This professional who works in the heart of the capital of the Cévennes, in the Gard, has just specialized in damaged skin. Encounter.
Professional tattooist working for two years, on her own, in a beauty institute in the city center of Alès, in the Gard, Florine Gilly prides herself on a specialization, the result of a few days of training that she followed last month, near Bordeaux, at the Dermo Scar Repair training center, affiliated with the French Tattoo School. She now also works on damaged skin: scars, burns, stretch marks, etc. “I followed this training to respond professionally to a request, with something certifying”specifies the young woman aged 29.
“I am basically empathetic and hyper-sensitive”
From the outset, the one who first completed her apprenticeship in a tattoo parlor in Quissac specifies that she intends to satisfy women who have suffered from breast cancer, who have had their breasts removed or find themselves with a breast that a cleaning has deformed. “Post-cancer interested me because I am a woman, because it touches me to help people, I who am basically empathetic and hyper-sensitive, and to give another dimension to artistic tattooing”she confides.
The psychological effect of tattooing
The tattoo is then not limited to aesthetics, but plays a more intimate, even psychological role. Because women can thus “rediscover a femininity that they have lost” and “take a step forward on their path to healing”. The exchange therefore turns out to be essential before creating the tattoo on a bruised chest. For Florine Gilly, it is “to make something beautiful out of what was not”. This, from“a pattern that is specific to each person. What works best is floral. With plants, it is easier to cover the entire scar”she continues. “Everything is doable; we adapt the technical base…” For example, it is not possible to do filling, at the risk of tearing a scar “because the skin is recent”explains this professional. “However, we can shade over it. Make lines, but not in the direction of the scar…” Likewise, the tattoo artist warns that this can close the door to other treatments, especially in the event of a recurrence. “We must warn them so that these people can make an informed decision!”
Be careful, not everything is possible!
Injured skin can therefore have other origins. We think of scarifications, everyday accidents, etc. And to burn victims. “For hard and cardboardy skin, there are also techniques to penetrate the ink well”she indicates, while specifying that “for severe burn victims with graft placement, it’s no”. Likewise, tattooing is prohibited for eczema and psoriasis. On the other hand, it is possible for a person with skin depigmentation. But so that there are no unpleasant surprises, so that the motive is not ultimately unsuitable, “you just have to be careful that the vitiligo is stabilized”.
Victim of large stretch marks, “she found her body”
Tattooing on damaged skin turns out to be a technique that can restore confidence in some people. Florine Gilly then cites the case of this client, aged around twenty, whom she recently tattooed on her ribs and stomach to hide significant stretch marks. “And then she accepted her body”she smiled. “She found his body.”
