09/09/2026
📻✨ A bit of a pinch-me moment! Today I was interviewed on BBC Radio Bristol! ✨📻
I recently had the privilege of speaking with John Darvall on BBC Radio Bristol about something incredibly close to my heart — medical tattooing and the difference it can make to people’s lives. ❤️
During the interview, I shared some of my own personal experiences and spoke about why this side of my work means so much to me.
Medical tattooing isn’t simply about appearance. For anyone who has scarring or skin differences or blemishes due to cancer, surgery, trauma, self injuries, birth marks etc or skin changes due to things such as vitiligo and alopecia medical tattooing can be an incredibly powerful solution.
Paramedical tattooing treatments such as 3D hyper-realistic ni**le & ar**la tattooing, scar camouflage, scar restoration and skin colour restorative tattooing can help recreate or disguise what has been changed or lost.
But often, what I’m trying to restore for my clients goes far beyond the skin.
It’s about helping someone regain their confidence, identity and a sense of feeling like themselves again following injury or illness.
One of the biggest reasons I wanted to speak publicly about this was awareness.
So many people simply don’t know these medical tattooing and scar restorative treatments exist!
Despite trying to reach people via social media that may benefit from these treatments I have repeatedly had my posts restricted or banned by Facebook & Instagram for “nudity” or “inappropriate images”, when sharing before-and-after photographs of breast cancer survivors who have had ni**le and ar**la reconstruction tattooing — despite those images being shared with consent, for educational purposes, to show other people that there ARE options available after surgery.
These aren’t sexual images. They’re the results of cancer treatments, reconstruction, healing and, in many cases, the final step of an incredibly difficult journey.
So being given the opportunity by the BBC to talk openly about my work and help get that message out there meant more to me than I can really explain.
And then came the news I wasn’t expecting…
❤️ The BBC have asked to write an article about me and my work! ❤️
I’m absolutely OVER THE MOON!
If speaking about my own experiences and the work I do helps even one person discover a treatment they didn’t know existed, or gives someone hope that there may be an option for their scars or reconstruction, then putting myself out there was completely worth it.
Even if I was sick with nerves before going On Air! 🫣
Please take a look at my website for more of the medical treatments I offer including but not limited to:
✨3D Ni**le & Ar**la Tattooing
✨ Scar Camouflage after surgery
✨Scar restoration and camoflauge
✨ Surgical & Breast Reconstruction Scarring
✨ Stretch Mark restoration and camouflage
✨ Syndactyly (webbed toe) camouflage
✨ Restorative Medical Tattooing for birth marks and skin colour changes
✨ Hyper realistic hair stroke eyebrows and eyeliner for people that have lost their eyebrow hair or eyelashes due to cancer or alopecia.
Thank you BBC Radio Bristol and John Darvall for giving this subject a platform — and for helping me raise awareness of a side of tattooing that can genuinely change lives.
And watch this space for the BBC article…! 🥹📻🎗️
Please click here to listen to my interview, press the play button and then scroll along the show to 2:11:25 to get to my part! (You may need to sign in). I was incredibly nervous! 🫣
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