Flash sheet of gold and silver metallic geometric tattoo designs, including arrows, diamonds, a lattice band and sun motifs, on a dark grey background.

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Metallic geometric tattoo design sheet

Geometric · Mixed · Flash

A sheet of metallic gold and silver temporary tattoo designs on a dark grey background. The designs include stacked arrow and chevron bands, diamond chains, a diamond lattice strip, a row of sun or starburst motifs, and a small scrolling ornament in black and silver. The flat, solid shapes are arranged in vertical columns with a reflective surface beneath.

Geometric Arrow Chevron Diamond Lattice Sun Starburst Scroll Ornament Band Metallic

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Mind the step, it's loose, same as everything else this side of the big top. Sit where you can see the wire. Now, you want to know why Mrs Ada Pardoe painted her girls silver and gold the last summer we still had lions. I'll tell it my way, which is the only way I've got left.

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The show was called Tremayne's Grand Marvel by then, and it had shrunk to four wagons, one elephant that wouldn't kneel, and a ringmaster who owed money to everyone between Truro and Penzance. Ada ran the wardrobe. She'd kept a tin of transfer sheets from a shop in Birmingham, the sort that sold metal stickers to girls going to dances. Gold and silver chevrons, diamonds stacked like fish scales, little suns with rays like knives. She laid them out on the caravan table and said that if the crowd couldn't have elephants, they could at least have something that flashed under the lamps.

The turn came on the Thursday. The lamp failed in the middle of the trapeze act and the tent went black, and the only light left was the shine off the girls' arms, diamonds and suns catching whatever moon came through the canvas seams. Nobody in the seats moved. Ada stood at the ring edge with her hands in her apron, and I heard her laugh once, low, the way you laugh at a joke you didn't make.

We didn't get the lions back. We got the wagons sold, the elephant sent to a farm near Bodmin, and a boy from the back row who still writes to Ada every Christmas from Leeds. He asks about the suns. She always writes back that they came off in the rain, which is true, and that she kept one sheet, which is also true, pressed flat in the back of her Bible where the light can't get at it.