An ink-addicted woman has spent 416 hours covering her entire body in tattoos, despite the fact she will never see them because she is blind.

Fran Atkinson has spent the last three years having a colourful ‘body suit’ inked on to her with no idea what it looks like.

But the mother-of-one, from Rhyl, says her husband, Ron, and tattoo artist Grez Bowman have acted as her eyes, describing details of the intricate artwork from her neck down to her ankles.

Now she thinks she could be the most inked woman in Wales, and is hoping to make it into the Guinness Book of World Records with the help of Mr Bowman, who runs North Wales Ink in Prestatyn High Street.

The 52-year-old suffers with Retinitis Pigmentosa (RP), an inherited, degenerative eye disease that causes severe vision impairment and can lead to blindness.

She began losing her sight when she was a teenager and has now been left with just three to five per cent vision, but said she’s always had a passion for body art.
The tattoo has cost thousands of pounds and Ms Atkinson said the most painful parts were having her kneecaps, underarms and ankles done and said apart from some finishing touches, she won’t be going under the tattoo gun again.