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One of UK's most tattooed men has just 3% of his skin left without ink

2023-06-27 235 Dailymotion

One of UK's most tattooed men has just 3% of his skin left without ink after getting more designs in his mission to fill up his entire body surface.<br /><br />Keith Gordon, 67, didn't start getting tattoos until he turned 52 - but now he has hundreds.<br /><br />Now one of the UK's most inked up men, who even has tattoos covering his head, lips and eyelids - still wants more.<br /><br />In recent months he has had around five sessions - including a devil design on one leg, his wife and children's names and the words 'f*** off* in a 1.5inch gap on his lower leg.<br /><br />Keith estimates he has just three per cent left of white space on his body - with the remaining gaps left on his legs.<br /><br />He plans to fill these with shading to leave him completely covered in ink, and said he has no idea how many tattoos he has in total - or has had done recently.<br /><br />Keith, from Romford, Essex, gets stopped everywhere he goes by people shocked by his unique look.<br /><br />He has no idea what all the tats cost in total - but says his head and face ink alone set him back £6k.<br /><br />Retiree Keith has made appearances in EastEnders and Jurassic Park thanks to his unique look - and is the self-appointed "coolest looking guy in Essex".<br /><br />Keith, a dad-of-three, said: "I have no regrets about looking like this, although it makes basic tasks a bit challenging.<br /><br />"I get stares constantly and people come up to me asking if they hurt and what they cost.<br /><br />"Being heavily tattooed though, it's like an addiction.<br /><br />"You're chasing the high and the euphoria of getting more tattoos, each more outrageous than the last.<br /><br />"At the moment now I just want to get rid of any white spaces.<br /><br />"I'm going towards total coverage now."<br /><br />Keith got his first tattoos at 17-years-old - but underwent several skin grafts four years later to remove them.<br /><br />He then lived tattoo free until he was 52, when he suddenly decided he missed his old body art.<br /><br />So he went back to the tattoo parlour to reinvent himself, but this time took the look to new extremes.<br /><br />From having body art removed as a young man, Keith went full circle - tattooing most of his body, even his eyelids.<br /><br />Fifteen years later, there is now next to no skin he has left uncovered and Keith has spent tens of thousands of pounds on his tattoos.

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