A tattoo artist used his dead dad’s ashes to ink a Tupperware label on his leg.
Gustavo Teixeira got the tat in memory of his father, Emílio César, who died of a heart attack.
He stirred the ashes into tattoo ink before inking the design himself.
But he warns others against doing the same and says he’d never do it to a client.
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Emílio loved cooking for his family at his house on the beach.
So Gustavo decided to get a tat of a label his dad had stuck on a Tupperware box.
It reads: “Song of Nature Kitchen”.
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Gustavo told local media: “In front of the kitchen, there was a window where he could hear the birds singing.
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“He would put out water for the birds, put out bananas.
“So, he named his kitchen the ‘Song of Nature’.”
Gustavo, who lives in São Caetano do Sul, near São Paulo, Brazil, opened up: “This is the tattoo that hurt the most, it left a mark on my soul.
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“It was a complete surrender, and it holds the most meaning for me.
“I doubt I’ll ever get a tattoo more meaningful than this one.
“It’s my way of expressing gratitude for everything he’s done for me.
Gustavo boasts 116,000 Instagram followers.
He received a stem cell transplant after being diagnosed with Hodgkin lymphoma in 2007.
He went on: “As soon as the ashes arrived, I played a song he loved by the Bee Gees, said a prayer, lit an incense, and began.
“I recorded a video during the process, and it ended up being very long because I started crying too much.”
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