Rather than doors being closed in his face, his tattoos have opened them for him. "I am probably going to end up completely black at 80," he added.īeyond his school in the suburbs of Paris, Freaky Hoody is something of a star on the tattoo scene. Known as Freaky Hoody on social media, where he has nearly 60,000 followers, Helaine insists that he does not regret any of his tattoos, from the coloured flowers on his shaved head to the demon head on his back. I couldn't drink for 20 hours and it took two days for me to be able to eat." I was drooling and I couldn't speak afterwards.
Having his tongue tattooed wasn't the most comfortable of experiences either. "But for me, I felt incomplete without it," said Helaine, who has spent 57,000 euros ($66,000) on his body art over the last eight years. "And you never know what will happen, which is why I say to people, 'Don't do it!' They hold your eyes open and you feel the needle pierce" the white of your eye, he said. "Mr Snake", as some pupils call him, had to travel to Switzerland to get his eyes done - something that is illegal in France. No part of the 35-year-old's body has been left untouched by a tattooist's needle. "But when I introduce myself and they see that I am a teacher like all the others, it's cool," he told AFP. "There is always a moment of stunned silence" when he first meets the children and the parents, Sylvain Helaine admitted.
FRANCE - By night he is Freaky Hoody, the most tattooed man in France, whose tongue and even eyes are inked.īy day he is Mr Helaine, primary school teacher.
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