A teenager got the shock of her life when she asked for a few small tattoo stars and awoke to find half her face was covered in them.
Kimberley Vlaeminck, 18, has begun legal proceedings against the tattoo artist who she claims went way beyond his brief.
The Belgian teen says she woke up in pain after falling asleep as Rouslan Toumaniantz drew the permanent ink designs.
She then discovered 56 "frightening" black stars of different sizes from her nose to ear and brow to chin.
Ms Vlaeminck said she feels devastated.
She said: "I wanted him to tattoo on just three little points but he suggested three stars, saying it would look prettier.
"When he started the tattooing I didn't want to feel the pain and so I went to sleep. I had got up at five in the morning."
She told the Flemish newspaper Het Laatste Nieuws: "I woke up when he was starting to tattoo my nose and I saw what he had already done. I counted 56 stars, it's frightening."
But Mr Toumaniantz, who works in the town of Courtrai, denied that his client had fallen asleep and said he fulfilled her request.
"She was awake the whole time," he said. "I don't use hypnosis or drugs. She agreed to it. The problems started when her father and his friend saw the tattoos."
He added: "Basically she stood up during the session. She went down on the couch, stood up, looked in the mirror, went down and not only can I say it but I have one witness who saw everything."
Ms Vlaeminck, from the city of Kortrijk, about 50 miles north-west of Brussels, said she wanted to keep the tattoos on her forehead but would have the rest removed.
She now hopes they can be taken off using laser treatment, which would cost thousands of pounds.
A local prosecutor said Ms Vlaeminck had complained to the police and made allegations of assault and battery.
