What’s the story:
Brussels: A Belgian teenager is suing a tattoo artist whom she says covered half her face with stars while she was asleep, media reports said.
Kimberley Vlaeminck, 18, was left sporting 56 black stars of various sizes on the left side of her face, from nose to ear and brow to chin.
“I wanted him to tattoo on just three little points but he suggested three stars saying it would look prettier,” Vlaeminck said. “When he started the tattooing I didn’t want to feel the pain and so I went to sleep. I had got up at five in the morning,”she said.
“I woke up when he was starting to tattoo my nose and I saw what he had already done. I counted 56 stars, it’s frightening,” she told Het Laatste Nieuws.
The young woman has decided to sue the tattoo parlour. She said she also hoped to have her appearance reversed by laser treatment, which would cost thousands of euros.
What the Tattoo artist said:
Tattoo artist Rouslan Toumaniantz denied his client had fallen asleep. “She was awake the whole time, I don’t use hypnosis or drugs. She agreed to it. The problems started when her father and his friend saw the tattoos,” he said.