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Grimes is set to prove she is just not of this world – or at the very least look as if she isn’t. In 2019 the Dazed Beauty cover star claimed she had undergone some serious bio-hacking with experimental surgery on her eyes to eliminate all blue light from her vision, while in February she made plans to get matching brain chips with Lil Uzi Vert. And now she has debuted a big recent tattoo across her back designed to appear to be “beautiful alien scars’.

The intricate web-like design criss-crosses up and down her back and currently looks like red scratches or cuts but in line with Grimes this can eventually fade leaving her with a white-ink tattoo. Posting a picture of her back on Instagram, she wrote “Full back in white ink by @tweakt w sum help from the alien computer brain of @nusi_quero. Don’t have pic cuz it hurts an excessive amount of and I want to sleep haha, and it’ll be red for just a few wks, but gna be beautiful alien scars.”

While Grimes does what she will to remodel her physical body in alien ways, she might soon have the chance to come back across some real extraterrestrial life forms. In January, she shared her thoughts on partner Elon Musk’s current plans to colonise Mars, saying she could be willing to travel to Mars after she turns 50, but provided that Musk uploads her consciousness to a man-made body before he leaves.