Perhaps someone does not know his real name, but as soon as the ominous “Zombie Boy” pops up on the Internet, everyone understands who they are talking about. He is considered a freak depicting the dead, the body and head of this strange character is completely covered with gloomy tattoos, which brought him incredible popularity.
Now a thirty-year-old man, not looking crazy and reasoning quite sensibly, admits that he made a successful investment, adorning himself with frightening drawings. Rick Genest's body is dotted with tattoos, which he himself considers very aesthetic.
Street life
Born in Canada, the future famous young man from childhood adored horror films, especially related to surgical operations. As a teenager, Rick runs away from home and sleeps on the streets with friends. He says that the nickname "Zombies" has stuck to him since those reckless times. Having once seen the cult film “Night of the Living Dead” by D. Romero, the guy suddenly understands how he wants to look.
Gloomy images
From the age of 16, a teenager systematically decorates himself with tattoos. The pain that he experiences with this, Rick calls the source of his pleasure. Realizing that unusual images can cause increased interest in his person, he puts his photos on the Internet on a personal page.
Gloomy tattoos of Rick Genest attract a huge number of subscribers in the first weeks. Zombie Boy is often photographed against the background of cemeteries, maintaining his frightening image.
Provocations and outrageous
Thanks to the shocking appearance, many celebrities want to work with him, he has already starred in the video with the 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 had remained an ordinary guy, his life would have been empty and uninteresting.
He is afraid to imagine that his tattoos will ever get bored, and the subscribers will turn their back on the character who will cease to amaze them. In this case, he said, he has a backup plan - to cut off his nose or bifurcate his tongue, like a snake. And no one knows if Rick is serious at this moment, or is joking so oddly.
Successful tattoo investments
As a teenager and spending all his money on “eternal” drawings, the young man could hardly imagine where this 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 a single tattoo. Gradually, he became involved, and drawing drawings on the body became a completely mundane affair, on which he spent thousands of Canadian dollars. Now he admits that the investment paid off well, he makes good money on his image of a dead man.
The image of a walking corpse
Over what is now the appearance of Rick Genest, 12 tattoo artists worked. Through his head, as if a brain shines through, this surprisingly corresponds to the name "Zombie Boy".
A frightening image of a rotting body is conveyed through drawings of flies and cadaveric worms. Saying that there is a special magic in the process of decomposition, Rick associates his tattoos with the other world and the transience of life. The shocking Rick Genest, whose personal life is still not arranged, says in all interviews that he definitely will not live up to old age and therefore is not going to start a family.
From the circus to the catwalk
Fascinated not only with the decoration of his body, the shocking character of show business once worked in a circus, swallowing swords and walking on broken glass. Loving extreme, he thus earned new tattoos. He even participated in a freak show in which one of the tasks was eating worms. A pleasant surprise for him was getting into the modeling business. On social networks, Rick Genest was found by professional photographers, offering huge fees for shooting.
World fame
The most successful of his work, which has already brought worldwide fame, was a collaboration with Nikola Formichetti - the stylist of the notorious Lady Gaga and the creative director of Thierry Mugler. The image of a revived corpse appears on the catwalk during fashion shows. From this moment on, Rick Genest, whose tattoos become his trademark distinction, is constantly busy at photo shoots, and the fashion world does not imagine a single party without a shocking character.
