Gold and silver metallic temporary tattoos of lattice bands and small triangles on a woman's upper arm, with a coin-embellished top and chain jewellery beside them.

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Gold metallic temporary tattoos on upper arm

Geometric · Upper arm · Colour · Photo

A close crop of a woman's upper arm and shoulder, with no face visible. Two bands of interlocking gold lattice shapes, with dark square accents, run down the upper arm, and a row of small gold triangles sits above them. The metallic ink catches the warm light against the skin, and a coin-embellished top and layered chain jewellery frame the right side of the composition.

Geometric Upper arm Shoulder Lattice Triangle Geometric pattern Metallic Temporary tattoo Gold Coin Chain Necklace

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Mrs Hollis had the stall nearest the fish market, and by eleven on Saturdays the gilt transfers were gone. Vera Dunning, who had come up from the village in her brother's van, stood at the back of the trestle with a tin of coins and a pot of size, and watched the girls queue. They wanted the lattice bands for dances at the Corn Exchange. They wanted triangles for the hem of a frock, or for the wrist of a boyfriend who would wear nothing else.

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The transfers were her idea, though nobody in Thornwick would admit it. Last winter she had spent three nights at the kitchen table pricking a pattern out of a fabric book from Manchester, tracing the interlocking diamonds with a darning needle until her fingers ached. Her father called it foolishness. Her mother said nothing and kept the lamp lit later than usual.

On the last Saturday of June a man in a grey suit stopped at the stall and asked, very politely, who had drawn the squares with the black centres. Vera said her own hand had. He bought six sheets, paid in silver, and asked whether she would consider sending a set to a shop in Leeds. She folded the coins into her apron pocket and felt them knock against her hip all the way home.

She never did send them. But the next week she sold the first set herself, to a customer who paid in pennies and pressed the bands along her forearm, then held it up to the window to watch the sun catch the gold.