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This week on Macro Beauty, we follow Sami who will be getting flesh colored tattoos to reduce the appearance of the stretch marks on her butt and thighs. She has been insecure about her stretch marks since she was a teenager and is excited to feel confident again wearing clothes like bikinis. The tattooing will be performed by cosmetic enhancement artist Dominique Bossavy at her studio in Los Angeles. Watch this episode to learn how this process works.

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Transcript
00:00I guess I'm hesitant and nervous about the pain like threshold. I feel like I'm pretty tolerable
00:06but you know you never know. I'm Sammy and today I'm getting a stretch mark camouflage tattoo
00:14treatment. I initially started getting my stretch marks on my butt area. I've had them for as long
00:19as I can remember and I want to say it started around maybe when I was 11, 12. I'm definitely
00:25more comfortable with them however I'm still extremely self-conscious of like going to
00:30the beach and which I never do because I don't like showing my butt. So I decided to get this
00:36treatment today because I am so ready to just be more confident and finally you know be comfortable
00:43going to the beach whenever especially because summer's around the corner and I don't have to
00:48you know hide behind board shorts or just be comfortable be more comfortable in my own skin.
00:55Hello my name is Dominique Bousavi. I am a nanocolor infusion expert. I actually do not remove
01:04stretch marks. I camouflage them by bringing the white tone created by the stretch marks to the
01:13natural skin tone of Sammy. Anyone considering this procedure should understand right away it's a long
01:21process that can take up to six to eight months. Do not book your treatment a month before you have
01:30a vacation. You are going to ruin your vacation and your summer you will not be able to go in
01:36the sun
01:36and you will not be able to swim for three weeks if you had your treatment before your vacation. So
01:44make
01:45sure that you go on vacation first then let the tan go away and then contact me. Hi Sammy. Hi
01:53Dominique.
01:54Are you excited? I am so excited. Okay perfect and do you have any questions for me today? Yeah I
02:00guess more
02:01than anything I'm kind of curious to know the pain level on a scale like maybe one to ten. Twenty.
02:06No I'm just
02:08kidding. No absolutely. Do you know most of my clients the very sensitive ones say it's a little bit
02:15uncomfortable but it's tolerable and then the ones who have a little bit more pen tolerance say it's
02:21completely easy and they didn't have any problem with the the treatment. But I have to tell you you're
02:28gonna be so excited you're gonna forget about the pen. I'm pretty sure you're right so I'm excited. First I
02:35will start the color matching to make sure that the pigment matched perfectly her skin. Then I will
02:43apply a swab of alcohol to make sure that the skin is perfectly clean. Once my cups are ready with
02:51the
02:52perfect color tone I will dip my needle into the concoction and start applying directly into the
03:01stretch marks and I will just follow the stretch marks as a trail. As the time goes within seconds the
03:10skin
03:11will start to raise and get very red which will hide the perfect tone but no worries as the skin
03:19heal
03:20it will reveal the perfect color match. Once I finish one side I will flip Sammy to do the other
03:30side
03:30and the same process will apply on both sides. As far as the recovery the first session is always the
03:39most intense. Clients leave looking like they fought with a lion and they lost. Their skin is raised in
03:47little line that looks like worms and there are bright red and actually this is a good sign. The more
03:55the better the better and that means that they will get more collagen restoration and the texture of
04:02their stretch marks will flatten faster. I always pick three different color tones. It's very important
04:11the skin tone on different area although it looks the same has different variant a little bit lighter
04:18darker medium and it's very important to adjust as you move from one stretch marks to another.
04:28Are you ready to see how you look like? I'm desperate to see what it looks like.
04:34Yeah definitely looks like I lost the cat fight for sure but I can tell already that once the redness
04:41I
04:41think subsides I'll for sure see that like it blends into my skin tone more. So this actually
04:48is going to resolve it's gonna heal the redness is gonna go but actually this is a good news this
04:55will actually restore the texture of your stretch marks remove the gap the the groove that you had
05:04and then reveal the beautiful color once the red goes away so it can take up to three weeks but
05:11sometime within five days a week it's already the redness is already gone. The procedure one really
05:18really well I was kind of scared to see what it was going to look like considering I felt more
05:23pain
05:24than I anticipated but all in all it was definitely tolerable. I am very happy with the way the procedure
05:31went on with Sammy she was a great candidate from the beginning and her skin responded extremely well to
05:40the treatment. I expect that Sammy will get great results and probably will get close to 60% improvement
05:49with just the one session. So it's officially been about 10 days since I've undergone the stretch mark
05:56camouflage tattoo process with Dominique and I can genuinely say that this is wholeheartedly like
06:02the best decision that I've ever made. Honestly I've only had one treatment so far and it's been so
06:10successful already so I can only imagine and can't wait to see how successful it is after my next treatment
06:16and the amount of confidence I've already gained from this entire experience like Dominique is a life changer
06:23that is for sure.
06:25you
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