Kimberley Vlaminck gets 56 tattoos on her face

The tattooist who gave a teenage girl 56 stars on her face when she claims she only asked for three has said he will help pay for their removal.

‘I think he didn’t understand what I wanted. He spoke only fractured English and French. ‘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.’

Toumaintz, who runs the tattoo parlour called The Tattoo Box in Courtrai, said Kimberley was awake and actually looked in the mirror several times during the procedure to see how it was going.
He said she knew ‘exactly what she wanted’. ‘The trouble all started when she went home and her father and boyfriend threw a fit.
‘They are saying things now like I doped her or hypnotised her. What rubbish!

kimberley Vlaminck with 56 tattoos on her face

Rouslan Toumaniantz said today that Kimberley Vlaminck ‘absolutely’ agreed she wanted 56 stars tattooed on the left side of her face.

But now the 18-year-old is suing Toumaniantz, claiming she had asked him for only three stars – and had fallen asleep during the procedure, waking up to a nightmare in her Belgian hometown of Courtrai.

Toumaniantz – himself covered from head to foot in tattoos and piercings – said he would help pay for half of the treatment to remove the tattoos.

‘I maintain that she absolutely agreed that I tattoo those 56 stars on the left side of her face,’ he told newspaper La Derniere Heure.

‘A witness, a woman who was present, has already been questioned by police, and she confirms it.
 

Rouslan Toumaniantz

‘But be that as it may: Kimberley is unhappy and it is not my wish to have an unsatisfied client. There is a way to remove the tattoos with the help of a laser. I accept to pay for half the cost.’