About Tinsley Tattoos:

Founded by Hollywood make-up and special effects artist Christien Tinsley, Tinsley Transfers was established out of necessity during the filming of Pearl Harbor. While working on approximately 40 extras that required multiple wound and burn effects daily, Christien realized the need for a quick, timesaving tool to create such effects. The end result produced an easy to apply transfer with an emphasis on the continuity of the effects.

Established in 1999 Tinsley Transfers has solely provided Hollywoods biggest film and television productions with custom transfers. Such stars and films as Vin Diesel in XXX, Brad Pitt in Oceans Eleven & Twelve, Sean Penn in Mystic River, and Gary Oldman in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban are trademark creations. Major television shows as The OC, Carnivale, and the upcoming Fox drama Prison Break demonstrate the continuity of the effects on the small screen.

Along with the 2-D transfers, Christien developed and implemented a new process known as aprosthetic transfer. This ingenious idea was created during the filming of The Passion of the Christ. An Academy Award nomination was given to Christien in 2005 for this inventive and time-saving process. Continued use of the prosthetic transfer will be seen in upcoming films such as The Cinderella Man with Russell Crowe, Memoirs of a Geisha with Ken Watanabe, and Find Me Guilty with Vin Diesel.

Tinsley Transfers continues to grow and emerge as the leading provider of tattoos and effects for some of Hollywoods biggest stars.