Her project “A Pele da Flor” (The Skin of the Flower) is about giving hurt women tattoos free of charge.

For two years, Carvalho has helped women cover scars left from knives and bullets, and from mastectomies as well.

She‘s transforming these unpleasant mementos into a tool of emporwerement and beauty.

Flavia Carvalho runs a studio in Curitiba, Brasil. “I started the project quite recently, and I had no idea it would receive this much media attention,” Carvalho told Huffington Post.

“It began very spontaneously. As I said, my services are a hundred percent voluntary, and the only “cost” women need to invest is to choose a design for their tattoos!”

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