A man has had his nose cut off, ears mutilated and eyes tattooed on his face in a bid to make his face look like a skull. Kalaca Skull, whose real name is Eric Yeiner Hincapie Ramirez, has been undergoing extreme surgical procedures to make his face look like a skeleton for the last two years. The 22-year-old, from Colombia, says he’s always loved skulls ever since he was a child but only started modifying his face after his mother died because she didn’t approve of it.
One of the first procedures Kalaca had was to remove the lower half of his nose and cut off his ear lobes. He then had his tongue split in half and tattooed it to a blue-grey colour before tattooing large black eye-sockets around his eyes. Large teeth and hollow space was shaded in ink around his mouth and his hair was shaved into a mow-hawk style to show off his head tattoos.
Kalaca Skull is the first person in Colombia to have voluntarily had his nose and ears mutilated, a decision which has attracted a lot of criticism from the public.
He regularly posts pictures and video on his social media showing him getting tattoos. He told Rio Noticias website: ‘Body modifications are a personal decision and should not be judged.