Real Life Rapunzels.
7.
Talking about real life Rapunzels, Xie Qiuping totally deserves to be on this list.
Born in 1960, Xie Qiuping is the current record holder for the longest female hair in the
world.
She has been growing her hair since 1973, at the age of 13, and when measured on 8 May
2004, her hair was 5.627 m, or 18 ft 5.54 inches.
With hair that long, she hired a personal assistant just to help her wash it, which
she does daily and takes nearly three hours.
6.
What do you think would happen to your hair if you never cut it?
For Brazilian Natasha Moraes De Andrade, it meant 5 feet 2 inches of a whole lot of brushing
and washing.
Natasha, who lives in a shanty town in Rio de Janeiro, had long locks, and an uneasy
lifestyle because of them.
In 2012, at the age of 12 years old with the height of 5ft 3in, she was only one inch taller
than her hair, and had to carry it around so it didn't snag.
She had to spend up to an hour and a half each day brushing it.
Also, the fans in her house couldn't be turned on in case it got caught; that can't be easy
with the typical Brazilian heat and no ventilation.
Despite living in poor economic conditions, her shampoo expenses were astronomical at
over $600 a year.
Natasha finally walked into a salon and cut her hair in 2012.
It was the beginning of a new life.
The real life Rapunzel managed to sell her hair for $5000, which helped save her family
from financial issues.
5.
Dai Yue Qin, better known as Miss Dyq, is the Queen of long hair in China.
Born in April 1964 in Tong Xiang, she began to grow long hair at about 14.
After graduation she worked in a carpet factory in Suzhou for 10 years, then returned to her
hometown and worked at a big hotel.
As her hair-length of 3,30 meters raised more and more attraction, she joined several long
hair competitions and has won prizes.
The washing of that shiny flood of hair needs 5 to 6 hours every two weeks.
4.
At the age of 11 years old, Aimee Chase had never had her hair cut since birth.
The barnet hairstyle was so long that it reached all the way down to Aimee's knees with the
length of 3ft 6in.
But not for much longer as she finally cut it when she was preparing for the secondary
school in August 2011.
It was her first ever major cut, and Aimee had donated the hair to the Little Princess
Trust, a charity that provides wigs and hairpieces
to children who have lost their hair during treatment for the illness.
3.
Another real life Rapunzel from China, Ni Linmei presented her endless mane at her home
in Taiyuan, in China's Shanxi Province, and admitted that she hasn't had a haircut in
14 years.
This mother of 2 was photographed laying her locks on a sofa as she attempted to comb the
tresses.
However, in order to measure the monstrosity Ni Linmei had to stand on a chair so the ends
only just reached the floor.
With over 8ft long of hair, Ni has to stand on a chair to get it combed, which takes both
of her daughters to do.
2.
Dubbed as the real life Rapunzel, Terelynn Russell sports an unimaginable 74 inches of
hair.
The mom of five has never let a pair of shears near her mane, and her daughters, Callan,
Cendalyn, and Chesney, have been carefully following suit.
They each rock 37 inches, 36 inches, and 27 inches of hair, respectively.
In case you haven't been keeping track, the women collectively have over 13 feet of tresses.
Mrs Russell regularly wins first place in 'Longest Pony Tail Competitions' at annual
fetes and fairs, and her girls are following her example.
Terelynn also revealed that her daughters also require the help of a handheld showerhead
and use about a quarter of a bottle of conditioner with every wash.
1.
Asha Mandela has a lock on a world record that others might dread: The world's longest
dreadlocks.
Now the 50-year-old, from Florida, has earned the name "the Black Rapunzel" because she
holds the Guinness World Record for "World's Longest Dreadlocks," which she has owned since
2008.
Her dreads were officially measured at 19 feet, 6 inches long, but an unofficial measurement
found that one of the strands measured a whopping 55 feet, 7 inches in length.
She washes the dreads once a week, using up to six bottles of shampoo at a time.
Then it takes two days for the locks to dry, and they weigh 25 pounds when wet.
She says that the extra weight of her hair makes her doctors very concerned.
They seem to think that she has a curvature of her spine
due to the length and weight of her hair.