UPDATE to the UPDATE: Star Girl Update — She Lied — Who Could Have Guessed?

Published on June 23rd, 2009

McCullough did. He had it right when he added the BS meter to this goofy story last week.

A TEENAGE girl who claimed 56 stars were tattooed on her face while she slept has admitted she lied and was awake the whole time.
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Ms Vlaminck told a Dutch TV crew: “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.”

Update: Here’s the tattoo ‘artist’.

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# 1 bobbo, caring for the kiddies said, on June 23rd, 2009 at 7:52 am

Yea but the tatoo guy still took advantage for the filthy lucre. Any responsible caring human being would have given her one star and said come back for the rest.

But he is a business man and we all know what they value.

# 2 Dallas said, on June 23rd, 2009 at 7:55 am

This is a sad story to see that pretty girl disfigured like that.

# 3 bobbo, knowing beauty is more than skin deep said, on June 23rd, 2009 at 7:58 am

Wait until the tats are removed. She’ll look like Mother Teresa.

# 4 sargasso said, on June 23rd, 2009 at 8:08 am

That girl, has impulse management issues.

# 5 Benjamin said, on June 23rd, 2009 at 8:10 am

#3 Ala the tiger facial tattoo from Alfred Bester’s Stars My Destination?

# 6 Mark Derail said, on June 23rd, 2009 at 8:15 am

The opposite should be done.
A female Lokai.

Lokai

She could start a trend.

# 7 RTaylor said, on June 23rd, 2009 at 8:17 am

That’s about $20K in laser work.

# 8 bobbo, who hasn't read everything said, on June 23rd, 2009 at 8:21 am

I know Bester as a Sci-Fi writer but don’t know that work. Her face puts me in mind of Cat Stevens the girl with the moon and the stars in her hair. Face is pretty close. I think she looks pretty good right now. Its just that unlike a real face, a tatoo can’t change with the moods.

As such, tats give example to Keats (yeats yates==whoever) Ode on a Greecian Urn which teaches us that beauty frozen as art “doth tease us from eternity” and actual life should be our goal. Like blogging.

# 9 JimR said, on June 23rd, 2009 at 8:22 am

Re:#1, I agree with Bobbo. The heartless scumbag should have talked sense into her and also refused to do it.

There are such things as tattoo decals. A different look every day if you want and they wash off at night.

# 10 tj said, on June 23rd, 2009 at 8:24 am

The tattoo artist should have refused this job. Whatever happened to professional ethics? Just because something is legal doesn’t mean it’s ethical. Individuals need to think about how the work they do effects others and society at large.

Wether it’s tattoos or mortgages, people should have some sense of responsibility.

# 11 Greg Allen said, on June 23rd, 2009 at 8:24 am

R Taylor,

Doesn’t laser tattoo removal leave a scar?

I agree that the tattoo guy is morally culpable in this, even if the woman was awake.

The “I fell asleep” part of the story is what made me doubt it. I’ve never had a tattoo but it hurts, right? Who could sleep when a painful procedure is being done to the face?

# 12 Dumb said, on June 23rd, 2009 at 8:47 am

She asked for it and got what she wanted. Her father should not have believed her BS story. The end.

# 13 Dave W said, on June 23rd, 2009 at 9:12 am

Moral tattoo artists? Is that like celibate Republican Congressman or teatotaling Kennedy? You guys crack me up!

The guy makes his living by defacing people at their request.

The girl got what she deserves…she looks like a fool. Case closed.

# 14 Tattoo U said, on June 23rd, 2009 at 9:21 am

The tattoos are fake. It was a publicity stunt.

# 15 good said, on June 23rd, 2009 at 9:37 am

I like her tat.

# 16 JeremyES said, on June 23rd, 2009 at 9:50 am

So, because the artists performed the service he was paid for, he’s the villain. Yes, there are different levels of tattoo artists, and I know some who would have refused to do the inking. You cannot damn someone wanting to make a living. The tattoos were her choice and her decision to live with. It’s like blaming lung cancer on the clerk who sells someone cigarettes.

# 17 Griz said, on June 23rd, 2009 at 10:10 am

Whatever happened to personal responsibility?

She asked for it – she got it. She now regrets it. It was entirely her responsibility.

Chances are she wasn’t the first person to ask for facial tattoos, and she won’t be the last. We weren’t even there for the consultation. If the artist asked “You sure?” She said “Yes” – he’s 100% off the hook.

It’s unfortunate, but it is entirely and unquestioningly her fault.

# 18 orangetiki said, on June 23rd, 2009 at 10:13 am

That doesn’t explain why they protrude so much in photos I have seen. How much ink did this guy lay in there? But if she likes it then fuck the system. You go girl!

# 19 Uncle Dave said, on June 23rd, 2009 at 10:17 am

#19: That was probably just after she had it done when there would still be swelling.

# 20 N74JW said, on June 23rd, 2009 at 10:30 am

This girl ought to be up for the idiot of the year award. The ink is real, as the video shows them swollen and the skin around then irritated.

I would not have done them if I were a tattoo artists.

# 21 UnaKRon said, on June 23rd, 2009 at 10:32 am

If I were a laser tattoo removal specialists….I would definitely use this as an opportunity to promote myself and do a good deed. I would do some pro bono publico. You can’t buy advertising like this

# 22 Ron Larson said, on June 23rd, 2009 at 10:46 am

Check out the face tattoo this 19 year old moron just got. From the NY Times article about US teenager hitmen working for the Mexican Mafia.
http://tinyurl.com/lwugpa

He is serving 70 years in a Texas prison for murder(s) and paid a fellow inmate to give him those face tats.

# 23 GigG said, on June 23rd, 2009 at 10:51 am

Anyone that blames anyone but the girl for this is a idiot. She’s not only stupid sge is a liar as well.

# 24 Rider said, on June 23rd, 2009 at 1:00 pm

The tattoo artist has agreed to pay for half the cost of laser removal.

# 25 Dall said, on June 23rd, 2009 at 1:35 pm

Meh. With almost 7 billion people on the planet, it’s statistically likely that at least one person will do something stupid every week.

# 26 bobbo, able to change mind with new info said, on June 23rd, 2009 at 3:25 pm

Looking at the tatoo guy, pretty obvious he thought he was giving the equivalent of “one star only.”

Morality: not doing what the law allows. At the heart and soul its why the right wingnut party is facist at heart. They don’t teach morality, they impose their value system. Very taliban of them.

# 27 Jägermeister said, on June 23rd, 2009 at 4:25 pm

#20 – N74JW – I would not have done them if I were a tattoo artists.

And you thought her tattoos were bad… check out the tattoo artist.

# 28 Jägermeister said, on June 23rd, 2009 at 4:25 pm

Oops… he was already posted…

# 29 Hugh Ripper said, on June 23rd, 2009 at 4:28 pm

Kids need to be taught to be responsible for their own actions. Blaming the tattooist is a cop out.

# 30 GregA said, on June 23rd, 2009 at 4:28 pm

Im sorry, as far as over the top facial tattoos go, hers isn’t that bad…

Still I will decline the facial tattoo…

# 31 Sea Lawyer said, on June 23rd, 2009 at 5:00 pm

Update: Here’s the tattoo ‘artist’.

He’s teh sexay!

# 32 nadrew said, on June 23rd, 2009 at 5:27 pm

i think they are cute.
good ink.
she should just keep them.

# 33 N74JW said, on June 23rd, 2009 at 5:35 pm

The tats don’t look too bad, now…
Work like that says much about a person. We all know the issues. Try getting a decent job looking like that? I don’t know how things are in Belgium, but they still have people there. Wait until she gets older, and they start to sag…

# 34 Rick's Cafe said, on June 23rd, 2009 at 5:50 pm

# too many to count

….the tattoo man is greedy for money and shouldn’t have done all that work….

- But this action would only come from someone who doesn’t like doing their job.

This particular artist not only likes his work, he lives it thru his own body art and shares his love with others. Would guess a kinship developed between the girl and the artist as displayed by the tat (and various quotes). The tat is a real work of talent and art, balancing different size/style stars on the unique angles of that particular face bring out highlights that change an average, forgettable looking person into an eye turning, stunningly unique beauty.

# 35 Greg Allen said, on June 23rd, 2009 at 6:03 pm

I wonder if this woman has bipolar disorder? This seems like something a manic person would do and then regret.

# 36 BubbaRay said, on June 23rd, 2009 at 6:40 pm

I’m sorry, but how could someone (the “artist”) make himself look like that permanently? I don’t understand.

# 37 faxon said, on June 23rd, 2009 at 7:26 pm

The poor lady! Hasn’t she suffered enough ridicule and taunting from a cruel world? Can’t we all just get along? It’s a big world, there is room for everybody. Everyone makes a mistake or two in their life.

# 38 faxon said, on June 23rd, 2009 at 7:28 pm

As far as the tattoo artist is concerned, he did nothing wrong, and is owed an apology. I think he is a moving piece or art. Not everyone can appreciate the courage he has to become such a statement against conformity. I admire him.

# 39 deowll said, on June 23rd, 2009 at 8:12 pm

I know some of you guys think Christians are nuts but if they are they sure don’t hold a monopoly on that condition.

# 40 chocolim said, on June 23rd, 2009 at 8:14 pm

If they when to court the tattoo guy will have the electric chair

# 41 Rich said, on June 23rd, 2009 at 8:48 pm

Okay, I’ll get this outta the way up front: Adam Curry smokes dope and it makes me doubt his judgement and his every word. And I won’t dare mention my own doughnut addiction. There!

Is this the first time a young woman has lied and tried to get others in trouble to cover her own tracks? I guess it is.

# 42 Lou said, on June 23rd, 2009 at 9:11 pm

What a ftard.

# 43 Zybch said, on June 23rd, 2009 at 11:22 pm

#41 He hasn’t touched the stuff for some time now.

# 44 Alfred1 said, on June 24th, 2009 at 12:50 am

Until I saw his tats…it puzzled how anyone could do that to her…clearly they wouldn’t have set off any alarm bells in him.

# 45 Tattoo U said, on June 24th, 2009 at 1:24 pm

The case of the 18-year-old Belgian girl Kimberley Vlaeminck who woke up with 56 stars tattooed on her face, instead of the 3 stars she asked for is a hoax. The girl has declined all publicity and only given interviews to Belgian radio station MNM. The advertising agency behind MNM launched Kimberlizer , which uses webcam images to put stars on the user’s own face. Above that, the logo of MNM is a STAR!

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