Girl, 11, has her hair chopped off after getting 50 Bunchems tangled. However she was still forced to lop off more than 22 inches of hair that was too entangled in the Bunchems.
A little girl was ‘traumatized’ after getting more than fifty Bunchems toys tangled in her hair – forcing her ‘scared’ mother to chop her long locks off.
Cierra-Jane Darling, 34 from Kannapolis, North Carolina, said that her daughters Lileigh and Emma Strider were playing with the colourful balls when a mountain of them accidentally got stuck in 11-year-old Lileigh’s hair.
The youngsters were supposed to be in bed so, worried about angering their parents, they opted to wait until the morning to raise the alarm – getting the Bunchems even more ensnared.
Cierra-Jane desperately battled to prise the velcro-like toys from Lileigh’s frazzled hair, but only managed to untangle two in three and a half hours.
However she was still forced to lop off more than 22 inches of hair that was too entangled in the Bunchems.
After a ‘traumatizing’ experience, the stay-at-home-mother is urging fellow parents to bin the toys – given that the risk of getting them stuck in any form of hair is simply ‘not worth the headache’.
This isn’t the first time the discontinued toy has caused issues- last year a child from Louisville got 150 Bunchems stuck in her hair – forcing her mother to spend 20 hours detangling them.
This isn’t the first time the discontinued toy has caused issues- last year a child from Louisville got 150 Bunchems stuck in her hair – forcing her mother to spend 20 hours detangling them.
The toy came under fire after several parents had to rush their children to the hairdresser, after finding it impossible to remove them at home.
A spokesperson for the toy manufacturer Spin Master, who launched Bunchems in 2015, said that they’re no longer in production and they encourage those that still have them in their homes to read the directions carefully.
Cierra-Jane, said: ‘There were at least 50 of them at the very minimum, but they were so tangled in her hair.
‘It was very traumatizing for my daughter, I will say that. She was also very upset because she loves her hair.
‘She’s a very girly girl and had to chop all of her hair off and she had been working so hard on growing it out.
‘I worried I’d have to shave her head. I called her dad at work and he said that if we didn’t have it figured out by the time he got home, then he would get the clippers out.
‘It was pretty scary for me, it was crazy.’
Cierra-Jane said that before the incident Lileigh’s brunette hair reached just above her behind and was at least 26 inches long. But she was forced to cut it down to around three and a half inches.
