The woman with the world’s longest female mullet has revealed she has not cut it in 33 years. 

Mullets became popular in the 1980s and it was then that Tami Manis saw a music star with what she describes as a “cute little rat tail”.

She began to grow one but chopped it off in 1989 - to her immense regret.

“I had my shoulder length hair for a while and in February 1990 I went and got my hair cut, got my other rat tail and over time this morphed into a mullet after all these years,” she told Moncrieff.

Ms Manis admits she chopped off four and a half inches later that year when she started US Army Basic Training - but other than that - she has only ever trimmed it.

Her mullet is now 68 inches long - four inches longer than she is - and she admits washing it is “getting more and more difficult”.

Maintenance

“I use paper towels to dry it, otherwise it would stay very wet and I can’t use regular towels because [they] have lint,” she said.

Daily washing it does not take “too long” but every week her friend Sherri comes over to rebraid it.

“Then, it’s washed, conditioned, leave it in conditioner, she starts, an hour and a half later, she’s sitting on the floor with three braids and I’m pretty again,” Ms Manis said.

Record

The Guinness Book of Records has officially confirmed Ms Manis’ mullet is the longest in the world - something she confesses took her by surprise.

“I entered a mullet contest a couple of years ago and I got second place and apparently the mullet people and the Guinness people got together and they actually opened up a category - ‘Longest Competitive Mullet’ - so, that’s how this all started,” she said.

One day, she arrived home and found a certificate plaque on her doorstep confirming her record.

“I was really shocked, I really was, it was amazing,” she said.

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Main image: Tami Manis