I
photographed this lady a few days ago. She'd had a double
mastectomy and rather than having implants she opted for this. No,
that is not a lacy teddy she is wearing: it is a tattoo!
It was not an easy solution: it required
many hours of highly skilled work. The effect however, is nothing short of
spectacular. I wanted to post it here for the benefit of anyone who
might be facing similar surgery or might know someone who is. I have
seen a number of people who have chosen tattoos to cover all sorts of scars. This
happens to be the most beautiful one I have ever seen.
Please feel free to
pass it on.
3 comments:
Wow. Very brave, and very cool! I work with breast cancer every day and have yet to come across anything like this.
This is really not all tat unusual a way of dealing with scars. I once met a former model who had had a single mastectomy and also opted for a tattoo to cover the scar, although no where near as large and complex a piece. She was dressed in a top that covered here other breast. The effect was not only very striking, it was downright sexy! Another was a lady who had a large surgical scar on her upper arm. She opted for a butterfly with a broken wing. The scar was the break in the wing. At the other end was a tattoo artist who had open heart surgery and a huge scar across his chest. He tattooed even larger stitches over it and wrote “A Stitch In Time........!”
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