Woman’s Tattoo Has A Dark Secret She Didn’t Want Anyone To Find Out

Amanda Shea

Flavia Carvalho, tattoo artist

A woman with a secret walked into a tattoo shop to ask the ink artist for a special favor. This single request soon turned into a much larger operation, which the shop owner didn’t realize she was getting in to at first — until word got out about what she did.

The customer had been at a nightclub when a man flirtatiously approached her. The woman turned down his creepy advances, which in turn caused him to violently react. He rammed a knife into the victim’s abdomen, but she miraculously survived the assault and was extensively scarred, which always served as a reminder of that terrifying ordeal. That’s when she came up with the idea to turn brutality into something beautiful.

The Brazilian woman turned to 31-year-old Flavia Carvalho, a tattoo artist in Curitiba, to make something amazing out of the mess she was left with on her body. The tattoo artist did just that, bringing the assault victim to tears that she wouldn’t have to remember the hell she endured at that nightclub each time she got dressed for the day. The woman’s reaction left a lasting impression on Carvalho, who came up with an incredible plan in that moment, which she would ultimately call A Pele de Flor (The Skin Of The Flower).

“I was suddenly struck by the idea of providing free tattoos to women who were left with scars following domestic violence or mastectomies,” the tattooist told Huffington Post. “Each tattoo would act as an instrument for empowerment and a self-esteem booster,” she explained of her deeper meaning behind offering her services to any woman who wanted it.

Scar the result of being stabbed with broken glass

Woman who was shot by a person she was in a relationship with

Victim was stabbed by a former lover

Since the start of this incredible program, Carvalho has helped cover many abused women’s scars, erasing devastating memories of their domestic abuse and replacing it with a moving reminder of the beautiful person they are. She’s covered stab wounds, where one woman was attacked with shards of glass by a man she once trusted, and a gunshot wound in another victim, whose lover wanted her dead, BuzzFeed reported.

The abuser or the cancer, in some cases, tried to beat every ounce of self-worth out of these women, but this caring tattoo artist has given it back in her own incredibly creative way.
h/t: [Alternative Press]