Forget flowers, chocolate or Twitter: Mike Tyson’s facial tattoo is a hot new way to woo someone.
Swinging singles are going out and having their faces painted with a temporary, Tyson-inspired “Hangover” movie tattoo — in a gaudy effort to look like knockouts to the opposite sex.
The booze-fueled microtrend was on full display Friday night at Coyote Ugly in the East Village, where Putman Davis, 23, was having his face “champ”-stamped.
“It definitely gives you attention,” he said. “Definitely a way to get people’s eyes.”
And perhaps their hearts, too, according to face painter Melinda Prom, 31 who says business has been booming ever since Tyson tattoo-artist S. Victor Whitmill sued Warner Brothers in April, saying he never gave permission to the company to duplicate the Maori tat for actor Ed Helms in “Hangover Part II.”
“It is the No. 1 requested design I get from men of all ages . . . and men definitely use it as a way to attract the opposite sex,” said Prom.