A MAN has stuck a red Solo cup to his face in another shocking Gorilla Glue emergency in the US.
Len Martin, 37, was warned he might lose part of his lips after trying to prove that "Gorilla Glue Girl" Tessica Brown's hair disaster wasn't serious.
In an Instagram video, Martin, sitting at a table at his Louisiana home, grabs hold of the super-strong adhesive – used to fix bathroom tiles, wood flooring and decking, and definitely not for use on skin or hair.
He says: "I've got some Gorilla glue right here. I'm going to take it and put it on this cup, and put it on my mouth."
Martin was trying to prove that stories about Tessica Brown who went viral on TikTok after putting Gorilla Glue on her hair instead of hairspray, were fake.
He dismisses the adhesive as "super glue really" as he removes the cap while saying he will just "lick it off – easy".
He rejected Brown's disastrous experience, which saw the glue stick down her hair in the same style for a month as 'garbage'.
Telling viewers to 'watch' him, he puts the glue around the rim of the red cup, and then puts it straight on to his face, around his mouth.
But in an update, Martin later posted: "I thought that chick with the gorilla glue was making that story up.
"But no, it's real. I don't know why I tried it.
"Now they talking bout cutting the tip of my lips off in surgery…yall pray for me #gorrilagluechallenge smh [sic]."
He ended up in ER for treatment, with a doctor carrying out "painful peeling" of his skin reports Illinois Daily News.
Martin was warned the tip of his lip might have to be surgically chopped offif it doesn't heal properly.
His message to people thinking about copying him is: "This is not the challenge you want to try!"
Martin told Fox 8: "Did you see what the lady did with the Gorilla Glue on her hair? I thought she was playing around.
"I didn’t think it was that serious, that Gorilla Glue did all of that. I was trying to show people that it wasn’t as serious as she was making it to be.
"I put Gorilla Glue in a cup, placed it on my mouth for a few seconds and started to lick it off, but that didn’t work."
Brown, also from Louisiana, was forced to chop off her ponytail after superglue remover and acetone failed to flush the sticky adhesive out of her hair. She has since seen a surgeon.
A spokesperson for Gorilla Glue said: "Our spray adhesive states in the warning label 'do not swallow; do not get in eyes, on skin or on clothing.
"It is used for craft, home, auto or office projects to mount thing to surfaces such as paper, cardboard, wood, laminate and fabric."
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