On a recent June morning in Brooklyn, Chloe Sarre nearly drifted into sleep on a bed in a cozy room as a makeup artist used a needle dipped in a semipermanent liquid pigment to carefully prick about 20 microscopic dots across her cheeks. Keila Cummings, the artist and a co-owner of Browstress, a cosmetic tattoo shop, was blotting off excess ink with a baby wipe as Ali Gatie’s “Used to You” floated through her 10th-floor studio in the neighborhood of Dumbo. “Oh, that doesn’t hurt at all,” said Ms. Sarre, a 35-year-old women’s fitness trainer who lives in Brooklyn. “Honestly, the eyebrow waxing is worse.”Before her appointment, Ms. Sarre had drawn specks on herself with an eyebrow pencil to wear the latest beauty trend that thousands of people across the country are trying out: freckle tattoos. Available in the shape of hearts, stars or even astrological signs, the melanin-filled skin marks, once a cause for schoolyard torment, have become the latest TikTok obsession.

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Persons: Chloe Sarre, Keila Cummings, Ali Gatie’s, ”, Sarre Locations: Brooklyn