Some people are not afraid to boldly experiment with their appearance, despite the reaction of others: some consider them crazy, others admire their eccentricity. Take a look at the photos of people who are used to being called freaks. What makes them change their appearance?
1. Monami Frost
This girl with countless tattoos - famous model and video blogger from Latvia. She got her first tattoo at the age of 14, and since then tattoos have become a part of her life.
Monami associates himself with the "straight edge" subculture. This means that she does not drink alcohol, does not smoke or use drugs.
2. Andrey Bartenev
Andrey is a Russian artist, fashion designer, creator of interactive installations and performances. His works have been repeatedly exhibited in major museums.
Andrei often chooses very unusual clothes for himself. According to him, his clothes and lifestyle correspond to his imagination. Most often, his appearance causes friendly curiosity, although sometimes there is aggression from others.
3. Beth Ditto
Beth is the lead singer of Gossip, who rocked the world with her hit Heavy Cross. She admits her problems with overweight but at the same time assumes its own appearance. 
Beth is considered an eccentric figure, as she has the audacity to appear in public in skimpy clothes, despite her weight. She wonders why girls have to dress modestly just because of the extra pounds. Designers such as Gaultier and Lagerfeld support her point of view by inviting the girl to their shows as a model.
4. Buddy Winkle
It's hard to believe that this woman has already celebrated her 89th birthday. Buddy Winkle is brave enough to dress up and make the most of everything life has to offer. Now the most famous brands It all started when Buddy's granddaughter decided to create an Instagram account for her stylish great-grandmother. 
Let the whole world say that her clothes are not age appropriate. But who said that women should dress according to the numbers in their passport?
5. Luis Padron
This young guy from Argentina wanted to look like an elf, so he spent thousands of dollars on plastic surgery. Even as a child, Louis was obsessed with the fantasy world, so he decided to look as sophisticated and ephemeral as these mythical creatures. 
Internet users are wondering if the guy suffers from mental disorder or just follow your dreams.
6. Elaine Angel
When we see someone with piercings and tattoos, we usually think that it will go away with age. However, now Elaine Angel is 57 years old, and she does not think to "calm down." A woman decorates her body with tattoos and shaves her head. 
Elaine is one of the most famous piercers in the world and still doing what she loves. In addition, she has already published several books about piercing. Elaine says she sees herself with the same appearance even in twenty years.
7. Melinda Moon
Young Canadian girl Melinda Moon wants to look like an elf. Nevertheless, she did not dare to radically change her appearance, but only made herself pointed ears. 
Melinda says that children especially adore her and try to behave well around her, because they know that elves tell Santa about naughty kids.
8. Daryl Belmares
Daryl "Bear" Belmares wanted to have the most big ears in the world, and he did it. For several years he has been stretching his earlobes and now he can wrap them around his head. 
Does he do it just for fun, you ask? Why not? It has found a use for this largely dormant body part.
9. Grace Neutral
Grace gained notoriety for her body modifications. The most unusual in her appearance are blue eyeballs. This effect was achieved by introducing paint under the conjunctiva. 
When Grace is asked why she does this to herself, the girl replies that in this way she explores her appearance. On the one hand, it looks interesting, but on the other it seems a little scary. What do you think?
10. Iris Apfel
Iris is a 96-year-old American designer who also doesn't want to be squeezed into age limits. She has own style, and she has remained true to her eccentric image for 70 years. 
Iris often refers to herself as the world's oldest teenager and says that if someone doesn't like what she does, it's not her problem. And she's absolutely right, isn't she?
11. Angelica Kenova
Russian model Anzhelika Kenova is a real-life Barbie doll, not only because she looks like her, but because she still lives with her parents who won't let her date. 
To keep her figure, Angelica should strict diet and exercise program, working 2-3 hours a day, 5 days a week. It obviously helps: Angelica looks stunning considering the fact that she has never had plastic surgery.
12. Enigma
Enigma is a mysterious sword swallower who turned his body into an art object. He got a huge tattoo all over his body, including his face, for which he became famous. The guy starred in X-Files and on the Penn & Teller show. 
It seems that if any of these people have crossed the line, it is Enigma. But, again, this is his life and his body, so the guy should not care about public opinion.
Besides, who knows? Perhaps in half a century all this will not seem so strange to us. In the end, some 80 years ago, a woman in pants caused outrage.
People with the most incredible appearance modifications June 1st, 2014
The first piercing or tattoo for many young people is a kind of rite of passage. Everything is good in moderation, but some saw a tattoo or piercing on themselves and decided that they had found their calling, which consisted in decorating their entire body in this way. Well, these people are very different from most of us.
1. Riddle
Whether or not Paul Lawrence is a puzzle lover is unknown, but if you take even one look at him, you'll think he's crazy about them: the sword swallower's body, which is quite normal for drilling his own nostril with an electric drill, is covered in blue puzzles. The tattoos of a man nicknamed Riddle are the work of more than 200 tattoo artists, and once 23 people worked on his tattoos at the same time.
Riddle is a small TV star: he starred in The X-Files and Penn & Teller. His stage show includes a stunt called the "Kiss of Death" where he takes an apple in his mouth and cuts off part of it with a chainsaw. The lighting during the stunt is only the light of his partner's cigarette, and needles stick out of the eyes of the actor during the stunt.
2. Zombie fight
Maybe zombies are all the rage right now—at least there's a wave of them on the big screen every summer. But Rick Genest doesn't have to wait until summer to see zombies: all he has to do is look in the mirror. Genest spent over four thousand Canadian dollars on tattoos, in addition, he can hide all his tattoos and look like an ordinary person if he wants.
Born in Quebec, Genest got his first tattoo at the age of 16. After he left home and met artist Frank Lewis in Montreal, he fell in love with zombies with all his heart and turned into Zombie Boy six years later. At first glance, his tattoos resemble a skeleton, but upon closer inspection, you see a decaying body and insect larvae inside.
3. Really big ears
Daryl Belmares is the owner of big ears. Well, technically not exactly: rather, he has very large earlobes - they are so huge that he can literally wrap them around his head. Belmares wondered how far he could stretch these bits of skin that most of us don't find. useful application. There are 14cm holes in his earlobes, making them the largest stretched earlobes in the world.
Belmares has been professionally piercing for 30 years. He considers his work to be a highly spiritual calling and claims that the role of a piercer is comparable to that of shamans in different cultures.
4 Hawaiian Mutant
Kala Kaivi certainly looks like a real mutant, but his entire face is artificial. 75% of Kaiwi's body is covered with tattoos, and he also has a pierced tongue, numerous silicone implants are inserted under the skin of his face, and his earlobes and nostrils are stretched. Compared to the other people on our list, this may seem like a pretty run-of-the-mill thing, but Kaiwi has taken another big step into upper part his skull is screwed with metal spikes.
Kaiwi credits his appearance with giving him a strong connection to Native Hawaiian culture. By the way, the stainless steel spikes he used are his own brand. Oh yeah, one more detail: almost his entire body is covered with piercings.
5. Etienne Dumont
When we think of art historians, we often think of a specious person in trendy glasses, an expensive, neat suit, and a tie—the kind of person you usually see at an exhibition of a new artist with a glass of champagne in his hand. And we hardly imagine a man like Etienne Dumont from Geneva, whose body is completely covered with tattoos, with silicone horn implants on his forehead, large rings in his earlobes and plexiglass piercings in his lips and nose.
To live up to his reputation as a "Living Work of Art", the 60-year-old Dumont staged an exhibition in Geneva's Crystal Gallery in 2009. He got his first tattoo in 1979, but unlike the other people on our list, Dumont states that there is nothing spiritual about his tattoos - he just finds them funny.
6 Zebra Man
Horace Ridler was a professional freak and sideshow actor. Also known as the Great Omi or the Zebra Man, Ridler easily stood out from the crowd of other tattooed people, as he was covered from head to toe in black and white stripes. To emphasize his tattoos, Ridler painted his lips and nails black.
However, Ridler was not always like this: before his death in 1969, Ridler said that under all his tattoos, he remains just ordinary person, although his past as a World War I hero (he was decorated for outstanding bravery in Mesopotamia) suggests that he always wanted to stand out from the crowd.
7. Painted Lady
Julia Gnuse was not born like everyone else: she suffers from a rare disease called porphyria - her skin is extremely sensitive to sunshine contact with the skin leads to scarring. It's hard to believe, but Julia's doctor recommended that she do body art all over her body with ink to match the color of her scars. Gnuse apparently agreed, but what began as a medical solution to the problem soon turned into an obsession.
At the age of 55, 95% of Gnuse's body was covered with tattoos, thanks to which she got into the Guinness Book of Records as the most tattooed woman in the world.
8 Lizard Man
If you had to choose which animal you would look like, which one would you choose? Eric Sprague certainly asked himself this question - and he knew the answer. An Austin, Texas man split his tongue in two and was one of the first to do so, then spent a total of 700 hours in a tattoo parlor.
His teeth are sharpened like fangs, his lips are painted green, and his nostrils and earlobes are distended. By profession, Sprague is a modern performance performer, among his numbers are swallowing fire and sabers.
9. Lucky Diamond Rich
Lucky Diamond Rich spent about a thousand hours in tattoo parlors, or about 40 days. Absolutely the entire body of a New Zealand citizen is covered with tattoos, including the eyelids, the skin between the toes, the ears and even the gums. He also replaced all of his natural teeth with shiny new silver teeth.
However, even so many tattoos seemed not enough to him - at present he puts light ones on top of dark tattoos. When he gets up from his chair at the tattoo parlor (or from dental chair, for that matter), he juggles chainsaws and swallows swords professionally. In 2006, he entered the Guinness Book of Records as the most tattooed person on the planet.
10. Cat Man
Are you more like a cat or a dog? Dennis Avner certainly looked like a cat. The Native American Indian, also known as the Chasing Cat, was extremely loyal to his totem animal, the tiger. Avner's body was covered with numerous tattoos, piercings, implants that allowed him to wear a "cat" mustache or changed the shape of his face. His ears and eyes were also surgically reshaped, and his teeth were sharpened, which is something you won't do for the love of cats.
By general opinion Avner was quite a polite and friendly person. While other people with unusual appearance prefer to work as performance theater actors, Avner worked full-time as a programmer. One of the strangest looking people on the planet, a US Navy veteran, was found dead in his Nevada home in November 2012.
The human body is considered not only an incredible creation, but also unique, since it is impossible to meet two identical people. Even twins have their own characteristics. But there are people who are so different from everyone that they deserve to become museum exhibits. They take their features seriously and aim to break the wildest records.
Melvin Booze's nails, measured in 2009 in Pontiac, Michigan, were 9.85 meters long. They don't look like human nails, but like the nails of a real monster from the movie, just as long and twisted. All the time they were growing up, Melvin worked in a hospital. air force USA in Michigan. He was 60 years old when his nails broke the Guinness World Record, but unfortunately he died a year later.
Back in 2008, Lee Redmond, while in Madrid on a television show, demonstrated the longest nails. Their length was more than 7 m. Redmond takes care of them, regularly doing manicures. She began growing her nails in 1979, and it took her 20 years to reach 7 meters in length. A year after setting the record, a woman had an accident and her nails broke. But she does not despair and is going to grow new ones.
It is unusual to see a beard on a woman's face, and even more so the longest. This record belongs to Vivien Wheeler. Vivien's beard is silvery white and over 30 cm long. In order to grow such a beard, Vivien stopped shaving her beard in 1993.
The ear is not typical place on the human body, where you can grow long hair. Although there are people who are forced to cut their hair there for aesthetic reasons. But this has never been done by Anthony Victor from India, who set the record in 2007. The length of the hair was more than 20 cm.
Every woman wants to be graceful and slim, like a Barbie doll. Kati Jang was lucky to become the owner of the most thin waist in the world. Her waist circumference is just over 50 cm, and when Kati wears a corset in style Victorian era- 37 cm.
It seems that everyone has a neck of about the same size, but if you use certain methods, you can get a neck like that of the women of the Kayan tribe in Myanmar and Thailand. Women are forced to wear metal rings around their necks older woman, the more there are. The weight of the rings can reach 5 kg. On the one hand, such a neck is considered the standard of beauty, and on the other hand, it is harmful to the health of a woman, because if they are removed, the neck may break.
A woman's skin tends to stretch during pregnancy. Anyone can slightly pull the skin in one place or another on the body, but if doctors diagnosed Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, then it will be possible to stretch the skin several times more. Harry Turner can pull back the skin by 16 cm.
In the 70s, many women did chemo to imitate the hairstyles of African American women. Evin Jude Dugas in 2010 in New Orleans set a world record as the owner of the highest natural hairstyle. Evyn dresses in the style of the 70s - bright colors, massive earrings in the ears. Her hairstyle is 19 cm high, 20 cm wide and 134 cm in circumference.
Many women are not satisfied with the size of their breasts and are ready to go under the surgeon's knife to increase it. But there are women who naturally grow large breasts. In January 1999, Annie Hawkins (known to many as Norma Stitz) set the world record as the woman with the largest natural bust. Bust 175 cm, under bust 100 cm, bra size 52 I.
Hans Langseth is no longer alive, but it is he who holds the record for the owner of the longest beard. The Norwegian emigrant grew a beard 6 m long. It hung down to his feet, and Hans threw part of it over his shoulder. Hans died in 1927, but family members kept part of his beard and donated it to the Smithsonian as a unique item. No one has yet managed to break the record.
Yet it is worth recognizing that people are strange creatures. For the sake of beauty in their understanding, they are ready to go just for
Models with a non-standard appearance attract the eye. Impeccable, retouched faces of beauties have become boring. Leafing through magazines, people are increasingly studying unusual appearance, not focusing on the ideal divas, nor on what they advertise. Meanwhile, the main objective- sell goods
The viewer “clings” to the “terribly beautiful”, as they say in the fashion world, fashion models. Focusing on them, you pay attention to the clothes, cosmetics, accessories of girls, that is, everything that you have to buy.
Gradually unusual models changing standards of beauty. After all, once the appearance of Twiggy was controversial. Meanwhile, it was this Englishwoman who in the 60s introduced the fashion for thin, tall girls boyish appearance. Seemingly recently "terrible models" with gaps between the front teeth are already recognized as charming, as well as persons covered from head to toe with freckles. Possibly ten of the most non-standard models listed below will become the measure of beauty. In the meantime, they remain peculiar, but successful.
Melanie Guidos.
The bald girl is 24 years old. She weighs 42 kilograms, but the lady's height is far from 180 centimeters. Melanie barely reached 160. Her downturned tip of the nose and hanging eyelids can be intimidating. However, having starred in the video of the German band Rammstein, the girl suddenly became part of high fashion. While the people around were gossiping that Gaidos was a victim of unscrupulous plastic surgeons, the model was invited to photo sessions by eminent couturiers. The designers were not deterred by Melanie's lack of eyebrows, eyelashes and the so-called "cleft lip". Gaidos was dubbed an alternative fashion model. Her name is mainly for shooting in a gothic, gloomy entourage. The star “warms up” interest in herself without talking about the reasons for her non-standard appearance.
Gillian Mercado
Gillian Mercado has muscular dystrophy, but despite her disability, she is a successful fashion reporter. One day she received an invitation to a casting from the fashion house Diesel. They needed models with diverse cultural backgrounds.
Without expecting a positive response, she sent her resume. Surprisingly, they became interested in her and offered to send more photos.
Out of 22 participants, it was Gillian who was chosen to represent the face of the Diesel brand in their next campaign. At first, the newly minted model was very shy of her wheelchair. But after she posted photos on Instagram and got a wagon good reviews Gillian loosened up.
Masha Telnaya
Masha Telnaya, a top model with unusual eyes, which are considered the largest in the world. She is called the "Slavic elf", "alien", "space alien", and ill-wishers - even the "legacy of Chernobyl". The daughter inherited her unusual eyes from her father, and on her pretty face they looked simply fabulous. Once in the life of sixteen-year-old Masha there was a meeting that abruptly changed her whole fate. Together with her grandmother, she was leaving the supermarket, when suddenly a woman approached them from an abruptly stopped car. The stranger introduced herself as Yana Zamekhovskaya, director of the 'Nika models' modeling agency, and invited the girl to a photo session. Masha was shyly silent, and her grandmother was rather wary of the proposal, not trusting the words of the unknown lady too much. At the family council, it was decided that Masha would go to the shooting accompanied by parents.The shooting was a success and three months later Maria received an invitation to Paris from one of the largest agencies "Women", and modeling career Masha Telnaya developed surprisingly rapidly, and her unique data was appreciated by the leading fashion houses and the most famous photographers
The alien appearance of the girl brought her to the catwalks of Paris. After working for several years under contracts with rather difficult conditions (when she was not only forbidden to marry and have children, but even to give her phone to new acquaintances), Masha realized that in addition to fashion shows there are many other things to do in the world. She became a student at the Kharkov Polytechnic Institute, and in July 2013 she married musician and performer Denis Zasteba. In November 2014, their son Artem was born, and instead of fashion shows, Masha happily plunged into maternal duties. Her slim figure did not change at all after childbirth. Maria Telnaya is currently working on joint project with Tamani Fashion Group and is engaged in teaching activities.
The highlight of the model MOffY - strabismus
MOffY is very young, beautiful and slim, and could become a standard supermodel. But her pronounced squint classifies the girl among the informal representatives of the fashion world.
The physical handicap did not prevent the MOffY from becoming a very popular model. Rather, he even helped in this, making her image as original as possible. After MOffY took part in a photo shoot for POP Magazine, sincere and pure beauty girls are interested in many modeling agencies
Shantel Brown-Young
20-year-old Canadian Chantelle Brown-Young suffers from a rare incurable skin disease- Vitiligo, as a result of which the production of pigments in the epidermis is disrupted. In other words, on the chocolate skin of Chantelle's face (she is dark-skinned), uneven bright spots of various sizes and shapes randomly turn white. However, white spots struck not only the girl's face, but her whole body. At the same time, she has an excellent figure, and one day she managed to turn her flaw into a virtue - and become a model. According to the official version, Michael Jackson once had such a disease. However, this thought was of little comfort to the girl, who was almost driven to suicide by the ridicule of her classmates.
But then she pulled herself together and decided that her example would inspire people who had to face a similar problem. And to destroy the stereotypical ideas about beauty, the brave girl went to the casting of the next season of the show "America's Next Top Model", which not only successfully passed, but also reached the final. Chantel worked in several photo shoots, and it soon became clear that she was quite in demand as a model. Now Chantelle has a lucrative modeling contract, shooting in a Desigual commercial, participating in an Ashish show and starring in an Eminem video.
In addition to modeling, Shantel spends a lot of time acting as a motivator and speaker in the community of people suffering from vitiligo. She tells them her story, own example proving that spots on the skin in no way affect success in life. And Chantel laughs - there are black people, there are white people, and she easily fits into both categories.
Ashley Graham
Fashion for girls in the body allowed to become real star American Ashley Graham, who 5-7 years ago, a modeling career could only dream of. Moreover, Graham really has a very feminine shape: with a height of 1.75 cm, her weight is about 80 kg. However, this does not prevent her from successfully appearing in advertising campaigns for lingerie brands and periodically appearing on the covers of glossy magazines. This year's Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue was a bombshell ad featuring Ashley in leading role: gloss for the first time approved a photo shoot with a plus-size model
But this was not always the case, speaking to teenagers, Ashley admitted: once she literally tormented herself because of her fullness. It is today that the model boldly declares that she loves herself for who she is, "including folds of fat and cellulite."
“After moving to New York, I gained almost ten kilograms. Looking at myself in the mirror, I repeated: “You are fat and ugly, this is disgusting.” What I did to myself was terrible.”
Quotes the words of the Daily Mail model.
This position lowered the girl's self-esteem and had a detrimental effect on her life. It was only over the years that Ashley learned to accept herself for who she is and love her body.
“I read in one book that if you repeat the same thing every day, it will definitely come true. I learned to love my body, began to work on it, take care of myself. No self-deception, I just told myself: “Everything has changed, you are beautiful and worthy.” Neither a man, nor a girlfriend, no one will tell you this. Only I can tell myself that."
Ashley says.
Ashley's Instagram page is just a feast for all fans magnificent forms. The girl boldly publishes her photos in a bikini and underwear, and in all the frames she is exceptionally beautiful. Her fans sincerely believe that being overweight is not a reason for complexes, and praise Ashley for the fact that she raises self-esteem with her pictures. True, there are those who criticize the position of the model, considering it too lazy to drop excess weight…
March 27, 2010, 17:30Hair length 2 meters 10 centimeters has Written Tatyana from the city of Elista (Kalmykia). Twice winner of republican competitions for the longest hair. 
BUT longest braid in the world American Diane Wit braids her hair that has grown to 3.12 m daily. However, she cannot cope with the curls that hang so luxuriantly from her head. Due to the lack of a maid during the combing and braiding procedure, her husband and children must help her to calm others, since she is already alone. single hair in the soup can cause it to be the last straw to overflow the barrel. The longest hair in the world - 528.3 cm - has Jagadambika Jagatmata, or Mata Jagamba (born August 10, 1913), a religious wanderer from India. American Cathy Jung has today the most slim waist in the world - 38.1 cm. For the past 14 years, the record holder has practically not taken off her corset, and she has about a hundred of them. 
In four years, a Russian woman has grown one and a half meters of nails Larisa Budyanskaya from the city of Yekaterinburg. Moreover, all nails are the same length and evenly painted. And the world record for the length of nails belongs to 65-year-old resident of Salt Lake City Lee Redmond. Last year she entered latest release Guinness Book of Records, having grown the longest nails in the world - their total length is 7 meters 51 centimeters. Sridhar M. Chillal (born 1937) from India has a total fingernail length of 593 cm. Nail thumb is 135 cm, index - 106 cm, middle - 113 cm, nameless - 121 cm and little finger - 118 cm. Chillal works as a photographer, using only his right hand. He hasn't cut his nails since 1952. 
Lee Redmond Recently, another "achievement" appeared in the Guinness Book of Records: the volume of the most immense female waist is 160 cm.
imposing the length of the hair on the legs, which is 41 mm, has Abdulganeev Ilyas, born in 1980 from the city of Samara. With a height of 150 cm, she weighed only 36 kg in 1997 Ptitsyna Irina, 18 years old, from the city of Pavlov Posad. Longest nose. The figure, created in the image of the German nobleman Gustav von Albach, who lived in the 18th century. in Bremen. He was famous for his extraordinary long nose. Gustav turned his ugliness into an object of fun, jokes, and was a universal favorite, especially for children. Participated in carnivals (fortunately he did not need a mask) beard length 183 cm Shamsher Singh, bank clerk in Punjeb (India). His religious beliefs (a beard is a sacred inviolable attribute of a Sikh) do not allow cutting facial hair. Beard length 533 cm was with Hans N. Langseth (1846-1927) from Norway when he was buried in Kensett (Iowa, USA). In 1967, the beard was donated by the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC. "bearded woman" was Janice Devery (born 1842) from Kentucky (USA). In 1884 her beard was 36 cm long. Hans N. Langseth The longest mustache in the world belongs to Kalyan Ramji Saini, 70 years old, from Rajasthan (India). Their total length is 339 cm. Moreover, he began to grow them by accident: after an eye operation in 1966, the doctor advised him not to wet his face for 2-3 weeks. By the end of the third week, the mustache had grown by 70 cm. John Roy (1910-88) from Wiley was considered the bearer of the longest mustache in the UK. They began to grow in 1939 and reached their maximum length- 189 cm in 1976. In 1984, they shrunk by 42 cm when Roy accidentally stepped on them in the bathroom. Then Roy cut off the same amount on the other side to trim them. The record holder for the longest mustache in the UK is currently Ted Sedman of St Albans (Herts). The length of his mustache is 1.6 m. Ramji Saini The largest palm in India is that of Gautam Turami from Mumbai. The distance from the tip of the thumb to the tip of the little finger is 28.5 cm. Palm parameters right hand J. S. Goyala, aged 51, from Batinda is 27.1 cm, with his height of 179 cm. The normal size of a human palm is 23-24 cm. 
14 fingers and 15 toes little boy, which was discovered in September 1921 in East London. Only two toes belong to several members of the Wadomo tribe of Zimbabwe and the Kalanga tribe of Botswana. 
The largest foot size in the world was recorded by Matthew McGrory (born 1973) from Pennsylvania (USA). He wears shoes size 26 (American standard). Women of the Kareni tribe, Myanmar (Burma) stretch their necks by increasing the number of copper hoops put on them. The record neck length achieved in this way is 40 cm.
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