726 tattoos/day
One star after another, Derek Kastning went from a back, to an arm, and even to a head.
“That’s my best feature, I guess, and I can show it off,” Bo Silvey, who got a tattoo on his head, said.
Kastning, who works at Rat-a-Tac-Tat Tattoos, started his Guinness World Record attempt at 1 p.m. Oct. 25, and people waited in line for hours hoping to be apart of history.
“It’s for a good cause,” one participant said.
“I think it’s pretty cool. You know someone from Tyler is setting a world record,” said participant Lee Glover, who received a tattoo on his arm.
Now there are a few guidelines: Guinness says the tattoos have to be a specific size, 3.25″ by 3.25″. They also need to be two colors, in this case black and blue. And then, of course, people have to be monitoring every move.
One of the challenges Kastning faced during his world record attempt was running out of people, but he overcame that challenge.
At midnight Oct. 26, the record had already been broken.
“Our original goal was like 450, or 500,” Kastning said. “At midnight we realized we could cream that, so we started shooting for like a thousand to 800.”
When the clock struck 1 p.m. Oct. 26, the artist finished his 726th tattoo.
Guinness now has a new world record holder for tattooing.
