A Colombian
man, Hincapié Ramírez, has had his nose cut off, ears mutilated and eyes
tattooed on his face so his head can look like a skull.
Ramírez has been undergoing extreme surgical procedures
to make his face look like a skeleton for the last two years.
The 22-year-old says he had been fascinated by skulls
ever since he was a child, but only started making his face look like a
skeleton after his mother's death because she did not approve of the
extreme body modification.
During the
painful procedures Kalaca had the lower half of his nose removed
and most of his ear lobes cut off.
After splitting his tongue in half and tattooing it to a
blue-grey colour, he then had large black eye-sockets tattooed around his eyes.
Large teeth and even the hollow space between the
mandible and maxilla was then shaded in ink around his mouth.
He also shaved his hair into a mow-hawk style to show off
his head tattoos.
Kalaca Skull was the first person in Colombia to
voluntarily have his nose and ears mutilated, a decision that attracted both
the attention of the media as well as a lot of criticism from the general
public.
One of the reasons Kalaca says he chose to make himself
look like a skull was that it is a look we 'all share underneath our skin and
in death', he told Rio Noticias website in Colombia.
Kalaca admits his unusual appearance makes a lot of
people uncomfortable and some even cross the street when they see him so they
don't have to pass him face-to-face.
Earlier this month, one of the most famous men to tattoo
himself towards looking like an unearthly creature took his own life.
Tattooed model Zombie boy, a friend of singer Lady Ga Ga,
killed himself by jumping from the 4th floor balcony of his Montreal apartment,
on August 1.
Canadian Rick Genest,
32, commited suicide in Le Plateau-Mont-Royal at 5pm Wednesday, but
paramedics were unable to revive him, law enforcement sources told TMZ.
His manager Karim Leduc said his family believes it
was a tragic accident and he fell, as he would lean back on the railing while
smoking. They also say they believe he would have left a suicide note had it
been intentional.
However, police ruled the death of Zombie Boy who
appeared in the 2011 video for 'Born This Way' as a suicide.
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| Kalaca Skull, real name Eric Yeiner Hincapié Ramírez, before his extreme surgeries to his nose and ears completed his skull makeover |
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