{"id":421961,"date":"2025-12-03T14:26:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T14:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/421961\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T14:26:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T14:26:13","slug":"chicago-tattoo-artist-uses-ink-to-help-cancer-trauma-survivors-heal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/421961\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago tattoo artist uses ink to help cancer, trauma survivors heal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ByTony Smith  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"WLS logo\" class=\"awXxV NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl CfkUa EknAv NwgWd \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/origin-wls.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Wednesday, December 3, 2025 2:10PM<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAJCAQAAACRI2S5AAAAEElEQVR42mNkIAAYRxWAAQAG9gAKqv6+AwAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Chicago tattoo artist uses ink to help cancer, trauma survivors heal&#10;\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A Chicago-area paramedical tattoo artist is using her craft to help survivors of cancer, trauma and abuse reclaim their sense of self.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">CHICAGO (WLS) &#8212; A Chicago-area paramedical tattoo artist is using her craft to help survivors of cancer, trauma and abuse reclaim their sense of self.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Elsa Milani, owner of Flawless Permanent Makeup by Elsa, appeared on WLS-TV Wednesday to explain how restorative tattooing, including scar camouflage and 3D areola reconstruction &#8211; can help clients rebuild confidence after medical or traumatic experiences. Milani offers many of these services pro bono.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Milani, a certified permanent cosmetic professional, said she was inspired by a lifelong artistic background, including her late grandfather, noted artist Tony Hepburn. She urged anyone struggling with body image during recovery to seek support: &#8220;You deserve to feel whole again.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Survivors can contact Milani at <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/flawlesspermanentmakeupbyelsa.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">flawlesspermanentmakeupbyelsa.com<\/a>, flawlesspermanentmakeupbyelsa@gmail.com, or 646-740-6247. Her work can also be found on Instagram and Facebook at @flawlesspermanentmakeupbyelsa.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025 WLS-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ByTony Smith Wednesday, December 3, 2025 2:10PM A Chicago-area paramedical tattoo artist is using her craft to help&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":421962,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[196980,960,5386,1818],"class_list":{"0":"post-421961","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-196980","9":"tag-chicago","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-illinois"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115656103989303803","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=421961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421961\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/421962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}