This Russian teenager is turning heads in his hometown of Krasnoyarsk
for looking like a walking, talking X-Ray. The entire right side of his
face is covered with a skull tattoo, complete with gaping eye sockets,
blackened nose, and perfectly traced bones and teeth. He’s even colored
his right eyeball black for a hollow effect!
Scoop has more:
Nikita Lesnoy was fascinated by tattoos as a child, ever
since he saw one made by his father. As he grew older he began to
research the subject more, eventually
getting his first tattoo at age 15. And now at 18 years, half of his
face is inked with a skull. He works at a tattoo parlour himself, so his
bizarre face hasn’t affected his career.
“Nobody worries about my look too much in my line of
work, because I also have my dream job working in a tattoo studio,” he
said. But he admitted that people on the streets are often shocked by
his appearance. Nearly everyone gapes at him, some in admiration, others
in disgust. His own mother was horrified at first, when she saw that
his face was permanently imprinted with a skull. But she got used to it
eventually. “It did not affect our relationship,” he said. “I am still
her son just as I was before. She understands that each person has
hobbies, and an image – this is my passion.”
Lesnoy said that of all the tattoos he’s gotten so far, the skull is
the most complicated. In fact, he searched for a competent tattoo artist
for two years before he found someone who could reproduce an
anatomically accurate skull on his face. Getting inked on the face is
undoubtedly painful, but Lesnoy preferred not to take any anesthesia
during the process. “I will remember the pain for the rest of my life ,
but it was worth it,” he said.
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