A flash sheet of metallic gold, silver and black temporary tattoo designs, including feathers, arrows, chevrons, a hamsa hand and geometric borders, shown on a white background.

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Metallic temporary tattoo flash sheet

Geometric · Mixed · Flash

The sheet shows a set of metallic temporary tattoo designs on a white background, including three feathers, a looped infinity symbol, stacked chevrons, a triangle, crossed arrows, a hamsa hand with an eye, and vertical bands of triangles and diamond patterns. The designs use clean outlines and solid fills in gold, silver and black foil, arranged in an evenly spaced grid with a few words set in block lettering.

Geometric Feather Arrow Infinity Chevron Triangle Hamsa Eye Love Heart Geometric pattern

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Dear Tomás, the sheet arrived in the same envelope as the gas bill, which is how I knew it was from you, because nobody else in this family would post a thing so flimsy and expect it to survive Royal Mail. Your mother says you have gone soft over a market stall in Lisbon. I told her no, he has gone soft in the heart, which is different and far better.

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I have looked at it every evening since. The hamsa sits in the middle of the page with its gold eye open, and I am told it keeps off the bad luck of strangers, so I have pressed it to the inside of my wrist where the pulse is, as the card instructed, and told the kettle to mind its manners. The words HEART and MIND are printed upside down, so that you read them from your own side of the table. The grey box says LOVE in capitals, and beside it the little chain runs down the page like a dropped thread. I cut the chevrons out with the kitchen scissors and laid them on the windowsill in order, largest to smallest, like steps for a cat.

The arrows I pasted to the inside of the front door, pointing up the stairs. Mrs Okafor next door asked what they were for and I said they were for people who keep forgetting where they live. She laughed, then took a sheet for her grandson, who is seven and will wear everything.

Come home at Easter and bring the rest of the sheet, the one with the triangle border. I have a great deal of skin I would like decorated and not enough nerve to do it without you.