A self-confessed tattoo addict has revealed which parts of the body are most painful when you go under the needle.
"Neon Demon" Soren Lorenson, 28, fell in love with ink after getting his first tattoo - a tree around his belly button - a decade ago, shortly after he turned 18.
Soren said he decided on the flesh around his navel because a friend told him it was the most painful area.
His thought process was to get the " worst spot " out of the way first, he said.
It took another year before Soren got his second tattoo, but from that point he was hooked and became a regular at one particular parlour in Tampa, Florida - going every other week for months.
To start, the sci-fi nut chose artwork from his favourite movies and comics like Marvel's X-Men and Star Wars, the US Sun reports.
Soren now has more than 200 tattoos across his body, with his face studded with crosses and letters, and even the whites of his eyes blacked out.
Amazingly, Soren says the eyeball procedure was "painless".
But there are a few areas Soren admits were absolute agony, including the work on his belly, ribs and the shaded black-work along his jawline.
He said: "Any boney parts are a little more jarring due to the vibrating and intense sensation in comparison to other areas."
Of the hundreds of pieces, Soren says his favourite is the "cute lil' kitty cat linework design" which he inked himself while in college because he "adore[s] cats".
Soren loves his look, but his religious family are not fully supportive of his life choices.
As he was home-schooled through his childhood, he rarely interacted with people outside of his church or family.
But when he turned 17, he fell in with a bad crowd and started "drinking heavily" and smoking "two packs of cigarettes" per day - as a way of rebelling against his disciplinarian parents.
Soren said he opted to tattoo the most visible part of his body, his face, once he had broken free of the partying lifestyle.
The 28-year-old is also passionate about nutrition and fitness, and believes that learning about staying healthy paired with his tattoo passion has a "positive influence on my mental health".
But his ink pursuits have called several rifts in personal relationships.
He said his parents and nine younger siblings still love him "for the most part" but his mum and dad have urged him to seek God's help and expressed that they will never understand his life choices.
However he is estranged from his wider family, like his grandparents, cousins, aunts and uncles, who he's no longer in contact with.
Soren says reactions from strangers to his tattoos are mixed, with some fascinated and others making rude remarks.
Positive questions include whether this or that tattoo hurt, or whether he is wearing contact lenses to darken his eyes.
The ruder strangers, however, ask him what's wrong with him and what made him do it to himself.
