At first glance, Simone Taylor looks like your average sixteen-year-old girl.

That is until you see the six-inch talons on her hands that she’s been growing out for three years.

It wasn’t my intention to grow them so long, but as they grew, so did the amount of compliments and they became more and more a part of me,” she said. During my first year, I always thought to myself, I’m gonna cut them tomorrow, but I never did.