Inside the buzzing walls of Nocturnal Tattoo on West 20th Avenue, something extraordinary is etched into the skin and the records. Nocturnal owner and artist Stoke Lucero, as well as tattoo enthusiast Chadwyck Minson, set the Guinness World Record for the most eyeballs tattooed on a male body.
Their count? Sixty-five. But as of June 27, following an official count by a doctor as stipulated by the organization, that number had risen to 100, meaning the duo had officially beaten their own record.
“After I got the 65 eyeballs tattooed, I came in to get another tattoo, and I was like, ‘Why don’t we just add another 35 and make it an even 100 eyeballs?'” recalls Minson, sitting in the front of the tattoo shop where he’d broken his own world record…