Lorraine. “Sometimes they cry and sometimes I cry too”: tattoo artist, she redraws areolas and nipples on women who have undergone surgery

It's trompe-l'oeil. High-level trompe-l'oeil. On synthetic skin that allowed her to practice and rehearse the gestures and nuances of colors and pigments, Charlotte Merklen invites you to run your fingers over it: the relief is indeed only in appearance. Amazing. For three years, the former nurse has made it a specialty: redrawing hyper-realistic areolas and nipples on reconstructed breasts after removal following cancer, or even preventive removal. Her intervention has, for some time now, been integrated into a journey whose final stages are those...

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