Star Face
16 Jun
I saw this over on Crazy Days and Nights and knew that I had to add my own two cents. Eighteen year old Kimberley Vlaminck paid £55 (about $102 CDN) to get three stars tattooed on her face. Instead, she got fifty six stars inked onto her skin.
Vlaminck claims that the artist, Rouslan Toumaniantz, didn’t understand her when she said she only wanted the three stars tattooed by her eye. I have to wonder why she wanted a tattoo under her eye; was she planning a stint in prison?
She goes on to say that she fell asleep while it was being done and didn’t realize what had happened until it was too late.
Any credibility she had went out the window with that statement. A language barrier, I can understand.
But I explicitly said in my native tongue, French, and also in a little bit of English when he looked confused, that I wanted three little stars only near my left eye.
To try to explain getting half of her face covered in stars by claiming she fell asleep goes to show how stupid she really is.
There’s no way a person would fall asleep when a needle is puncturing their skin at thousands of times per second. When I got my tattoo done on my back, it took about half an hour before it started to go numb. Even though I was getting used to the pain, the noise of the gun and needle were loud enough to keep me fully aware of what was happening.
Another reason I don’t think she fell asleep is the fact that the artist would probably have had to pull on her skin in order to properly fill in the shapes. Who would sleep through someone tugging on their face, while dragging a tattoo gun across their skin?
Toumaniantz said that Vlaminck was awake throughout and even stopped in the middle of it to look at it in the mirror. I think this is a case of a stupid eighteen year old doing something ridiculously foolish without thinking it through and then getting a severe case of buyer’s remorse.
“The trouble all started when she went home and her father and boyfriend threw a fit,” Toumaniantz says. If I can home with one star tattooed on my face, my father would have killed me, let alone fifty six.
Like any stupid person, Vlaminck is suing for damages and to cover the £8,500 (almost $16,000 CDN) surgery to have the stars removed by laser. Even then, the surgery would leave white markings on her skin, essentially leaving her scarred for life.
What I like best is the quote from the psychologist, “The trauma this girl must be feeling is indescribable. She feels like a circus freak – and no wonder, because she looks like one.”
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I think the girl is a liar. I find it hard to believe that a tattooist would do something like that against a person’s will. How can someone even fall asleep and not feel the tattoo being performed? That just doesn’t make any sense to me.
I think she’s a dumb kid who thought it would look cool and then got in shit by her dad and thought of this lame excuse to deflect blame. I think she has become the new poster child for stupid. Parents everywhere will now be like, “think that through, you don’t want to end up like that girl with the stars all over her face.”
i have over 40 hours of ink on my back lega arms and head. i wish i could have fallen asleep.
40 hours? That’s impressive. I have one hour and ten minutes worth of ink; hoping to add to it though.
When I was getting my back done, I was leaning forward (somewhat) comfortably on a bed. Even then I wasn’t able to fall asleep so her claiming to do so while the guy would have been leaning over her face is just ridiculous.
I am so sorry that this young girl was able to even get a tattoo. I think she is a liar. No way in the world I would get this drunk or sobber. She had to know what was happening.
She is 18, I’m not sure what the age of is over there is to get a tattoo without parental consent but here its 18.
She probably waited to turn 18 to do it, realized how stupid she looks and is now trying to ‘fix’ it. I hope her lawsuit is thrown out; the tattoo artist shouldn’t be punished for doing his job.
Of course she’s lying. I’m awful enough to think it’s kind of funny. Tragic, in a way. But funny. Little douchebag.
That’s not awful, it’s honest! She was an idiot and now she looks the part.