Maybe someone doesn't know his real name, butas soon as an ominous “Zombie Boy” pops up on the Internet, everyone understands who it is. He is considered a freak depicting a dead man, the body and head of this strange character are completely covered with dark tattoos that have brought him incredible popularity.
Now a thirty year old man notlooking mad and reasoning quite sensibly, admits that he made a good investment by decorating himself with awesome designs. Rick Genest’s body is covered with tattoos that he himself considers highly aesthetic.
Street life
Canada-born future famous younga man from childhood loved horror movies, especially those related to surgical operations. In adolescence, Rick runs away from home and sleeps in the streets with friends. He says that the nickname "Zombies" has stuck to him since those reckless times. Having seen the cult film “Night of the Living Dead” by D. Romero, the guy suddenly realizes how he wants to look.
Dark Images
From the age of 16 a teenager systematically decorates himselftattoos. The pain that he feels at the same time, Rick calls the source of his pleasure. Realizing that unusual images can cause an increased interest in his person, he puts his photos on the Internet on a personal page.
Rick Genest's gloomy tattoos have attracted a huge number of subscribers in the first weeks. Zombie Boy is often photographed against the backdrop of cemeteries, maintaining its frightening image.
Provocations and shocking
Thanks to the outrageous appearance, with him they wantwork many celebrities, he has already appeared in the clip with no less provocative Lady Gaga, participated in the feature film "47 Ronin". Rick believes that his image brought him incredible fame and decent money. If he was an ordinary guy, his life would be empty and uninteresting.
He is afraid to imagine that his tattoosever get bored, and subscribers will turn away from the character who will stop surprising them. In this case, he said, he has a backup plan - cut off his nose or split his tongue like a snake. And no one knows if Rick is serious at this moment, or is he joking so strangely.
Successful tattoo investment
Being a teenager and spending all your moneyon the “eternal” drawings, it is unlikely the young man imagined where it would lead him. At first, the motives were simple. A difficult teenager who lived on the street and listened to punk rock, could not have had a single tattoo. Gradually, he became involved, and drawing pictures on the body became a completely mundane matter, on which he spent thousands of Canadian dollars. Now he admits that the investment has paid off well, he earns good money on his dead man.
Image of a walking corpse
Above, what is now the appearance of Rick Genest, worked 12 tattoo artists. Through his head, the brain seems to be translucent, it miraculously corresponds to the name "Zombie Fight."
The frightening image of a rotting body is transmitted whenthe help of drawings of flies and corpse worms. Saying that in the process of decomposition there is special magic, Rick associates his tattoos with the other world and the transience of life. Outrageous Rick Genest, whose personal life has not yet been arranged, in all the interviews he says that he definitely will not live to old age and therefore is not going to start a family.
From the circus to the podium
He is fond of not only decorating his body.The scandalous character of show business once worked in a circus, swallowing swords and walking through broken glass. Loving extreme, he thus earned a new tattoo. He even participated in a freak show in which eating worms was one of the tasks. A nice surprise for him was getting into the modeling business. Professional photographers have found Rick Genest in social networks, offering huge fees for filming.
World fame
His most successful work, which brought the worldFame, became a collaboration with Nicola Formichetti - stylist of the notorious Lady Gaga and creative director of Thierry Mugler. The image of the revived corpse arises on the podium during fashion shows. From this point on, Rick Genest, whose tattoo becomes his trademark distinction, is constantly busy at photo shoots, and the fashion world doesn’t imagine a single party without a shocking character.
Charming and lonely
During filming, he has a frozen expression on his face,so that the embossed pattern on the skull is not distorted. But in general, the guy is quite cute, his expressive eyes and charming smile are especially good. He is an interesting story-teller, and journalists note that after several of his phrases, attention to unusual drawings ceases to focus.
Living to the fullest and loving provocations notonly on the podium, but also in life, considers himself a real freak Rick Genest. And his wife, about which all the fans want to know, is a concept from the world of fiction. Although, perhaps, the fact is that not every girl would like to be in an apartment with a decaying corpse, even earning good money.
