Tattoo Week donates safety tattoos to people with chronic diseases
Rio de Janeiro is hosting the 10th Tattoo Week, an event whose trademark is solidarity, mixing art meetings with social actions based on tattoos.The event's CEO Esther Gawendo told Agência Brasil that safety tattoos are being donated to patients with chronic diseases such as diabetes and hypertension or allergies to any medication. The event will last until Sunday (Jan. 22)."We tattoo on a voluntary basis at the event," Gawendo said. She pointed out that many lives can be saved this way. "If you are having a crisis and you have your tattoo indicating that you are allergic or diabetic, that can save a lot at the time during rescue."The 10th Rio Tattoo Week is also offering eyebrow micropigmentation and paramedical micropigmentation for nipple areola reconstruction, for mastectomized w...