TikTok. She gained a massive following, more than 415,000, as she shared several attempts to free her hair from the bonds of Gorilla Glue.