Scar Cover-Up Tattoos That Helped People Make Peace With The Past

The Explosive Gecko

tattoos to cover up scars
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Tumblr’s Blueeyedrider was left with a “very gruesome scar” after her appendix burst and leaked “toxins into my body for months.” It nearly killed her, and the surgery left a scar she wanted to forget. But she had to “wait 3 years after the incident” before she got a tattoo of a gecko to cover up what had happened to her.

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