-I guess I'm hesitant and nervous
about the pain, like, threshold.
I feel like I'm pretty tolerable,
but, you know, you never know.
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I'm Sami, and today I'm getting
a stretch mark camouflage tattoo treatment.
I initially started getting my stretch marks on my butt area.
I've had them for as long as I can remember.
And I want to say it started around maybe when I was 11, 12.
I'm definitely more comfortable with them.
However, I'm still extremely self-conscious
of, like, going to the beach,
which I never do because I don't like showing my butt.
So I decided to get this treatment today
because I am so ready to just be more confident
and finally, you know,
be comfortable going to the beach whenever,
especially because summer is around the corner,
and I don't have to, you know, hide behind board shorts,
or just be more comfortable in my own skin.
-Hello. My name is Dominique Bossavy.
I am a NanoColor infusion expert.
I actually do not remove stretch marks,
I camouflage them by bringing the white tone
created by the stretch marks
to the natural skin tone of Sami.
Anyone considering this procedure
should understand right away
it's a long process that can take up to 6 to 8 months.
Do not book your treatments months before you have
a vacation.
You are gonna ruin your vacation and your summer.
You will not be able to go in the sun,
and you will not be able to swim for three weeks
if you had your treatment before your vacation.
So make sure that you go on vacation first,
then let the tan go away and then contact me.
Hi, Sami!
-Hi, Dominique! -Are you excited?
-I am so excited. -Okay, perfect.
And do you have any question for me today?
-Yeah, I guess more than anything,
I'm kind of curious to know the pain level on a scale of,
like, maybe 1 to 10.
-20. No. [ Laughs ] -[ Gasps, laughs ]
-I'm just kidding.
No, absolutely.
Do you know most of my client, the very sensitive ones,
it's a little bit uncomfortable, but it's tolerable.
And then the ones who have a little bit more pain tolerance
say it's completely easy.
And they didn't have any problem with the treatment.
But I have to tell you, you're gonna be so excited.
You're gonna forget about the pain.
-I'm pretty sure you're right. So I'm excited.
-First, I will start the color matching to make sure
that the pigment match perfectly her skin.
Then I will apply a swab of alcohol
to make sure that the skin is perfectly clean.
Once my cups are ready with the perfect color tone,
I will dip my needle into the concoction
and start applying directly into the stretch marks,
and I will just follow the stretch mark as a trail.
As the time goes, within second, the skin will start to raise
and get very red, which will hide the perfect tone.
But no worries.
As the skin heals, it will reveal the perfect color match.
Once I finish one side,
I will flip Sami to do the other side.
And the same process will apply on both sides.
As far as the recovery,
the first session is always the most intense.
Clients leave looking like they fought
with a lion and they lost.
Their skin is raised in little line that looks like worms,
and they are bright red.
And actually this is a good sign --
the more, the better.
And that means that they will get more collagen restoration
and the texture of the stretch marks
will flatten faster.
I always pick three different color tones.
It's very important.
The skin tone on different area, although it looks the same,
has different variants --
a little bit lighter, darker, medium --
and it's very important to adjust as you move
from one stretch marks to another.
Are you ready to see how you look like?
-I'm desperate to see what it looks like. [ Laughs ]
Yeah, definitely looks like I lost a cat fight, for sure.
But I can tell already that once the redness,
I think, subsides,
I'll for sure see that, like,
it blends into my skin tone more.
-So, this actually is going to resolve.
It's gonna heal, the redness is gonna go.
But actually, this is good news.
This will actually restore
the texture of your stretch marks,
remove the gap, the grooves that you had,
and then reveal the beautiful color once the red goes away.
So it can take up to three weeks,
but sometime within five day, a week,
the redness is already gone.
-The procedure went really well.
I was kind of scared to see what it was gonna look like,
considering I felt more pain than I anticipated.
But all in all, it was definitely tolerable.
-I am very happy with the way the procedure went on with Sami.
She was a great candidate from the beginning,
and her skin responded extremely well to the treatment.
I expect that Sami will get great results
and probably will get close to 60% improvement
with just the one session.
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-So it's officially been about 10 days since I've undergone
the stretch mark camouflage tattoo process with Dominique,
and I can genuinely say that this is wholeheartedly,
like, the best decision that I've ever made.
Honestly, I've only had one treatment so far,
and it's been so successful already.
So I can only imagine and can't wait to see
how successful it is after my next treatment
and the amount of confidence I've already gained
from this entire experience,
like, Dominique is a life changer.
That is for sure.
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