Houston’s Ayanna Williams broke the Guinness World Record for the longest fingernails in the world in 2017, when they measured almost 19 feet long. It took her more than two bottles of nail polish and 20 hours to apply her.
Before they were clipped over the weekend, she got one last measurement: 24 feet, 0.7 inches. The manicure took three to four bottles of nail polish over the course of a few days.
Williams did the job at a dermatology office in Fort Worth, Texas, where an electric twisting tool was used for her first nail cut since the early 1990s.
“With or without my nails, I will still be the queen,” Williams said according to Guinness. “My nails do not make me, I make my nails!”
According to Ripley’s Believe It or Not !, she plans to grow only about six inches of her nails, which will display her finished nails at his museum in Orlando, Florida.
Until now, Williams could not do activities such as washing dishes and putting sheets on a bed. She said her new goal is to encourage the next nail lover to go on to a Guinness World Records title.
The record for the longest fingernails ever on a pair of female hands still belongs to Lee Redmond, who started growing it in 1979. They reached a length of 28 feet, but Redmond lost it in a car accident in 2009, according to Guinness World Records.