After breast cancer, self-reconstruction is often long. The scars are certainly not visible to everyone, but they are very present and it is difficult to reconnect with your femininity when the body remains scarred and the simple fact of looking at yourself naked is a painful reminder of the fight fought. In order to reconcile the survivors with their body and their breasts, a tattooing technique makes it possible to reconstruct the areola (=the pigmented area around the nipple). Whether at a tattoo artist or in a medical center, the principle remains the same:redraw an areola (or both) larger than life. In the before/after photos of tattoo artists and plastic surgeons, the result is superb. If we did not know that it is not a real areola, we would not realize it. This tattoo is therefore very useful for women to regain their self-confidence.
Be careful though, there are two ways to get an areola tattoo:dermopigmentation and 3D tattooing. While the first is done in a hospital by a plastic surgeon or a trained nurse, the second is done by a tattoo artist, who has obviously undergone training beforehand. Because to redraw an areola, you have to know how to play with shadows and lights to give this 3D effect making the thing almost real. The second difference is in the inks (which must obviously meet European standards). The 3D tattoo is a real tattoo while the dermopigmentation is more like a semi-permanent tattoo (less in depth, but less durable). And you should know that dermopigmentation is fully reimbursed by Social Security, while this is not the case for 3D tattooing (some mutual funds cover part of it, but not always all of it). It takes between 400 and 500 euros for an areola and between 600 and 800 euros for both areolas. In both cases, you have to go back at least twice either to the hospital or to the tattoo artist for touch-ups.
