Real-life Rapunzel teenager breaks own record with 6ft 2in long hair

Nilanshi Patel, 17, who has been awarded the 2019 Guinness World Record for the longest hair in the teenager category, 190 cm, poses for a picture with her mother Kaminibenat at Modasa town, some 110 Kms from Ahmedabad on January 19, 2020. - Patel has been awarded the 2019 Guinness World Record for the longest hair at 190 cm in the teenager category. In 2018 she bagged Guinness World Record in the same category at 170,5 cm. (Photo by SAM PANTHAKY / AFP) (Photo by SAM PANTHAKY/AFP via Getty Images)
Nilanshi with her mother Kaminibenat (Picture: AFP)

Nilanshi Patel is nicknamed Rapunzel by her friends and it’s pretty clear why.

The 17-year-old, from Modasa, India, holds the Guinness World Record for the longest hair on a teenager.

She’s just smashed a new record at 190cm (6ft 2in) – but she set the previous one too.

Her hair has grown 20cm since it was last measured in November 2018.

She started growing it at six-years-old after a bad hair cut meant she decided she didn’t want to touch it with scissors again.

She told AFP: ‘At six, I had a very bad experience at a local salon.

Nilanshi Patel, 17, poses for picture with the 2018 (L) and 2019 Guinness World Record certificates for the longest hair in the teenager category, at Modasa town, some 110 Kms from Ahmedabad on January 19, 2020. - Patel has been awarded the 2019 Guinness World Record for the longest hair at 190 cm in the teenager category. In 2018 she bagged Guinness World Record in the same category at 170,5 cm. (Photo by SAM PANTHAKY / AFP) (Photo by SAM PANTHAKY/AFP via Getty Images)
Nilanshi with her two world records (Picture: AFP)

‘Since then I have been apprehensive about cutting my hair. My parents accepted my wishes and now my locks have become my lucky charm.’

Her mane is washed once a week and then takes about an hour to comb and half an hour to dry.

Nilanshi Patel, 17, who has been awarded the 2019 Guinness World Record for the longest hair in the teenager category, 190 cm, poses for a picture with her mother Kaminibenat at Modasa town, some 110 Kms from Ahmedabad on January 19, 2020. - Patel has been awarded the 2019 Guinness World Record for the longest hair at 190 cm in the teenager category. In 2018 she bagged Guinness World Record in the same category at 170,5 cm. (Photo by SAM PANTHAKY / AFP) (Photo by SAM PANTHAKY/AFP via Getty Images)
She broke her own record from 2018 (Picture: AFP)

She usually wears it in a braid but does sometimes tie it in a bun to play table tennis.

And to keep it in top condition, she uses an oil made with a secret recipe, created by her mother Kaminibenat.

Her hair is longer than she is tall and she has to wear heels to keep it off the ground when she is wearing it down.

Nilanshi Patel, 17, who has been awarded the 2019 Guinness World Record for the longest hair in the teenager category, 190 cm, poses for a picture at Modasa town, some 110 Kms from Ahmedabad on January 19, 2020. - Patel has been awarded the 2019 Guinness World Record for the longest hair at 190 cm in the teenager category. In 2018 she bagged Guinness World Record in the same category at 170,5 cm. (Photo by SAM PANTHAKY / AFP) (Photo by SAM PANTHAKY/AFP via Getty Images)
Her hair is now longer than she is tall (Picture: AFP)

She’s not quite got the record for the longest hair in the world though.

That goes to Xie Qiuping in China, whos hair was 18ft 5in when it was measured on 8 May 2004.

She’s been growing it since 1973, when she was 13 so Nilanshi has a bit of catching up to do.

She hopes that someday she can scoop the overall record.

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source https://metro.co.uk/2020/01/20/real-life-rapunzel-teenager-breaks-record-6ft-2in-long-hair-12090099/
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