How to maintain the world's largest afro… which at 4ft 4in around takes two days to dry

It is the perennial complaint of husbands and boyfriends that women take too long in the bathroom.



But for a woman in New Orleans it takes day to wash and dry her record breaking afro, which is more than 4ft 4in around.



Aevin Dugas, 36, said that her beauty regime takes so much effort, that she only wears her hair big when she's going out.

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Record breaker: Aevin Dugas from New Orleans, USA, who is the proud owner of the largest natural afro with a circumference measuring 4ft 4in

'It's always getting caught in trees, and one time I even slammed my hair in the car door,' said Ms Dugas whose hairstyle has taken 12 years to grow.



To get her hair ready for a night out she shampoos it and then uses up to five conditioners.

She then puts her hair into two French braids and from then it takes about two days to dry.



After that, she moisturises the hair, picks it out and then finally sprays it with water to help it kink up a bit.



Ms Dugas has just entered the Guinness Book of Records with her hair, which was officially measured at 4ft 4in.



Exhausting: Ms Dugas said that her afro takes days to wash and dry

But she says it has now grown to five feet around.



The social worker said despite the extensive beauty regime she has to follow, she has not regrets about her choice of hairstyle.



'As a woman you're told that straight hair is beautiful hair. This is crazy,' she said.



'The afro is my natural hairstyle and there can't be anything more beautiful than that.

The new record comes as an airline passenger who had already been through airport security was left in tears after TSA officers insisted on checking her afro-style hair in case she was concealing explosives.





Ordeal: Thousands of travellers have complained about TSA checks (file image)

Hairdresser Isis Brantley was stopped at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta, Georgia, after she had passed a scanning device.

As she travelled down an escalator, she claims she heard someone yell: 'Hey you, hey you, ma'am, stop. Stop - the lady with the hair, you.’

Two TSA agents told her she could not go any further until they patted down her hair for explosives, said Miss Brantley, of Dallas, Texas.



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