Abstract
The interest in various cosmetic procedures is becoming a spreading concern to population of different age groups and genders. As a result of the popularity of cosmetic tattooing, drawbacks started to appear more often than before. We present a 48-year old Saudi lady, who developed a herpes infection of the lips following a cosmetic lip tattoo. The article describes the historical aspects of lip tattooing and reviews the reported complications. (C) 2017 The Authors. Production and hosting by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of King Saud University. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).