How To Use The Bathroom With World's Longest Nails?
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Feb 14, 2024
Diana Armstrong has the longest fingernails ever recorded. How does she complete daily chores like going to the bathroom, cooking and cleaning?
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I'm just gonna start. How do you go to the bathroom
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The worst thing about my nails is on my right hand. It bumped the floor and it hurt
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That's the worst thing, but other than that, everything is alright. No, I don't wear jeans with zippers because it's too much work
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I wear jeans about three years ago, but it wasn't buttoned up. It was pull-ups
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I could pull my jeans up, but I can't pull it. I don't wear a shirt with buttons on them
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I always wear pullovers, where I can pull it over my head. I always wear stuff like that
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If it's long sleeves, I don't wear long sleeves. If I wear a short sleeve, a short sleeve will come open and I open it with this hand and put my arm in
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Then I use this hand. After this getting in, this is the main step
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Then the second hand goes in easily. You know, I haven't worn a long sleeve shirt in about 20 years. It's been that long
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I know! When I put on makeup, I fold my nails across my arm and I pick up the makeup and put it on
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I always have to fold my arm in order to pick it up, because I won't be able to pick it up unless I fold one of my arms
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I get a nap and I pop the camera top with a knife or a pointed stick nap
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I stick it through the top and pop it over. I had to stick my nail out the window
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I dried the car and it was cold, so it didn't do no harm
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It didn't do no harm. I use a long fork. If I'm going to turn chicken over, I use a fork like that
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Or if I'm going to use a spoon, I use a big silver spoon
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I use this type of utensil because it's a longer reach. I don't have to bend down too far to eat
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I'm just going to start. How do you go to the bathroom? It'd be the same as anybody else would go to the bathroom
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But it's just that I work with my nails probably in a different way than they would work with theirs
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A lot of toilet paper. I wash myself with a lot of toilet paper
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When I go to a public restroom, I go to the stall that is the biggest
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If someone in that stall is high, I have to wait until they finish and then go in
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Because I can't use the smaller ones because my nails are longer than the smaller bathroom
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When I wash my hands, I take and put a lot of liquid soap in my hands
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And I do one hand at a time. And I do one hand at a time
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And I take and scrub it with this hand. Then I switch to the other hand and do the same
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When I open my mail, I use a steak knife to open it
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I sleep in the bed. When I sleep in the bed, I sleep with... I pick this hand up and it lay to my side
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But this hand, I lay across the bed. Hanging over the bed, it's more comfortable
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When I hang my nail off the bed, my left hand is more comfortable for me
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If I'm asleep on my side. When I use my feet, if I have to pick up clothes off the floor
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or I can even use my feet to open the refrigerator. I can use my feet if I have to..
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I can use it to open the oven, but I want to use it to cook with them
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If I have to pick money off the floor, I can pick up bills
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But if I drop change on the floor, that'll just stay down there
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I can pick that up. There was a young man who told me
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I bet you, up under your clothes, you got muscles. Because you're in there, that's your arm, bigger than mine
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That's what he said to me. And I was like, I never noticed it
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Until one day I actually looked and paid attention. And I was like, you got muscles
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You got muscles. And I think that was the funnest thing somebody said to me
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When I go in public, people will stare. Sometimes they will come up to me and ask, can I take a picture
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I didn't used to let nobody take a picture, but now if they ask me, I let them take a picture
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But if you're sneaking and taking a picture, that's uncomfortable. And so I don't like that
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I don't think I ever cut my nails. If someone come to me and give me $100,000 to cut my nails
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I wouldn't cut my nails. Because my nails are so much of a part of me
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You know, my family thinks sometimes they'll tell me, Ma, you need to cut your nails
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And I tell them, man, you're busy. And that's it. Man, you're busy
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Living with my mom, at first it wasn't difficult. But the longer they have gotten within the past few years
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it became extremely difficult. Because now we have to be extra careful
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And we're always dodging around her so she won't hit us in the face or something
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Or we won't trip over her nails. My family love her nails
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They love my mom's nails. They just love her nails. They pay extra attention to her
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They just think she's special. I haven't been to a nail salon in about 22 years
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When they see me coming, they're like, oh no. They don't want to deal with it
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Because they say that's too much. My niece loved painting my mom nails
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It started off with my two nieces. My two nieces, they started off painting my mom nails
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And then once I ended up having my daughter, when she got to a certain age, she just kind of joined the crowd
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Because she loved painting her fingernail polish. So it was like right up her alley
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The person who do my nails is my two grandbabies. One is nine and one is 20
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They're my own ones, so I want to deal with them. Other than that, nobody else do my nails
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One nail took four to five hours. And that was just a half a nail
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First you got to file them with the buffer, with that nail filing thing I use
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Then you got to take a buffer, then you got to polish them
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So just to polish by itself, it's a long time. Even if I don't get them filed, it take a long time to just polish them
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Every four or five years, I get my nail painted and polished
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Every four or five years. And I go through about 15 to 20 bottles of nail polish
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The last time I painted my nail was this week. And it took four days
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I'm a professional nail artist. I'm not a professional nail artist. I'm a professional nail artist
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I'm a professional nail artist. I'm a professional nail artist. I'm a professional nail artist
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I'm a professional nail artist. I'm a professional nail artist. I'm a professional nail artist
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I'm a professional nail artist. I'm a professional nail artist. I'm a professional nail artist
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I'm a professional nail artist. I'm a professional nail artist
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