Teenager gets tattoo, falls asleep, wakes up with faceful

http://www.theage.com.au/world/strangebuttrue/teenager-to-sue-over-56star-facial-tattoo-20090617-cgya.html

A Belgian teenager said on Tuesday she would sue a tattoo parlour which she said covered half her face with stars while she was asleep, 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.

The young housewife said she had gone to the tattoo parlour in the western town of Courtrai and asked for three small stars on her face.

"I wanted him to tattoo on just three little points but he suggested three stars saying it would look prettier," Vlaeminck told local press.

"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 the Flemish daily Het Laatste Nieuws.

The young woman, who said she doesn't dare walk down the street, has decided to sue the tattoo parlour.

...but apparently she's happy to have her photo all over the world's papers.

How in the fuck does someone sleep through a FACIAL TATOOING? Something about this story is completely screwy.

Something's screwy allright. I demand an answer from StanM!

srsly. I've never gotten a tattoo myself, but I've been there when friends of mine have and that shit hurts too much to just fall asleep in the chair. ESPECIALLY ON THE FACE!

The tat artist is saying she was never asleep and she's trying to wrangle her way out of having it done cause her dad's pissed off, or something.

I'm one of those weirdos for whom tattooing doesn't hurt that much. I mean it doesn't tickle but it's not esp painful for me and yet still . . . falling asleep? Never.

those wacky belgians

that's some blingee shit right there

That seems about right. Though, if she really slept through that whole stars-on-yer-face-trick-yaah! thing, I have nothing but respect for the poor little lamb.

xxxpost

Hahah yeah - Z_S to thread for gif stat.

Tempted to start a "Boy wakes up with 'girl parts' tattooed on his face" thread.

More worried about her belt buckle.

http://img198.imageshack.us/img198/382/starsarefug2.jpg

that's some blingee shit right there

― Sen. John Ensign Crusher (Kerm), Wednesday, 17 June 2009 02:49 (25 minutes ago) Bookmark

not to be all thundering moral arbiter here, but the clue's in the 'teenage housewife' thing

Tempted to start a "Boy wakes up with 'girl parts' tattooed on his face" thread.

Yeah I wanted to riff off the other thread title somehow but couldnt think of anything clever ;_;

In other papers she's a hair dresser and got up at 5am for her work, which is why she fell asleep.

But anyway. Total number of people who completely believe her story: 1 (her lawyer)

Her tattooist claims he and a witness both reported to police that she was awake all the time and happy with the results until her dad and sister (or boyfriend, in another report) saw it and threw a fit. He's now willing to help pay for laser removal, though, but not as an admission of guilt, only because he wants people to be happy with his work.

Still, another tattooist says it's the guy's fault in any case, since he didn't get her to sign a paper with the design before starting (don't know if they all do that).
Oh, and her tattooist has so many facial tattoos and piercings and holes in his nose that the general public are going to distrust him anyway, even though they don't believe her story either. (White girl vs. Freak, you know how it works in the public mind)

he didn't get her to sign a paper with the design before starting (don't know if they all do that).

does this happen ever?

My 2c: it's Het Laatste Nieuws. Not much better than the Daily Mail (Look what those weird foreigners did today! Do you have an opinion about them? Have your say! Oh look, there's someone in a bikini! And now, the news.)

No idea. She ok'd it verbally, he says. (But she says she didn't and she doesn't speak french, even though she lives and works in Kortrijk, about 5 km away from France) xpost

I'm Rick Wakeman, bitch!

wkiw

I'm at work now, everyone's talking about it (everything's better than our company's share value), and nobody believes her story.

More worried about her belt buckle.

She looks like she's been "peppered" by Dick Cheney.

Can he do that?

Teenager gets tattoo, falls asleep, wakes up with a faceful from Dick Cheney.

xp He can do anything he gotdamn well wants.

My 2c: it's Het Laatste Nieuws. Not much better than the Daily Mail

Stan, they "borrow" most of the DM wacky articles anyway. You can see it: the pics are usually screenshots.

Anyway, saw it on the local news. It was clearly a lie that she fell asleep. "I fell asleep or something." Uh yeah, during a tattoo session. Personally I think the tattoo artist shouldn't have even contemplated doing it: she's 18 yrs old ffs!

Oh, and her tattooist has so many facial tattoos and piercings and holes in his nose that the general public are going to distrust him anyway, even though they don't believe her story either. (White girl vs. Freak, you know how it works in the public mind)

Uh, Stan, did you see her talking? Not very bright girl tbh.

It probably seemed pretty reasonable to him.

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/06/17/article-1193384-055E4FE3000005DC-456_306x481.jpg

His own facial tattoos are not very good, so he put in like 5 lbs of plugs and shit to dampen the blow. Nobody wins here.

Also:

Kimberley Vlaeminck, 18
The young housewife

Those glasses really make him look very smrat.

Did he put those plugs in cause he felt bad about his floppy ears?

I think it's cos he's a cock.

I think it's because he's lonely

I don't want to be around him when he's got a runny nose

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SqhhJb_P3Kk/STbUhH7-B0I/AAAAAAAADOk/8nekFQviEeU/s400/Monticello+Dam+drain+hole.jpg

However bad that guy's face is, you just know that his bollocks are going to look 10x worse.

Am I the only one who read the thread title and thought "faceful" meant something, er, different?

Baby falls asleep...

They don't do tattoos on babies, I hope.

I think if the baby's okay with it then they should.

But the baby's skin is gonna stretch while it grows up, I don't think that would make the tattoos look good.

A good tattooist wd take account of that and do the designs small like on a deflated balloon.

Guys.

Skin won't inflate evenly like a balloon though.

Everybody knows babies' heads start off huge and stay more or less the same size so face tattoo would work imo.

Babies' heads grow quite a bit, if they were the same size as adult heads they couldn't even get out of the womb.

you don't say

It's eyes that stay the same size.

Do I seriously have to type a winky emoticon after every other post?

http://images.smarter.com/blogs/guests/eye%20tattoo%20injection.jpg

http://www.vinyltap.co.uk/gallery/el/eltonbe5010923916032490.jpg

GUYS.

the womb is spinning

i wish i had an 18 year old housewife

...

GUYS.

Babies' heads grow quite a bit, if they were the same size as adult heads they couldn't even get out of the womb.

Are you saying I have a gigantic vagina?

...

PEOPLE.

We are all in a teenage mother, but some of us are looking at the stars.

ok i can't front this thread has been bringing lolz and brownie just played a trump

wkiw

― mookieproof, Wednesday, 17 June 2009 05:52 (8 hours ago) Bookmark

^^^this isn't on urbandictionary, what does it mean?

Would Kindly Insert Wiener

as long as you do it kindly.

lj...

Wkiw: Worst kid in the world

I believe her story because I can't imagine why a pretty girl would want to look like Mike Tyson.

Don't some people sorta faint/fall asleep when they fail too much pain? Possible explanation?

this girl certainly failed too much

I think it's more the lack of brain activity tbh

pain fail

I know a guy who slept through getting a tattoo. He turned up drunk (Dutch courage, coz he was scared of needles) then fainted as soon as the needle went near him. Everyone kept waking him up and seeing if he was ok then he'd try again and get a bit further then faint again. Eventually, after about the sixth time he passed out, they just let him sleep and finished lining it in so he wouldn't have half of a puma/jaguar/whatever-it's-meant-to-be crawling up his arm. They then woke him up and chucked him out without colouring it in. This was about 10 years ago and he's still walking around with a crap black outline of a tattoo as he can't face going and getting it finished.

a good story

i like the 'colouring it in' part. this is def. the technical term.

i thought 'reputable' tat shops didn't work on really drunk patrons? don't u bleed like a MF

I wasn't there, I'm not sure how much was drunkenness and how much was actual fainting but he'd definitely had a few. The tattoo studio was Terry's in Glasgow, I think they're seen as quite reputable, a tat shops go.

What, you have control over your blood emission when you aren't drunk?

blood thinner

Yeah being drunk (or even hungover) when pierced or tattooed is a bad idea.

blood thinner

This is why it is advisable to have a greasy fry-up after drinking, it clots up your arteries to offset the effect.

(you stick with this thread gbx and we'll get you through your exams no worries)

I've had a drunk piercing (so drunk I couldn't remember getting it until I saw it in the mirror next day) but it was only my ear so I guess they don't bleed much.

if it was a gun or solid needle piercing it wouldn't really matter, the KAPOW sort of jumbles up the surrounding flesh into a mass. hollow needle though you will bleed like a stuck pig if u drunk.

Right. I had a piercing down with a dermal punch when hungover. That was not a good idea.

WDYLL with Kimberley's stars on your face? Check it out if you have a webcam, or go to the gallery:

http://www.toputourworkon.com/kimberlizer/

(site is a bit overloaded & slow at the moment)

According to a piercing/tat-shop-owner lady I know, you bleed like crazy during a nose piercing if you are on your period. This sounds like BS to me ( or maybe just a result of menstruating ladies & availability heuristic?).

Am I the only one who read the thread title and thought "faceful" meant something, er, different?

Surely it was obvious I worded it that way on purpose, sigh.

They really should have knocked her back out and tattooed the Swayzetaur on the other side of her face.

http://www.thrillist.com/pics/swayzetaur.jpg

Latest rumor: it's possibly a marketing stunt for a radio station that has a star in its logo + that Kimberlizer site was made by the same advertising agency that did promo for that radio station.

This is already being denied, but it's the latest news at the moment.

was this guy drunk?

http://www.jwschwarz.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/daughter-country-star-wars.jpg

:D

Is that in order of importance to him?

yes, if you read bottom to top

ugh "bottom" is really horrible in this context

"him" ?

scott said "guy", so I assumed from there...

j/k :-)

the main thing I take away from that pic is that naming yr kid "Jabba" is really tempting fate

http://images.theage.com.au/2009/06/17/582092/wr_420_tattoo2-420x0.jpg
Chick looks like Ellen Feiss, no?

she does actually. probably also on drugs

Rumor's been formally denied by the radio station's main organisation: not a promo stunt or hoax.

http://www.deredactie.be/polopoly_fs/1.547059!image/10625044.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape470/10625044.jpg

I'm kind of hating how I very often suspect things of being viral marketing, these days. i dont *want* to be that cynical. But it keeps on happening.

... and now she's threatening to kill herself because the whole internet is laughing at her. Potential An hero?

Potential dead girl. That's no good. But she does look like a fucking idiot.

I do feel bad for her in a way. This internet "hype" is something that wasn't happening a decade ago. They'd be the laughing stock for about five minutes in her hometown and then it'd be back to business. Now she's ridiculed all over the world.

She should be proud to have pulled of such an historic feat of ridicule.

Oh come on, Kenan, cut her some slack. :-(

Btw: look up "an hero" on urban dictionary for reference :-)

Whoah. Unintentional. Depressing.

Ok, if you need me, I'll be in a blood-filled bathtub.

guys

cio

Quote from another article: she may have fainted instead of falling asleep, she now claims. meanwhile, it has been discovered that she's been tattoo'd way too deep (get this!) usually the needle only goes in about 3 millimeters, but with her, on her forehead, it went in THREE CENTIMETERS (isn't that like two and a half cm into her brain?)

three centimeters sounds.....impossible

Yes, I misread that. It says Two centimeters. Which is just as impossible.

that is basically an inch, so yeah, impossible

"Let me tatoo your MIND!!!"

It's the tattoo-ee that's claiming this, though. And she's clearly not possessing of a full grasp of a whole lot of things, centimeters least among them.

Basically, the poor thing is a doorstop.

With stars.

Stan, dude, HLN is just plain awful. They even mistranslate articles (from The Sun for example)?!?

(isn't that like two and a half cm into her brain?)

What brain?

Once you accept that we're all going to hell, all of this is pretty funny, really.

Is it awful of me that I had a kneejerk reaction to her name? Stan, did you also have that reaction? Like: "Oh KIMBERLEY, well, duh"

What is your damage, Heather?

Late to this, but I have zero sympathy for any of the players in this little drama.

That 2 cm is in De Standaard, nathalie. (Supposed to be a non-tabloid, but you don't know anymore these days)

Is it awful of me that I had a kneejerk reaction to her name? Stan, did you also have that reaction? Like: "Oh KIMBERLEY, well, duh"

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Haha I like that Kimberley being a stereotypical thick girl's name travels onto the continent

So, how long before the marriage offers (and less proper ones) from tattooed-face fetishienthusiasts worldwide I wonder?

http://www.nieuwsblad.be/Article/Detail.aspx?articleID=GMM2BLU8V

Off camera but not really:

"Turn the camera's off" (...) "Your dad was really angry, wasn't he?"
"Yes, he was (grins)"
"But you liked it at first, didn't you?"
"It's nice, but not for someone like me."
"So you liked it?"
"Yes, I liked it."

Asked again by the newspaper after the above was broadcast: denies, says she didn't express herself correctly, she meant
the ones near her eye, they've cut into the footage to make it look like she liked the rest

etc

other side of face should =

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3005/2387071909_429dfc41c7.jpg

http://www.hln.be/hln/nl/959/Bizar/article/detail/899694/2009/06/21/Sterrenmeisje-biecht-leugen-op-Ik-was-bang-van-papa.dhtml

She confessed it was all her own idea and that she did not fall asleep at all. She just made up the story (of falling asleep) because daddy was so angry.

Sorry to insult any Belgiums but that headline is quite amusing as it stands...

"Ik was bang van papa"

Which is "I was frightened of father" presumably?

Yep!

Where does "bang" for "frightened" come from?

BANG!!!

You'd be frightened too.

Maybe you should ask where "frightened" comes from for a word as simple as "bang"?

But in both cases, I don't have the answer.

^^^ very true.

Bang is also frightened in German. Haven't found the right etymology yet (except for the probably unrelated onomatopeic Bang!)

Ultimately from Indo-European root angh- meaning narrow, tight etc; result of bi + ango (adverb) -- comparable with "in narrow straits" I guess. Thus related to "angst", "angina" etc.

(Indogermanisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch by Julius Pokorny, you rule.)

Thanks!

Five days of worldwide disbelief! Well done. Good luck with your book/script/life.

Not over yet: her lawyer still smells money and has ordered her to stop talking to the press so he can continue preparing her case against that tatooist.
Everything we think we know has been a complete misunderstanding, except for the original "fell asleep" story.

Man, I REALLY cannot look at that tattooist dude.

wow this poor, incredibly stupid girl

Man, I REALLY cannot look at that tattooist dude.

When you've got that many piercings in your lip would they still heal up if(when) you took them out?

imagine that dude eating soup

straining

Imagine kissing him. Jangly.

Not over yet: her lawyer still smells money and has ordered her to stop talking to the press

Surely it's a bit too late for this?

The journalists misunderstood! When it sounded like she asked for the 56 stars and did not fell asleep, she meant exactly the opposite! (etc)

Haha!

Imagine him talking. Lispy.

The journalists misunderstood! When it sounded like she asked for the 56 stars and did not fell asleep, she meant exactly the opposite! (etc)

She asked this in her sleep?

Tattoo guy demands a public apology or he's suing for libel. Also, the girl's uncle visited his tattoo shop on Saturday and broke some of the furniture and stuff. Classy.

This story is gettin' more awesome by the day!

the girl and the tattoo guy are totally gonna hook up soon, if they haven't already...

Stan, did you watch De Zevende Dag? Good lord! They invited a second party who mumbled like he was on frigging downers or something.

No, haven't seen that :(

News of the day, so far: she's going to work in another tattoo shop where she will talk to new customers as the experienced counselor. (Don't know the right word for experienced expert - ex-user kind of thing they also have at rehab)

Uh, just looking at her would be a deterrent, no?

Don't worry, Stan, you didn't miss much on the show. It was like at a local pub. :-(

Is this ILX's first full-on Springer episode?

She's not on here, as far as I know. No chairs will be thrown in this thread yet.

Actually that was what my husband compared it to. "Is this De Zevende Dag or Springer?" This show is s'posedly serious.

TBH she looked quite okay with the stars plastered all over her face.

I wonder what would have happened if she hadn't woken up. Piercings?

stapled to the chair

A moon on the other half of her face.

Stripes

8 too many stars then

(6)

More news! Her mother, who left her father weeks ago, says she thinks he may have drugged their daughter and the whole thing was only done to punish/anger/tease/... her.

WAH? Where did you get this info, Stan! :-)

Also, she's supposedly been offered a job now by another tattoo-shop, because she's 'a living example of how wrong tattoo's can go'? Nice.

Gva.be , who got it from Story, xpost

http://www.gva.be/nieuws/in-de-rand/aid842209/ik-vermoed-dat-kimberley-s-pa-haar-gedrogeerd-heeft.aspx

Sorry, just now saw StanM already mentioned her new job. StanM, do you by any chance own a tattoo-shop?

Not at all! I work in server management at a bank :-)

That's okay. I'm sure we'll find a tattoo that suits your line of work :)

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/belgium/5603769/Girl-with-56-stars-tattooed-on-face-admits-she-asked-for-them.html

I thought the origianl tattoo shop had offered a job as a counsellor(!)?

No, another one. The one that will remove her stars. This is someone her (tattoo shop smashing) uncle knows and who will do it for a lot of money, despite of the several offers she has inexplicably received by hospitals and the like to remove them for free.

http://i39.tinypic.com/2u7njf6.jpg

I've read the most beautiful description ever of the tattoo somewhere: "it looks like a unicorn came on her face."

Tomorrow morning, stargirl's lawyer will start up a "kortgeding" (a sort of turbo-lawsuit -> there's nothing *exactly* the same in UK/US justice, I think) against the original tattoo guy. No word on his "48 hours for a public apology or I sue YOU" threat from a couple of days ago.

stan is reporting from the trenches. heheh sorry cldnt resist

Finally, some world news is happening here, and I have the chance to let everyone know! This is like my 15 minutes of fame too! :-)

...and you didn't even have to let a unicorn come on your face!

If I ever met one and that was the only way to prove it happened, then, well, I think I feel a possible poll

heh.

Here she is, arriving at the court with her uncle (who smashed up tattoo guy's shop and apparently also threatened to kill him), where they demanded to get a dermatologist's opinion about the quality of the tattoos. Which tattoo dude and his lawyer called unnecessary, since that doesn't have anything to do with whether she wanted 3 or 56.

http://www.hbvl.be/imgpath/assets_img_gvl/2009/06/25/484474/oom-van-kimberley-toont-bloot-achterwerk-aan-rechtbank_5_460x0.jpg

stay classy, uncle roidrage

Why is his ass untanned only in those areas? I cannot imagine unless he fell asleep during a spray-tanner application, in which case SUE THE BASTARDS. Also, nice pit stains.

british expats, surely?

He "tried to divert attention from his niece's face" by mooning. (Isn't that nice of him? So proud of my country!)

i do not even begin to understand the tanning pattern on that guy's ass. does he have an albino rump? what is going on? or did his spray-tan stop short of his assal region.

it's quite obvious- he fell asleep outside while wearing ass chaps.

Maybe if he laid on a small crack-protecting towel while in a tanning both?

Anyway, now I kind of understand why the star woman might not have the best or most mature decision making capabilities.

Was once covered in patch of over-ass hair?

I'm sorry.

upsetting, but on second look actually a fair shot.

http://s1.hbvl.be/imgpath/assets_img_gvl/2009/06/23/482489/sterrenmeisje-kimberley-gaat-werken-in-tattooshop_5_460x0.jpg http://s1.hbvl.be/imgpath/assets_img_gvl/2009/06/25/484352/kimberley-eist-oordeel-expert_5_460x0.jpg http://www.hln.be/static/FOTO/pe/12/9/4/media_xl_941044.jpg

oh shit it's the dude from crazytown

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/8c/Robbie_Rotten.jpg

i think i meant lazytown. either way.

to take the thread into an altogether darker place, WTF LAZYTOWN you are a kids tv show..

http://xs101.xs.to/xs101/06221/image.jpg

If Kimberley washed her hair she could obscure the stars even more.

that pic raises some alarming questions in my mind.

PEPPERS!

That guy's ass has a pic of two white doves in love.

Stargirl "has collapsed" and for the next two weeks she will be at a psychiatric institution.

Stargirl "has collapsed" and for the next two weeks she will be in a psychiatric institution.

Duh.

Yeah, read about that. Like "duh". Apparently a bit of a strange family situation: she lives with her uncle and grandparents?

Is that the same uncle as mentioned above? The delightful one?

The one with the kissing pigeons on his butt, yeah.

Excuse me? Kissing pigeons?

Scroll up a bit to where he shows his backside: just like Tuomas noticed, it looks like two doves kissing.