“When I first started tattooing myself and doing all these modifications, it was a big shock to them.”Ī post shared by Fernando Franco De Oliveira 2006, he started covering himself, head-to-feet, with tattoos of dragons, clowns, bulldogs and other creatures. “Most of my friends are already used to my appearance,” de Oliveira said, adding that his family members took some time to get used to his transformation. While he draws stares from strangers, de Oliveira says friends and family aren’t shocked by his appearance anymore. “About 70 per cent of people who see me on the street, they want to take photos with me and they find me interesting,” he said. “In a way, I'm like the main attraction of my own studio,” he told CTVNews.ca in a video interview, adding that clients love his appearance and passersby often stop to snap selfies with him. In those ten years, the Brazilian tattoo artist has covered nearly every part of his body in ink and undergone surgery to give himself horns, a forked tongue, pointed orc ears and even going as far as to cut off his nose.ĭe Oliveira, who owns a tattoo studio in the southern Brazil city of Tatui 150 kilomtres west of Sao Paulo, says he’s been primarily inspired by skull imagery and “The Lord of The Rings.”

Fernando Franco de Oliveira is nearly unrecognizable from how he appeared a decade ago.

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