About Us

Surface Flash is a Vancouver-based temporary tattoo project creating hand-drawn flash sheets designed to function as impermanent accessories: wearable graphics meant to move with outfits, moods, nights out, and phases.

Originally developed through sketchbook drawings, DIY printing experiments, and late-night Photoshop files, the project pulls from mall-goth iconography, convenience store ephemera, airbrush graphics, sticker culture, low-resolution internet aesthetics, and traditional flash design. Each sheet is produced in small quantities and intended for layering, rotation, and short-term wear.

Surface Flash was founded by Levi Armstrong, a Vancouver-based makeup artist and graduate of Vancouver Film School. Levi’s background in beauty, SFX makeup, and character styling informs the project’s approach to transformation, texture, and temporary identity, treating the body less as a permanent canvas and more as a surface in constant revision.

The project exists somewhere between fashion accessory, print object, and bad decision. 

Designed to disappear.