About Stacie-Rae
Her-Story
Falling in love with professional tattooing after receiving a 'scratcher' basement tattoo in 1989, Stacie-Rae has had an incredible journey as a breast cancer previvor and a leader in the tattoo industry. Plus, she's received her own healing mastectomy tattoo (Thanks SamR!)
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Art school in 1994, then a professional apprenticeship, she is one of Canada's first professionally trained and art school educated female tattooers.
She's seen alot of change in the tattoo field and is honored to be a part of the past AND part of the future of this sacred art form!
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Evolution for a dynamic industry
A.R.T. was developed to solve ALL the roadblocks to survivors getting great areola tattoos:
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- Wrote a book on the importance of realism in areola restoration
- Inspired all medical tattooists to draw nipples!
- Created realistic temporary 3D nipple tattoos, patent-pending
- Helped design the first permanent areola pigments with Samantha Rae
- Co-Invented the first scarred practice skins and the first to represent all ethnicities, patent-pending
When Stacie-Rae got 'botched'
nipple tattoos...
...she could barely stand to look in the mirror. Stacie-Rae had already been doing areola tattoos for 4 years when a nipple tattoo 'trainer' overworked her too-fragile skin.
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Technical Skillset, Artistic Ability, + Trauma Awareness are required for tattoos to be healing.
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Otherwise, they may cause harm....
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Knowing first-hand what survivors go through, she decided to start a movement...
THE AREOLA ACTIVIST
Hybrid Approach to Education:
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Coming from a traditional tattoo background where a true apprenticeship is necessary, we respect the student-master relationship and understand that advanced tattooing needs an advanced approach, with pre-requisites, homework and feedback to help students grow into a confident problem solver who inspires true healing in all their clients.
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