Bride squad tattoos

A sheet of these carries dozens of designs, which means one sheet covers a group of eight with a great deal left over, and it is why this is the cheapest way to make a weekend look coordinated. They take about a minute each: paper on skin, a wet cloth for twenty seconds, peel. Hand them out on the first evening rather than saving them for the last, because a tattoo applied on Friday is in every photograph taken over two days and one applied on Sunday is in none.

Two things are worth knowing before they go on. They come off with oil rather than with scrubbing, so a bottle of baby oil or a makeup remover in the bag saves somebody an unhappy ten minutes at the sink on the Sunday. And anything that sits on skin for two days is worth a patch test the night before if anybody in the group has ever reacted to a plaster or to a cheap earring, which is the same precaution that belongs on the jewelry page and for the same reason.

This page is one slice of the Bride Squad catalogue, cut by the job rather than by the shelf the pieces sit on.