Tattooed all over - for the second time

[Jazzy]

A 58-year-old London man had agonising skins grafts to remove his teenage tattoos - only to spend nearly £15,000 redoing them all over his face and body.

Keith Gordon blames the impulse to ink himself on extreme OCD - which has seen him change his appearance radically several times over the decades.

As a teen he was a skinhead before transitioning to long-haired, tattooed heavy metal headbanger.

He then cut his hair and had all his inkings removed through painful skin grafts so he could start a white-collar career as an administrator.

But now, Mr Gordon, from Romford, has gone full circle - tattooing most of his body, even his eyelids.

"A lot of people look at me aggressively. They look almost saddened and angry but I don't understand why - it's me who's looking like this, not them," he said.

"But I love the attention. I love being different and I love showing people that it is okay to be different."

Mr Gordon finally settled down at the age of 45 - getting married to Lisa, 42, and having children Jamie-Lee, 11, Ricky, eight, Jennifer, five. He also became a father to Lisa's daughter Diana Rose, 14.

Then, five years ago, after nearly 10 years of marriage, he felt an overwhelming urge to return to his first love - tattoos.

Mrs Gordon admitted: "I never would have married him if he looked like this when I met him.

"I feel embarrassed when we are out and everyone stares. But he's a good husband and a good father and I persevere."

Despite his family's objections, Mr Gordon is pushing ahead with even more tattoos and is in the process of finishing off a huge inking that spans his entire back.

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Wonder where he's getting the money to do all of this. Seems very selfish to me to waste that money on his 'urge' to look like a freak when he's got a wife and four children.

What do you think?

 

[Nebulous]

He seems like a flip flopping weirdo time/money waster to me.

 

[Jazzy]

Despite his family's objections, Mr Gordon is pushing ahead with even more tattoos and is in the process of finishing off a huge inking that spans his entire back.

"A lot of people look at me aggressively. They look almost saddened and angry but I don't understand why - it's me who's looking like this, not them," he said.

"But I love the attention. I love being different and I love showing people that it is okay to be different."

Selfish attention whore and doesn't give a damn what he's putting his family through.

 

[cynosure.x]

What tattoo-artist would decline a 15,000£ offer? Okay yeah the artist should've thought twice but in the end money comes first. And if that artist didn't tattoo him and tried to talk him out of it, he just would've gone to another one who would do it. I'm not "defending" the tattoo-artist because spending 15,000£ on tattoos is just crazy, while his family could do other/nicer/better things with that kind of money.