A Sydney mother has undergone a 13-hour tattoo session in a bid to transform her breast into a work of art following a battle with cancer.
After being diagnosed with breast cancer at age 36, mother-of-one Alison Habbal underwent a lumpectomy and lost the nipple on one of her breasts, the BBC reports.
She was given the option of reconstructing a nipple with plastic surgery, but instead decided to conceal her scars with a tattoo.
"During the year I was sick I had the idea of me with the blonde crop and the tattoo,” Ms Habbal told the BBC.
“The whole time I was sick I would trawl tattoo artists over the internet.”
Ms Habbal ultimately approached New Zealand-based artist Makkala Rose to commission a design.
The pair met for one “blood-curdingly horrific” 13-hour tattoo session on July 1 in Melbourne, after which Mr Habbal shared a photo of her transformed breast to her Instagram account.
The photo shows her breast covered in a colourful bouquet of flowers.
It has since received hundreds of likes.
Ms Rose said the opportunity to tattoo Ms Habbal was “quite humbling” and that it “put a lot of things into perspective”.
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