[CELEBRITY GIST] Meet Ayanna Williams, Woman With The Longest Fingernails In The World

Ayanna Williams has snagged the title for the world’s longest fingernails. Ayanna, who is nail artist in Texas won the title with nails that are more than 18 feet long.According to Ayanna, she has spent most of her adult life growing her nails and first got inspired to, by a friend.

On most challenging thing about having extremely long fingernails, is pulling up her pants. Ayanna also revealed it takes about a week to paint her nails.To take care of the nails, the nail artist, uses anti-bacterial soap and a nail brush to clean them daily. And to help them grow, she regularly applies hardener and a thin layer of acrylic. .

On her reason for applying for the record, she said:

 Ayanna Williams of Houston in Texas, USA, has been growing her nails for more than 20 years.

When Guinness World Records measured them earlier this year, they had a combined total length of 576.4 cm (18 ft 10.9 in).

The nails on her left hand are longer than her right, measuring a total of 326.5 cm (10 ft 8.5 in) compared with 249.8 cm (8 ft 2.3 in).

It takes Ayanna up to 20 hours – and two bottles of nail polish – to paint her tremendous talons.

When she’s not painting her own fingernails, Ayanna is giving manicures to clients as she works as a nail technician.

“It takes me longer to do anything than it would take other people, because of the length of my nails,” she told us during the photoshoot for the Guinness World Records 2018 book.

In order to protect them, she avoids washing dishes and sleeps with them resting on a pillow. 

Ayanna became the record holder for the Longest fingernails on a pair of hands (female) after Chris “The Dutchess” Walton (also USA) cut her own nails, which had grown to a total length of 731.4 cm (23 ft 11 in).


Asked whether she has any plans to cut her nails in the future, Ayanna says: “They’re a part of me so they’re here to stay!”

Ayanna’s longest individual nail is on her left thumb, and measures 68 cm (2 ft 2.7 in). This is longer than the Shortest man ever, Chandra Bahadur Dangi, at 54.6 cm (1 ft 9.5 in; see p.70).

Commenting on her incredible title, she says: “I cannot wait to see my picture in the Guinness World Records 2018 book”.

Make sure to pick up a copy of the brand new Guinness World Records 2018 Edition to read more about the world’s most extraordinary and iconic record holders. The book is out now in the US and Canada and launches in the UK and Ireland tomorrow.