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Teen Wakes Up Covered In Stars
According to Kimberley Vlaminck, she wanted to get three star tattoos, giving her an unhirability score of 1. Instead, she got a score of 10 with 56 stars on her face and a good lesson in why you should never fall asleep at the tattoo parlor. The artist, Rouslan Toumaniantz, says Kimberly "got what she wanted" and is only complaining now because her dad got angry and her boyfriend wanted a girl with stars in her eyes, not all over her face. "It is horrible," said Kimberley. "He has turned me into a freak. I can't go out on the street now without people looking at me." She is suing for £10,000.
Somebody please help me understand this. How exactly do you sleep through the process of having 56 tattoos carved into your face?
If libertarians are so opposed to effective government, why don't they all move to Somalia?
Fell asleep my @55. She passed out is more likely. Tattooing hurts, it's not something you fall asleep during.
I'm pretty heavilly inked, while I could never fall asleep during a tattoo I dated a chick that did. Some women have incredibly high pain thresholds and this chick may have been one of them. However, There are almost no artists that don't work off stencils first so the customer can see what they're going to be wearing. I've only ever had one artist work freehand on me and it looked good in the end but I was fucking nervous while he was doing it. The Tattoos on this bird are real, you can see how they've scabbed up so they're probably 2 days old in the photo, maybe a little more. Also the bruising on the face is consistant with other fresh facial tat's I've seen on some of my mates. I reckon she was trashed (and therfeore the artist would have breached his code of conduct over here in Oz, not sure about belgium though) or got in trouple from her old man and is trying to bullshit her way out of it. My monies on the latter. Most tattooists I've met or been cut by have a strong set of ethics and are extremely proud of their work, to the extent that that's whay they call themselves professional tattoo ARTISTS. That aside i reckon they look good on her, but in twenty years she'll look like an ex con after they've faded. Then again she'll look like shit after laser removal, that shit leaves nasty scars.
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It's probably utterly un-PC to say it, but at her age you can get away with pretty much anything and still look bloody cute -- she *does* look fantastic. I think I'd be inclined to gradually start having them lasered off, though. It might hard to grow old gracefully otherwise ..
/do/ you "fall asleep" while getting a tat? How much of exactly what do you have to take? Enquiring minds want to do know :/
And yes, how