No longer viewed as something gangbangers and bad boys wear, tattoos are becoming more and more acceptable in the mainstream. So when everyone started rocking those Polynesian symbols -- think Mike Tyson, but not on the face -- rarely were people offended to see them on the small of the back on women or around the biceps of men. The beauty in those tribal designs elevates the art form to a better status.

However, every time tats show up on the red carpet as the accessory a female celebrity truly couldn't leave home without, I can't help but wonder if that celebrity regrets inking her body in that way. Witness Mary J. Blige's humongous tats on both of her toned arms; they always seem to detract from her entire look. Or the numerous tats Fantasia wears on her thighs and arms and hands that makes her look like Lil Wayne's twin. Those tear-drop tats that seemingly decorate Lil Wayne's entire body always make me think he needs a good scrub. But on the flip side, the tats on Angelina Jolie or Meagan Fox never stopped anyone from calling them glamorous or sexy. Nor do the small tats trailing the neck bone of Rihanna make her look anything less than gorgeous. On her, it looks rather chic, in that alien kind of way. In Alicia Keys' video for 'Try Sleeping with a Broken Heart, we see her flower-painted back that takes tattooing on a painterly, Georgia O'Keefe-type of path.

So is it the size and the type of tats that create a thin line between tacky and tantalizing? French couturier Chanel thinks so. When Karl Lagerfeld trotted models down Chanel's runway last fall wearing temporary tattoo designs, editors went all gaga over them. To be fair, label-stamping is something makeup artist Nzingha Stewart did with Lil Kim when she painted Louis Vuitton symbols all over Kim's naked body for the cover of Paper magazine some ten years ago. And M.A.C has does tons of images with body paint over the years.

Before last fall (Rodarte also showed body art) no other high-end brand had really embraced the concept of tats by creating them for purchase. This spring, transfer tats from the House of Chanel-images of bangles, beads with the Chanel logo at the end of the link-can be yours for a mere $75 for a pack of 55 transfers (visit www.chanel.com for more information). With tats becoming couture will they now become acceptable as the cool, new symbol for luxe? Will girls from around the way take it a step further and brand their bodies with the label they love the most? Or will we still think it's just deadwrong.com? Tell us BV Beauties, would you dare to wear these temporary tats?