Grid of sixteen numbered metallic gold and coloured temporary tattoo designs, including arrows, feathers, chains, triangles, chevrons and a dreamcatcher, shown on white backgrounds.

Sixteen metallic gold temporary tattoo designs

Geometric · Colour · Flash

A numbered sheet grid showing sixteen temporary tattoo designs in metallic gold and silver, with some turquoise, pink and green accents. The designs include geometric bands of triangles, diamonds and chevrons, chain borders, arrows, peacock and other feathers, a dreamcatcher, a seahorse and fish-scale patterns. Each panel is set on a plain white background and arranged in a tidy four by four layout.

Geometric Botanical Arrow Feather Chain Triangle Diamond Chevron Dreamcatcher Seahorse Peacock feather Fish scale Necklace Sun Star Border Lace

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The sheet had spent three weeks at the bottom of a cardboard box under the bunting and a spare roll of gaffer tape, sixteen panels of gold and silver waiting for someone brave enough to tear them. Mrs Okafor, who ran the church hall lettings and held firm views on glitter, said they were a waste of money. Then she spent a whole Saturday morning peeling chevrons off the backing paper with her thumbnail, humming.

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Dilys was meant to be doing the table plan. Instead she cut panel nine along its dotted line and carried the diamonds, the little arrows and the seahorse to the kitchen window, where the light came in flat and yellow over the sink. She pressed a strip of chain border onto the inside of her wrist, wet the cloth the way the leaflet said, and counted to thirty. When the paper lifted, the links were there, bright as something dropped from a jeweller's tray, and they did not come off when she ran the tap.

Old Mr Hale, the groom's grandfather, had been a tailor in Leeds for forty years and had opinions about thread. He wandered in for a cup of tea, saw the gold and asked for the panel with the arrows crossing through a web of lines. 'Keeps the bad ones out,' he said, and pressed it inside the front cover of the hymn book with his thumb, smoothing it flat the way he would smooth a seam.

On Sunday the organ started and the congregation rose. Dilys, at the end of the third pew, found the right page and saw the web of gold lying across the frontispiece, catching the light from the nave windows. Then the bride came down the aisle and everyone turned to look at her, which was how it should be. Dilys kept her wrist tucked under the hymnal, where the links still shone.