"Getting tattoos is my passion," said Sylvain Helaine, who also had the whites of his eyes surgically turned black Joelle Goldstein is a Senior News Editor on the TV team for PEOPLE Digital.

But the teacher, Sylvain Helaine, 35, still teaches children from the age of six up, and said that, after an initial shock when they see him for the first time, his pupils see past his appearance.

Sylvain Helaine, 35, says a parent at the school in Paris complained his appearance gave their three-year-old child nightmares. But the Frenchman, who even has tattoos on his face and tongue ...

Sylvain Helaine says pupils who are taught by him learn to accept people who are different France's most tattooed man has said he was told not to teach nursery school children after a parent ...