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With over 800 tattoos, the man’s body was transformed into a moving art exhibit

Mr. Paul Allen, 58 years old British is a passionate believer in the art of tattooing. That’s why he spent a lot of money to cover 96% of his skin. Tattoos are a way for you to beautify, record memorable and precious memories on your body. Usually each person has only one or a few tattoos, but […]

Mr. Paul Allen, 58 years old British is a passionate believer in the art of tattooing. That’s why he spent a lot of money to cover 96% of his skin.

Tattoos are a way for you to beautify, record memorable and precious memories on your body. Usually each person has only one or a few tattoos, but for a man named Paul Allen in the UK, his number of tattoos has reached a record number with 810 tattoos, covering 96% of his body.

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Mr. Allen has up to 810 tattoos on his body.

It is known that Mr. Allen got his first tattoo a few weeks after his mother’s death, in April 2008. Since then, he has continuously tattooed on many parts of his body, especially is in the private area and eyelids, leaving only the soles of the feet and the skin between the fingers.


To get all 810 tattoos done, Mr. Allen went to 25 tattoo parlors in different places, taking more than 1000 hours. Of the 810 tattoos, there are 496 designs along with 314 different random names. In addition to tattooing, he also pierced 18 holes on his body.

Paul said he is the most tattooed person in the UK. His tattoos have a variety of shapes, from cartoon characters, vampires, to animals like sharks or lighthouse symbols… Despite spending a large amount of money up to 15,000 pounds (equivalent to 450 million VND) but he doesn’t care much about it because tattooing is his hobby.

With his huge number of tattoos, Mr. Paul is often mistaken for an unemployed or newly released prisoner, but in fact he has never been to prison and is a painter and decorator. Even his father was against his tattoo, but now, he has gradually accepted his hobby. And the amazing thing is, a lot of women like him because of those tattoos. However, he thinks that it is just a shallow, superficial feeling, and he is not what they think.


Although he knows that tattoos will affect how people see him, he is still very confident. Paul’s tattoo artist also said that from the outside the tattoos may make people judge him negatively, but actually when they talk to him, they will find him very kind, kind and generous. old sweat.

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Tattoos are scattered all over Paul’s body, covering 96% of his body.