Houston’s Ayanna Williams broke the Guinness World Record for the world’s longest fingernails in 2017, when they were nearly 5 meters long. At the time, it took her more than two bottles of nail polish and 20 hours to do her manicure.
Before getting them cut over the weekend, she got one final measurement: 24 ft, 0.7 inches. That manicure required three to four bottles of nail polish over the course of a few days.
Williams got the job done at a dermatology office in Fort Worth, Texas, where an electric rotary tool was used for her first nail clipping since the early 1990s.
“With or without my nails, I’ll still be the queen,” Williams said, according to Guinness. “My nails don’t fix me, I fix my nails!”
Williams said she plans to grow her nails only about six inches, according to Ripley’s Believe It or Not !, which will display her trimmed nails at the museum in Orlando, Florida.
Until now, Williams was unable to do some activities, such as washing dishes and putting sheets on a bed. She said her new goal is to encourage the next history-making nail enthusiast to go for 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 them in 1979. They reached a height of 28 feet, but Redmond lost them in a car accident in 2009, according to Guinness World Records.