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Artists cover scars of breast cancer patients with beautiful tattoos

For some women, tattooing their post-mastectomy breasts has become a powerful way to reclaim what was lost.

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For most people who want to survive a breast cancer attack, they either have to fall on mastectomies, or surgical removals of all or part of a breast.

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This life-saving procedures leaves scars behind that can be both physical and psychological pain

A website called P.Ink has helped tattoo artists connect with women who want to tattoo their mastectomy scars. One such tattoo artist, David Allen, had inspiring things to say about the process; “What was clinical became beautiful again… we turned sterile into sensual. We took back control.”

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