The nails on the hands and feet of a person are the same horny plates on the fingertips of the limbs of primates that cover their back side. By the appearance of the nails, one can determine a huge number of diseases that, to one degree or another, the organism of their owner experiences. Most often, based on the condition of the nails, tuberculosis, psoriasis, oncological diseases, bronchitis and a deficiency of various trace elements are suspected.
But today it is not so easy to meet women's nails that are not varnished. By growing and painting them in all the colors of the rainbow, ladies are trying to attract attention to themselves or to focus the eyes of others on the beauty of their fingers. However, some women, paying tribute to fashion, grow long nails even on far from ideal palms with short, crooked and thick fingers. Such a manicure looks, to put it mildly, unaesthetic.
It's even harder to call the longest nails in the world beautiful. ApparentlyChristine W alton, whose name is listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the owner of such dignity, is very he althy. After all, her fingernails in total reach 6.2 meters! The nails on her left hand are longer than those on her right, namely 309.8 and 292.1 cm respectively.
Growing the longest nails in the world for 18 years. Having stepped over the 27-year milestone, the singer Duchess (stage name Christine) stopped cutting her nails and at the age of 45, thanks to their length, she managed to become a world record holder. Today, her longest nail (on the thumb of her left hand) reaches 91 cm.
According to the singer, the longest nails in the world do not interfere with her life at all. That's just deliver a lot of trouble, requiring constant care. So, for example, just to cover her claws with varnish, the Duchess spends several hours. And if Christina W alton's painted nails are a sight of dubious pleasantness, then not varnished at all is not for the faint of heart.
Long toenails are also not uncommon nowadays. One can only wonder how such a pedicure allows its owners to move around normally. Meanwhile, and here not without records. So, the longest toenails today belong to Louise Hollis from California. Her toenails have an average length of 15.25 cm, and their total length reaches 2.21 m!
Being a record holder in the nomination "the longest toenails in the world" is not easy. Louise can only walk in high boots.platform (at least 8 cm). In winter, she does not wear warm shoes like everyone else, because her nails do not allow this.
The fashion for long nails among men has not yet come. At least when it comes to heterosexual representatives of the stronger sex. But that doesn't mean men never grow their nails. Grow, and how! The title of the owner of the longest nails on one hand belongs to just a man. This is a resident of India Sridhar Chillal. He managed to grow nails on one hand with a total length of 6.15 m. And his longest nail grew by 1.29 meters. This "beauty" Indian groomed and cherished for almost 48 years!Why? The question, answering which, the owners of too long nails are unlikely to say: "For beauty." Rather, it is a way to stand out from the crowd, to attract the attention of the masses, which does not require much effort. And getting used to long claws, their owners without them already feel like without arms or legs.