Vosges. Pink October: "Sometimes they cry and sometimes I cry too...", says Charlotte Merklen, a tattoo artist in Épinal, who redraws areolas and nipples on women who have undergone surgery.

She left her nursing career in 2022 after training in dermopigmentation, destabilized during Covid by the death of many patients in the geriatric ward where she worked. Since then, Spinalienne Charlotte Merklen has turned to hope and healing, tattooing areolas and nipples after breast reconstruction.
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 color and pigment, Charlotte Merklen invites you to run your fingers over it: the relief is truly only in appearance. Stunning. For three years, the ex...
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