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Mad Mema · Bad Biker Granny

RE: Teen suing tattoo artist

disco strangler · Smiles everyone, smiles!

Man, if I were her parent, I'd be cashing in on her!

"Hello, Oprah... Dr. Phil... Tyra... Jerry... " ashamed

Woo Hoo · The Chosen Woo

JD The Jazz Doctor wrote:

lol go tell her to take her medicine any lie down...

willy_smith34 · Lord of Linguists

as far as tatooing entire bodies..... there is a case of a woman who is alergic to sunlight, and the ink helps her not break out in daylight.

Mad Mema · Bad Biker Granny

Interesting. I guess she would have a good reason for say, tattooing her face. The little girl in this story is just looking for attention.

disco strangler · Smiles everyone, smiles!

Some people can carry a tattoo, but most can't.

Here's a good example of can't...

Isaac (6 year old) has been going to summer day camp. Monday and Wednesday they go skating; Tuesday, a movie; Thursday, bowling; Friday a field trip. Anyhow, he has discovered the "tattoo" vending machines at the skating rink and bowling alley... If he were a "skater" like Jacob (16 year old), then he could probably pull it off; but he quite the opposite, short (combed) hair, polo shirts, always pushing his glasses up... NERD DELUX! He came home Monday with a huge skull and monkey with a dagger on his forearm and this morning, he proudly showed me the smaller dragon wrapped around a sword between his shoulder blades

-- Edited by disco strangler on Thursday 18th of June 2009 09:20:39 AM

Pambo · Waiting To Be Widowed

Okay. I've never had a tattoo so I can't speak to that, however I have had numerous acupuncture treatments on my face & body. I fall asleep every time.

I honestly believe that needles poking in the skin releases some kind of hormone into the body that causes relaxation.

Lady Strange · 80's Rock Chick

Well, I think accupuncture is supposed to be relaxing. (And certainly less noisy, yes?)

disco strangler · Smiles everyone, smiles!

unless the little Chinese guy poking you with needles is chanting...

Mad Mema · Bad Biker Granny

I only have one, so I am by no means an expert... but what I can tell you from the experience is that the areas where there is very little between the skin and the bone are a lot more painful. I can't imagine anything on the face being all that relaxing. Not sure what accupuncture feels like, but being tattooed, depending on area, feels like exactly what it is... being scratched very hard with a very sharp needle. More or less, it stings. Unless of course you are getting inked on a scar... that feels just like a grease burn.

I have heard of a few cases of people falling asleep during a tattoo session, but those tend to be the people who have had multiple tattoos before. If this was that girl's first tattoo, she was definitley NOT sleeping through it. She is claiming to have been drugged or hypnotized... There is no magic flashy thing like in Men In Black, so I think hypnosis is out unless she voluntarily submitted to it, which why would you? Its not part of the package. Like I said before, nobody slips anybody a roofie to put a dumb tattoo on their face.

MzHartz · Permanent Vacation

Have you ever heard a tattoo gun? Not quiet.

And a tattoo artist isn't putting the needles in you gently one at a time. It IS called a gun.

How Tattoos Work

disco strangler · Smiles everyone, smiles!

STOP! I don't want to know! Gives me shivers...

confuzzed · Permanent State of Confusion

As I was sitting in the waiting room for my appointment this morning, the girls on "The View" briefly talked about this topic. I believe Whoopi said if the girl fell asleep during this procedure she was probably high.

Pambo · Waiting To Be Widowed

Makes sense.

And Dr. Oo-ee-ooo-ah-ah is not gentle with the acupuncture needles. Sometimes I think he's going to poke all the way through my skull or my feet with those needles. This week was the first time he actually held my fee & hands down while poking me.

OW!!! IT HURTS!!!! bleh

Mad Mema · Bad Biker Granny

See... you prolly fall asleep after the needles are in, but not so much while it is going on. There is a reason why when I decided to get a tattoo I went to "Big Mike" to get it done. Dude is seriously BIG... like over 6 feet tall and was at the time probably pushing 400 lbs... no way I'm going to take a swing at him when the pain started.

Pambo · Waiting To Be Widowed

I can understand that one. Dang!

MzHartz · Permanent Vacation

Surprise, Surprise...
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Girl with 56 stars tattooed on face admits she asked for them
A teenage girl who claimed 56 stars were tattooed on her on her face as she slept when she asked for three has admitted she was awake the whole time and lied because her father was "furious".

By Our Foreign Staff
Published: 5:00PM BST 22 Jun 2009

Kimberley Vlaminck had insisted she dozed off after asking the tattooist for just three small stars then woke in horror to find her face was covered.

The Belgian blamed the Flemish-speaking tattooist for not being able to understand her French and English instructions.

Amid a frenzy of media attention, she then said she would sue the tattoo artist, Rouslan Toumaniantz, for the £9,000 she needed for laser surgery to have them removed.

She said after the tattooing last week: "It is terrible for me. I cannot go out on to the street. I look like a freak."

But the 18-year-old has finally confessed she did not fall asleep, that she wanted all the stars and was "fully aware" of what Mr Toumaniantz was doing.

Ms Vlaminck told a Dutch TV crew: "I asked for 56 stars and initially adored them. But when my father saw them, he was furious. So I said I fell asleep and the that the tattooist made a mistake."

Mr Toumaniantz himself covered from head to foot in tattoos and piercings had consistently denied he had made a mistake and always insisted Vlaminck wanted all 56 stars.

He said at the time: "I maintain that she absolutely agreed that I tattoo those 56 stars on the left side of her face."

But despite insisting she had asked for 56 stars, he still initially agreed to pay for half of the treatment to remove the tattoos.

"Kimberley is unhappy and it is not my wish to have an unsatisfied client," he said.

"I don't regret it. To tell you the truth, this has given me some publicity." Mr Toumanaintz is now said to have withdrawn his cash offer and said from now on he will get written consent from clients before he begins tattooing.

disco strangler · Smiles everyone, smiles!

Now she will have 56 ugly little scars on the left side of her face that will show up even more when she gets too much sun... bummer...

Pambo · Waiting To Be Widowed

She is now a Miss Pants On Fire.

WebGuy · Doesn't Do Windows

Yeah, I would think that written consent would be standard practice when dealing with something as permanent as a tattoo.

Mad Mema · Bad Biker Granny

I bet she never has them removed unless dear ol' dad takes a razor blade to her face and removes them himself.

Too bad the tattoo artist admitted that the free publicity has been good for him. He should have sued her for defamation.

But on the up side, thanks to the internet the whole world knows that the little freak show with the 56 stars on her face is a liar and a fatmouth.

confuzzed · Permanent State of Confusion

I'd be suing her for defamation of character. And if his business has dropped off, claim that too.

confuzzed · Permanent State of Confusion

Mad Mema wrote:
He should have sued her for defamation.

Same thought line again. Boy that is scary. Must be the Gemini thing.

Mad Mema · Bad Biker Granny

HAHAHA... must be!

Dylan · Leader Of The Banned

amigo-ettes bonding...isnt that cute? biggrin

confuzzed · Permanent State of Confusion

Mad Mema · Bad Biker Granny

Yes, we are quite cute! Thanks for noticing.

Lady Strange · 80's Rock Chick

WebGuy wrote:

Yeah, I would think that written consent would be standard practice when dealing with something as permanent as a tattoo.

Totally!

MzHartz · Permanent Vacation

Lady Strange wrote:

WebGuy wrote:

Yeah, I would think that written consent would be standard practice when dealing with something as permanent as a tattoo.

Totally!

I wonder if she had to have signed something. I would think it's pretty standard to have someone sign something saying, "Yes, I agree to have a tattoo on my face." But in this case, even if she signed something that said, "Yes, I agree to have stars tattooed on my face," it still wouldn't have helped. So I suspect he needs to be a lot more specific with whatever he has them sign.

Lady Strange · 80's Rock Chick

MzHartz wrote:

Lady Strange wrote:

WebGuy wrote:

Yeah, I would think that written consent would be standard practice when dealing with something as permanent as a tattoo.

Totally!
I wonder if she had to have signed something. I would think it's pretty standard to have someone sign something saying, "Yes, I agree to have a tattoo on my face." But in this case, even if she signed something that said, "Yes, I agree to have stars tattooed on my face," it still wouldn't have helped. So I suspect he needs to be a lot more specific with whatever he has them sign.

Doesn't the artist have to make up a drawing of what the final tattoo is gonna look like before they actually draw it on the person? I'm just guessing here, but that'd seem to make sense to me. And if so, I'm surprised the customer doesn't have to sign off on the drawing the way one would a blueprint layout of a building something before construction actually begins.