Decorate my Mastectomy Scar?

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unique
unique Member Posts: 554
edited June 2014 in Living Without Reconstruction After a Mastectomy

Hi - new topic for sure!

I'm thinking ahead, maybe want to do something (henna tattoos?) to decorate myself.

Anybody done anything? Even those tattoos in the machines at the grocery store? Wash off in a week? Anything to help me smile when I get dressed, I am really not feeling sexy with my scar on one side and a boob on the other ...

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  • unique
    unique Member Posts: 554
    edited April 2009

    How did I miss this?

    A magnificent woman who has tred this path before me -

    http://www.beautyoutofdamage.com

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  • lvtwoqlt
    lvtwoqlt Member Posts: 6,162
    edited April 2009

    anne, I did reconstruction but while I was going through my fills, I put the removable tattoos on my foobs and totally shocked my PS. He forbade me from wearing them the day of exchange surgery or nipple surgery. Mine could be removed with baby oil or rubbing alcohol.

    Sheila

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  • dianaon
    dianaon Member Posts: 31
    edited May 2009

    I'd like a site, or 2, that has real permanent, beautiful  breat tattoos. I had a recon, and do not want a nipple tattoo, or nipple durgery- I'm thinking a very colorful one that goes right across the scar ( I know scars fade, but take years).

    It's so difficult to find a REAL website, and not one that wants you to fill out questionaires, or sign on  use their search engine.

     I'll find someone local whose work I am impressed with, but would like some ideas before I shop around. My Plastic doc was very enthusiastic about it, but cautioned me to call him for antibiotics- that hey give them even when doing nipple tattoosin the office.Smile See the happy face- that is a tattoo option still inthe running...it popped into my mind the day after the mast (when I had a morphine pump)- but if it makes me (and others) smile....Hey, it's the right shape.

     

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  • PT6
    PT6 Member Posts: 76
    edited May 2009

    Try googling - tattoos mastectomy - then click on images. Here is the rather long URL of a very nice tattoo on a woman with bilateral mastectomies.

    http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://bp0.blogger.com/_zuR9s0_8o-A/Rk21QJdh4nI/AAAAAAAAFl4/Yn0mwOzy-vg/s400/tattoo_bra.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.zinkalo.com/2007/05/tattoo-bra-covers-scars.html&usg=__OGzN9-15dsdZjjnyT-BEXDvEbkI=&h=284&w=400&sz=34&hl=en&start=39&um=1&tbnid=5YLJLQ4gO-cYaM:&tbnh=88&tbnw=124&prev=/images?q=tattoos+mastectomy&ndsp=20&hl=en&rls=com.microsoft:en-us:IE-SearchBox&rlz=1I7GGLR&sa=N&start=20&um=1

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  • dianaon
    dianaon Member Posts: 31
    edited May 2009

    Thank you. There was some colorful, fun mast./ recon scar covering tats. I am myself an artist, and just today, used my acylics to paint two choices on me, one was the sea below, sky with clouds above, and a silver gull...."fly on silver gull, hey, don't cry. When tears are in your yes, I'll dry ythem all..." I always wanted a gull in flight.

    The other was a nipple sized happy face, incorporated into the word HOPE in pink, with the h looping as a BC awreness ribbon; it was prettier than I can describe.

    Come August, I'll have made my choice. I already have a parlor in Brooklyn where my sis-in-law and hubby have gotten many. They're gonna drive up from Philly and each get another with me.   HOPE. I have that today.  Thanks again ( I'll post a pix when I get it).

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  • Binney4
    Binney4 Member Posts: 8,609
    edited May 2009

    Y'all figured I'd come along and be the bad news bear, right? Frown Really sorry about that. Still, I sure wish somebody'd told me about truncal lymphedema and the simple precautions I could take to reduce my risk of it, so I'm passing this along for you to take into consideration. All of us who have had bc treatment are at risk for lymphedema, and it can affect our chests/breasts as well as our arms. Even if our arms are not affected. It's painful, it's forever, and you don't want to deal with it.

    No way to predict who will get it and who won't, so some may have no problem with tattoos, others may not be so fortunate. As with your affected arm, your entire upper quadrant is at risk. Precautions call for avoiding needle sticks (as well as tight or narrow bra straps and bands and underwires and temperature extremes). Your call, of course, but wanted you to be able to make an informed choice so there are no nasty surprises.Tongue out

    Be well,
    Binney

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  • dianaon
    dianaon Member Posts: 31
    edited June 2009

    Thank you. That is something to cosider. It's a case by case risk, and personal decision- I had 2 nodes out, and my BC said go for it, but call him for antibiotics first- that he gives them even when doing tats in his office.

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  • trish5959
    trish5959 Member Posts: 2
    edited September 2009

    I tatooed from my lower back up my side and over my scar and around the foob vines cherry blossom's berries and leaves.. it is awesome.. I will e-mail a pic if you want...

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  • starzhere
    starzhere Member Posts: 162
    edited October 2009

    Trish, I would love to see a pic.  It sounds beautiful!

    I'll PM you.

    ~elaine~

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