Medical cosmetics, also known as medical tattooing, is for drawing a new nipple or areola, for example. So what does such a treatment look like? In this blog, I tell you more about drawing a nipple or areola and how I do it in my practice Permanently Beautiful. But first, I tell you what it does to women when they have been helped by me. Women who have to miss the nipple and/or areola after breast cancer and due to surgery.
This was in fact also true for Nadia, she came to my practice after 2 breast reconstructions, after which she got 2 implants.
Her reaction to her own reflection spoke volumes: “I no longer think about the new breasts, I look at my reflection with pride. I hadn’t realised that this tattoo could give me this. Less than 14 days after the first treatment, I saw that I no longer have 2 blind spots on my breast, but just almost real nipples!”
My work, the drawn nipples, are not ‘stickers’ on implants, but they look like real nipples. I do this with the special 3D techniques. With the precise equipment, I draw the nipple and areola. I use approved pigments for this. Often different colours together, which I match to the colour of the skin.
Breast surgery due to cancer is a drastic event and leaves scars. You may lose all or part of the nipple as a result. Breast reconstruction always leaves scars. It has a huge impact on yourself and your self-image to see your reflection in the mirror without a nipple or areola, it can make you feel incomplete or less of a woman (even though you know inside that this is not the case).
If you want to know more about how I draw nipple and areola in my practice, check out the medical cosmetics page or contact me.
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