Woman 'falls asleep, has 56 stars tattooed on face'

Updated November 5 2012 - 8:46pm, first published June 17 2009 - 6:02am
Kimberley Vlaeminck
Kimberley Vlaeminck

An 18-year-old Belgian woman is planning to sue a tattoo parlour which allegedly covered half of her face with stars while she was asleep.Kimberley Vlaeminck claims she went into the parlour and asked for three small stars to be tattooed onto her face.But the woman claims she fell asleep and woke to find 56 black stars stretching from her chin right up to her forehead.--------------------------MORE ODD NEWS ...

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