Matt Gone shared details of his transformation process
< i class=”i-share-btn whatsapp”>
Matt Gone said that he sneezed black ink when he got the squares that cover his nose tattooed. (Getty Images )
Matt Gone, who holds the Guinness World Record for the person with the most square tattoos on his body, said he sneezed black ink after getting his nose tattoos .
The American said that the process of tattooing the entire body,a total of 848 black squares counted and certified by two doctors to make his record official, it was quite painful, especially when he painted his nose and toes.
Speaking in a video for the Guinness World Records YouTube channel, he said: “The most painful place on the body to get a tattoo? “Nose. That is the most painful, even the toes of babies, the nails hurt a lot.
“I sneezed black ink for about 20 minutes after that and it was the most painful thing I’ve ever been through,” he added.
Matt got his first tattoo in 1985 and since then he has even tattooed his tongue and eyeballs, which he also said was “very painful”.
“The eyelids are very painful, even with anesthesia . I have tattooed the inside of the eyelid; people usually only get tattooed up to the lash line”, he stated.
He added that he believes he is only the sixth person in the world to have tattooed his eyeballs, initially colored blue and green, but now he has also added magenta and gold.
Matt Gone has 484 tattoos all over his body.
“My tongue is tattooed, but they were hypodermic injections. I actually revamped my tongue tattooing technique in 2010. My tongue is tattooed more than anyone in history and my tongue is tattooed all the way down here on my throat,” explained Matt.
“Do not do this at home, there is no professional who can do this”, warned.
Matt also shared what it was like to live with the discrimination caused by his appearance, which is noticeably different from most people, and how he has even received comments of hatred for his status as a father.
“Some people have told me things like they should take my son away from me because of my appearance, but this only happens on social networks” , counted.
According to Matt he has the most tattooed tongue of all the people who have undergone this procedure.
But he said he doesn’t listen to people who think like that because Whoever believes that should not have children. On the contrary, Matt comes across as a nice person and said that when he meets someone, face to face, the reactions are very different from mean comments on social media.
“When I’m in public, people stare at me for a bit, but they just say nice things and ask how long the tattoos took, how I handle the pain, and generally compliment my work,” explained.