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Jacquie De Bord has a job most dream of: every time she goes to work she gets the satisfaction of helping change someone’s life. As a micro-pigmentation technician (or permanent makeup specialist) she has witnessed what it can mean for people when they correct a feature that has haunted them, whether it’s an unsightly age spot, scar or skin tag or disappearing eyebrows. But it’s a new service she’s added that is making an especially deep impact on the lives of women: post-mastectomy 3D areola re-pigmentation. With October being breast cancer month, there are reminders everywhere about the number of women who are diagnosed with the disease and the long struggle many survivors go through to recover from it. For many women, part of that journey is to undergo a mastectomy, resulting in the loss of one or both of their breasts and with them a part of their feminine identity. For women who elect to have reconstructive breast surgery, the limits of the procedure can be disappointing, particularly regarding the absence of natural looking nipples. “They’re in the shape of a breast, but they don’t fully look like the way their breasts looked before,” explains Jacquie, who has learned that looking in the mirror and seeing a whole, familiar breast can
Jacquie De Bord specializes in all kind of permanent makeup and revision, but her newest service – post-mastectomy 3D areola re-pigmentation – is what she’s most excited about.
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make a real difference for women who’ve been through such a fight for their lives. 3D nipple and areola tattooing, or re-pigmentation, has become standard procedure in breast reconstruction following a mastectomy, but until Jacquie began offering it from her clinic, La Jolie Permanent Makeup and Skin Revision, women
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