56 tattoos on the face, yikes!

An eighteen year old Belgium girl Kimberley Vlaminck is suing her tattooist $14,000 for giving her 56 star tattoos covering almost her entire left face while she requested only 3. She said the tattooist Rouslan Toumaniantz spoke only broken English and French, thus misunderstood her true wish. She claimed she felt asleep and did not feel anything during the tattoo session. Toumaniantz defended that she was awake the whole time and 56 stars were exactly what she requested. He also said there was a witness who could provide confirmation. But despite his firm stance, he is willing to pay half of the surgical cost to remove the tattoo due to his high preference for customer satisfaction.

Many questions remain. What was she thinking if she indeed genuinely wanted 56 stars? Was there a special meaning of the number 56? What’s the track record like, did the tattooist make similar “mistakes” to other customers due to miscommunication? Did the tattooist make sure that she was fully awake (rather than being drunk or drug-induced) before and during the tattoo session? Did she pay in full for the price of 56 stars? If so, did she make a scene? Any witness of such commotion? A court case could certainly help answering some of these questions and weighting their validity.