Lets recap, in our previous installment of “why you shouldn’t fall asleep while getting a tattoo” we discovered that:
Kimberly Vlaeminck, 18, made headlines when she claimed last week to have woken up from a tattoo session with 56 stars on her face. She said she had asked for just three small ones. Turns out though, Vlaeminck was lying.
And that’s according to the very eloquent staff at BoingBoing (I have to say, I’d paraphrase it myself but I’m still a little shocked at the picture). The Sydney Herald reports that apparently she lied about it because her dad got mad at her. Moreover, the tattoo artist offered to pay to have half of her stars removed – but when he found out she was lying, he took that offer right back.
To add to the lineup of international press covering this incident (you’d think they were talking about the insanity going on in Iran or something) – here’s something that Dutch TV added to the fray:
“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 that the tattooist had made a mistake,” Ms Vlaeminck told Dutch TV.
Now of course, our press correspondants have the ingenuity of the Australians and the Dutch combined. Maybe even as much insight into current events as BoingBoing’s star reporter Cory Doctorow – although it was David Pescovitz is the actual writer behind BoingBoing’s writeup. Sooooo.. why hasn’t anybody said anything about this particular tattoo artist? I mean, look at the guy (I’m assuming that’s him in the callout picture up there, and not lets say – the dad of this poor girl for instance)! You can barely tell he’s human, he looks more like a character who stepped off the set of Star Trek. Self-expression is good, but when you run out of canvas, it might be a problem.
So, honestly, I care not who lied and who fell asleep and who was doing the tattooing. The whole story is just a tad-bit too bizzare to me. So I’ll stop talking about it – at least until the next “twist” gets revealed, which will probably qualify it as a script for the next M. Night Shyamalan blockbuster movie.
UPDATE: There’s a video of the girl and the tattoo artist! Woohoo!
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hahah you tagged this as ‘lying’
figuressssssss
knew it was too ridic to be legit!
“Sooooo.. why hasn’t anybody said anything about this particular tattoo artist? I mean, look at the guy (I’m assuming that’s him in the callout picture up there, and not lets say – the dad of this poor girl for instance)! You can barely tell he’s human, he looks more like a character who stepped off the set of Star Trek. Self-expression is good, but when you run out of canvas, it might be a problem.”
People shouldn’t say anything about the tattooists appearance because this story has nothing to do with what he looks like. ‘you can bearly tell he’s human?’ how ignorant. if he wants to use his body as a canvas to that extent, he has every right too. Plus there’s the fact that he’s a tattooist, with an obvious passion and love for tattooing – what the fuck do you expect him to look like?
he’s gorgeous
Why do you think people shouldn’t say anything about the tattoo artist? Thats just silly. The story is about him as much as it is about the girl.
Additionally, wouldn’t you think the fact that he has so many tattoos himself makes it a lot more believable that he would do all 56 stars – I mean an ordinary tattoo artist would prolly be a little freaked out about doing something like that on her FACE lol.
I’m not even saying he doesn’t have the right to use his body as a canvas. The fact that he looks like a character from Star Trek to me doesn’t mean that he doesn’t have the RIGHT to look like that. Jeez, you’re totally overreacting.
And about the running out of canvas problem issue – don’t you think thats the case – I mean there’s only so much skin on your body.
well, what i think is… how can ever sleep while they are making a tatoo? my friend got several tattoos (3 of them), and the thing is that he says it hurts, its not like one of those painful tattoos you know, but its hurts but its okay. but you can feel it. and the thing is that is almost INPOSIBLE someone can every sleep while doing a tattoo on their FACE…. ok like i said the pain is not that painful, but in the face? dude in the face is hurts MORE…. and before they can actually put some ink in your skin.. they first need to show you , how your tattoo is going to be like. so yeah…
but i mean like why someone will do that? we will someone draw 56 stars on a girls face when she only asked for 3? it doesn’t make sense, that will just be mean. Ok i know they are BAD people outside in this world. but dude… for someone to do that, that will be like really mean.
im not sayin he is MEAN and he actually DID that 56 star tattoo when she only asked for 3!
and im not sayin she is lying, and that she only asked for 3, but she slept (almost impossible ), and that she never asked for 56. but who knows.
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they should check the bill.. and see how many is 1 STAR and then check how many she paid, and if she actually paid for 56 stars, or if she just paid for 3,
cause if she paid for 3 then the dude actually did those 56, but if she paid those 56 she is lying.
and you guys, should stop sayin she looks like a CIRCUS FREAK (heard that in anotha webpage) she doesnt look bad, and if she wanted those 56 stars, let her have it (:
it doesn’t look bad tho… i like it (: and i mean it was her choice, i hate when people like talks BAD about others people CHOICES i mean, if it actually was her choice to have the tattoo like that, her CHOICE !! so people should leave her alone, and let her live her life like this. (if she wants it like this) and if she wants those 56 stars it is totally okay ! i mean people should be more RESPECTFUL about other’s people CHOICES, let them make up their OWN life. so yeah ^.^
being honest Kimberley Vlaeminck i actually like you tattoo is not bad.
indeed
she probably lies about everything and will continue to do so throughout life. Fail.
“I fell asleep” Are you fucking kidding me? She was getting a face tattoo. That’s the best she could come up with. And only someone stupid enough to raise a daughter dumb enough to make that excuse would fall for it. The only stand-up guy and victim through all of this was the tattoo artist and this journalist rips on him. Fucked up shit, pissed I stumbled on this.
Yeah, she really should’ve gotten in a lot more trouble. That artist probably lost his job and at LEAST half of his clients just because that dumb 18 year old is a liar. As far as face tattoos go, it’s a personal decision, and I know plenty of tattoo artists that have them. I heard about this story a while back, and I’m glad to hear that the bullshit is busted. Oh, and yeah, her stars look about as stupid as she does now.
Good if she accepted it since looks pretty obvious. Hope she does sumthing new and show it WITHOUT lieing.
Typical Aussie….