Bocaiuva, Brazil - A majorly tattooed man who has spent over $35,000 on tattoos and body modifications has endured a first in the word of body mods by splitting his hand.

Father and ink fanatic Marcelo De Souza Ribeiro has over 98% of his body covered in tattoos, but he's into much more than just ink therapy.

Per the New York Post, the 40-year-old just became the first person to surgically split his hands. Better yet – he got the procedure done for free.

Apparently, one has to get creative with their body mods once they've had so many done, and the idea of splitting his hand came to Ribeiro when he was looking up new ways to alter his body.

"I was already researching about body modifications in the world and from what I saw no one has yet made a similar modification," he said. "I’m making a new modification that doesn’t exist in the world yet."

Ribeiro approached his friend back in December who graciously agreed to do the hand-splitting surgery for free.

The process started by doing surgeries on his hand to remove excess oil and fat. From there, Ribeiro said he "began to see the possibility of making an opening in it through the middle where you can have opening and closing movements and a firmer folding of the hand!"

It took three sessions to complete, and now Ribeiro's split hand joins his expansive list of body mods that include fanged metal teeth, a split tongue, and several subdermal implants in addition to numerous piercings.

Speaking of his newly split hand, Ribeiro said he's "happy with what I did I don’t feel any change regarding hand mobility, it’s completely normal!"