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Meet The English Man Who Decides To Tattoo Himself Black
Viral Mag ^ | 12/04/2019 | The Viral Mag Team

Posted on 12/04/2019 10:03:55 AM PST by steveben

Most people prefer their art on their walls not as a permanent fixture of their bodies. But Eli Ink, a 27-year-old tattoo artist from Brighton, England, sees his body as a walking exhibition of his finest work.

He has spent the last ten years transforming himself. Tattooing most of his skin black with several coats of ink, dying his eyes and implanting stretchers in his nose and under his bottom lip. The process is far from finished, but the result is striking


TOPICS: Arts/Photography; Hobbies; Science
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This is absolute madness
1 posted on 12/04/2019 10:03:55 AM PST by steveben
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Maybe he and Rachel Dolezal should get together.


2 posted on 12/04/2019 10:05:25 AM PST by Pearls Before Swine
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WTH?!?

Paging Dr. Freud...


3 posted on 12/04/2019 10:05:58 AM PST by simpson96
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Blackface! Racism!


4 posted on 12/04/2019 10:06:19 AM PST by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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Yep, mentally ill. Suicide in 4, 3, 2,...


5 posted on 12/04/2019 10:06:23 AM PST by Gen.Blather
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And he is already wondering why he can’t get a loan...


6 posted on 12/04/2019 10:07:16 AM PST by jonascord (First rule of the Dunning-Kruger Club is that you do not know you are in the Dunning-Kruger club.)
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I guess that was the only way to get a white girlfriend.


7 posted on 12/04/2019 10:07:31 AM PST by VastRWCon (Fake News)
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Why am I reminded of "Private Pyle" from Full Metal Jacket?


8 posted on 12/04/2019 10:08:52 AM PST by Yo-Yo ( is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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It’s my fault for looking but I have a gag-reflex reaction to these kinds of things. I do understand the personal expression / nature of art. It doesn’t mean it’s my cup-of-tea. Ugh.


9 posted on 12/04/2019 10:08:59 AM PST by Frapster (Ever wonder what list we're on for registering here?)
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That is one sick puppy.


10 posted on 12/04/2019 10:12:29 AM PST by Mark17 (Dad of Air Force Officer in pilot training. Air Force aircraft, go much faster than Army tanks)
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Self-mutilation is a serious issue.


11 posted on 12/04/2019 10:13:40 AM PST by windsorknot
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We just have to worry about an occasional gnat going up the nose... that dummy has to worry about cicadas


12 posted on 12/04/2019 10:13:55 AM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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He looks like a Ubangi. That’s not a compliment.


13 posted on 12/04/2019 10:14:13 AM PST by EinNYC
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Could have saved himself a lot of ink by just tattooing “I’m a moron” on his forehead.


14 posted on 12/04/2019 10:17:10 AM PST by Boogieman
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That freak is a freak.


15 posted on 12/04/2019 10:18:01 AM PST by laplata (The Left/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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He looks like a Ubangi. That’s not a compliment.

I agree with you. But, to him, it's a feature, not a bug.

16 posted on 12/04/2019 10:18:40 AM PST by Pearls Before Swine
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He has the nose of a Cebus apella monkey and the eyes of a chimp. Mom must be proud.


17 posted on 12/04/2019 10:21:43 AM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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[[You can easily see his obsession with the abstract on his own body. It’s a philosophy that guides the choices he makes.]]

Mental illness is now a ‘philosophy’?


18 posted on 12/04/2019 10:22:42 AM PST by Bob434
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As if the entire inked skin wasn’t enough, now he has what appears to be a ‘Soap holder disk’ lodged into his bottom lip. How does he talk or eat with that soap dish in there?
Some unkind person might even say it looks like the sanitizer disc found in Men’s Rooms.

Something, something must have rocked his world as a young person to sink this far into that inky black abyss.
Just as with people who keep getting more plastic surgery, his tattoos are never quite ‘enough’ to make him feel happy.


19 posted on 12/04/2019 10:23:33 AM PST by lee martell
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Apparently, its becoming quite a trend.

20 posted on 12/04/2019 10:23:37 AM PST by PGR88
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