@guinnessworldrecords: Jeremy "Remy" Schofield, aka Ephemeral Remy, from Canada, has had at least 90% of his skin covered in ink since 2005. He’s been covered and re-covered in approximately 40 layers of ink, with some regions of his body even filled in more than 100 times. His dedication to body art has brought him the record for most tattooed person living (multiple layers) (male). The former cook, who now manages tattoo shops and social media companies, started off quite small with his tattoos, first just having his son’s name inked on his left inner forearm. Remy, who is featured inside Guinness World Records 2027, was already a fan of body modification, with over 100 piercings, but says he didn’t originally plan to have his whole body covered in tattoos. Since then, he’s even had someone pull his bum cheeks apart so an artist could get right in there to add some ink. He told us: “I honestly never expected or planned to have a world record for this, but my passion for the work itself had me come to this quite naturally, it was around 2019-2020 when people started asking me if I had a world record for hours and layers tattooed, by around 2022 I knew that I did just based on a lack of documentation from any other living person that rivalled or surpassed my own.” He’s spent well over a thousand hours in the chair and has had more than 40 artists contribute to his body art. Remy was actually brought to our attention by Lucky Diamond Rich (Aboriginal Australian, Quandamooka People of North Stradbroke Island, b. New Zealand), who felt he should pass his most tattooed man record over. But on investigation, we found that while Lucky had a bigger percentage of his body covered in ink, Remy had more layers, meaning they could both have a world record.

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Tuesday 15 September 2026 10:45:05 GMT