18. Having the longest hair on the planet is a goal for some girls!
For some girls, it’s their dream to have hair as long as Rapunzel and feel like a real Disney Princess. However, for Xie Quiping from China, that is exactly how she feels like every single hair. Xie’s hair measured 18 feet 5.54 inches, holding the longest head of hair since 2004. At the age of 13 in 1973, Xie decided she was never to cut her hair to see how long it could get, and what do you know. It can grow long. She is very used to having her long locks, but it is still a long process and a lot of patience to maintain it this long.
For an average woman, washing her hair might take around 20 minutes. For Xie Quiping, it takes about 3 to 4 hours, including drying it. Since it’s so long, she tends to braid it to keep it from tangling and getting into things. For a long time, she thought of cutting it because of how long it took her to maintain it. However, because of all the attention, she gets all the time, she’s more than happy to keep it long now. She hasn’t gotten her hair measured by the Guinness book of records in a while, but we know that her hair is still as long as ever.