If I don't love you, why did I get this temporary tattoo?

[venta]

Last Friday, in Whitby[*] I ambled into the Spa to get my wristband. Passing Dr Geof's excellent stall of oddities I was inveigled into having one of his tattoos.

Now, last time I experimented with a fake tattoo, it barely lasted until I got to the gig in whose honour it had been applied. So I wasn't optimistic.

But faced with a couple of sheets of excellent tea-based options, I elected to have the "one milk no sugar" badge that graces my jacket replicated on my shoulder.

Dr Geof's current minion applied it, and tweeted a picture to advertise his wares . (For the avoidance of confusion: the tweet has three pictures in it, only one of which is me - click the little thumbnail thingies to embiggen. It is a pretty awful photo, but that's not really his fault, I don't photograph well.)

Anyway, the tattoo lasted into the evening, when I wore my matching jacket. By morning, it had picked up some fluff, and coped with a light scrubbing in the shower. It made it through the rest of Whitby, and survived trial by Nellie at the 80's sauna night.

This morning (a week later!) I decided it was looking a bit tired and grubby, and removed it. With a bit of violence, it rubbed off as sticky, sticky shreds, and the last remnants still resisted scrubbing.

Blimey, do modern-day fake tattoos last. kate_r tells me they're the same as the stick-on race numbers used by triathletes. (She also tells me that baby oil is supposed to remove them, and doesn't. I didn't have any on hand to try.)

In summary, Dr Geof's tattoos are bloody good. Just be sure you block some time in your diary for getting them off again.

[*] Proper review of Whitby soon.

Comments

[sammason.livejournal.com]

Your post showed me the same picture twice. Your leg's hairier than most women's legs.

Why not simply wait for the fake tattoo to wash off? In case relevant: after a grown-up tattoo (couldn't resist saying that) I find it takes 5 days before the biggest scabs fall off. Before and after that, I use Bepanthen oil-based nappy cream. Apparently you're not supposed to use aqueous creams while the art's healing.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Hmm. Apparently Twitter won't let you link directly to individual photos, so the second link just shows the whole tweet again. I'd better fix that. The tweet contains three pictures, only one of which is me (the other two - with the "All For The Cake" tattoo - are maviscruet's arm).

I didn't want to wait for the tattoo to wash off because I imagine it was going to take a long time, and it was looking increasingly icky. Tomorrow I have to wear a white shirt, and didn't want it showing through as a grubby dark patch.