Hairstylists and star dog go viral on TikTok

One can never be sad around Matthews Lane hairstylists Panga, Danger, Tanisha 5 Kids and Princess.

The four friends and their companions will have you doubling over in belly bursting laughter in no time with their hilarious fashion, dance moves and conversations. However, the real star is Danger's dog Gisselle. When THE STAR team visited the space, the weeks-old dog was dressed in her red bow and cream pants suit, with her nails freshly painted.

"Gisselle mom was my personal dog and car hit her down. But a week before she died, she got seven pickney. When she died, I go for them under the cellar and feed them with bottle but Gisselle get attached to me more, and the day when mi take dem from under the cellar, she nuh go back under there; the rest a dem go back," said Danger, given name Crystal Williams.

The hairdressers went viral earlier this year after one of their friends, Pesean Nelson, uploaded a video of their antics on TikTok. The group has gained thousands of followers who tune in daily.

"We born with it but a the first we go viral. We always a make people laugh, and more time a video just buss because someone say sumpn funny. When we sit down, drink a round and bun a spliff, a it dat," Tanisha 'Tanisha 5 Kids' Cameron said.

Princess [last name Patterson] said they are yet to cash in on their content, as no one has showed them how. But there are other benefits.

"People see we on TikTok and come check us to do dem hair. It work for us in a different way as it relates to our work. The best thing about it for me is that we make people laugh. Nuff time we feel depressed but we just make a video and it makes we and somebody else laugh," Patterson said.

As she cradles Gisselle like a baby, Danger, a mother of three, said she suffers from depression after her mother and her children's father died recently.

"It stress mi out and mi nuh have nobody, neither a mother or father. Mi is just an orphan out here and nuff time mi a do the video dem, deep down mi sad. But mi still a dweet make people laugh. When mi read di comments dem and dem say 'Raay Danger', dem tings deh put back a smile back on mi face," Danger said, with Gisselle looking at her 'mother' lovingly. Danger said that Gisselle is no ordinary dog and will only consume certain foods.

"Gisselle a mi personal baby, enuh. She do some different tings man. More time she all stand up side a the fridge and when mi open it, she show mi what she want. A dem likkle style deh she have. Wah day mi get a little money and mi just spend ting pon har and buy some baby clothes on her. Yuh can't chew up bone and give her because she nah go eat it," Danger said with a straight face.

The hairdressers have set up shop along Matthews Lane for decades and on their slow days, they can be seen dressed in the most eccentric outfits as they model for passers-by and their new fans.

Tangynica 'Panga' Pusey, who has been styling hair at the same location for almost 25 years, said she has seen the good, bad and the ugly. As a result, she and her friends have decided to use gimmicks to overcome the negativity that often surrounds them.

"We see a lot of people fight against each other so we decide to just change it up. Every other year or every three year, we see hairdresser a kill dem co-worker or somebody diss a hairdresser or just bare killing. Instead of sadness, we just do some gimmicks. We decide to do something more constructive because we nuh like the sadness. Mi always a make people laugh and we just decide say a happiness straight we a deal wid," Panga told THE STAR.