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Lilou Ciano was 18 when she got her first tattoo and now, 10 years later, she has more than 300 – and she’s not done yet.
The Ukrainian-born model who lives in France gets a tattoo every week and now 88% of her body is inked.
Lilou says she's an addict.
“I have over 300 and Tyler Durden, on my right thigh, is my favourite. Fight Club is one of my favourite movies and this character represents me,” she told the Mirror.
"I don't feel pain during tattooing, I completely enjoy the process. I think if I was to feel pain, I wouldn’t tattoo myself each week.
"I feel just good vibrations, actually. I sleep during tattooing."
The 28-year-old is also an artist, poet and a vocalist for a black metal band.
She learned how to tattoo herself too.
Lilou says as a child she was obsessed with tattoos – her brother, grandfather and great-grandfather all had them.
Many of her tattoos, she says, do not have any special meaning – she just likes them.
Her very first tattoo was the crocodile from the Lacoste logo, which is on her ankle, and reminds her of her father.
With over 233 000 followers on Instagram, one might imagine most questions directed to her would be about her tattoos, but her followers seem to be more interested in her nails, especially as she has short nails on her left hand and long nails on her right.
“Well, I always had long nails but when I started playing guitar, I had to cut my nails on both hands," she explained. "But lately I understood that I can keep my right hand’s nails long.”
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Lilou believes it's important to enjoy what you are doing and that's why she has no plans to stop getting inked.
The most tattooed woman, according to Guinness World Records, is Charlotte Guttenberg (73) who has 98,75% of her body tattooed. Lilou has not made mention of reaching for any records, but at the rate that she's going she might take that title in a few years.
Sources: The Mirror, Pulse Mail, Index, Guinness World Record
