A SOBBING bride-to-be feared she’d have to chop off her ‘long pretty’ hair when a hairbrush got stuck for FIVE HOURS – but her fiancé saved the day by wrenching it free with pliers.
Kelly Stone had been blow drying her newly cut curtain fringe to film an ad when she got her new round Conair brush lodged in her hair.
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After trying to remove the brush herself with no success, the 27-year-old shared a video on TikTok asking her following for advice on how to extract the styling tool.
But when she had tried all the methods suggested to no avail, the content creator feared she’d have to cut a large chunk of hair – leaving her without long locks on her wedding day.
In an emotional video, Kelly can be seen panicking and crying as she tries to detangle the brush from her blonde mane, admitting she was ‘very emotional’ at the prospect of cutting her hair.
In the video Kelly said she was happy with how ‘long and pretty’ her hair was and hoped to showcase it on her wedding day, a prospect in jeopardy after it got stuck for five hours.
It was only when her fiancé Adam returned from work armed with a pair of pliers he was able to dislodge the brush by removing each individual bristle – a process that took 30 minutes.
Relieved Kelly, who claims destroying the brush was ‘therapeutic’ said she was thankful she didn’t end up having to lop off her locks and claims the pliers ‘really saved my life’.
Kelly, from Los Angeles, California, US, said: “I had just got curtain bangs so I was looking for a slightly smaller round brush [to do this].
“I was trying to blow dry my hair and was trying to get my bangs but then I got some of my other hair too.
“I think it’s the actual bristles of the brush that caused this to happen.
“I was definitely in an immediate panic, I never thought that a brush could get stuck.
“I’ve used so many different styling brushes in the past and this has never happened.
“I pretty much tried all the tips and tricks I saw on TikTok to get the brush out of my hair.
“I tried everything. I tried getting it wet with conditioner, I tried the rattail comb, I tried plucking it out and I tried manoeuvring individual hairs too.
“I love having long hair, It’s definitely my passion. I think long hair will be very beautiful for my wedding day with the dresses I am looking at so it was definitely emotional.
“I was four hours in and my fiancé didn’t come home from work until I had this brush in my hair for five hours.
“Within the first hour my biggest fear was that I would have to cut the brush out of my hair.
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“I was waiting for him to get off work and someone suggested the pliers in a video.
“I called my fiancé and asked him to get some. He ended up using wire cutters or something to take all the individual bristles out of the brush to untangle my hair.
“The pliers really saved my life.”
Kelly said it took the couple 30 minutes to remove the brush from her hair and has told others to stay calm, use lots of conditioner and to not tug on the styling tool if this happens to them.
She is now warning others about using a small round brush similar to this to perform a bouncy blow-dry to stop it from happening to anyone else.
Kelly said: “I posted a video of me detangling my hair. It was so matted but I was relieved because I knew with some deep conditioner, it was going to be okay.
“The tangle looked absolutely brutal and it was, but it was much easier to deal with than the brush in my hair.
“I did have some casualties unfortunately but not too bad. I have a very good leave-in conditioner that I use everyday anyway but I did go through most of the bottle.
“I would never use this kind of brush again. I also destroyed it which felt very therapeutic.
“If you do get your hair stuck in a brush, take some deep breaths at first and then call a friend to help you.
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“When I was alone I was in a spiral and thought I’d have to cut it out of my hair.”
After posting about her travesty on TikTok, Kelly’s video was viewed by nine million users and racked up more than 200,000 likes.
One user wrote: “This is my biggest fear.”
Another added: “This happened to me and it took 4.5 hours to get it out.”
A third user wrote: “I hate these brushes. Used one when I was a teen and would refuse to ever use it again.”
A fourth added: “Do not cut your hair. Try the hair conditioner or get someone to help you. A friend or mother.”
Conair was contacted for comment.
