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Hey, Hooked on the Look, I'm Richie the Clown
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I'm a permanent tattoo clown, y'all. What I enjoy about the lifestyle of a clown is that I can be silly, I can smile, I can
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laugh, I can juggle, I can fall. It's just a party. I like to live my life as fun and exciting and a journey and adventure
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I made a lot of changes since we last met, and I'm going to tell you all about it today
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So I redid this smile. It started fading away. I got my whole, like, um, this part done by two artists at the same time
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It took about a good four hours. They were just packing the color, you know. Red is, uh, the most hardest color to, uh, pack in to stay in the skin, you know
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I mean, it's faded over the years. It just fades because of the sun. So I shaved my mustache off. I had a big old mustache
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It just got a pain after a while because I got the septum ring
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And the septum ring started getting the hairs stuck and it took on my mustache
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And then I wanted to get a better smile, like, you know, professionally done
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Well, I also got my wife's name tattooed on my lip. So it says Jen because she has my face tattoo on her neck, my forehead
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I got these tattoos on my head a couple months ago. It says OC on the top of my head because I'm from Orange County
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I got done a six-dollar tattoo, Westminster, California. That's the first tattoo shop that I ever got tattooed from there
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So, you know, I just decided to go back there and get tattooed. Oh, my goodness
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It's gnarly. It's crazy. The older you get, it hurts way more
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I'm already almost 41. I'm like, every little thing hurts me I like oh no my back I still a clown I still travel worldwide different places and I do performances and I still do conventions
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Me and my wife do events, so she's a piercer, and I'm a performer
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So yeah, I still do performances. Everybody always asks me, why did you become a clown
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Why? My grandfather took me to the circus. I saw this clown, and he started juggling
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and I was fascinated by this clown. I'm like, what is this clown
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You know what I mean? I saw happiness from a clown. I saw joy
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Just being goofy. A lot of people are serious and it's like, why are you so serious about life
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Why don't we just laugh, smile, just be whoever you want to be
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That's what I saw from the clown. So I got silicone implants underneath my skin
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to make the clown ridge pop out more. My smile down because I like to smile
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I mean, it's just fun. It can be witty-gitty. I just love the creativity, the art of it
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I love colors. I love patterns, stripes, bow ties. I love, you know, just the aesthetic, the outfits
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I love the performance. I just love it. It's fun. When I started getting more piercings, I started the lips again
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And then the septum, I got some new cross earrings. We just did the cheeks yesterday
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And I got a bunch of lip piercings. I don't really have that many earrings, but I want to do all of my ears
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You know, we're trying to get Spokable Records. So in the face, only the face is 280
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I'm not even halfway, maybe 20. I got silicone implants in my eyebrows
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So my forehead is like stretched out. I can't even like wrinkle it
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But right you know so I can really pull the skin So they got to do dermals Dermals are surface piercings I just trying to get as much as I can everywhere Certain people freak out I mean they just be like whoa what is that
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Oh my goodness. Where are you from? What are you doing here
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Like, what's up with all those piercings? What's up with all those tattoos? I scare a lot of babies
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I just laugh. I've had many, many girlfriends leave me for tattoos, but that's not gonna stop me from doing what I'm gonna do
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what I wanna do, you know? I live my life. I do it the way I wanna do it
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Well, it's been years since I've been modified. I'm pretty used to it, you know
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I'm just, I'm nice about it. I'm a human pincushion. I still cut hair every single day
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What I like so much about being a barber is it's all about the customers that come in
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and you get to meet new people all the time and different experience in their lives
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and transforming them. Hey, it's okay to laugh here. It's all right
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It's okay to laugh. It's okay to cry. It's okay to fart. Whatever you want, you know
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Have fun. The freak show. It's the freak show, baby. Woo! Where's my bill at
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There it is. There it is. I, sometimes I climb around too far
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And, yeah, people are just like, yo, bro, I gotta, I gotta, can you just hurry this up
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It's hard for me to, like, talk and cut hair. So, therefore, the hair cuts take for, like, two hours
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It's been about four and a half years sober. After one year being sober, I met Jen at church
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She was like, nah, who's this clown? Who brought the clown to church
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She wanted to see for sure if this is, you know, if we're compatible
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We spent some time before we got married It was interesting seeing him at church but some friends of mine both of ours they were mutual friends And I was like oh who brought that guy And she was like my husband
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I was like, oh. And then he would like try to flirt with me with the coffee and all that stuff
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He started doing a tattoo apprenticeship. And I was like, oh, maybe we could find somebody that will teach me how to pierce
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And so the shop that he first started going to to get tattoos and piercings, we reached out to the owner and asked and he said that he would teach me
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So it just worked out. During the apprenticeship, you have to have people come in to practice on like hands on
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And so he was he's like my number one guy. And now every time she sees a crazy piercing on TikTok or whatever, she goes, baby, do this one
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And it's like, I'm like, now that hurts. And she goes, but you've done this and this one
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It's not that, you know, it's not as bad as this one. I'm like, oh my goodness. You know
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He gets a new piercing every week, at least two. And the tattoos don't change his heart, right
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So, and I think that's what matters the most. Like who he is as a person is more important than what the outside looks like
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I love being a clown. I am a clown. I'm a clown for life. I'm an artist and I like expressing art
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You know, my life is art. Art is all preference. There's no wrong or right
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It's all preference. Like, just because you don't like something doesn't mean the whole world doesn't like it
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So it's the same thing. Like, this is a form of art. If you don't like it, peace