Unusual Tattoos (16 pics)

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My scar still shines through the cover-up tattoo — weirds me out.

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My first, a humpback whale scar

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Tattoos are a great way to embrace scars.

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They can turn pain into beauty.

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Tattoos can creatively conceal scars and empower individuals to embrace their bodies.

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Blue bleeding hearts (my favorite flower) over some old scarring

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Last year, I had my wrist replaced. Turned the scars into a series of pine trees, adding a night sky background in the next session.

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Tattoos can offer a unique and artistic solution for covering up burn scars.

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It works! It makes me so happy!

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Finally got a tattoo to cover up my metastatic melanoma scars.

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I stitched my surgical scar.

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My second collarbone tattoo made more impressive because he made the letters crisp even though it was on top of deep raised scars. The new one says space enough to grow with an ampersand at the end. The old one says home is where you make it.

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I found a way to incorporate a scar into something much more than that.

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