"Beauty repairs".
Lying on the tattoo table, a pink scotch tape crossing the nipple of her cancer-spared breast, Caroline is "appeased".
Two years earlier, the 44-year-old nurse had a mastectomy.
Rather than a surgical reconstruction, she opted for a “therapeutic” tattoo offered by the Parisian tattoo artist Quokelune, as part of the “Rose Tattoo” operation of the Sœurs d'Encre association.
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“The surgery is very invasive and I suffered so much that I didn't want to go back,” Caroline explains.
"Now that I have my beautiful tattoo, I will be able to put on t-shirts with V-necks," she continues, smiling.
Her operation gave way to "a big" scar on the chest of the nurse who is afraid of "shocking others".
"It's still violent to see someone with a breast less," she considers.
Now I will be able to dress as I want ”.
