Post by Michele Zipp
Some people think tattoos make a woman look dirty or rough or far from a lady. I'm a mom with tattoos and respectfully disagree. Tattoos have meaning -- all of them. They can be beautiful. They can empower us, too, because of their often deeply personal meaning. And there is no better example of that than Penny Kurek, a 53-year-old breast cancer survivor who got the most incredible ink -- three-dimensional nipples tattooed on her reconstructed breasts. "I've been cut on so much," Penny told The Philadelphia Inquirer. "I just want to feel like a woman again." Penny went to tattoo artist Vinnie Myers, who has become a sort of hero in the breast cancer world. He owns Vinnie's Tattoo Parlor just outside of Baltimore and has tattooed nearly 2,000 breast cancer patients (and counting!) from all over the world. They all came to him because of his expertise in tattooing the most real looking nipples.![]()
Some people think tattoos make a woman look dirty or rough or far from a lady. I'm a mom with tattoos and respectfully disagree. Tattoos have meaning -- all of them. They can be beautiful. They can empower us, too, because of their often deeply personal meaning. And there is no better example of that than Penny Kurek, a 53-year-old breast cancer survivor who got the most incredible ink -- three-dimensional nipples tattooed on her reconstructed breasts. "I've been cut on so much," Penny told The Philadelphia Inquirer. "I just want to feel like a woman again." Penny went to tattoo artist Vinnie Myers, who has become a sort of hero in the breast cancer world. He owns Vinnie's Tattoo Parlor just outside of Baltimore and has tattooed nearly 2,000 breast cancer patients (and counting!) from all over the world. They all came to him because of his expertise in tattooing the most real looking nipples.