Ted Richards has had his face tattooed and his eyeballs inked to resemble his beloved parrots - Ellie and Teaka.
But last month Ted - in his latest modification - took the drastic step of having both his ears cut off, a move which has left a top plastic surgeon "horrified".
Ted is keeping tight-lipped about who carried out the six hour operation bus insists he is "happier than ever," and has even now got himself a girlfriend - Suzannah, 31.
And cryptically Ted says he has given his unattached ears to someone he knows who "will appreciate them" and who is preserving them in resin.
Since undergoing the operation Ted says the only issue he has had was keeping his glasses in place.
But said he has had transdermals - an object placed partially below and partially above the skin - inserted on the side of his head to solve the problem.
And Ted said far from scaring the kids, they run up to him wanting to see all the gory photos after his operation.
"I think it looks really great," he told the Bristol Post.
"I love it. It's the best thing that has happened to me. I am so happy it's unreal, I can't stop looking in the mirror."
Exactly what I was thinking. What sort of surgeon would "Double Van Gogh" someone?
That's not medicinal, that's mutilation of someone with mental problems.
"Plastic surgeon should be struck off "Exactly what I was thinking. What sort of surgeon would "Double Van Gogh" someone?That's not medicinal, that's mutilation of someone with mental problems.
No worse than circumcision for non medical reasons. That's usually done without the informed consent of the patient but with the consent of the mentally deranged parents.
No worse than circumcision for non medical reasons. That's usually done without the informed consent of the patient but with the consent of the mentally deranged parents.