Exuvium Studios

☆ Yes, I do tooth gems! 🦷✨️ (And gold tooth charms, tooth opals, tooth colorants, temporary tooth tattoos, etc.)
☆Yes, you can book them through the website, and as an add-on to other services.
☆Yes, I do pop-ups, special events and parties! (Send a message if you'd like tooth gems at your event)

Tooth gems and adornments applied by a trained professional are completely safe, non-toxic, and non-invasive (no drilling or damage to enamel). I use only genuine Austrian crystal, solid 18k+ gold, lab grown opal and precious stones, and top quality dental grade materials.

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✨️Gender-Affirming Ar**la Restoratiom Scar Camouflage Tattoo✨️

My client wanted to address scarring and pigment loss due to tissue necrosis of the ar**la grafts after a Gender-Affirming Top Surgery Mastectomy.

For this initial session, we focused on restoring shape, symmetry and even pigmentation to the ar**las and ni***es.

The client had been told by their surgeon that pigment loss after this procedure is often normal and temporary, which is true! Ar**la grafts frequently go through a "sloughing" stage during healing, where the top layer of skin scabs and falls off, leaving the ar**la pale and pink until the skin fully heals and pigmentation returns. This is actually very similar to the "exfoliation" and "ghosting" stages of healing that many cosmetic tattoos go through! Ar**la Grafts and Top Surgery scars take up to a year or more before they reach the final stages of healing, and it may take as long for the color to return. Tattooing should not be attempted prior to final healing.

However, my client had reached final healing, and the pigmentation had not returned. This is because the graft tissue had actually experienced necrosis, which means some of the tissue did not survive the grafting process, and the damage extended into the layer of skin where the Melanocytes (the cells responsible for skin color) live. Because those cells were destroyed, the resulting pigment loss is permanent. It can be difficult to discern normal sloughing from necrosis, and it can be difficult to tell temporary hypopigmentation from permanent until the skin is fully healed, so patients often just have to wait and see.

There is no way to restore the natural skin pigmentation of hypopigmented scars. The good news is, if you do experience any scarring, assymetry, or pigment loss after your Ar**la Graft, Paramedical Tattooing can successfully restore the appearance.

These tattoos can look warm-toned and a bit solid fresh, but heal much softer and more neutural-toned to blend with the client's pigmentation and anatomy.

All cosmetic tattooing is a multi-step process, and Scar Camouflage may require several sessions to achieve optimal results, but it is extremely effective!