Although it may sound strange to tattoo nipples on people, it makes sense for the british Terri Benamore.
She tatoverer namely the nipples on the women and men who have been affected by breast cancer and subsequently been removed or damaged a nipple.
‘I was totally shocked they are doing to the standards of the work that has been devoted to the men and women who had been through something so traumatic and life-changing,’ she writes a opinionsindlæg to Sky News.
’the Standard of the tattoo was so low. I could not believe it. It looked like some had tattooed a tegnefilmsklistermærke on their chest.’
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It takes two sessions with two week intervals to get a new nipple. Photo: Private / Terri Benamore
Terri Benamore is even a tattoo artist with many years of experience in to get the tattoo to look like photographs, and she can get two-dimensional things appear in 3D.
’the Nipple so flat out, had no shading or highlighting, no edge, and they were all salmon-colored – regardless of skin color. When I investigated the topic further, I found out that there is a whole world out there with horrible nipple-tattoo, and that is just not acceptable,’ she writes on.
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That is filled with details around the nipple. Photo: Private / Terri Benamore
But now she has found an extra sense of her vocation, when she gives people the nipples back.
‘The feedback you get after helping people, is totally lost. I had never expected that it would change the former cancer patients life, as it has done. They have been let down by their bodies and left with scars and misformede tits, where parts of them have been cut off,’ she writes.
‘To get the nipple back symbolizes the end of an era and the start of a new one. We always get cards, flowers and chocolates, but the best is a good old-fashioned stuff.’
Has lost its nipple, and if you want to have tattooed a on of Terri Benamore, it takes two sessions with ten-day intervals.
Until now she has tattooed around 70 persons nipples back.
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