Sheet of gold and silver metallic temporary tattoo designs, including triangles, diamonds, chevrons, leaf bands and arrows, on a white background.

Gold and silver metallic temporary tattoo sheet

Geometric · Colour · Flash

A sheet of metallic temporary tattoo designs shown flat on a white background, with bands of diamond lattice, leaf chains, rows of chevrons and diamonds, triangle clusters and arrow motifs. The linework is solid and outlined, with some elements filled in and others left as open outlines. The designs are rendered in gold and silver foil, and the arrangement is ordered in horizontal strips and mirrored pairs.

Geometric Triangle Diamond Chevron Arrow Leaf Lattice Stripe Metallic Temporary tattoo

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Rain had been drumming on the awning of the Sunday market since before seven, and Ruth Achebe had stopped pretending the canvas would hold. She peeled another sheet of foil transfers from its backing and laid it flat on the trestle, pressing each corner down with her thumb so the water could not lift the gold. Chevrons, diamonds, a band of leaves. Most people wanted the arrows, because arrows looked as if they meant something.

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A boy of about nine came back for the third time that morning, a sandwich bag of coins clutched in one fist. He wanted the small arrows, but he had only enough for two. Ruth counted the coins twice, then gave him the arrows and a sheet of silver triangles he had not asked for. "Those are for when you're older," she said. He looked at her as though she had told him something he could already see for himself.

The last sheet in the stack was older than the others, its backing gone soft and yellow. Her mother had sold these from this same pitch for thirty years, and tucked behind it was a folded square of paper in her careful hand: Gold is for the ones who are going. Silver is for the ones who stay. Ruth read it twice, then folded it back into the sheet.

When the rain eased at noon, she pressed the last pair of arrows onto the edge of the trestle, points facing the station, and left them there for whoever passed next.