Just when we think we can't become ANY more obsessed with Lady Gaga's "Born This Way" muse Zombie Boy aka Rick Genest, he always finds a way to weasel his cute little self back into our lives and knock us dead (heh). Most recently he was spotted in the November issue of Inked magazine (how perfect) posing in a 'DORBS fashion spread filled with sequin jackets, bowler hats, and plaid vest and pant ensembles—with all of his killer head-to-toe skeleton tats on full display. We LOVE that he isn't afraid to flash some skin (I mean, how could we?) and even reveals that *gasp* some of his body is still untouched by tattoos! In his first look, he's drop dead GORGE in a record print (!!!) Wacko Maria red sequin tux jacket paired with black Ben Sherman pants. Typically an over-the-top rhinestone trim lapel gives off serious Las Vegas entertainer vibes, but Rick's badass smize, septum ring, and fearless shirtlessness completely transform this jacket into something we kind of, um, REALLY want. Who knew? In his second look he's also shirt-free in a plaid Craig Robinson suit vest and pants paired with brown Ben Sherman brogues. We're SO not mad at him refusing to wear a shirt with most outfits—in fact we are very, very into it. MORE RICK, PLEASE.
Tattooing oneself from head to toe to look like a rotting corpse is not the traditional route to stardom, but it has somehow worked out for Rick Genest, a.k.a. Zombie Boy.
“My first tattoo was an outline of a skull and cross- bones right here on my shoulder when I was 16,” Gen- est says, pulling up the sleeve of his black T-shirt. A decade later, he held two titles in the Guinness Book of World Records, one for the most insect tattoos at 176, and one for the most human bone tattoos at 139. Both numbers were quickly out of date. But why so much work—is he hiding something with his ink? “Before the tattoos I had some cuts and cigarette burns and stuff like that. I never wanted to get a full-body cigarette burn. It’s just stuff that you do when you’re a kid.”
Enter darkness... The richly tattooed Rick Genest – ‘Zombie Boy’ and Lady Gaga muse – and his Lucifer’s Blasphemous Torture Carnival are serious about DIY and their self-formulated brand of street family values.
It’s 11pm. A line of Halloween-like revelers is forming outside Le Belmont bar in the hip Plateau area of Montreal. Inside, the cast of Lucifer’s Blasphemous Mad Macabre Torture Carnival Freak Show are drinking beer in the basement and practicing their acts.
Rick Genest, the freak show’s mastermind, is shoving live worms up his nose using fake blood as a lubricant, while behind him one of his closest friends, Miguel, dances with a machete.
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