Tattooing Breast Cancer Survivors

xoxoxoBruce · 06-11-2014, 05:23 PM

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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.

Gravdigr · 06-12-2014, 11:09 AM

Dude did a pretty good job.

Loved the woman, too. Great attitude.

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Well, of course, what can you say, you're about to get up on my titties!

Plus, y'know, boobs!

BigV · 06-12-2014, 11:24 AM

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.

Gravdigr · 06-12-2014, 03:57 PM

V, you're glossing over the bigger picture here.

BOOBS, man!!

BigV · 06-12-2014, 04:15 PM

no, it's you who're missing the points!

BigV · 06-12-2014, 04:16 PM

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Originally Posted by BigV

no, it's you who're missing the points!

heh. Not that there's anything wrong with that [/sexpositive]

orthodoc · 06-12-2014, 05:14 PM

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.)

xoxoxoBruce · 06-12-2014, 08:22 PM

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.

orthodoc · 06-12-2014, 09:59 PM

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.

xoxoxoBruce · 06-13-2014, 02:49 AM

Cutting off the blood supply to the skin, sounds like salting the soil... Ewww.

footfootfoot · 06-13-2014, 09:19 AM

Gravdigr, Big V called you a whore. You gonna take that lying down?

heh heh heh

Big Sarge · 06-14-2014, 04:58 PM

orthodoc - don't sweat the boobs. that's not what makes you beautiful

Gravdigr · 06-15-2014, 04:13 PM

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Originally Posted by footfootfoot

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...

Also, I've been called worse than that by better than him.

Gravdigr · 06-15-2014, 04:15 PM

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Originally Posted by orthodoc

...You guys ... reconstructed boobs ... and you're excited? Really? (Not being nasty, just wondering.)

Oh, yeah. ( . v . ) <---

xoxoxoBruce · 06-15-2014, 05:56 PM

Any size, any color, reconstructed, deflated, lopsided, hanging below the skirt hem... all.
Well, dead maybe not so much.

06-12-2014, 11:24 AM	#3
BigV Goon Squad Leader Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Seattle Posts: 27,063	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. __________________ Be Just and Fear Not.

06-12-2014, 03:57 PM	#4
Gravdigr The Un-Tuckian Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: South Central...KY that is Posts: 39,517	V, you're glossing over the bigger picture here. BOOBS, man!! __________________ These statements have not been evaluated by the FDA, EPA, FBI, DEA, CDC, or FDIC. These statements are not intended to diagnose, cause, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. If you feel you have been harmed/offended by, or, disagree with any of the above statements or images, please feel free to fuck right off.

06-12-2014, 04:15 PM	#5
BigV Goon Squad Leader Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Seattle Posts: 27,063	no, it's you who're missing the points! __________________ Be Just and Fear Not.

06-12-2014, 05:14 PM	#7
orthodoc Not Suspicious, Merely Canadian Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 3,774	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.) __________________ The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. - Ghandi

06-12-2014, 08:22 PM	#8
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	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. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

06-12-2014, 09:59 PM	#9
orthodoc Not Suspicious, Merely Canadian Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 3,774	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. __________________ The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. - Ghandi

06-13-2014, 02:49 AM	#10
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Cutting off the blood supply to the skin, sounds like salting the soil... Ewww. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

06-13-2014, 09:19 AM	#11
footfootfoot To shreds, you say? Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: in the house and on the street-how many, many feet we meet! Posts: 18,449	Gravdigr, Big V called you a whore. You gonna take that lying down? heh heh heh __________________ The internet is a hateful stew of vomit you can never take completely seriously. - Her Fobs

06-14-2014, 04:58 PM	#12
Big Sarge Werepandas - lurking in your shadows Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: In the Deep South Posts: 3,408	orthodoc - don't sweat the boobs. that's not what makes you beautiful __________________ Give a man a match, & he'll be warm for 20 seconds. But toss that man a white phosphorus grenade and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.

06-15-2014, 05:56 PM	#15
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Any size, any color, reconstructed, deflated, lopsided, hanging below the skirt hem... all. Well, dead maybe not so much. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

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