Kimberley Vlaeminck, the girl who claimed her face was tattooed with 56 stars while she slept, has confessed to making up the incredulous story. The 18-year-old Belgian girl insisted she requested 3 stars tattooed on her face, fell asleep during the needle jabbing procedure and woke up with a veritable constellation. Vlaeminck then blamed the tattoo artist Rouslan Toumaniantz for misunderstanding her request and threatened to sue for $20k, the cost of the laser tattoo removal. Last week she said, “It is terrible for me. I cannot go out on to the street. I look like a freak.” Read more »
Is the story of Kimberley Vlaeminck’s star tattooed face a hoax? The 18-year-old Belgian girl supposedly fell asleep while her face was being tattooed with 3 stars and woke up with a constellation of 56 instead. Now she’s suing Romanian tattoo artist Rouslan Toumaniantz for $14,000, the cost of laser surgery to remove her naptime mistake.
In addition to the dubious claim that she slept while the sensitive nerves of her face were being prodded with a needle, conspiracy theorists point to other facts they say suggest the whole thing is one big publicity stunt. Read more »
If you pass out and only wake up with marker on your face, you might consider yourself lucky. A Belgian teenager is suing a tattoo artist for $14k to remove 56 star tattoos covering half her face. 18-year-old Kimberley Vlaeminck claims she paid to get 3 star tattoos near her eye, then fell asleep during the needle jabbing procedure and awoke looking “like a circus freak.” She blames Romanian tattoo artist Rouslan Toumaniantz’s broken English and French for the permanent mistake. He says she “asked for 56 stars” and that the trouble only “started when she went home and her father and boyfriend threw a fit.” |Daily Mail| Update: Was it a hoax? Update: Not surprisingly, Vlaeminck made her story up.
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