For most of my life, I've had pretty long nails. For some reason, I would scream bloody murder when anyone cut my nails as a child, and it seems they've gotten used to all the real estate I've given them over the years.
For most of my life, I've had pretty long nails. For some reason, I would scream bloody murder when anyone cut my nails as a child, and it seems they've gotten used to all the real estate I've given them over the years.
However, even if I wanted to, I doubt I could get them to grow until they actually start curling. And although that's never been a dream I've had, it's one that a particular Russian woman has adjusted her lifestyle around.
As she told The Mirror, "When I was a child and went to school, I already had nails longer than most adult women."
"They even did not let me wash the windows as they were afraid that I could break my nails."
It's unclear whether this friend was convinced she couldn't grow them to 12 centimeters (the equivalent of 4.7 inches) long or couldn't grow the longest in Russia, but she was willing to take on the challenge all the same.
As The Mirror reported, she has both grown 4.7 inch nails and broken the record for the longest in Russia.
As she said, "I call them ‘my babies,’ as they are four years old and I take care of them as I would do with babies."
For this reason, she takes hair and nail vitamins to keep them strong and avoids making sharp movements as much as possible.
As she put it, "My nails are like personal calling card."
She still considers most activities perfectly doable, if in a different way than most people would normally do them.
Although she didn't elaborate on this, she said, "For example, I would say that my way of typing is a little bit different."
"I am afraid to break them as I would have to waste my time on fixing them – they do break sometimes but I always fix them."
"Quite often men just don’t notice my nails, but when they do, they get surprised and start asking all those typical questions. I am never short of male attention.”
Although she enjoys swimming and traveling to the sea, she now feels that it would be too risky to do either of those things.
The same goes for playing tennis.
As she told The Mirror, "I miss gloves –it can be quite cold in Russia and I have to put my hands in my pockets."
"It's impossible not to notice me."
h/t: The Mirror