Inspirational Tattoo artist Vinnie Myers boosts the confidence of breast cancer survivors by giving them back what they lost.
Working out of his Finksburg, MD studio, Myers gives women back the bodies they loved before surgery by tattooing special nipple designs on their lovely lady lumps. Myers, who started as a traditional tattoo artist while in the army, currently mixes a wide palette of paint to achieve a 3-D effect design of areolas. Too often, he says, women just get the basic, nothing too fancy but that does the job of bringing back color and livelihood to the area. The women he tattoos say that the process doesn’t hurt much since most sensation is lost during surgery.
Good for you, Vinny. :thumb2:
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Dude did a pretty good job.
Loved the woman, too. Great attitude.
Well, of course, what can you say, you're about to get up on my titties!
Plus, y'know,
boobs!
Wow.
That's talent, despite what he feels is missing from his artistic life. It seems capricious of the gods to whack his sister with cancer to keep him doing this work. But that's the way people are, looking for patterns, meaning.
V, you're glossing over the bigger picture here.
BOOBS, man!!
no, it's you who're missing the points!
[COLOR="Silver"]no, it's [/COLOR]you who're[COLOR="Silver"] missing the points![/COLOR]
heh. Not that there's anything wrong with that [/sexpositive]
Very nice. I'm glad someone out there is doing this.
You guys ... reconstructed boobs ... and you're excited? Really? (Not being nasty, just wondering.)
Someone said, But it doesn't hide the scars. I replied painting the wall doesn't hide the cracks, but makes you feel better. If they wanted to hide scars, I think they'd be talking to a plastic surgeon, not a tattoo artist.
No, I think they aren't looking to hide they had trouble, but trying to make things sorta complete. So when the walk past the mirror it looks all there, even though it's different.
Same reason we rattle can paint, the rust spots on an old heap. :blush:
I can't speak to that. Had a unilateral mast, skin/nipple sparing, that was tricky and landed me in a hyperbaric chamber for three weeks after the surgeon took a little too much of the subcutaneous tissue, trying to minimize my chances of local recurrence. Trouble is, the blood (i.e. oxygen) supply to the skin in the area is in the subcutaneous tissue. If you take too much, the skin dies.
Nevertheless ... wanting a sense of being complete is huge. What would you do, faced with the knowledge you'd soon be losing what makes you a man/woman, and then have to carry on in a lonely world? Most of us want to feel complete at some point.
Cutting off the blood supply to the skin, sounds like salting the soil... Ewww.
Gravdigr, Big V called you a whore. You gonna take that lying down?
heh heh heh
orthodoc - don't sweat the boobs. that's not what makes you beautiful
Gravdigr, Big V called you a whore. You gonna take that lying down?
heh heh heh
Either that, or, bent over.
Besides, he ain't lying, so...
:D
Also, I've been called worse than that by better than him.:p:
...You guys ... reconstructed boobs ... and you're excited? Really? (Not being nasty, just wondering.)
Oh, yeah. ( . v . ) <---:yesnod:
Any size, any color, reconstructed, deflated, lopsided, hanging below the skirt hem... all.
Well, dead maybe not so much.
You might want to repost that essay about boobs or nipples from that biker magazine. That was a perceptive, if vulgar, piece.
And funny.
Yeah, that's from an early 70s Easyrider Magazine, probably never find it in the archives. That's one of the things still sitting on my last PC. I'll make it a point to rescue that. :idea:
Damnit V, now I'll never get that old PC cleaned out.
:lol2: Just kidding, thank you, ya done good. 12 years ago I posted that? And tore it out of the magazine 30 years before that.