German girl falls asleep at tattoo parlor, having requested three small stars on the side of her temple.
Tattoo artist decides to go buck wild on her.
UPDATE: People, of course I don’t buy her story. Tattoo needles are not exactly soothing. You don’t fall asleep while somebody is tattooing your face.
Top comment: This is the money quote from that translated article: “I have wanted always coloured puntjes beside my linkeroog.”
I think that pretty much says it all. — mgrabois
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How do you fall asleep while being tattoed?
I don’t buy it. A buzzing needle right on the bones of your face? It’s hard to fall asleep. I say it’s buyer’s remorse, as she apparently paid for the tattoo.
You believe her? That bitch did something stupid and now she’s got the consequence all over her face. She got what she had coming. I believe the artist–other people freaked out so she decided she needed someone to blame. I hope someone knocks some sense into her. Then she’ll be seeing stars.
I know it’s just a whack-a-doo internet translation, but I’d like to believe the girl really does just talk that dumb. Let that be a lesson to all little girls wanting sparklers tattooed on their faces: don’t got to a swerved Parisian tattooeeerder, because your shit will get fucked the fuck up.
i don’t but her story. that artist obviously knows what he’s doing – the facial tattoos tell me that he’s expecting to be tattooing for the rest of his life – and no serious tattooer would ever do more than what the customer asked for. especially not on her face.
Yeah, I have to go with the artist on this one. I really don’t think she could have fallen asleep unless she was on some serious drugs. There does seem to be a bit of confusion though, this article from the Daily Mail http://bit.ly/jTBNb says she’s from Belgium and her native language is French.
The tattooer is scary as fuck. Definitely would not want to run into that guy in a dark alley.
The thing that got me was that she said that there was a language barrier and that he didn’t understand her English or French.
THREE FINGERS IS THE UNIVERSAL HANDSIGNAL FOR 3.
I think any failure is on the tattoo’d chav’s side.
@ slidngdeadguy: The one half of belgium talks dutch, and the other half talks french.
Okay, all issues of whether or not her story is plausible or not, is THAT the guy you’d go to if you wanted “3 little stars” tattooed on your temple? Jesus, not me. Wow. He’s scary looking. Even the wildest tattoo/piercing artist people I know look NOTHING like that. I would guess his normal clients are totally hard core.
I have a fairly substantial tattoo of a dragon on my lower back, and not only would I not have been able to fall asleep while I was being inked but also anyone who’s EVER gotten a tattoo knows the artist must draw or imprint the design on your skin first. Then he or she follows the lines with the needles. Even when they free-hand certain parts for an original design, they still sketch an outline on you in marker FIRST so that you can approve the design itself, and in her case, its exact placement as well as the number of stars. There is NO WAY this chick did not know what she was getting into. It sounds to me like a case of buyer’s remorse on behalf of her FATHER, not on her.
And, really, if she’s so worried about being ugly…I guess she could always date the tattoo artist – he’s got far more structure and coverage to his facial tattoo, so he’d probably be o.k. with a few dozen stars.
… That looks like a Henna tattoo. What the hell.
I agree that there’s no way she fell asleep while being tattooed. However, there is the possibility that she blacked out (not to be confused with passing out, which is losing consciousness). If that’s the case, then both parties would be correct: from her standpoint she fell asleep and woke up later, from his standpoint she was talking and functional.
Of course, that is usually induced by heavy alcohol consumption, so the artist wouldn’t necessarily be off the hook – many tattoo shops have a “no underage, no drunk” service policy.
Honestly, I don’t think he looks scary looking as well, although to be fair I spent most of my 20s hanging with the goth/rivethead/punk/coffeeshop scene in DC. He looks like a fairly nice guy with a radically different idea (from the norm) of what is attractive – all those heavy lip-rings, ugh!
Regarding the article, the best part wasn’t in the article at all, but a link below:
“Victoria Beckham lets reduce udders” 0.o Gotta love those ‘wonky internet translations’!
Maybe she was smoking opium in the waiting area. I once chased the dragon and awoke only to find myself missing two fingers in a seedy underground fight club in Idaho.
Sure, I got home alright and I apparently won a tidy sum of cash, but I’ll never replace those Butterfinger bars… Sniff…
Yea – drunk or stoned, then sobered up and realized she had to tell daddy.
And for all that, I think they’re kind of pretty.
People as extreme looking as this tattooist pretty much never indulge in gratuitous unprovoked violence, unlike a lot of much more “normal” looking regular-guy types.
Honestly,if I saw that guy in a dark alley rather than a group of jocks or frat types, or someone with no shirt and a sports franchise face painting, I’d be very relieved.
Blah blah blah, people. What’s important is – She totally looks like a character from Madman now, and that is awesome.
I’m pretty sure that girl wouldn’t even be trying this on if the artist hadn’t been Romanian. She’s trying damn hard to take advantage of some nasty racial stereotypes here.
Just to get the facts straight. The girl is from Belgium, she speaks Flemish (the local variant of Dutch) and said she did not speak a word French, although this is indeed our second official language. (With German being our third official language.)
According to the tattoo-artist she did ask for all the stars, but invented this story of falling asleep/drugging when her father and her boyfriend freaked out. The tattoo-artist has offered to remove all the stars for no cost at all. She then said that she still wants to keep three stars above her eyes.
Lady_Findel beat me to it. Kimberley’s a Belgian honey. And now a true internet celebrity around these parts. Every Flemish blog and forum is swarming with Starface & Episode LVI photoshops. And then some ad agency programmers with too much time on their hands launched the Kimberlizer. It’s been two days now, and already old meme and played of by Keyboard Cat.
Her story is a load of bullwank of course.
I think she looks nice. Granted, I can see how it might attract a bit of attention….
“Jules Clocher, a Belgian psychologist, said: ‘The trauma this girl must be feeling is indescribable. She feels like a circus freak – and no wonder, because she looks like one.'”
I’m guessing this girl is feeling trauma because grown professionals are calling her a circus freak to national papers.
I wonder … how long did it take to tattoo the 56 stars? And what kind of father thought his 18-year-old daughter wouldn’t pick something deeply stupid, or wouldn’t sit with her while it’s being done?
As the french husband of a tattoo artist, I have heard quite a lot about that story since yesterday.
As said a few posts up, the girl is from belgium and speaks dutch, the tattoo artist only speaks french and english.
According to this tattoo forum where the guy expressed himself (http://tattoorama.net/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=24959&st=0&sk=t&sd=a&start=60), she came to the shop with her parents, her younger brother and her boyfriend, while the guy was with a customer. The father asked if his daughter could be tattoed right now. The customer was okay about it as she had some time to spare. The girl and her dad went with the guy and they looked at pictures of stars at his computer.
They agreed on some stars and a background, the father asked how long it would take, then went for ice-cream and some beers with the rest of the family.
The guy started tattooing, covering her side with stars. The girl went to look at herself in the mirror, and asked to continue on her nose and chin.
An hour after they left, the family came back and the dad went to see how this was going. When he saw the stars he said “That’s a lot” and that they were not going to do the background. The guy took some pictures, an though still owing some money, they left anyway, meaning to come back. The tattoo artist started to work on the previous customer.
An hour later, the police came, and took the guy, and the customer (as she witnessed the whole thing) to the station, interrogated them for 5 hours and drove them home.
The police apologized to him today.
And the girl asked to be paid some tattoo erasing, so that she can keep only 25 of the stars, efven though she says she only asked for three.
This is the money quote from that translated article: “I have wanted always coloured puntjes beside my linkeroog.”
I think that pretty much says it all.
She was either drunk as hell, high off her ass, impervious to pain, or lying-to-cover-up-a-stupid-impulsive-decision.
I mean. Yeah, wow. We believe you, sweetie. Oh yeah, you fell asleep totally no doubt.
Retard.
Combination of buyer’s remorse and Flemish/Walloon antipathy, possibly with a side order of high. Moving right along.
And now she’s suing.
http://www.hulu.com/watch/78294/nbc-today-show-teen-sues-for-tattoo-gone-wrong
nice.