A Louisiana lady has established a Guinness worldwide best for having the biggest afro on a living individual, and it's not her most memorable time getting it done.
Aevin Dugas, 47, has an afro estimating 9.84 inches tall, 10.24 inches wide and 5.41 feet in periphery, establishing a standard in the organization's classification for ladies.
Her latest record was set in September, yet she recently set the standard in 2010 and 2021, Guinness World Records composed on its site. In 2010, her afro estimated in at 4 feet-4 inches.
Dugas has gone through years developing her hair this length, she said. Certain individuals figure her hair ought to be longer since she has been developing it for such a long time, yet there have been misfortunes.
"I have gotten trims," she said. "I went vegetarian one time and my hair broke a lot. It's not so much that I have been growing my afro for 24 years. I have been natural for 24 years."
When women go natural, they stop straightening their hair with chemicals such as relaxers, often called perms. Dugas said she made the switch because she no longer wanted to use "dangerous" chemicals to straighten her hair.
What's her hair regimen?
Dugas got her first relaxer when she was 13 years old, she told USA TODAY.
She has always loved her mother's hair as well and remembers seeing a photo of her with an afro in the 1970s, she said.
She quit getting her hair artificially fixed with relaxers in 1999. She had attempted a very long time previously and at some point, she awakened and thought "For what reason am I forever fixing my hair?"
Dugas is a local of Napoleonville, around 50 miles south of Cudgel Rouge. At the point when she originally went normal, individuals in the space ridiculed her for it, she recently told the Houma Dispatch, a piece of the Gannett organization. That died down as the regular hair development started to take off once more.
Today, Dugas gets her ends trimmed regularly and uses hot oil treatments, as well as butters she makes herself.
"I'm a pretty much once a week person because I don't like buildup to form on my hair," she told USA TODAY. "And honestly, the other thing I do with it is I leave it alone."
She doesn't manipulate or constantly detangle it, she said. She gives it time to grow.
"I love a bun, whether it's to the top, to the back, to the side," she told USA TODAY. "It's one of those styles that is quick and easy."
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A Louisiana lady has established a Guinness worldwide best for having the biggest afro on a living individual, and it's not her most memorable time getting it done.
Aevin Dugas, 47, has an afro estimating 9.84 inches tall, 10.24 inches wide and 5.41 feet in periphery, establishing a standard in the organization's classification for ladies.
Her latest record was set in September, yet she recently set the standard in 2010 and 2021, Guinness World Records composed on its site. In 2010, her afro estimated in at 4 feet-4 inches.
Dugas has gone through years developing her hair this length, she said. Certain individuals figure her hair ought to be longer since she has been developing it for such a long time, yet there have been misfortunes.
"I have gotten trims," she said. "I went vegetarian one time and my hair broke a lot. It's not so much that I have been growing my afro for 24 years. I have been natural for 24 years."
When women go natural, they stop straightening their hair with chemicals such as relaxers, often called perms. Dugas said she made the switch because she no longer wanted to use "dangerous" chemicals to straighten her hair.
What's her hair regimen?
Dugas got her first relaxer when she was 13 years old, she told USA TODAY.
She has always loved her mother's hair as well and remembers seeing a photo of her with an afro in the 1970s, she said.
She quit getting her hair artificially fixed with relaxers in 1999. She had attempted a very long time previously and at some point, she awakened and thought "For what reason am I forever fixing my hair?"
Dugas is a local of Napoleonville, around 50 miles south of Cudgel Rouge. At the point when she originally went normal, individuals in the space ridiculed her for it, she recently told the Houma Dispatch, a piece of the Gannett organization. That died down as the regular hair development started to take off once more.
Today, Dugas gets her ends trimmed regularly and uses hot oil treatments, as well as butters she makes herself.
"I'm a pretty much once a week person because I don't like buildup to form on my hair," she told USA TODAY. "And honestly, the other thing I do with it is I leave it alone."
She doesn't manipulate or constantly detangle it, she said. She gives it time to grow.
"I love a bun, whether it's to the top, to the back, to the side," she told USA TODAY. "It's one of those styles that is quick and easy."
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