Gold and silver metallic geometric temporary tattoos on a woman's forearm and wrist, including a pineapple design on the hand.

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Metallic gold and silver wrist tattoos

Geometric · Forearm · Colour · Photo

A woman's forearm and hand show several metallic temporary tattoos in gold and silver. The designs include a scale pattern, woven and chevron bands, diamond geometric motifs and a small pineapple on the back of the hand. The flat, shiny foil-like designs sit against tanned skin, with a grey t-shirt, denim shorts and a sandy beach behind.

Geometric Forearm Hand Scale Chevron Geometric pattern Diamond Pineapple Band Metallic

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Mae Corrigan kept a tin of Dutch metal leaf under the cloakroom counter at the Marine Ballroom, and a rule that nobody got a design until the band struck up. By eight on a Saturday the queue ran past the lifebelts on the pier, and she worked fast, brushing a warm size onto each wrist from a pot she heated on a gas ring out back, then pressing thin gold and silver leaf down with the side of her thumb.

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The scales were Dolly Aske's idea, after she'd seen the mackerel laid out in rows on the fish stall by the harbour. Mae did them first, overlapping arcs like slates on a wet roof. Then came the chevrons for the girls who wanted something that looked like a sailor's band without the needle, and diamonds for the ones who wanted to look as if they'd come up from London. The pineapple she copied from a tin label her brother had carried home off a freighter, and nobody ever asked where it had started.

Ted Harker came in on the last Saturday of August, asked for a silver band on his left wrist, and held the arm out flat on the counter as if it were a ticket. She pressed the leaf down, counted to thirty, and peeled the backing away slowly. He turned his wrist toward the lamp, and the metal caught the spinning mirror ball and threw small coins across the ceiling. "Will it last?" he asked. "Until your first swim," she said. "Then it goes back into the sea with everything else."

He danced with Dolly anyway. When the last waltz ended, Mae found a flake of silver on the floorboards by the bandstand, bright as a scale, and kept it in her purse for a week.