A few nights ago, two sisters, Lily and Emma, living in North Carolina, USA, stayed up late without telling their parents and gathered in the room to play.
During the fight, the two began to throw colorful toy balls called Bunchems at each other...
This kind of colorful ball was a colorful ball with Velcro launched by toy manufacturer Spin Master 7 years ago. A box costs as much as 400 yuan.
Each small ball is extremely sticky and can be stuck together to form a variety of cartoon shapes...
This toy became very popular when it was launched and was sold out as soon as it was released. It was not long ago that Lily came into contact with Bunchems for the first time at her cousin's house. She found it very interesting and borrowed it to play...
The sisters were throwing them away, and unknowingly, some Bunchems stuck to Lily's head, and more and more Bunchems stuck to Lily's head... In the end, there were about 50 small balls firmly left in her hair, and no matter how hard she pulled, she couldn't get them off. …
Lily and Emma originally planned to ask their parents for help, but because they were past the prescribed bedtime, they were afraid of being blamed by their parents, so they decided to hide it all night and did not tell their mother Sierra until the morning.
When Lily appeared in the living room with a head full of Bunchems, the whole family immediately fell into panic...
Her long, smooth hair that had finally grown to 66 centimeters was now all tangled together, making it a mess... And after a night, these little balls stuck to the hair seemed to It was even tighter and stuck in different places all over her head...
As long as Sierra tried to untie the balls, it would hurt Lily's hair. She could only call her best hairstylist friend for help. Using water, combs and other tools, it took her three and a half hours to untie only two of the more than 50 pieces.
Xie La felt that it might take ten days and a half, or even longer, for her to untie it all...
But unfortunately, Lily was going to go to summer camp the next day and stayed away for a whole week. If these balls were not taken away, Lily would not be able to go out to see people at all, and would lose nearly 1,000 US dollars in summer camp expenses...
So, Sierra reluctantly cut off Lily's long hair, because the balls were all over her head, and the hair of more than 60 cm was cut to only 7 cm, and it was uneven, and the hair quality was seriously damaged...
The only good news is that Lily is finally getting rid of the Bunchems...
Afterwards, all Sierra had to say was: "Parents who have them should consider putting them in the bin".
Sierra's family was able to cut the knot quickly and was only bothered by Bunchems for 3 hours. Lisa, a mother in Pennsylvania , was not so lucky. She battled with these small colorful balls for 20 hours...
At the beginning of last year, Lisa's twin sisters, 6-year-old Abigail and Noah, were playing in the basement. The happy atmosphere between the two sisters only lasted for ten minutes. Noah poured 150 small balls on Abigail's head. As soon as the balls fell, they instantly grew on Abigail's hair and could not be removed...
Abigail could only go upstairs with a head full of colored balls and messy hair, and appeared in front of her mother Lisa. Lisa immediately felt "out of body"...
Lisa was faster than Sierra. It took Lisa 3 hours to remove 15 balls, but until her husband Dan came home from get off work, Abigail’s hair was still full of color and she was crying in pain...
The couple searched online and found that there had been too many precedents for similar hair incidents.
A breast cancer survivor spent two years growing her hair back after chemotherapy, then cut it all off after getting entangled in her 2-year-old daughter's Bunchems toys...
The more they read, the more panicked they became, because the news headline about Bunchems even included - "If you hate a parent, buy this for their child"...
Some posts have written solutions, but they will damage the hair quality. For example, conditioner and vegetable oil can loosen the balls, but make the hair worse and messy...
So, they continued to clean it manually in the old way. It was already one o'clock in the morning after Dan lost 10 balls. Everyone was too sleepy to open their eyes, but Lisa was reluctant to cut Abigail's hair and watch her daughter become bald... So the whole family chose to go to bed first and continue cleaning the next day.
Finally, at the suggestion of a friend, Lisa used mineral oil to remove it while combing Abigail's hair. In order to keep Abigail calm, she stuffed lollipops and played TV shows, and finally spent 20 hours completely cleaning up hundreds of colored balls...
Abigail's hair was saved, but Lisa's fingers were all red and swollen... To this day, she thinks it was... She had experienced "a mother's worst nightmare" and it was a "miracle" that Abigail's hair could be saved...
Afterwards, Lisa carefully looked at the front of the toy package, trying to find hair-related precautions, but only saw a vague warning on a small label - "They may get tangled in hair."
The toy dealer of Bunchems also released a video on how to use conditioner and vegetable oil to remove hair balls from the hair, which was also easy and understated...
When Lisa turned to the buyer's comment section of the shopping website, she finally found a series of warnings and dissuasive voices...
"The worst toy ever!!!!!! Spent 3 It took hours to get it out of my 13 year old daughter's hair. Don’t buy, run! ! "
" I'm a hairstylist and spent a total of 4 hours today removing these hairs from a little girl's hair! She had 45 of them wrapped around her hair! 4 hours of pain and $200...really not worth it. ”
“Don’t let them near long hair, it took hours to get them off and had to cut off a huge section of hair…”
And, some people really took advantage of the stickiness of Bunchems and developed it into a tool for evil...
"You don't know how these stick to things. Once poured on the hair, they stick immediately." Once you start trying to pull them out, they turn into a tangled disaster like in the photo. This happened to our daughter - a girl on the street deliberately put about 10 of them in my daughter's hair after we warned her about them and it took (us) an hour to trim them off."
After receiving some complaints, the manufacturer of Bunchems has discontinued the toy, but cases of entanglement seem to continue to occur...
Some staunch Bunchems advocates also came out to speak:
"Suppose you had a Honda and you were in a car accident. Would you call the dealer or the manufacturer? No, blame yourself, or blame the person who was at fault... This makes me angry. This It is a very creative toy that develops motor skills and enhances creativity. "
In short, they believe that Bunchems' hair incident is caused by parents' failure to supervise...
People who are entangled by Bunchems are still suffering, while those who support Bunchems are heartbroken. Neither side seems to have achieved a satisfactory result...
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