Fingernails just keep growing and growing until you finally cut them down to size. But what would happen if you never cut your fingernails and just let them grow?
It might seem like fingernails just grow right there on the surface, but there's more to it than that. The spot where the skin meets the nail is called the cuticle. Under your cuticle is the nail matrix where new skin cells are continuously created. As more and more skin cells are made in the matrix, the older cells are pushed out. As they're pushed, the skin cells change into a protein called keratin that flattens and hardens into a nail. That brand new nail continues to grow, slowly sliding along a nail bed of soft tissue. There are all kinds of things that can affect how fast fingernails grow. They grow faster during the day, during summer months, when you're young,and when pregnant. They also grow faster after a bit of light trauma to the nail like after you bite them and break them. In fact, a bitten nail grows three times faster than a healthy nail. Your nails grow a different speeds, too. Index, middle, andring fingernails grow fastest while your poor pinky tries to keep up. The thumb comes in last place asthe slowest nail on your hand.
So that's how your fingernails grow. But what would happen if you just stopped cutting them altogether?
Well, to answer that question, we have to look at some of the longest nails ever recorded. As of 2023, the world record holder for longest finger nails on a pair of hands belong to Diana Armstrong. Her combined nail length measured in at over 42 feet and 10 inches, longer than a school bus. She hasn't cut her nails since 1997. As you might imagine, having nails that long makes it hard todo all kinds of simple tasks. And upkeep isn't easy. The nails are so long, that they take over four hours to paint, and between 15 and 20 bottles of nail polish.
so that's howlong your nails can grow if you spend decades managing their growth. But how long would they get if you left them alone without all that extra effort?
They become pretty annoying, honestly. Once they get long enough,nails stop growing straight and start to coil and twist. The longer they get,the curlier they become. Your nails won't grow to recordbreaking lengths naturally. That takes a lot of upkeep. But they can still get upto a few feet in length. But eventually, allthat extra nails will start to get brittleand eventually break. So cut them, bite them,or wait for them to break, whatever you've gotto do to keep them reined in because scrolling is hard with twisting tendrils on the tips of your fingers.
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