Published Date:
17 June 2009
By Ethan McNern
A BELGIAN teenager has told police how she emerged from a tattoo parlour with 56 stars over one side of her face, rather than the three she had asked for, prosecutors said yesterday.
"I said the top is ok, but not the rest," Kimberley Vlaeminck from the city of Kortrijk, 56 miles north west of Brussels, told Belgian broadcaster VRT.
The 18-year-old said she fell asleep during the procedure, and woke up in pain when her nose was being tattooed.
A spokesman for Kortrijk prosecutors' office said police were investigating after a complaint from the teenager.
The tattoo artist said Vlaeminck had agreed to 56 stars.
"She agreed, but when her father saw it, the trouble started," Belgian newspaper Het Laatste Nieuws quoted the man as saying.
Ms Vlaeminck said she wanted to keep the tattoos on her forehead but would have the rest removed.
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Last Updated:
16 June 2009 10:50 PM
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Source:
The Scotsman
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Location:
Edinburgh
