By now, either from ModBlog or from viral media, you know the romantic story of Lesya and Rouslan Toumaniantz (click that link if you live under a rock) and all the fuss that her facial tattoo of his name across her face generated, a tattoo they did not long after their love-at-first-sight meeting. I wanted to share these recent photos of the healed tattoo — say what you want about the story behind the tattoo, but wow, Lesya really makes this tattoo work! It looks great on her — of course it helps that she’s beautiful and photogenic to start — and you can click any of these photos to see them at a large size.
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93 responses to “Lesya Toumaniantz Photo Gallery”
Media are the new Church. They are the new axis of governments to control sheeple. It was Christian Church before, now it’s them. They are just here to hide the fascism that took over in Europe and in the US. And when they are not falsifying the truth, they need to entertain idiots with … circenses. The circenses of “panem et circenses” of Rome, it’s them today, and they are here to hide what’s important from your eyes with, let’s say, a soccer match, a nfl final or … my face tattoos, or whatever useless bullshit. What is important in this world is that big corporations did took over and reduce most people in the western world to slave or semi slave condition when 50 years ago people were free. Feel free to believe that my woman’s face is a topic that is important enough to be debated, but it’s not. It’s just presented by them in a derogatory form because its a more than obvious mark that we, me and my wife, don’t give a flying fuck about “their law”. We won’t be employees of their trusts, we won’t buy their brands, we won’t watch their media and don’t want their system. We refuse it and use our freedom, the same freedom that most people limit through the image given to them by the media about what can be done and what should not. For the rest I feel like its way above my forces to patiently read through all the BS that was said and to answer to people one by one. Again, you are all talking about my life, you don’t know me, you judge me, through the image given to you about me by the media, and you just should do like me, that is, work to make your own existences successful (maybe they are already, maybe not, actually I don’t give a fuck), and making your own existences successful will be better achieved by focusing on your lives and not on mine. I have my third shop to open chaps. That is real. Not basic online trolling.
God @rouslan you are not seeing the issue here. And if u hate the corporations so much why were you bragging about how CNN and other media posts were reporting your story.maybe it’s different in Belgium, but 50 years ago it ws 1963 and atleast in the USA where i live, people were definitely not “free”. If you were really up on your game you would be able to approach this in a more inquisitive manner atleast at the people on here who are questioning your actions in a respectful way. But you continue to bite back with negativity. And I didn’t read your story in those rags you mentioned. I came on it in the post here and also other reputable sites tht actually tried to present your story respectfully. You wanted people to dig into your personal life as a way to showcase some of the trite comments on “society” as you posted above. You wanted to sacrifice your lady for the sake of making some holier than thou point. You wanted the attention and $$$ this story might bring your business. Your more a part of the society you claim to hate than u think. U put yr lady out there to the world like it was an auction block for your own desire at fame + notoriety at the expense of a kind ethical stance towards someone u claim to love. I feel so bad for you, and I’m sorry for you.
So even if I disagree with you or not, I said we should sit down as men and discuss the situation. You should stop attacking people and accuse them of trolling this forum. Why not do an interview with shannon in regards to your ethical stance on body modification and tell your side and your thoughts. If shannon does not want to do it, I want to interview you and at least give your place to speak if shannon will publish it. Like I said, Lets be men about the situation.
E-mail me if you are interested in discussing your thoughts further. And like I said before it is about the discussion. I like intellectual talk. Even if we dont agree one can learn something from everyone.
And leysa, I hope you are reading these posts. If things work out good for you guys, then thats great! Really rooting for you guys despite what i see as skewed logic by yr dude. But I hope tht if things go sour, you guys will part lovingly and as friends and that you will not try staying with this guy just because there are a lot of naysayers and bc he marked you so property like.and same for rouslan, that he will not try staying with you bc of guilt. People change.
@ Rouslan is fucking hilarious. He claims to have no time to respond to legitimate criticisms, then “writes” this absurd diatribe about how the “media” has poisoned us against him! Thing is, I bet a lot of people here don’t need to read about the almighty and powerful Rouslan in order to be disturbed by his near-pathological behavior. All you need to do is look at those pictures of Lesya. Nobody who actually values the LIFE of another human being would do that to someone. Nobody who understand the gravity of the situation would sit around making absurd ad hominen attacks on everyone who call it like they see it. Rouslan, you are a fraud and a coward. If I had the $$$ for a plane ticket I would absolutely love to say it to you face.
Mary… Again and again I NEVER asked any media to come to me…
And Spider-Man … I don’t need to sit with you and talk about what you decide I need to talk about. My skin is my skin, your skin is your skin, my wife’s skin is her skin and, as your opinions, this is private. It is our right to do what we want in the realm of our privacy. I never asked for this privacy to become public, AND last but not least, you all, saying what you say, are talking about what is happening INSIDE the realm of our privacy, my wife and my own privacy. Do what you all want in your fucking lives but stop stepping IN MY LIFE. Your freedom stops at mine and mine at yours. What I say since the start is that you are all playing in my garden. Go play in yours and leave us in peace. Or if you feel that we take too much of freedom, then discuss with politicians about changing the laws in your country and mine, but as long as things are what they are, YOU ARE IN MY GARDEN, simple as that. You step over the border of my freedom. You mind my business and its just wrong.
We are happy the way we want to be happy, Shannon was just showing images of a tattoo that is the first of its kind, displaying a woman that has more beauty and love in her heart, more ability to sacrifice herself and to commit than 99.9999% of human beings…. for the rest you are not between me and her, we didn’t ask for anybody to come in there, we asked nothing from the press, and every time we are asked to do itw or tv it never ends up on air because what we say are the words of two reasonable persons that love each other and plan to build their lives together, and nowhere the daily trash that the media expect us to say. Come on my FB page look my work as tattoo artist, come to my shop to discuss and drink a beer if you wish, but for the rest please mind your business…
And to the idiots that are going to come and say “how can u say u want no media and do TVs”… After taking so much BS on your head its kind of normal to try to answer and give “another” point of view … another point if view about my private life, how sarcastic it is to say that. Yes I try to just correct the name the media give to me but that never goes through because the image of two normal people who work, are successful in life and plan even better for the future first doesn’t sell paper and second doesn’t fit with their prejudicial ideas.
So no, I am not surprised to see so much stupidity and prejudice in the media but yes, I am surprised to see so much prejudice and bigotry on a website dedicated to body modification where close to everybody will have tattoos, where everybody claims for his freedom to get tattoos as opposed to what was acceptable a couple dozen years ago, but where so many of those people involved into body modification, sometimes even professionals, will discuss about barriers that need to be put on freedom… bigots discussing the difference between the good way to tattoo and the bad way to tattoo. So yes, I tend to be gross with idiots. Fuck off and get a life seems to me a very sane answer to most of the few words I could read above.
@rouslan the fact that you would use the word ” sacrifice” in regards to your ” wife” says it all. Many here want to support you, but again if you didn’t want people invading your privacy why would you even let Shannon post the personal details of your story? I understand you want to post your work, and you should as an artist, but couldn’t you have atleast shrouded this a little only because you knew that there would be more critique pushed your way because of the whole Kimberly thing + your ex who also has your name on her face? If this were a 1 st time thing I’m pretty sure you wouldn’t be getting as much commentary as you have been getting. You do facial tattoos on other people, why couldn’t you have just let this sit in a gallery of your work without exploiting the woman that made this “sacrifice”? It’s because you have something to prove about ” what’s yours” that goes beyond her or anyone else here. If you wanted nothing from the press you wouldn’t have continued to comment in your Facebook page, or here. If you didn’t want your privacy invaded, you would have not shared this story.
I have a couple of questions for Rouslan:
Why have you spelt your name differently on the tattoo? Is it so it could potentially be changed to read ‘Russian’ if required (from some angles it already looks like this is what it says) or is it a symmetry/aesthetic thing?
Whereabouts on your face is the tattoo of Lesya’s name? I can’t make it out in any of the photos.
It’s not worth the time to argue or attempt a discussion about this with him. He has done something controversial and should have expected people to react this way. He’s making himself look like an ass in the way he’s responding to people’s questions. People are going to talk, if you don’t like it you should probably stop reading and responding..
I totally agree bt I think it’s important for him to be given questions to think about since he is obviously looking at these comments. I also hope leysa looks at these comments inorder to see how full of holes some of his reasoning is. I have no hatred for either of them.but The whole thing just makes me incredibly sad.
That tattoo is not the first of its kind at all. If you do a quick google search you will notice many gang tattoos look identical. I like the garden metaphor. Really…if we are in your metiphorical garden then it would be glorious to burn it to the ground. But I guess we already did that. You are the wounded, weak, burnt, animal.
This “discussion” is like junk food for the brain. No different than reality tv.
The fact that his former girlfriend also has a disfiguring tattoo of his name on her face would be a good idea for a follow up story.
How about an interview with her about what she thinks now about this tattoo.
Let her tell about the promises he made to her and what really happened.
About the fact that she cannot get into a new relationship because noone would accept a girlfriend with a huge name tattoo of her ex on her face.
About seeing the name of her ex each time she looks into a mirror, when she just wants to forget this relationship.
I guess this could be a wakeup call for naive and insecure women who fall prey for such ideas.
@harald that would be amazing, and who knows maybe she will come out and say that rouslan is her friend and that she still feels honored to have his name on her face. I’m friends with most of my exes. Maybe that would be good to see.( I’m not trying to be sarcastic btw at all) I really want to feel better about this story.
Rouslan Toumaniantz – You know for someone that continues to state that you shouldn’t be judged … well you really shouldn’t be judging others then should you?
Or is it do as I say not as I do?
Friggin Hypocrit
Oh and LOL with the “you wouldnt say that to my face crap”…watch out for the tough guy here!
Rouslan got legitimate criticism and discussion in this thread and responded to it with insults and anger. He bragged about media attention, and then got extremely upset over commenters supposedly invading his privacy.
Most of us on modblog want to make this into a nice story. We support eyeball tattoos, amputations, heavily-modified genitals. We would love to support this. However, it’s clear that a lot of people in these comments have legitimate concerns. I’m glad that she likes it, and that you two are happy together. I hope that this lasts. I hope that your anger here does not represent your anger in relationships, because I do sincerely not want this to ruin her life. It was her choice. It was your choice to do it. But seeing as how this is out in the open, it would be good for you to have an honest discussion about the positives and possible consequences and not attack everyone in such an immature fashion the moment they question your decisions.
Responding in such a way is adding fuel to the fire. If you want the modded community to respect you, act in a way that deserves respect.
” the romantic story” really shannon? Im glad u are trying to be supportive, this girl needs some support, but is this story truly romantic? if they were matching 5 inch face tattoos maybe….
The tattoo is cool , but the resultat is bad, i’m an tattoo artist amateur and my tattoos is better than this, need retouch ,especially a tattoo in the face 😉
isn’t anyone happy for anybody anymore?
its THEIR life.. not YOURS.
move along, but, i notice that many hate/fear ‘freedom of choice’.
of course its their life. nobody is disputing that. But Rouslan brought this negativity on himself by being an ass in his previous comments. We all want to happy for them.
She is such an idiot, beside the fact she got such an obnoxious tattoo across her entire face, but for a guy she had met in person for less than 24 hours..
“more beauty and love in her heart, more ability to sacrifice herself and to commit than 99.9999% of human beings” well yeah Ruslan, thats why you took advantage of her. Man, I’m reading your answers and I just shake my head. You have to take some responsibility for what you’re doing to other people. You’re not a responsible tattooist, and thats why so many people in the tattoo scene dislike what you do. Well, its too fuckin late now for Lesya, but think twice next time before you ruin somebodys face for your own powertrip.
What a couple of wastes of life, and with that tat, good luck being any part of normal society. She has demonstrated unspeakably low self-esteem and he has demonstrated incredible narcissism, but from the looks of him, can’t in the world imagine why, what an ugly chode!
Hey all, I stumbled on this story. I’m an impostor in some ways as – hands up – I have no bod mods. I do have a PhD in Social Sciences though and I find this really interesting. I think there is a lot of hostility here towards the couple (full disclosure, I think a face tattoo of your boyfriend’s name is not the best idea). One thing I noticed is comments from Rouslan, but none from Lesya. Can we hear from her? Or am I too late to the game?
im all for tattoos, I love them and encourage anyone with an artistic and creative side to get ‘em, but to cover your face with someone’s name is just ignorant. I get it, she loves the guy and wants the whole world to know it, but that is going to be on her FACE for the rest of her life! and when she looks in the mirror that is what she will see, if they break up that’s all she’ll see. if she tries to get it laser removed it’ll be scarred, but during the process she’ll have to keep her face covered and away from the sun. and she can forget getting a decent job or career now. she is a beautiful girl yes, but acting on impulse when it comes to something like that isn’t smart. if she wanted his name visible to show off she should’ve gotten it on her wrist or something, somewhere that can be easily covered if she needs to. the little “all for love” above the brow is cute, I think that would’ve been enough, and could’ve been covered with makeup when going to work or special occasions.
I just want to bring this to folks to attention as to what happens to stories like this.
https://www.facebook.com/divinethegreat
scroll this page and see the 1st copy cat of the lesya tattoo on a girl probably younger than Leysa honestly who seems a bit out of it. This tattooer, who owns the shop project ink in los angeles, has been marking a lot of girls with his name, but this is the 1st Huge face tattoo that mimics Rouslan’s. He tattoos girls for free if they get his name, and in some cases apparently trades sex or sex acts for some of these tattoos. The piercing community has been after this shop to close down because he is violating a ton of health codes and turning out shitty piercings as well as questionable tattoos. This guy makes me ashamed to be tattooed and pierced. Anyway check it out + if you live in L.A., please call the health department on this shop. Somebody is going to get a deadly infection etc if they have not already.
and just to reiterate, Im all okay for face tattoos, and wish Lesya+ Rouslan the very best but the way Rouslan presented this tattoo to the world was purely for shock value/internet fame, and of course somebody stupid was going to pick up on it, and use it to abuse someone else. So not cool. It creates a chain of events that makes it hard for every modified person out there.You can’t help stupid people, but as an upstanding practitioner of this art form, you also have a responsibility not to add to it’s cause.
btw, @me A lot of people here were not that hard on Rouslan as they could have been, a majority tried to be understanding but his comments made it obvious that his intentions behind this tattoo were pretty ego driven+ more for himself than his lady…
also want folks to scroll down this article here to the comments– Rouslan is apparently commenting on this, saying what you’d expect
http://nowaygirl.com/tattoo-designs/another-girl-tattoos-boyfriends-name-across-her-face/
of course its her body to do what she pleases. But I’m not so sure he fully understands exactly how this tattooer has been trying to put his work out there, If you dig you will find some pretty disturbing stuff in terms of what he thinks of women–i refuse to link to any of it…. Supporting Rouslan is one thing bt throwing support behind this divine the great dude would be a tragedy for this entire community in my opinion and Rouslan should know that, and the fact that he comments on this tattoo says even more than he probably realizes maybe. okay, sorry for all this wordiness, I am just really disturbed by this story…
@james nobody cares about stupid girls that let some guy do that to them. and urban tattoo shops have always been suspect like this. im not surprised at all. all the girls he’s tattooed look happy and it could be worse. atleast rouslan started a cool trend maybe.
Attractive girl and I had no judgements until I read the story behind this. What kind of pathetic excuse for a man takes advantage of a young girl like this? Highly irresponsible actions as an artist and the level of ego involved to tattoo your own name on her face less than 24 hours after meeting her is incomprehensible. What a scumbag.
You’re a fuckin’ scratcher dude… All the work I seen from your media made name is garbage.
Sick!
Unbelievable waste of beauty; and what are they thinking. Rouslan was old enough to know better and she, well, there is always silicon airbrush makeup for when this relationship is over…her family must be ill over this. I read it somewhere else, what ever happened to coming on somebody’s face (which I also dislike, however…but hey it’s not permanent), if you must leave your mark on a woman like a dog on a hydrant? Unbelievable the low self esteem of women these days…and for what? This guy has all the etiquette of a rattlesnake. Blech. Let’s go look at some nice body mod.
Well, let’s hope they stay together forever, or if they do split up, they do it on amicable terms. Because for her, she will be reminded of Ruslan every time she looks in the mirror.
Most people worldwide agree with circumcision which is done FORCIBLY against the babies will. On the other hand things that are done voluntarily become criticized though it is nothing than a personal matter of the person who wanted it. What a nonsense.
l think Spiderman’s comments were damn right! you should never be allowed to tattoo a single person again. Not because of your ‘talent’ but because of your morals and as a tattooist and a human-being you should have some. Who are we to judge you? who the hell are you to tattoo your ugly name in such a horrific looking tattoo you self centred, ignorant waste of sperm and ink. That women, your WIFE has had her natural beauty taken from her by you! I don’t care if you was a baker 5 years ago, you want privacy? hahaha get real, you made your private life public, the only reason you ‘famous’ is because you have humiliated your wife. I’m sure you are known for the wrong reasons and deserve no respect from any creditable tattooist. you should be strung up by your balls. you are scum.
I honestly see it as great work, and it suits her. Her husband really knew what he was doing and he did a pretty good job. She allowed him to tattoo her face, and he did. She did something SHE wanted. Calm down. Women can make choices, too.
Well, I think she did what she wanted to do and if she is to regret that decision or not it’s just gonna be part of her life and none of our bussiness.
I don’t like the tattoo, but for other reasons. The letters are solid blocks, no shading. Big or not, I believe this tattoo lacks detail, visual depth and… well, accuracy? Lines look kind of shaky at some points. I would never be happy with a work like this in my body, even if it were in my butt where nobody could see it. A girl like her can sport whatever sort of tattoo she likes and still be pretty, but I believe she would’ve been better off with a richer type of work. Talking from an aesthetic point of view.
I don’t mean this at a personal level, but I can say this: that you open your third tattoo shop doesn’t mean you’re a good tattoo artist. It just means you a) have the money to do so b) have a public. You do. But I am often amazed at how many people recommend terrible tattoo artists in my town showing off pieces that are so crappy that a 5 year old child could have made them better. Not saying it’s your case, just saying that you shouldn’t believe that because people know you and want to get ink in your shops that’s proof that you’re great. Instead of that, just keep improving. Honestly, I would say that it’s easy to see that you didn’t draw 5 years ago. Drawing is very important for a person that wants to tattoo (my opinion). Some people are natural, and some… well, just have to work very very hard.
I don’t judge Rouslan or Laidya (?) at all. They have the freedom to do what they want. To them selfs and to each other.
I don’t think much of the tattoo on her face, certainly not art, just as the stars on the Belgian young lady, Kimberley Vlaeming.
Personally I like the idea of women decorating their faces permanently. I have asked myself many time why I like that and have absolutely no idea, except that I find it sensually attractive.
I really admire the young lady called Kitten, who had one side of her face embellished with a many-fower tattoo. I think that it is very pretty. A really good artist would have been able to do a better job, but it is very attractive in my opinion.
I am very happy to see the trend of women having their faces tattooed, I am all for it ! Obviously I am not alone in this !
Bravo, ladies, please know that many men are admiring you !! For your adornments and for having the guts to go against our hoity-toity society, With their “Fashions”, dictating people what to look like !!
Do your own thing !
Beppo.
P.S.We have designed a nice tattoo for the forehead of my girl, but she is still not decided.
My BF wants to have me get a tattoo on my face too. I hesitate, but I do like the idea…
Our society pressures us to what they want us to do and I love to go against that ! We all have the right to do what we want as long as it stays within our laws of course. Lesya has decided to get her face tattooed by Rousian. That is within the law ! I keep an open mind, even though that would not have been my choice. It is her right ! So why critisize her ? Why scream your private opinion to the public here ?
The more I read about it, the more I tend to have my face tattooed. I would like something more colorful and designed with my approval
Last year I had my eyebows tattooed and my eyeliner complete with eyeshadow and my lips permanently bright red ! To hell with fashion changes. I feel good with the permanent make up !
I too have a big tattoo right above my privates. That was a anniversity surprise for my BF ! He loves it !
I too admire that young lady with the colorful tattoo covering her left face, she is a very brave lady, who is not afraid to make her own decisions !
I think I need a bit more time to get my face tattooed, but expect to have it done in the near future.
Jeanne
P.S. I had my septum pierced a few years back and I am stretchin that to get it to accept a bigger size ring !
Jeanne