KORTRIJK (Belgium) - A BELGIAN teenager has told police how she emerged from a tattoo parlour with 56 stars over one side of her face, rather than the three she had asked for, prosecutors said.

'I said this part, the top, is OK, but not the rest,' Ms Kimberley Vlaeminck from the city of Kortrijk, north-west of Brussels, said.

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Ms Vlaeminck's plight struck an instant chord on Facebook, where she had nearly 3000 fans within hours of her story being reported.

Other sites, such as dListed, weren't as kind, crowning her 'Dumb B---- of the Day' under the heading, 'Twinkle, Twinkle Little Dumba**'.

The 18-year-old said she fell asleep during the procedure, and woke up in pain when her nose was being tattooed.

A spokesman for the Ms Kortrijk prosecutors' office said police were investigating after a complaint from the teenager.

The tattoo artist said Ms Vlaeminck had agreed to 56 stars.

'She agreed, but when her father saw it, the trouble started,' Belgian newspaper Het Laatste Nieuws quoted the man as saying.

Ms Vlaeminck said she wanted to keep the tattoos on her forehead but would have the rest removed. -- REUTERS