Needles vs Tattoos. My biggest fear is currently standing in the way of a long-held dream of mine: getting a custom-designed tattoo down the left side of my back. The idea has been discussed and the design is in the works… The rah-rah team have signed up for moral support… Then I visit a doctor to get myself diagnosed with my latest exotic disease, she mentions a needle and I break her arm in three places before running for the hills. It always puzzled me why my parents were so worried about drugs: “mom, do you see me sticking a needle between my toes? Really? Even after that episode when I ran away to avoid the varsity loan blood test?”
So if only, if only… all tattoos could be as easily applicable as these dainty, gorgeous and totally fab ones from Chanel. Yep, the iconic fashion house was one of many to adorn their models with temporary tattoos during their Spring 2010 runway shows, and is so far the only house to actually bring out a range of limited-edition, temporary tattoos! It’s called Les Trompe L’Oeil Temporary Skin Art, and the designs are based on the work global creative director Peter Philips did for their Paris runway show. And… wait for it… they’re sort of affordable! (well, affordable relative to blah blah blah…) They come in packs of 55 and go for $75 a pop. It’s Chanel, oh-khay! Available from Feb at chanel.com.
Another Chanel design.
Methinks this might be a new trend, seeing as tattooed ladies are making a concerted effort to take their place in the fashion limelight. The Suicide Girls site has long been the stuff fetish dreams are made of, while MTV VJ Ruby Rose is putting tattooed females right out there in the heart of the pop culture citadel. There are more actual female tattoo artists than ever, and iconic tattoo artist Kat Von D’s (LA Ink, people) even featured in an ad campaign for Sephora, promoting her line of tattoo cover-ups! Okay, wait, that last one is actually a bit countercultureproductive… And the photos are a photoshop triumph…
But I ramble. Thing is, expensive or no, for the needle-shy likes of me, temporary tattoos are probably the way to go. Especially if they’re from Chanel – they’re guaranteed to be way better than your average lucky-packet find. But I suspect I’ll be burning through a lot of credit cards before I finally scrape up the guts for the real thing…
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