Tattoo Artist Helps Cancer Survivors And Amputees By Giving Them Free Hyper-Realistic Tattoos
Unless you’ve been through it yourself, it’s almost impossible to understand the feelings of people who’ve suffered loss of limbs or other parts of their anatomy, due to accidents or horrific diseases such as c*ncer.
In a bid to tackle this, one tattoo artist is offering out hyper-realistic tattoos for free – and the results look incredible.
Eric Catalano has been a tattoo artist for over a decade. He’s spent the majority of his career at Hecker, Illinois’ Eternal Ink Studio.
After his grandma Mary emerged victorious in a long-running battle against breast c*ncer, he felt a calling to provide people with free breast c*ncer tattoos.
Shortly after word spread of Eric’s wide-open offer, women who had undergone single or double mastectomies requested realistic, lifelike tattoos of nipples to adorn their once-perfect breasts.
Although some of those breast c*ncer survivors’ nipples were still present, the women still wanted to have them touched up so they looked normal. Catalano happily obliged to tattoo such areas for free, knowing that he could potentially impact their lives by improving their body image and self-confidence.
From 2010, when Eric began giving out free tattoos of breast c*ncer awareness symbols, to 2015, he donated his time, effort, equipment, and skills to more than 1,500 people!
From covering the blank skin left behind on people who’ve had a mastectomy with 3D realistic nipples, Eric went on to undertake new challenges, such as when he was approached by a man whose fingers had been partially amputated..
A man who had a third of his index and middle fingers amputated approached Catalano this month and asked if Eric would tattoo fingernails on the two stubbed fingers. Eric happily obliged, sharing a picture of some amazing reconstructive cosmetic tattoo work on his social media pages.
Because he is constantly asked for help by people in need of his free services, Eric has sought pay from kind-hearted people through GoFundMe. Eric continues to offer his services to this day.
Eric’s reputation has now grown and he’s since received thousands of requests for his hyper-real tattoos.
Source:apost.com
