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Hair competition winner has hair 1.8 meters long

A Kazakh girl with hair as long as 1.8 meters won a hair competition held in Yili Kazakh autonomous prefecture in Xinjiang on Saturday, chinanews.com reported.

The 33-year-old winner said she hasn't cut her hair since she was ten. Long hair is a symbol of beauty in Xinjiang.

She said it takes her two hours to wash the hair using local Kazakh black soaps.

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