Woman With World's Longest Nails Shares Horrifying Story of How She Lost Them
#Humanity Lee Redmond holds the Guinness World Record for the longest fingernails ever on a woman, but they were ripped from her hands in a horrific accident. Lee Redmond hasn't cut her fingernails since 1979. She dips them in warm olive oil every day and uses a bottle after bottle of strengthening and polish to keep them in top condition. At their longest, her nails on both hands measured a staggering 8.65m in total - earning her the Guinness World Record for the longest fingernails on a pair of hands (female). She said: "It was just a challenge to myself to see how far they would go before they started twisting out of shape. "I kept setting dates and dates that I was going to cut them and I just couldn't do it. "It's strange how they become part of you. "I think my fingernails defined me to a lot of people, I was known as the fingernail lady but to me, I would have to explain to them there really is more to me." She told a witness at the scenes th